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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2013 13 Comments

Instead of watching the Lincoln Of Our Time give his 573rd Gettysburg Address-like speech, I watched the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. Trust me, I made the right choice. I did watch Marco Rubio, who gave a fine speech, and who took a sip of water during his speech...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2013 21 Comments

Oh, they'll go there if they need to.  Do not doubt me. Welcome to my world. Spotted in Ithaca. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2013 43 Comments

Do not care what he has to say.  It's the same old, same old straw men and class warfare. "Some say that government should do nothing while grandma dies and children starve as owners of corporate jets eat jumbo shrimp at 38,000 feet in the air, but I say we the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2013 5 Comments

Fight the Machine. Support Paul McKinley for Congress. Donate. Watch this Alternative SOTU speech, and spread it far and wide. More video....

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Posted by Anne Segal on February 12, 2013 22 Comments

Sarah Palin has taken to twitter to further confuse and confound what she has termed the "idiot media," no doubt including Washington Post journalist Suzi Parker who erroneously reported that the former Governor would be joining Al Jazeera. The Washington Post's Suzi Parker had failed to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2013 39 Comments

Gabriel Gomez looks like an interesting Republican candidate for the John Kerry seat. Via MassLive: According to a biography on his campaign website, Gomez was born in Los Angeles to Colombian immigrants. An introductory video features Gomez first introducing himself in Spanish, before switching to...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 12, 2013 12 Comments

The House will consider the reauthorization of the Violence against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA) today, the same day the Senate voted 78-22 to approve the renewal. In expressing optimism that similar legislation would pass in the House, Senator Leahy pointed to a letter sent from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2013 36 Comments

Remind me again why I should watch. Also, I can't wait for the warm welcome Chief Justice Roberts gets this time, now that he cast the deciding vote in favor of Obamacare. Via NRO: Update: From RCP: The president’s speech, described by White House officials as an expansion...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2013 15 Comments

South Korea thinks so, via AP: North Korea is believed to have conducted a widely anticipated nuclear test Tuesday, following an earthquake that monitoring agencies around the globe said appeared to be unnatural. The South Korean Defense Ministry, which raised its military alert level after the quake,...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 11, 2013 27 Comments

The New York Times has now mapped all the ways Chicagoans, who arguably have some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country and only recently were allowed to possess them, get their guns. The maps and accompanying article are an attempt to spin the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2013 20 Comments

I've written about Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz before, Alan Dershowitz, Praised: Charles C. Johnson (no, not that that CJ) has a post at Big Government, In Praise of Alan Dershowitz.  It’s worth the read, but hardly does justice to someone who for generations has...

Posted by A.F. Branco on February 11, 2013 6 Comments

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Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 11, 2013 34 Comments

I became a Catholic in 2010, in part as a response to my involvement in the Tea Party movement. So, I was very excited about the news that Pope Benedict XVI is resigning: He will be the first head of the Roman Catholic Church to resign in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2013 21 Comments

Now they tell them! President Obama's enemies often accuse him, in the starkest political terms, of crudely acting to shift resources toward his political base: Green energy donors; single women; Latinos; African-Americans. But the next 12 months are likely to reveal the opposite. Imminent elements of Obama's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2013 11 Comments

It's not just about Dominican prostitutes (which he still denies). It's about questionable business connections, as reported by Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com, The Corrupt Origins of the Melgen-Menendez Dominican Port Security Deal: The saga of the Dominician port security deal that has embroiled Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ)...

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