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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 22 Comments

Glenn Greenwald had a post Friday titled Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics. The post concerns Frank VanderSloot, an Idaho businessman who Greenwald alleges bullies political opponents by threatening frivolous defamation and copyright suits.  I don't know if VanderSloot is guilty as charged by Greenwald,...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 14 Comments

I'll try to remember to ask. Another one from reader Rick, who took this photo in Ithaca (at a stop light, of course) and writes: This one is non-political, but hilarious. If you don't get it, please ask me. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 20 Comments

Obama wins even when he doesn't win, because the MSM cheats, and that's a charitable way of putting it: When is a tie not a tie?  And when is a tie-breaker not a tie-breaker?  When our friends in the liberal media are reporting on Obama...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on February 18, 2012 26 Comments

The film Slavery By Another Name recently was released.  It is a moving historical account of the post-emancipation enslavement by another name of blacks through a variety of segregationist and other laws and policies. Unfortunately, but predictably, some used the movie release as an opportunity to score policital...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 71 Comments

This writer at Salon.com argues that liberals should not homeschool their kids, Liberals, Don’t Homeschool Your Kids: Homeschooling is so unevenly regulated from state to state that it is impossible to know exactly how many homeschoolers there are. Estimates range from about 1 million to 2...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 17 Comments

Breaking News -- two Supreme Court Justices who voted against the Citizens United decision now believe the decision should be reconsidered. It is headline worthy at WaPo: In other news, Water is Wet!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 44 Comments

A tweet regarding reports that an unnamed senior Republican Senator asserted to ABC News that if Romney cannot win Michigan, "we need a new candidate."  The "we" apparently is the Republican political establishment, and the new candidate according to the Senator is Jeb Bush. To which Ed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 45 Comments

When Foster Friess, a funder of a pro-Santorum SuperPAC, made a joke about birth control in the old days (that women kept an aspirin between their knees, meaning they kept their legs closed and were not promiscuous), there was outrage (on the internet pronounced OUTRAGE)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 20 Comments

Thanks to reader Rick who spotted this vehicle  in Ithaca, and writes: I was hoping to catch the plume of greasy black smoke which I had previously seen coming out of the exhaust pipe, but I shot too soon. But we gotta stop that fracking. Talk about small...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2012 28 Comments

As I reported the other day, petition signature checkers supporting Gov. Scott Walker are on track to identify between 100,000-200,000 invalid signatures on recall petitions. That number does not even include duplicate signatures, and we know that duplicates are a big problem. Supporters of Gov. Walker, however, need more...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2012 41 Comments

Mike DeWine, Attorney General of Ohio, is switching from Mitt to Rick, and he used to be a Tim supporter, so this is big news: Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum was in line for a key endorsement on Friday from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 17, 2012 18 Comments

The European Union is in deep water but that, thankfully, hasn't stopped the Europeans from laughing at themselves. einige Schadenfreude (some Schadenfreude): "Dinner for One" (with subtitles) There are apparently a series of videos with Merkel and Sarko dubbed over discussing the Euro Crisis. It's pretty funny ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2012 35 Comments

I don't necessarily agree with everything Pat Buchanan says or writes, but his purge from MSNBC is a sign of the times, and his characterization is correct: The modus operandi of these thought police at Color of Change and ADL is to brand as racists and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2012 51 Comments

Deep down in Update III to a Thighgate post, Robert Stacy McCain makes an observation which is spot on about the mood out here in blog-over country: There has been a lot of crazy on the blogosphere today that had nothing to do with me and, discussing it with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2012 5 Comments

From frequent photographer Jason, who took this photo a few weeks ago in Raleigh, NC: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2012 58 Comments

For everyone who says that under no circumstances would they vote for a particular Republican candidate if that person were the nominee, ponder this list of potential Obama nominee replacements for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a second Obama term. Be sure to go far down the...

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