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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2010 49 Comments
A federal lawsuit was filed in May 2009 challenging Proposition 8, the California referendum which amended the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Prop. 8 previously was upheld by the California Supreme Court. The federal lawsuit, Perry et al...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2010 8 Comments
The Missouri vote overwhelmingly approving a referendum opting out of Obamacare’s mandate has left-wing bloggers scratching themselves with bewilderment. The reaction falls into three basic categories: (1) the folks just don’t understand that this is good for them, (3) if only we had a public...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2010 7 Comments
John McCain and John Cornyn Tom Coburn have just released a devastating report on the 100 most wasteful stimulus projects, titled Summertime Blues. Being someone who has taken an unnatural interest in Stimulus-funded sidewalks, I searched the report, and sure enough found this: 10. Town...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2010 4 Comments
Sharron Angle admitted that she tries to manage press relations to receive favorable coverage, which is what every candidate tries to do. Outrage! Shock! How Dare She! And not just from the usual suspects. I say: How refreshing! Truth! More please! Now Harry Reid would...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2010 11 Comments
Yesterday a federal judge in Virginia released an opinion permitting the lawsuit by the State of Virginia, challenging the mandate provisions of Obamacare, to move forward. In legal parlance, the judge denied a motion to dismiss. Pro-administration commentators have bent over backwards to portray this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2010 9 Comments
According to The Guardian, neo-Nazi groups are on the rise in Mongolia in reaction to increased domination by ethnic Chinese: Dayar Mongol threatened to shave the heads of women who sleep with Chinese men. Three years ago, the leader of Blue Mongol was convicted of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2010 10 Comments
What is it about the start of August? In the past couple of days we have seen several pieces by people who create misleading caricatures of conservatives and then use those misleading caricatures to attack a broad swath of those opposed to the Obama agenda....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2010 2 Comments
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the State of Arizona’s motion to expedite the appeal from the preliminary injunction enjoining key provisions of S.B. 1070. (h/t Michelle Malkin) The Department of Justice has objected to an expedited briefing schedule. The case now will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2010 3 Comments
Just yesterday I told you that Harry Reid was beatable. Today The Las Vegas Review Journal has released a new Mason-Dixon poll showing Reid and Sharron Angle in a virtual dead heat, compared to a poll two weeks ago which showed Reid with a 7...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2010 11 Comments
Chris Muir takes note: Worry not, Dear Journolistas, You still have your youthful snark, irrelevant wit, what the f@#k kick ass attitudes, and epistemic closures; and you still can suckle at the informational bosom of Mother Media Matters, and call it journalism. ——————————————–Related Posts:My One Question...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2010 4 Comments
Arizona has requested that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals set an expedited briefing schedule which would have the case fully briefed in just over one month. This is about half the time normally allotted for briefing in appeals from a preliminary injunction. The U.S....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2010 12 Comments
Shirley Sherrod is going to sue Andrew Breitbart, she says. The liberal internets are all aTwitter with joy. Andy finally is going to get his comeuppance. It is unclear what the grounds for the suit would be. Defamation? For what, showing a two-minute clip of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 8 Comments
Glenn Greenwald: “Anyone who believes that the Government abuses its secrecy powers in order to keep the citizenry in the dark and manipulate public opinion — and who, at this point, doesn’t believe that? — should be squarely on the side of the greater transparency...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2010 5 Comments
Obamacare as we know it is not enough, Reid to Netroots: “We’re Going To Have a Public Option”: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking to console liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the national health care law, assured them that there...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2010 4 Comments
Question: How many of the Journolists who object to the release of their e-mails regarding the 2008 presidential campaign will spend the next several days gloating over the publication by WikiLeaks of over 90,000 classified military documents regarding the war in Afghanistan? An inconvenient truth?...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 23, 2010 9 Comments
Sharron Angle’s campaign finally is rolling out some good television commercials. It took Angle a full month to put together a professional campaign team and operation, since she ran the primary essentially from her living room. That month has given the highly professional — but...
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