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Video Released of ICE Agent's Perspective of Minneapolis Shooting

Kathy Hochul, Zohran Mamdani Announce Billions in New Spending on 'Free' Childcare Program

Mamdani and the “Woke Jihad”

GOP counter-offers Erskine Bowles to Obama’s la-la-land (Update — Obama rejects out of hand, wants his pound of tax rate increases)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 29 Comments

Via The Hill (h/t Drudge): House Republican leaders have made a counteroffer to President Obama in the fiscal cliff negotiations, proposing to cut $2.2 trillion with a combination of spending cuts, entitlement reforms and $800 billion in new tax revenue. The leaders delivered the offer to the...

If we’re doing Doomsday, let’s really do Doomsday

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 30 Comments

What does this solve? Via ABC News: Republicans are seriously considering a Doomsday Plan if fiscal cliff talks collapse entirely. It’s quite simple: House Republicans would allow a vote on extending the Bush middle class tax cuts (the bill passed in August by the Senate) and...

Will Syria go chem?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 3 Comments

It has been much discussed since the beginning of the uprising. There have been reports of suspicious activity at chemical weapons sites, but who knows what it real and not real. One thing is for sure, chemical weapons cannot save Assad. The second he uses chemical weapons...

Yet more fear and loathing of American culture (and history) at the LA Times

Posted by Joel Engel on December 03, 2012 10 Comments

Suffering through the top story in the arts section of yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, I thought of Andrew Breitbart, whom I knew a bit—enough to have had several conversations about how insidiously destructive the mainstream media are to American ideals. Breitbart’s passion and mission in life...

Palestinian culture of incitement is the core problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 12 Comments

We have known for decades that Palestinian leaders talk out of both sides of their mouths, a message of relative restraint to the West and a message of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli agitation at home. Hamas is more honest than the Palestinian Authority, as it has a unified...

Jewish Students Locked in Cooper Union Library During Anti-Israel Protest Settle With College

Georgetown U. Hires Hamas Apologist Mehdi Hasan as Visiting Fellow

Astoria, NY, is Becoming the American Center of Democratic Socialism

Shooting at Mott Community College in Michigan Ends in Arrest

Brown Chooses DEI Official With No Security Expertise to Lead Post-Shooting ‘Physical Security’ Initiative

Florida Atlantic U. Prof to Remain Suspended for Spring Semester Over Charlie Kirk Comments

If Jevon Belcher didn’t possess a gun, would he and Kasandra Perkins really both be alive today?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 46 Comments

Bob Costas' commentary on the murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs player Jevon Belcher is receiving a lot of attention. I understand the points, via Ed Morrissey, that people don't tune in to a football game for gun control proselytizing, and that Costas focused on the gun...

I’d rather embrace equality and equal protection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 13 Comments

if violating those principles is the means to the diversity end. Spotted in Ithaca: ...

Alanis is Canadian for courage

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 11 Comments

This is courage week for Canada. First, a very strong statement of support for Israel at the U.N. Now, unlike Stevie Wonder, who cancelled a pro-Israel concert under mild pressure from the U.N. and anti-Israel groups, Alanis Morissette, the Canadian singer, has arrived in Israel for a concert...

I really hate to do this to you

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 60 Comments

But I'm already sizing up Operation Counterweight Senate races for 2014. Don't look back is my motto. Roll Call has a list of Senate races and assessments. Do any of them have serious primary challengers? Lindsay Graham seems like he could be vulnerable in theory, but I...

Disheartened Obamaphiles should just stop talking

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 45 Comments

It's hard to know whether to cheer their disappointment or commiserate. My natural inclination is to tell them to S*** *** **** ** considering that they have subjected us to four more years. From Michael Goodwin, Obama 2: Even more reckless: People weren’t paying attention. Those are the people now...

U.N. “Palestine” vote served Obama’s purposes, without his fingerprints on it

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 17 Comments

The United States nominally opposed the General Assembly Resolution granting nonmember state status to "Palestine." In the short run, it changes nothing on the ground, but it does embolden the Palestinians to hold out for everything, including a reversion to the 1949 Armistice borders, commonly and...

The first battle of the next Tea Party wave — December 5 rally in Nashville against Obamacare exchange

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 23 Comments

Opposition to Obamacare fueled the Tea Party wave of 2009-2010. The next wave will include continued opposition to Obamacare, along with other fiscal issues, The Tea Party tsunami at the gates. The fight over Obamacare as a law ended when Chief Justice John Roberts enganged in...

5 hours and 15 minutes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 6 Comments

from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to Hope. Arkansas. Yet if this shop owner is any indication, it's a world away from the days of the Man from Hope. From reader MK Reagan, in August: Eureka Springs, AR is kind of a hippie town, but these T shirts were prominently...

Saturday Night Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 21 Comments

Some advice for congressional Republicans, via Right Scoop (h/t Patricia), start at the 4:00 mark: Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a>At the Reagan Forum, an hour's worth of history (jump to 19:50 on how things looked in 1974 and why we do not now need...

Saturday Night Card Game (Touré never met a race card he didn’t like, or remembered)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 25 Comments

Touré Neblett does not think he plays the race card. He doesn't even think there really is a race card, it's a figment of the vivid White imagination: There is no such thing as a race card. Race is not a card that can be played as if...

Pro-Morsi rally in Cairo

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 7 Comments

Don't let the recent anti-government protests fool you. The Islamists still are able to turn out large crowds in the New Egypt, as happened today in Cair0 where hundreds of thousands (how many hundreds varies from news report to news report) turned out in support of President Morsi and...

Jefferson is a proxy target in the modern political war

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 39 Comments

The Founding Fathers owned slaves. We knew that, didn't we? Slavery was an institution in many places in the world, including the newly formed United States. It took a generation and a civil war to end it here, long before it was ended elsewhere. That fact is...