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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2011 18 Comments

This is a follow-up to my post yesterday, Michele Bachmann's First Big Mistake - Hiring Ed Rollins, regarding Rollins out-of-the-gate attacks on Sarah Palin:Hiring Rollins is an enormous mistake for Bachmann. It could be campaign killing. The people who hate Palin are the same people...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2011 47 Comments

As I've said before, I like Michele Bachmann.   Not surprisingly, Bachmann has come under the same types of snide attack as Sarah Palin from the mainstream media, entertainment industry and left-blogosphere.  There is a special place reserved for conservative women in the Democratic toolkit of mockery and derision.But Bachmann...

Posted by Michael Alan on June 07, 2011 7 Comments

(By Michael Alan)When retired NFL quarterback legend Brett Favre was first suspected in 2010 of having a habit of "sexting" the female hosts provided to him at venues his team visited, specifically the Jets' Jenn Sterger in 2008, he was immediately put under investigation by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2011 4 Comments

The Assad regime is claiming that 120 security officers were killed in northern Syria in the past couple of days.  These figures and the circumstances are disputed, and there is speculation of a mutiny, but regardless of whether real or exaggerated, this could be the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2011 14 Comments

Joseph Cannon was one of the first and most vocal to claim that Andrew Breitbart either directly or through others had set up Anthony Weiner by hacking and/or spoofing the original tweet last Friday night which set off the firestorm.Cannon's theory of how Weiner was...

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

In the continuing saga, in which Palin is being savaged and mocked, please listen to this NPR interview with Robert Allison, a professor and historian at Suffolk University, in which Allison argues that while Palin may have had some details wrong, she mostly was correct about Paul Revere's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 66 Comments

Earlier today I noted that numerous people owed Andrew Breitbart an apology.Among those people was Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs who accused Andrew Bretibart of "smearing" Weiner with "phony" accuastions.  Now that Bretibart has been vindicated, is Charles willing to man up and apologize?  Hell...

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

At 4 p.m. Eastern.  Will the headline be "Weiner Hangs In There" or "Weiner Peters Out"?Updates:  Admits sent photo Friday, did it as joke, then laughed about it.  "To be clear the picture was of me and I sent it."Also "engaged in several inappropriate" conversations,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 13 Comments

Now that more photos and information are coming out from multiple sources about Anthony Weiner's online exchange of photos and salacious talk, it is worth revisiting how the left blogosphere relentlessly pushed the meme that this was an Andrew Breitbart hoax:Charles Johnson:Joseph Cannon:DailyKos:Eric Boehlert, who took time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 3 Comments

It was surprisingly easy for public sector unions to bust Providence.  Through political influence public sector unions gained a majority on the Providence Pension Board, and helped themselves to unsustainable benefits.The Providence Journal digs bag into the history of the City of Providence pension system,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 13 Comments

This is the day after which not even Debbie Wasserman Schultz can save Weiner.Just go to Breitbart's Big Government as the evidence of more photos is dribbled out today.  Patterico is all Weiner, all the time.  Stacy McCain hasn't had so much fun since ever. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 41 Comments

This weekend, lacking any new Weiner revelations (but see today), the left-blogosphere (but not exclusively the left) was preoccupied with proving that Sarah Palin was wrong when she said that Paul Revere had warned the British that the colonial militias were massing.  Relying on the Longfellow poem...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 3 Comments

...Those were the days, my friendWe thought they'd never endWe'd sing and dance forever and a dayWe'd live the life we chooseWe'd fight and never loseFor we were young and sure to have our wayLa la la la la laLa la la la la la--------------------------------------------Follow...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2011 6 Comments

On Friday the Syrian army killed 63 Syrian protesters against the Assad regime.As before, Assad tried to deflect international attention by sending Palestinians to try to crash the border fence on the Golan Heights, with predictable results that Israel did not allow them to breach...

Posted by Michael Alan on June 05, 2011 15 Comments

(By Michael Alan)Earlier this week, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz told CNN that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is dealing with "a personal matter." That "personal matter" includes not knowing "with certitude" whether or not the, er, picture that was tweeted to a 21 year old college...

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