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Lie of the Year: Joe Biden Is "Sharp, Intensely Probing, Detail-Oriented, and Focused"

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) calls for creating Dem "war machine" to stop Republicans

Jimmy Carter's Presidency and Post-Presidency - A Brutal Assessment By National Review

Phone Hacking For Me But Not For Thee

Posted by Matthew Knee on July 22, 2011 4 Comments

Mickey Kaus is tearing into Carl Bernstein for his hypocritical comments on the News of the World hacking scandal, noting that Bernstein used the 1970's equivalent of phone hacking to crack the Watergate scandal, using connections at the phone company to access phone private records,...

Bruce Sundlun, R.I.P.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 4 Comments

Former Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun has died at age 91. Sundlun was a dominant figure in Rhode Island politics, and a true Rhode Island character. A WWII veteran who was shot down behind enemy lines in Europe, and who joined the Belgian resistence before working...

Harry Reid: Those negotiations will fail, that debt deal will be lost

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 8 Comments

When word spread via leaks to The NY Times and others that there was the possibility of a debt deal being worked out between Obama and Boehner in which budget cuts would be frontloaded with no new taxes on "the rich," Democrats in the Senate rushed to scuttle...

San Francisco civility

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 1 Comment

From my recent trip: ...

Thanks, I needed this

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 8 Comments

Thanks to new commenter something for the link to this cartoon. Pretty much sums up my life at this critical juncture in the history of the Republic. ...

Is TikTok Brainwashing Young People?

UConn Medical School Invites Trans People to Train Students in ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Young Progressives are Embracing Antisemitism Based on Lies

U. Tennessee Students Doing Work on Campus Discover Civil War Trench

‘Climate justice’ Group at Northwestern University Calls for School to Become ‘Fossil Free Campus’

House Republicans Fast-Track Bill to Ban Men From Women's Sports

Spenditol

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 5 Comments

Just saw this ad running on Fox News, from Spenditol.com: ...

Get ready for the Union Battle of Ohio 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 12 Comments

Unions have collected enough signatures for a statewide referendum on election day 2011 seeking to roll back Ohio's collective bargaining reform bill. As reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The fate of Senate Bill 5, Ohio's new collective bargaining law, will be in the hands of Ohio...

Widener Law Prof. Lawrence Connell Wins Dismissal Case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 18 Comments

I have written several times about the ordeal of Widener Law Professor Lawrence Connell, who was given notice of dismissal after he used a hypothetical example in his criminal law class of the Widener Dean Linda Ammons being attacked, and a small number of students alleged that...

Countdown to the debt deal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 8 Comments

Speculation abounds, from The NY Times on down (or is it, on up?): The Obama administration has informed Democratic Congressional leaders that President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner were starting to close in on a major budget deal that would enact substantial spending cuts and...

MSNBC engages in self-parody, hires Al Sharpton for 6 p.m. slot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 20 Comments

Unbelievable. By any standard. MSNBC to hire Al Sharpton for 6 p.m. slot, according to The NY Times: Mr. Sharpton’s imminent hiring, which was acknowledged by three people at the channel on condition of anonymity because the contract had not been signed, is significant in part because...

Polyamory – at least be honest about it

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 56 Comments

I told you so: Once society decides that one-man, one-woman no longer is the “arbitrary” standard, on what rational basis do we stop at one-and-one? Jonathan Turley in The New York Times, One Big, Happy Polygamous Family: ...

AllenWestForCongress.com

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 12 Comments

It's going to be hard not to put him on my Top 10 for 2012, just as he was on my Top 10 list for 2010. I can't disagree with his comments about what's her name, except (perhaps) to the extent he used the term "most." ...

Did the Obama Administration Obtain Gunwalker Info To Justify A New Gun Control Measure?

Posted by Matthew Knee on July 21, 2011 8 Comments

Perhaps so. Katie Pavlich has obtained an email in which ATF Assistant Director of Field Operations Mark R. Chait wrote the following: This does not prove, as some on the right side of the blogosphere are saying, that Gunwalker was designed to produce evidence to justify...

Something fishy going on with Twitter?

Posted by Katie Thompson on July 21, 2011 16 Comments

This Monday, Twitter suspended several accounts belonging to a prominent Texas conservative organization, Empower Texans, its staff, and another conservative organization, AgendaWise, created by a former employee. The best part? They received no notice or explanation of the suspension. Here's part of Empower Texans' official...

Old San Francisco

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 9 Comments

From my recent trip to San Francisco, something old, something new: ...

Expect a 45-day or 75-day debt extension

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 10 Comments

Obama may be open to short term debt deal: The White House signaled Wednesday that President Obama could accept a short-term deal to raise the debt ceiling, but only if it appeared lawmakers were close to an agreement on a significant deficit reduction plan. Obama previously had...

You want gene pool destruction? You got it.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 8 Comments

Is that what you want? I'll give you gene pool destruction on such a vile, despicable, cowardly level that it will change the way you think forever: Gene Pool DestructionNow go home and pray for the survival of the species. Or not....