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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

Obama throws Democrats’ Mediscare campaign off a cliff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 8 Comments

Almost the entire Democratic Party theme for the 2012 elections at every level is that evil Republicans want to destroy "Medicare as we know it," whereas Democrats want to save the program by raising taxes on the "rich." As Michael Alan documented here, groups behind the "Mediscare"...

You must not have received the memo

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 8 Comments

Spotted by reader Will in Denver, Colorado: The car owner obviously is operating under a false impression: That’s what the revenue debate is about. It’s not because I want to raise revenues for the sake of raising revenues, or I’ve got some grand ambition to create a...

How will it end?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 22 Comments

Help me formulate possible answers for a reader poll asking that question. Considering that some people wanted more than two alternative in the Flash Poll today, I'm taking suggestions....

They will fight in the restaurants, they will fight on the front lawns ….

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 30 Comments

The story about a Rutgers professor confronting Rep. Paul Ryan at a Washington, D.C., restaurant over the cost of wine ordered by people at Ryan's table rightly has been criticized, including by me. But most of the criticism deals with the professor being a busy-body and...

He’s the only reasonable person, in his own mind

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 23 Comments

I was right, mostly. The serious, conciliatory Obama showed up at the press conference today. The only reasonable person in the room was the theme. I was wrong to the extent that in his opening statement and throughout Obama framed the issue as the Republicans not...

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

Course at Yale Examines Whether or Not White and Black Women Can be Friends

DEI Leader in Florida Says New State Policies Have Left Industry in Freefall

What are the rules of engagement at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 19 Comments

That's the question I have, because the French obviously have different rules than we do (h/t Israel Matzav): Syrians loyal to President Bashar Assad stormed the US and French embassies in Damascus on Monday. The crowds managed to break into and enter the American compound, but...

Flash Poll – Which Obama will show up at today’s press conference?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 24 Comments

Obama is holding another press conference today, at 11 a.m. , with regard to the debt talks. The last press conference was an unmitigated disaster for him, leading one MSNBC talking head to drop the "D" bomb. My take is that we will see a different...

Mexico, Maryland, literally

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 3 Comments

Sent by reader Ulises, who writes (embedded link added): ...

It’s a Wonderful Democratic Tax Policy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 9 Comments

A deviation on a theme ...

This picture is worth 2 trillion words

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 22 Comments

Democrats have an idea. Let's take an additional $2 trillion from the private sector and give it to the federal government. What possibly could go wrong? ...

Obama’s deficit reduction Charades – “sounds like” more taxes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 26 Comments

Last night John Boehner announced that Republicans were abandoning an attempt to reach a $4 trillion deficit reduction deal with Obama because Obama inisted on $1 trillion in tax increases. Obama always wants new taxes on the "rich." As Michael Alan wrote here, Obama wanted tax...

Warms my heart

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 14 Comments

Not the bumper sticker, you know what. Sent by reader Thomas from Austin, TX: ...

Saturday Night Card Game (Stop the poofy hair profiling!)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 20 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: A couple of weeks it was saggy-pants bias. Now its poofy hair profiling. A mixed-race woman from Seattle is charging racism because TSA screeners asked to check her poofy hair...

New Rutgers Course: How To Mind Your Own Business 101

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 29 Comments

Don't spy on the labels on wine bottles ordered by people at tables near you, because it's none of your business. Don't then look up the price on the wine list, because it's none of your business. Don't then calculate how long a family of four could live...

So tell me about Thaddeus McCotter

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 34 Comments

Just saw him interviewed by John King Roberts on Fox News, and I have to say, he was refreshingly blunt, as is his campaign website. King Roberts referenced this tweet by McCotter: But I don't know much (indeed, almost anything) about him. I do know he supported...

The Missing Tweets

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 8 Comments

I knew I should have paid more attention. But the question remains: Did he mention windmills? or at least "wind energy"?...

We are seeing our future, and it is Central Falls

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 7 Comments

Last year I documented the saga of the city of Central Falls, Rhode Island, which went into state receivership only to be "rescued" by a new state law which prohibited municipalities from using traditional court receiverships in favor of a new state takeover mechanism. Central Falls became a model of...