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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...

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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...

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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: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 23 Comments

Via Media Bistro: FNC’s Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry got the first question at today’s joint news conference between Pres. Obama and Lee Myung-Bak, President of South Korea. Henry asked the president about the alleged Iranian terror plot, and used a quote from GOP presidential...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 16 Comments

There have been some highly publicized anti-Semitic outbursts at the Occupy Wall Street protests, as well as claims of anti-Semitism lodged against the organizing group, AdBusters. So now some progressive Jews have formed an Occupy Judaism movement presumably to deflect from the criticism and to mainstream Jewish...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 11 Comments

Via Charlie Sykes, here are some of them, click to the link for all of them: Never acknowledge conservative victories as legitimate. Rely on Dane County judges whenever possible. Elections only matter if liberals win. Private businesses, families, personal lives are all fair game. Get the Mainstream...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 16 Comments

Obama raised $42 million for his campaign in the third quarter, plus another $27.3 million for the DNC.  Naturally, the top line $70 million joint number is being hyped. These numbers come from an Obama campaign statement, the official FEC report has not yet been released,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 13 Comments

Florida Governor Rick Scott is proposing refocusing funding away from liberal arts programs at state universities and colleges, which has various groups accusing Scott of being anti-anthropology, or something like that.  Instapundit has the story and lots of reader comments. Let me suggest that Scott is not...

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