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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2012 2 Comments

I posted yesterday about the race between David Cicilline (D RI-01) and Republican Brendan Doherty. Cicilline has managed to pull into a small lead because of an over-the-top Mediscare campaign and faded memories of Cicilline's cover-up of Providence's financial disaster. The Doherty campaign has just launched a...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2012 9 Comments

From reader Mori: I spotted this today at the library in Carlsbad, CA. Not sure if you've posted this one. I'm noticing more Romney stickers than Obama stickers...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2012 25 Comments

The paragraph which has not yet been written: A beleaguered people suffering under economic hardship due to the crony statist policies of a political bully who played upon class divisions and used hand-outs to the poor as a political tool, have elected to the presidency a...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 07, 2012 6 Comments

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012. The countdown continues with 30 days to go. Today's great Empty Chair photo comes to us courtesy of Lady Liberty who writes, "perhaps...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2012 15 Comments

I have neglected to promote posts from the Tip Line in the past few weeks, as events consumed my attention.  If you are not checking out the Tip Line, you are missing a lot of what your fellow commenters are posting. Mary Matlin calls out Paul Krugman on...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2012 53 Comments

Paul Ryan is expected to do well in the VP debate, essentially the reverse of what was expected for the presidential debate where Obama was favored going in. The expectations are high, I think too high: Ryan does, however, have a lot of non-debate debating experience dealing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2012 34 Comments

in the psychiatric implosion on the left resulting from Obama's empty chair performance at the debate? It's a guilty pleasure ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2012 6 Comments

I have warned you that former Providence Mayor and current Congressman David Ciciline is one of the most effective Mediscare mongers. In his 2010 run for Congress, during which he lied about the abysmal finances of Providence in order to get elected, Cicilline ran a bus tour of Senior...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2012 13 Comments

This ad is a relative "oldie" but needs to be run again on television, cut down to 30 seconds. Mr. Flexibility needs to make a new appearance ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2012 15 Comments

The Massachusetts Republican State Committee has sent out a mailer, forwarded to me be a reader, which hits Elizabeth Warren very hard on her false claim to be Cherokee. The mailer is very well done because it presents a lot of facts, including a timeline of Warren's changing self-identifications as...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 06, 2012 17 Comments

The New Yorker cover depicting the Empty Chair in Chief “debating” Mitt Romney is classic evidence that Clint Eastwood hit a home run with his speech at the RNC. To honor the cover, Professor Jacobson has decided to roll out previously unpublished National Empty Chair Day photos...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 06, 2012 10 Comments

The Norwegians in charge of selecting the Nobel Peace Prize winner apparently care more about protecting their secret than the White House and State Department did about protecting our consulate in Benghazi. The Nobel Peace Prize committee is tightening security to prevent eavesdroppers on decisions that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2012 28 Comments

Early in the campaign cycle Obama's team repeatedly bragged how they would raise $1 billion. As the season wore on, it appeared less and less likely. But in September Obama and the DNC jointly raised $181 million, putting Obama back on track: Spurred on by the Democratic National Convention, new donate-by-text...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2012 32 Comments

A conspiracy theory started at Daily Kos and Democratic Underground, then expanded down through the bowels of the left blogosphere and plopped onto the mainstream media. The theory was that Mitt Romney cheated at the debate by using a cheat sheet, via The Week: The video: A handful of liberal bloggers think they've found a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2012 7 Comments

Facebook has threatened to permanently block Twitchy from posting. The Twitchy Facebook page is here and has over 40,000 followers. Apparently someone or some group of people complained that a photo featured in a Twitchy story violated Facebook's "community standards." The photo was used in a story...

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