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When They Say 'Globalize The Intifada' They Mean Like The New Orleans Terrorist Mass Murder

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): RFK, Jr. "Wants To Kill Our Kids"

Meet the Deflection: Schumer Denies Democrats Misled on Biden’s Decline

The missing Obama command photo

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2011 7 Comments

We've seen him in the situation room when he got bin Laden. And interrupting his golf game to deal with the D.C. earthquake. And taking charge of the hurricane control center. But there is one photo which is missing, as noted by commenter Jonathan at Legal Insurrection's Facebook...

Irene and me

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2011 8 Comments

Well, so far things could have been worse, We decided to stay in Ithaca after neighbors took care to get our home in Rhode Island ready. About 40% of Rhode Island, including our street, is without power since this morning. Watching the Weather Channel I was...

Obama’s “Dukakis Tank” Moment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2011 34 Comments

This should be Obama's Dukakis Tank moment, when pure bravado exposed the very perception of weakness the candidate hoped to overcome. Is there anything worse than a candidate who tries so hard to be something he is not, to fake it so hard that it hurts...

Coexist with Truthers?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2011 12 Comments

Thanks to reader Bronwyn, who saw this combination in Redding, CA. Note the language in the lower right hand corner of the Coexist bumper sticker from Peacemonger.org: Profits help fight hunger, fascism and social injustice. Yeah, right after those profits pay your salaries and expenses. Oh, and by the...

A headline only a Krugman could love

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2011 11 Comments

There is no evidence he wrote this headline, but he could have: ...

California State U. East Bay Has Woke 'Inclusive Language' Guide

Teachers in Minnesota Could Lose Licenses if They Don't Affirm LGBT Identities

Study Suggests Brown University Radicalized Students Following October 7th

Population Decline is Going to Hurt Higher Education

Historically Black University's Marching Band Scolded by Leftists for Agreeing to Perform at Trump Inauguration

Ron DeSantis Appoints Conservatives to University of West Florida Board

Saturday Night Card Game (The 10th Amendment is racist)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2011 27 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: There is a curious argument used to paint the Tea Party movement and conservatives as racist. The argument goes that since slave owners and segregationists invoked states rights, and since the...

The “unexpected” oil sands decision (of 2013)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2011 13 Comments

I've been receiving e-mails from readers in the past weeks insisting that Obama would kill the pipeline planned to bring "oil sands" oil from Canada to the U.S. Given the Obama administration's policies to date, such expectation was reasonable. The environmental movement made the oil sands...

Irene Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2011 14 Comments

Looks like it was "just" a Category 1 when it hit North Carolina. I'll be interested to see what happens as it moves up the coast, because a shift East would be bad news for my home in Rhode Island. We're not on the beach, but...

Walker Beats Runners

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2011 4 Comments

Thanks to reader Phil, who spotted this bumper sticker in Appleton, Wisconsin: ...

Turns out WI Justice Ann Walsh Bradley was the one with the anger management problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2011 65 Comments

I have focused from the beginning of the scuffle between Wisconsin Justices Ann Walsh Bradley and David Prosser on Bradley's accusation that Prosser used a "chokehold" on her. As I have detailed before, "chokehold" is a very specific term recognized by Wisconsin courts as being...

Two words missing from Ben Bernanke’s 3,500-word statement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2011 18 Comments

Ben Bernanke gave a very lengthy answer to the question "why has the recovery from the crisis been so slow and erratic?," but Bernanke danced around the obvious: Why has the recovery from the crisis been so slow and erratic? Historically, recessions have typically sowed the seeds of their own recoveries...

The importance of independent bloggers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2011 36 Comments

It's lonely out here in independent blogger world, working for the greater glory not the greater paycheck. That's not to say bloggers who work for The Man are not independent thinkers and writers, but the pressures are there depending upon who The Man is: An escalating series of...

MSNBC Host Joe Scarborough Intro’d House Res. Condemning Sharpton’s “Racist,” “Anti-Semitic” Views

Posted by Matthew Knee on August 26, 2011 11 Comments

In honor of Sharpton's new position as an MSNBC host, a link to the full resolution, courtesy of the GPO. From Scarborough's whereases: Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as ‘‘bloodsucking [J]ews’’, and ‘‘Jew bastards’’; Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has...

It’s nice to be needed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2011 6 Comments

Thanks to frequent photographer Jason for this photo taken earlier this week in Greenville, NC: ...

Judge William Young sentencing the shoe bomber

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2011 14 Comments

I had heard this before, but stumbling upon it this afternoon, I thought it worth reprinting because few people are aware of it. It's the sentencing of shoe bomber Richard Reid by U.S. District Court (Massachusetts) Judge William Young in January 2003, in full: Mr. Richard C....

Foreplay and America are back, baby!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2011 14 Comments

A ringing endorsement of Rick Perry from Kinky Friedman, with as many laughs per square inch as any endorsement I have ever seen (emphasis mine): I have been quoted as saying that when I die, I am to be cremated, and the ashes are to be thrown in...

No charges against Prosser; time for Bradley to step down

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2011 16 Comments

Wisconsin Justice Ann Walsh Bradley accused Justice David Prosser of using an illegal "chokehold" on her. At the time, I pointed out that if the charge was not sustained, and Bradley falsely had accused Prosser of using a potentially life threatening "chokehold," Bradley needed to step...