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Radical Anti-American, Anti-Israel Profs Are Ruining Funding For Non-Political Scientists

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Gov. Scott Walker looking strong in early recall polling

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 16 Comments

Come on Cheeseheads. So what if your team isn't going to the Super Bowl, we need someone to get us out of the funk. Or at least me. I've long predicted that a Scott Walker win in the recall will be the perfect launch to the...

Panic at the disco

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 99 Comments

S.E. Cupp, who previously called Newt a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, is on the verge of a breakdown, Newt's Doomed Crusade: At the risk of sounding maudlin or apocalyptic, the conservative movement is poised to become irrelevant or simply extinct...

Romney campaign sends mass email quoting Pelosi threat against Newt (Update: Pelosi backs off)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 72 Comments

I told you this morning that anti-Newt forces would try to use Nancy Pelosi's claim that she had secret information about Newt. And the Romney campaign didn't waste any time, sending out a mass e-mail quoting Pelosi as well as Romney attacking Newt on Fox & Friends about...

Claiming credit for Marco Rubio

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 19 Comments

There's something of a scuffle going on in Florida right now over the 2010 election of Marco Rubio and the hiring of Charlie Crist's Florida staff by the Romney campaign. Newt implicitly is tying Romney to Crist. Rubio, who has not endorsed anyone, in response, says that...

Romney’s claims about Newt’s ethics charge are false and misleading

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 37 Comments

Mitt Romney's key debate line of late is that Newt resigned in disgrace over ethics charges. It's even featured in the most recent Romney advertisement (not his SuperPAC) running in Florida. I posted links the other day showing that the charges against Newt were political and that...

Poll Finds Most Americans Support Trump's Efforts to Stop Antisemitism on Campus

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Student Govt. at Georgetown to Hold Vote on Israel Divestment During Passover

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Twelve Stanford U. Students Charged With Felony Vandalism for Building Takeover

Millions in Financial Aid Fraud Discovered in California's Community College System

Nancy Pelosi’s evil mind games (Update: Pelosi backs off)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 41 Comments

There's something Nancy Pelosi knows that no one else who was involved in the congressional investigation of Newt in the 1990s knows? (BTW, this Byron York column on how politicized and wrong the ethics charges against Newt were is a must read.) Not even any of the anti-Newt Republicans...

A promise to keep

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 1 Comment

Thanks to Linda from Tennessee for this photo taken at the Davidson Country Republican luncheon: ...

SOTU in one sentence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 47 Comments

... Some said the state of our union was getting stronger, while others said it was getting weaker, but I was getting bin Laden. ----------------- Prior sentences: SOTU Speech (2011) In One Sentence, Obama Afghanistan Speech in One Sentence, Jewish History In One Sentence...

SOTU Group Commiseration

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 36 Comments

Speech starts at 9 p.m. Lock your arms around each other in a big circle and repeat while swaying back and forth: This is not happening, this is not happening, ...

Rationalizany

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 63 Comments

Coming to gripes: A frank discussion of Mitt's Bain problem, in other words, something which is almost impossible now in conservative circles without being called "anti-capitalist" (h/t OCBill). Where are the hard drives? Newt's campaign should be pushing this harder. National Review editors still don't like Newt. Washington Post columnists...

The Great Panic of 2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 54 Comments

Did you hear what Andrea Mitchell said last night after the debate? I did, and so did David Limbaugh. If true, abject panic is just below the surface: (video added, via Greg Hengler) We may be at Kübler-Ross Stage 4 over the prospect of a Romney nomination, but they...

When Romney, NYT and Drudge attack

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 61 Comments

Newt was very subdued on stage last night. I noted at the time that it probably was a strategy of not taking Romney's bait, but he needs to be more aggressive in defending when Romney attacks. The video below is being hyped by both the NY Times...

Money well spent

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 5 Comments

Alan Grayson still appears here every now and then. Elizabeth Warren hasn't been seen for a long time, I guess she's on work detail helping build the roads for the factory owners to use. But I've noticed a lot of these lately: I can handle that. So long...

What if everything we have been told about Mitt Romney’s electability is wrong, Part 4

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 46 Comments

This is latest in a series debunking the primary justification for Mitt Romney's nomination, electability versus Barack Obama. (See Parts One, Two and Three) Conn Carroll, at The Washington Examiner, used favorability ratings for a headline column, America Hates Newt, which generated a lot of attention and...

Choke on it

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 11 Comments

Dear Hillary supporters: You have had to swallow a lot of pride, but this should make you choke: "Change We Can Believe In", a key Obama campaign slogan, was meant as a slur against Mrs Clinton's personality, intended to highlight how she "couldn't be trusted or believed in...

Fred Thompson endorses Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 14 Comments

This to be helpful to Newt not so much because it will change a particular vote, but because it adds to a helpful narrative for Newt and pushes back against the "erratic" meme being pushed by Romney and Santorum. Video h/t ElectAd: ...

I’m proud of those few

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 4 Comments

From a reader: As a loyal blog reader, I find great amusement in your regular bumper sticker posts. What I have for you is not a bumper sticker, but a humorous license plate of a hero. I am a Marine stationed aboard Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Recently,...