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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 13 Comments

Florida Governor Rick Scott is proposing refocusing funding away from liberal arts programs at state universities and colleges, which has various groups accusing Scott of being anti-anthropology, or something like that.  Instapundit has the story and lots of reader comments. Let me suggest that Scott is not...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 7 Comments

just wait until Eric Holder gets a look at this bumper sticker and license plate. Thanks to reader Donald, who spotted this in Peoria, Arizona, and writes: Here's a license plate that is probably illegal in every state except Arizona...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2011 39 Comments

Looking at all the non-Romney candidates last night, I kept thinking, "Miss her yet?"  (Note:  If someone could do the graphic, I'd love to post it.) Particularly after this question and answer: TUMULTY: Congressman Gingrich -- Speaker Gingrich, Medicare is going broke.  Consider the fact that half of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2011 59 Comments

The more I see Rick Perry in action the more I like him, but the more I get the feeling that he's not up to the task of defeating Romney, much less Obama.  I'm not writing him off, at all, but he has to play...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2011 35 Comments

In the car much of the morning, so the blog belongs to you! (I think I just made a big mistake.) Update 12:45 p.m.:  Party over, I'm back....

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2011 22 Comments

October 12, 2008, a day which shall live in infamy. The day of the first post at this thing called a blog which some guy decided to call Legal Insurrection: Obama is “Door  No. 2″ It seemed like a good idea at the time. Three years later the scorecard shows over 9,750,000...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2011 2 Comments

some change? Thanks to reader and frequent photographer Linda, who spotted this near Nashville, TN: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 26 Comments

Differing impressions of tonight's Republican debate in New Hampshire: According to Mitt Romney: Tonight's the night that the lights went out in Texas According to Rick Perry: And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive According to Herman Cain: Let me entertain you, let me make you smile According to Michele Bachmann: I am the tax...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 1 Comment

The New Hampshire debate starts at 8 p.m. Eastern. I'll try to embed the live feed, since it's not on national television.  Here the link to the live broadcast (not able to find embed yet). You can partipate in the discussion in the Cover-It Live box...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 21 Comments

An Israeli soldier who has been in prison in Gaza for 5 years without so much as a visit by the Red Cross. Apparently a deal has been reached for his release. The terms are not yet known, but the Israeli cabinet is voting on it tonight (Israel...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 13 Comments

Union-backed protesters plan on protesting outside the buildings of several billionaires in New York City, including trying to present "checks" representing the funds the billionaires will save if a New York State surcharge on the wealth expires later this year. Make no mistake, this is not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 13 Comments

The mother of all recall battles is set to launch on November 15, when the 60 day clock starts for Wisconsin Democrats to obtain over 540,206 signatures on recall petitions against Governor Scott Walker. If suffiicient signatures are obtained (and I assume they will), the recall election...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 6 Comments

is pretty well set out in this article in The Providence Journal about intimidation of legislators who are considering reforms needed to save Rhode Island from fiscal collapse (see my post yesterday for background): Philip Keefe, the president of the second-largest state employees union, the R.I....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 15 Comments

I criticized Mitt Romney's campaign on the night of the Reagan Library debate for having a spokesman claim that Perry wanted to kill social security, linking to this tweet by John McCormack: The Romney campaign has been hitting similar themes for the past month.  It's the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 1 Comment

I would love to see the #OccupyWallStreet protesters try to occupy this guy's car. It's a fair bet that he's not a fan of #OccupyWallStreet protesters carrying the Soviet Flag in Philadelphia, taking dumps on police cars in New York, or chanting stuff about doing it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 6 Comments

Democrats and media helpers like Paul Krugman have been weaving a Tea Party eliminationist narrative for years. As pointed out by James Taranto, it looks like Democrats finally have found an eliminationist narrative they can believe in: Related:  Worst. #OccupyWallStreet. Advice. Ever....

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