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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2013 2 Comments

From Jeff in Massachusetts: I saw this bumper sticker and thought you might get a chuckle. It’s a little hard to read, but it says “Republicans believe that every day is the 4th of July. Democrats believe that every day is April 15th.” ...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2013 33 Comments

What better place to go than to the friendly 60 Minutes with the guy who owes your husband big time? Obama probably would have won anyway if Bill Clinton had stayed on the sidelines, but it would have been a lot tougher. Bill Clinton doesn't do anything...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2013 26 Comments

And no one is going to hear you. I was going to link to a quite interesting post, with an excerpt, regarding the "Violence Against Women Act." The author, someone I had never heard of, writing at a website I never had heard of, made some excellent...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2013 5 Comments

Not even for Kony? Or Mahmoud? or Kim? Saw this bumper sticker on my fortnightly visit to the library with the kids. Somehow I don't think the driver intends to make a theological statement as much as a political one. I think people who naively spout tripe like...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2013 78 Comments

There's no Saturday Night Card Game tonight. I was going to write about some "Neo-Confederate" idiocy by a pretend lawyer who happens to be quite obsessed with me over at the liberal blog Glenn Greenwald calls " a cesspool of unprincipled partisan hackdom." When you are a liberal blog and Glenn...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 26, 2013 55 Comments

The timing of the recent announcement from the Obama Administration that it would lift the ban on women serving in combat positions was fascinating. After Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's responsibility dodging and Biden-esque responses to questioning by Senators yesterday, the White House needed a distraction...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2013 30 Comments

This makes things even more interesting -- via AP: Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says he will not seek re-election in 2014. The 73-year-old Harkin tells The Associated Press in an interview, “It’s just time to step aside,” because by the time he would finish a sixth term,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2013 6 Comments

Did you know you could get an education at College Insurrection? Of course, it would be as useless as the education you get on most campuses, but at least it's free. Gender Studies is more than about sex: Men Not Allowed in Women’s Lounge at Michigan State U. Tennessee Considers...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2013 32 Comments

Here we go. Saxby Chambliss will not be running for reelection in 2014: Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss said Friday he will not seek a third term next  year, expressing deep frustration with Washington gridlock that he doesn't see  changing in a divided government. Chambliss, 69, rejected suggestions he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2013 30 Comments

What better way to end the work week than Newt beating up on an journalist, I mean Piers Morgan. Brings back such good memories. Via Hot Air, Newt suggesting that gun control hearings be held in Chicago: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2013 36 Comments

The Democrats are really good at it. They target Republicans early on for the strategy of crazy which was successful against the Tea party movement, a consistent blogosphere and media attempt to create a deadly public perception of a rising Republican star. We've seen this already in The “crazy-ing” of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2013 52 Comments

Just breaking.  Via AP: President Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill  vacancies on a labor relations panel, a federal appeals court panel ruled  Friday. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said  that Obama did not...

Posted by Anne Segal on January 25, 2013 49 Comments

Ace of Spades blog has posted a piece documenting the void of a Fourth Estate in America today, enjoining all of us who have been following its malpractice to do something: The media no longer hides it in their actions. They are fully fused with the...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 25, 2013 9 Comments

President Barack Obama's inaugural address was an ode to big government. And, of big government entities, perhaps the most toxic to the American economy is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  However, this federal agency cannot hold a candle to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in terms...

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