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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2011 3 Comments

1959 was a very, very good year.  More so than you know.  Unless you were Cuban. Very, very good years are not always what they seem. Thanks to reader Jim who took this photo in Bradenton, Florida, of a bumper sticker which says "Cuba got 'Change' in...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2011 10 Comments

Today's hashtag is #downgrade. There were may good tweets to choose from, but I picked this winner: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2011 3 Comments

Today is the 10th anniversary of the first blog post at Instapundit. The first week of Instaposts are here. While we frequently wish bloggers happy blogoversaries, Instapundit really deserves thanks.  It's hard to imagine where the conservative blogosphere would be without Instalanches, and the support of Prof. Glenn...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2011 10 Comments

You probably have no idea what I'm talking about. Victory Day, formerly known as VJ Day, formerly known as Victory Over Japan Day, no longer is celebrated anywhere in the U.S. except in my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.  It is celebrated the second...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2011 32 Comments

Nothing interesting to write about this morning.  At least nothing that hasn't been beaten half to death already. Suggestions?  Thoughts?  Comments?  Anybody out there?...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2011 6 Comments

You bought into it, so you own it. Thanks to Bruce from Where Are My Keys who sent along this photo he took recently in Denver: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2011 13 Comments

Matt Lewis at The Daily Caller argues that taking a compromise deal allowed Republicans to avoid blame for the S&P downgrade (although David Axelrod and John Kerry are claiming otherwise) and any other negative consequences: In the few days since the debt ceiling was raised, the Dow has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2011 34 Comments

Soon after the raid in which Obama got bin Laden took place, as Obama was in the midst of his not-spiking-the-football victory lap, I asked readers to predict when Hollywood would roll out a major motion picture about the raid in order to help Obama's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2011 22 Comments

Thanks to reader and blogger Voting Female for alerting me to the new hashtag #ObamaDownGradeExcuse. Considering how much fun readers had with #BeforeBlackPresidents, there should be some good tweets and comments coming. Here's my contribution: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2011 15 Comments

Yesterday I reported how the Dean of Widener Law School, Linda Ammons, had sentenced conservative law professor Lawrence Connell to a psychiatric evaluation and "anger management" therapy: Professor Connell will comply with all conditions and recommendations issued by the psychiatrist/psychologist, including, without limitation, appropriate counseling and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2011 12 Comments

Graeme Zielinski, Communications Director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, is quite a guy.  He was a focus of a post here last month when he tweeted that people should celebrate the 45th anniversay of Medicare by "punching a Republican."  He then claimed he was just joking. But...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2011 2 Comments

... the owner of this vehicle. Saw this in the parking lot of a local supermarket in Rhode Island:   Update: One LI reader took the post title as an insult, believing that I was referring to Texans and the car owner as idiots (which is how the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2011 21 Comments

Consider this just an ideas open thread. Keep it clean, children could be reading. I'll start:  There is a deep sadness at the loss of members of SEAL Team 6.  Every soldier is valuable and mourned, but this tragedy seems to be special. Updates:  This chart from Division...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2011 28 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: It never ends. The attempt to turn disagreement with the policies of the Obama administration into a racial issue. In the past weeks, as there was a dispute over raising the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2011 16 Comments

Barack Obama never put forth a debt reduction plan.  Ever. All Obama did was talk in generalities about what he might be willing to consider as part of a "grand bargain," but it always was vague, the equivalent of voting present.  But when Republicans put forth...

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