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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2011 87 Comments

Scrolling through The Daily News' live blog of the Occupy Wall Street protest in Times Square yesterday, this photo and caption jumped out at me: Student loan debt a hot topic among Times Sq. crowd. "Student loans screwed up my credit!" one protester screamed while Shakina Nayfack,...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2011 9 Comments

about visualizing world peace and Obama. Spotted in Ithaca on my way home from the Occupy Ithaca rally: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 11 Comments

In many ways, it's worse than I originally thought, now that the names officially have been released. In addition to the planners of the Sbarro Pizza bombing, about which I blogged earlier, the releasees include the planners of many other high profile bombings, terrorist attacks which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 19 Comments

I attended the Occupy Ithaca rally today, which was scheduled as a mass peaceful demonstration starting at noon outside a Bank of America branch in downtown Ithaca As of 12:30 p.m., when I dropped by, there were about a dozen people holding signs.  I kind of...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 24 Comments

So far, Democrats are going all in on the Occupy Wall Street movement, with the DNC even cirulating a petition in support.  Obama is trying to harness the energy for his campaign. That will change if plans for an OWS national convention take place next summer, signifying that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 5 Comments

Quote of the day, from a mostly sympathetic Walter Shapiro writing in The New Republic (h/t @SissyWillis): How do I convey this respectfully as a veteran of the 1960s? This is not the 1967 Pentagon March or anything like it. Nothing I saw in New York this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 2 Comments

The bumper sticker below lists three reasons to vote for Obama.  He'll have to do better than that if he wants my vote.  Throw in "destroy the economy" and I'm there. Spotted by reader Leslie, who writes: Spotted in Jacksonville, FL at a union packing plant ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 30 Comments

Should I go to the Occupy Ithaca protest tomorrow?  And tell them that they already occupy Ithaca so they can't occupy themselves? How are the Occupy protests any different than what we see every time there is a G20 meeting? Not good when a candidate's wife becomes...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 14, 2011 16 Comments

Today a bunch of college Dems have created an "Occupy Cornell" event. I don't know what the objective of this is, but it looks like a pretty pathetic state of affairs in "solidarity." Here's the transcript of the "occupation" if your eyes are in need of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 16 Comments

That's the question asked at the end of a long Jerusalem Post report on the negotiations leading to the swap of over 1000 Palestinian prisoners, many of whom were responsible for the most heinous terrorist attacks which killed hundreds of Israelis, for captured Israeli soldier...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 2 Comments

The homepage of Politico this morning resembled the now-infamous Esquire ode de love to Barack Obama. Obama as heir to the Martin Luther King, Jr. legacy, marching arm-in-arm with those who walked arm-in-arm with Dr. King: Except that the story was not quite at the cover indicated,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 6 Comments

It's been a while since I've been able to post a good Stuxnet story.  Stuxnet, you will recall, is the malicious malware which has plagued the Iranian nuclear program and which is blamed -- without proof -- on Israel. The PJ Tatler notes that an Iranian attempt this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 6 Comments

Big Government is launching a crowdsourcing project for a cache of documents obtained regarding the organization and implementation of the Occupy Wall Street movement (via Ace, who is participating): In keeping with the new media notion of crowdsourcing–enthusiastically embraced by the mainstream media when trawling through Sarah...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 7 Comments

Back in June I posted about how RI Gov. Linc Chafee was refusing to turn Jason Wayne Pleau over to the feds because Pleau potentially was subject to the death penalty in connection with a murder committed on the steps of a federal bank.  The feds never indicated...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 9 Comments

This is a follow up to the post yesterday featureing the Nobaama Arizona license plate spotted in Peoria, AZ. Thanks to reader Caroll who spotted this collection in Tucson: ...

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