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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

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....

Could Cut, Cap, and Balance pass the Senate?

Posted by Michael Alan on July 20, 2011 6 Comments

Senator Jim DeMint is circulating this video from the Club for Growth showing twenty (!) Senate Democrats pledging their support for a Balanced Budget Amendment. As a little bit of context, H.R. 2560 did pass with support from five House Democrats last night, so it's...

Debt Bomb Open

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

I will not be able to follow the debt bomb bombast today since it's a travel day back from the brink (a/k/a San Francisco). Have we sold out yet and declared victory?...

Sit back and enjoy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 16 Comments

Via The Last Tradition, Rep. Joe Walsh gives it to Chrissy: ...

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

NYC Subway Slasher with 87 Priors Still at Large

University of Oklahoma Paid Drag Queen $11,500 for Performance in Campus Show

President of Indiana University Reported to Her Own Bias Team

UCLA Loses Massive Charitable Gift Over Handling of Campus Anti-Israel Protests

Rutgers University Promises Changes After Investigation of Campus Antisemitism

Skip the primaries, let PPP pick our nominee

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 7 Comments

How pathetic is this. The Daily Caller is reporting as news that Public Policy Polling, a Democratic pollster which has a nasty habit of doing polling meant to generate anti-Republican headlines, and using skewed sampling, is dropping Tim Pawlenty from some of its polling questions. I don't really care...

A simpler solution?

Posted by Katie Thompson on July 20, 2011 5 Comments

With the August 2 deadline quickly approaching, there's been a lot of talk about the debt plans bouncing around Congress - Paul Ryan's plan; Cut, Cap, and Balance; McConnell's divisive plan; Obama's largely nonexistent $4 trillion idea, etc. But there's another solution out there: the...

If you’re going to San Francisco …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 9 Comments

... be sure to wear plenty of bumper stickers on your car. The first of many from my recent trip: ...

Defusing The Debt Bomb

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2011 35 Comments

How we doin? Does the red go to the black, or the other way around? And the yellow goes to the orange, or was it back to the red? We only have [fill in arbitrary number of days based on articial deadline] to figure it out. But...

Time-tested candidates

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2011 24 Comments

The Daily Caller is running a report that Michele Bachmann suffers from frequent severe migraines and is heavily medicated, rendering her incapacitated for days at a time. The sourcing is entirely from anonymous former aides. I don't know if the story is true, or even if...

If Casey Anthony had been convicted of murder, it would have been overturned

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2011 24 Comments

At least if this NY Times report that the prosecution failed to disclose that crucial computer evidence contradicted the prosecutors' trial claims is true: The Orange County Sheriff’s Office had used the software to validate its finding that Ms. Anthony had searched for information about chloroform...

“And until he’s gone, everybody’s going to be sitting on their thumbs.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2011 23 Comments

There are parts of Steve Wynn's anti-Obama "rant" which have received more attention, but this is the part that is key to me. It's been something I've been writing about since before the election, the Obama effect. It's why Obama owns the job losses in the...

Guilt by association

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2011 12 Comments

Taken by SoccerDad in Northwest Baltimore: ...

What will debt ceiling victory look like?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2011 44 Comments

I'm only able to follow today's debt ceiling posturing and bickering on an infrequent basis. Looks like Repulicans are looking for a single or double, something along the lines of modest spending cuts with no tax increase, with the 2012 presidential election to be the home run...

Why are there homeless people in San Francisco?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2011 47 Comments

As you know, I'm visiting here. And one thing I've noticed is that there are quite a few homeless people. Why are the people of San Francisco so heartless? They must all be Tea Party supporters. Why don't the politicians here care about the poor? They must be Republicans. How can...

Is there a place for me?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2011 41 Comments

Apparently not, according to John Hawkins, The slow, painful death of the independent, conservative blogosphere: Sure, there were a few outliers that took off: Hot Air, Redstate, and the Breitbart empire for example, but most conservative blogs have either grown insignificantly, stayed the same size, or...