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Vance Derangement Syndrome Emerges from the Fevered Swamps of Trump Derangement Syndrome

Trump Cuts Talks With Zelensky After Fiery Oval Office Exchange

Andrew Breitbart - 13 Years After His Death - Politics is Still Downstream From Culture

Lawrence O’Donnell lectures Herman Cain on how to be black in the segregated South

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2011 42 Comments

This is possibly the most offensive interview sequence I've ever seen. Lawrence O'Donnell lectures and snidely criticized Herman Cain, who was a minor when Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus in 1955 and in high school for the desegregation fights in the...

Mark this day in the annals of Senate nuclear warfare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2011 22 Comments

I'll admit I don't understand all the intricacies of the U.S. Senate Rules, but moments ago Harry Reid pulled the "nuclear option" in order to prevent Republicans from forcing Senate Democrats to vote on Obama's jobs bill. As reported by The Hill (h/t Marathon Pundit): In a shock...

They are narrowing the targets for intimidation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2011 24 Comments

The anti-1% street agitation is the fulfillment of a process we have seen unfold since Obama's 2008 campaign, a process by which a group of various definitions of wealth is isolated and targeted for demagoguery. It was the Top 5%, then the Top 2%, now it's...

Dear Mitt, did you ever own a rock?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2011 15 Comments

The smear is long gone from the front pages, but will live on forever in Rick Perry's campaign: “I know for a fact that in 1984, that rock was painted over. It was painted over very soon, my family did that.” Silly you, Rick, you thought WaPo...

How can I support a candidate when I can’t stand other supporters of the candidate?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2011 42 Comments

It's the age-old question. And it is not a theoretical question, as you know from recent experience here, because if I followed that line of thinking religiously, multiple remaining candidates would be crossed off my list. For example, David Frum is supporting Mitt Romney. But Frum has spent...

DOJ Launches Antisemitism Investigation at University of California System

U. Cincinnati Claims Offering Prayer for the Disabled is a ‘Microaggression’

Dept. of Agriculture Granted University $600K to Study ‘Menstrual Cycles in Trans Men’

U. Michigan Profs Accuse Trump, Musk of Lawlessness, Anti-Democratic Extremism at Teach-In

Hampshire College to Host Mural Memorial Focused on BLM, Police Brutality, and Social Justice

Bondi Warns American Bar Association To ‘Immediately’ Abandon Diversity Mandates

#OccupyWhiteHouse2012 – The hashtag for the rest of us

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2011 19 Comments

The silent majority. The ones who pay the bills, and the taxes, and the tuitions, and the pensions, and the benefits, for the people who falsely claim to be the 99%. The ones who did not graduate from the school of perpetual expectations and handouts. The ones who...

Media narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2011 5 Comments

Tea Party = Terrorists OccupyWallStreet = Heroes...

#OccupyWallStreet has been seized by the very people against whom the protests should be directed

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

Whatever Occupy Wall Street once was long ago (i.e., three weeks ago), the revolution has been seized by big labor, particularly public employee unions, as proudly reported yesterday in left-wing Mother Jones magazine, Occupy Wall Street, Powered by Big Labor: In late September, major labor unions mostly watched...

Have you hugged your Kucinich today?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2011 7 Comments

Thanks to frequent photographer Jason, who writes: Taken a couple of weeks ago in Cary, NC...

Post-Palin reader poll – Who benefits?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 28 Comments

Which candidate will most benefit from Palin not running? NOT who do you want to win, but who will benefit. Poll open until 5 p.m. Thursday. Which candidate most benefits from Palin not running? (NOT who do you want to win)...

Steve Jobs, R.I.P.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 17 Comments

Sad news. Steve Jobs has died, not long after he resigned from Apple. My prior post about Jobs, An Apple what if. An American corporate hero. He will be missed. ...

Sarah Palin not running

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 84 Comments

Just breaking on the Mark Levin Show. Link to audio is here. Written statement is here Not considering third party because would guarantee an Obama victory. My initial thoughts: Probably for the better in the drive to unseat Obama, but only because of the political corruption of the...

Did Amazon sell out the rest of the nation?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 10 Comments

You may remember that Amazon.com stopped doing business through "affiliates" (websites and blogs) in California, after the state passed a law requiring companies like Amazon to collect state sales taxes on purchases made through California affiliates. Amazon has settled with California and will resume its relationships, but it...

Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 15 Comments

Some questions of the day: Will Russ Feingold have a reunion with his former staffer at the Occupy Wall Street protest? And why did the former staffer just turn his Twitter account private? Madison, Wisconsin progressives are traveling to D.C. for this weekend's protests, what possibly could go wrong? How is...

Herman Cain Occupies #OccupyWallStreet

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 11 Comments

Think Progress is in a tizzy because Herman Cain told it like it is as to the politics of jealously and envy which are the driving force bechind the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Democratic Party's election strategy. ...

George Mason U. Law School Dean gets it right

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 14 Comments

George Mason University School of Law is considered "conservative," at least by law school standards. So when CAIR played the Islamophobe card and demanded that the school shut down a speech by Nonie Darwish , Dean Daniel Polsby said no thanks to CAIR's attempt to squelch dissenting voices: It appears...

More Leftist Hypocrisy: The MSA 11 vs. Laws Restricting Abortion Clinic Protests

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 9 Comments

Several nights ago, I found myself arguing with a hyperpriviledged, self-identified anarcho-socialist (don't ask me how that works) about the MSA 11. He and his friends believed them to have been convicted by a racist Orange County jury, under unconstitutional laws. As we were discussing the...