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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2011 52 Comments

Not going to "live blog" but will have some observations. END GAME: Perry the winner not because he was so much better than the others, but because he was so much better than he was previously.  He may have revitalized his campaign tonight.  Cain was damaged, but...

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Posted by Matthew Knee on October 18, 2011 12 Comments

There are two major organizations in the Jewish community tasked with certifying people, things, and movements as anti-Semitic or not: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum(s) of Tolerance.  Sometimes, they differ, owing largely to the fact that the ADL's leaders vote Democrat...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2011 7 Comments

Yes, Michele you should have done a Google search before hiring Ed Rollins (NYT via NRO via HotAir): She said critical comments Mr. Rollins made to reporters after stepping aside were dismaying. “When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees,” she...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 18, 2011 6 Comments

Today marks fifty years since a massacre swept the streets --- not in the maghreb region of north Africa, but in the streets of Paris:  A number of events were held on Monday to remember the violent deaths of up to several hundred anti-war demonstrators in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2011 6 Comments

I was surprised to go to The Providence Journal website today and to see an announcement that ProJo had built a new website with a new url. (no longer projo.com but providencejournal.com) and a paywall: The Providence Journal news organization is moving to the paid eEdition to...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2011 20 Comments

... teleprompter (language warning).  No really, they did: NBC12 has uncovered one of those stories that makes you think: "How in the world does that happen?!"  A truck filled with President Obama's podiums and audio equipment was stolen in Henrico just days before his visit to...

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 18, 2011 8 Comments

Among the numerous College Know It All Hippie fallacies common in the #OWS movement is the apparent association between having wealth and supporting capitalistic or pro-business policies.  It is true that to a point, wealthier individuals are more Republican than poorer ones in their voting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2011 15 Comments

The initial phase of the prisoner exchange for the freedom of Gilad Shalit is completed.  This interview was broadcast on Egyptian TV, as described in The Jerusalem Post: Schalit, who seemed shocked and distressed, was asked a number of questions by an Egyptian reporter, including how...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2011 3 Comments

Thanks to reader Brian who writes: Enjoy your blog very much, professor. Saw this brave motorist parked in Arlington, VA. Top left - "I would rather be a conservative nut job than a liberal with no nuts and no job" Top right - "OBAMA Impeach him" ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2011 45 Comments

considering that I finished high skool before the creashion of the U.S. Deparment of Edjukation in 1980. If there were federal mandates, bureaucracies, and of course, No Child Left Behind, when I was in skool ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2011 15 Comments

Saturday was to be a nationwide turnout for the Occupy Wall Street movement, with large protests across the land.  From media coverage which portrays the movement as growing, one would have expected a large turnout, at least as large as the April 15, 2009 Tax...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2011 22 Comments

As part of the deal to free Gilad Shalit, the butcher of Ramallah who participated in the disemboweling and mutilation of two Israeli soldiers who took a wrong turn on a road in the West Bank in October 2000 at the start of the 1st...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2011 11 Comments

Victor Davis Hanson (h/t Instapundit) writes of those who were skeptical of Obama: The skeptics of 2008 proved prescient; those who demonized them should be embarrassed. I was a skeptic from Day 1: Obama may be a post-racial healer, or he may be someone who carefully uses race and false...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2011 18 Comments

Oprah's worth $1.5 billion.  Think how many struggling artists that could feed. Shakina Nayfack, featured in The Daily News complaining about his student debt, made the following comment in response to my post Another Occupy Wall Street poster child who is not: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2011 10 Comments

They thought they'd never end, they'd sing and dance forever and a day, they'd live the life they choose, they'd dream and never lose, for they were young and sure to have their way. Spotted near my house in Ithaca: And yes, I will choose to use this opportunity to play for the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2011 47 Comments

I did not watch Herman Cain on the various news shows, but Memeorandum is relatively quiet, so I assume there were no major gotchas. Definitely get the sense the Occupy protests are getting uglier, not better.  The cream is not rising to the top, it's the...

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