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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2010 10 Comments
On Monday I posted about Elena Kagan’s written answers to the Senate Judiciary Committee in connection with her nomination for Solicitor General. I noted that while Kagan evaded and talked around many questions, which is all too typical for a nominee, Kagan did not avoid...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2010 26 Comments
Later this morning, Elena Kagan will be nominated for the Supreme Court seat currently held by John Paul Stevens. The meme has taken hold that Kagan is a stealth candidate who has avoided taking positions on important constitutional or other issues throughout her career. But...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2010 16 Comments
The left-wing blogosphere hates Elena Kagan. Really. The venom percolating up from the depths of the nutroots is getting pretty toxic. For the most part, the right-wing blogosphere is sitting back and enjoying how people like Glenn Greenwald are tripping all over themselves to attack...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2010 8 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Charles Blow, the NY Times’ once-a-week “visual Op-Ed columnist,” is out to make a name for himself. Much like Frank Rich, who jumped from theater critic to political...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2010 12 Comments
Strange. I’m not sure I support Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, assuming she is the nominee, but I’m already finding myself having to defend her. If Elena Kagan were a liberal legal hero, with a long record of reaching the correct conclusions from the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2010 2 Comments
All is good. God saved the pubs. Update: Jumping in Pools has more on the beer campaign. ——————————————–Related Posts:Low-Slung Baggy Pants Are A Human RightWorst. Ever.We Are All Gillian Duffy Now Follow me on Twitter and Facebook

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2010 18 Comments
The Washington Post, among other mainstream media outlets, relentlessly stokes claims that Tea Partiers are racist. Eugene Robinson accuses almost everyone who opposes the Obama agenda — but particularly those active in the Tea Party movement — of being motivated by racism and prone to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2010 4 Comments
That is why my first reads in the morning are Politico: And Chris Cillizza:  Without them, I wouldn’t know what to think. ——————————————– Follow me on Twitter and Facebook

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 11 Comments
I was waiting for this ruling, because I could not stand living in a world where it was illegal to wear baggy pants so low that your ass showed. From Britain, our window into the future where underpants get to see the light of day...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 11 Comments
Dana Milbank argues that conservatives are hypocritical in seeking government involvement in the Gulf oil cleanup, Through oil-fouled water, big government looks better and better: There is something exquisite about the moment when a conservative decides he needs more government in his life…. It may...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 19 Comments
My my, how Paul Krugman worries that our President may come under criticism from the vast right-wing conspiracy for the Eight Days In April. The Eight Days In April during which our President twiddled his environmental clean-up and emergency response thumbs in the face of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2010 8 Comments
… if you want to be able to continue using terms like Nazi, Communist and Apartheid to describe the new Arizona immigration law. Or if, like President Obama, you want to claim that the law would allow people to be questioned merely for going out...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2010 26 Comments
This whole boycott thing is getting really confusing. California is boycotting Arizona because of the Arizona immigration law. But weren’t we already supposed to be boycotting California because of Prop. 8? Or if not the entire State of California, then at least the counties which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2010 14 Comments
Remember when Democrats fell all over themselves trying to prove that Obamacare would not cover illegal aliens? When Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” about coverage for illegal aliens, Obama and Democratic leaders assured the nation that illegal aliens would be excluded. Under the final Senate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2010 3 Comments
Dave Weigel now blogs at The Washington Post covering “the conservative movement and Republican Party.” I’ll leave an assessment of Weigel’s prior blogging aside for the moment. At least now he knows what it is like to experience Palin Derangement Syndrome first hand (emphasis mine):...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2010 14 Comments
There are many voices of hate, but the voices most ignored by the mainstream media come not from Tea Parties or maligned conservative groups, but from the intolerant left. After someone who did commercial voice-overs for Geico was fired for leaving threatening messages at FreedomWorks...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2010 1 Comment
President Obama’s outreach to Russia constitutes a “strategic reset,” according to Spencer Ackerman. The proof? The recent Joint Statement issued by the U.S. and Russia commemorating the meeting of U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe River during WWII (emphasis mine): Now this is something...
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