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Marco Rubio Makes 'Times New Roman' Font Great Again

Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Overturn Texas "Book Bans," Library May Remove LGBTQ Books

Harvard Paid Internship For "Students of Color" Challenged by Equal Protection Project

The Eeyores Among Us

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 72 Comments

The Choice Election. That seems to be the consensus emerging about how the Ryan pick changes the race. Democrats claim to be ecstatic about it -- it seems to me they are trying much too hard to convince themselves and demoralize us. There are few if any...

Why is The Boston Globe letting Elizabeth Warren decide whom it can interview?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 17 Comments

Elizabeth Warren's daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi runs ACORN-successor Demos, which has promoted her mother's political ambitions for years. No surprise when Demos filed suit in May against Massachusetts, and then the Democrats who run the state promptly capitulated and agreed to unprecedented efforts to register welfare...

The Choice is clear

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 13 Comments

From frequent photographer Bill: Maybe there is "hope"! St. Petersburg, Florida. ...

The way I feel tonight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 58 Comments

More motivated than ever. It might have been that way regardless of the Veep pick, but the immediate attempt by the mainstream media and liberal magazines and newspapers to Palinize Paul Ryan brought back bitter memories of the type which motivated me for the...

Saturday Night Card Game (The first race card has been played against Paul Ryan)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 48 Comments

Well, that didn't take long. When it became clear that Paul Ryan would be the Veep nominee this morning, the New York State Immigrant Action Center posted what might be the first race card play against Ryan as Veep nominee, accusing him of using the allegedly...

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

Arizona State Board of Education Votes to Cut DEI Standards in Compliance With Trump Executive Order

Seton Hall University Approves Democrat Club But Denies Turning Point USA

UC-Berkeley Suspends Lecturer for Bringing His Anti-Israel Politics Into the Classroom

Not really interested in your criticisms of the Ryan pick

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 112 Comments

Whether the pick of Paul Ryan for Veep was a good pick or a bad pick or something in between is irrelevant at this point. Ryan was the pick. The left-wing writers and bloggers are all over it, portraying the pick as extremist and a cave to...

Paul Ryan speech today (added, prototype for 1st ad)(added, actual 1st ad)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 63 Comments

Here is the full speech, via Darleen) who links to this video of Andrea Mitchell saying: I think you’re going to see that they are decided that this is a base election. This is not a pick for suburban moms, this is not a pick for...

No longer on the donation sideline

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 59 Comments

The choice of Paul Ryan, and the reaction, finally got me off the donation sideline. I just donated to the Romney-Ryan campaign. And in case you were wondering, maxed out. For the first time in my adult life I was proud to do so. It's not...

Romney-Ryan 2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 129 Comments

It's official, it's going to be Paul Ryan. The Romney Veep App made the announcement earlier this morning, and every news source is reporting it. The decision was made on August 1. The left already is going crazy, but that would have happened regardless of who the...

No one is

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 1 Comment

until November 7, and only if. From reader and frequent photographer Scott: Greetings once again from Raleigh, NC. I spotted this at a stoplight early this afternoon headed to a weekly appointment with my chiropractor who, by the way, insists that "he & his wife did build that"...

V.P. Announcement Saturday, 9 a.m.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 39 Comments

Romney will announce the Veep pick Saturday morning at 9 a.m. We'll have coverage here. The Weekly Standard is calling it for Paul Ryan, which means it's either Paul Ryan or the Romney campaign ran a really good feint. NRO is reporting the same: Take note, veep watchers: Earlier...

Donation strategy in a political swarm

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 17 Comments

From a reader: Sorry to bother you, Professor, but I got an e-mail from a Wisconsin Recall Fund (which I don’t remember donating to, but they probably bought my e-mail from a list since I made several donations to Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefish), asking for...

If you have a mansion in Hyde Park, you didn’t build that

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 12 Comments

No one gets rich on his own. No one. In Obama's case, Tony built it. Romney helped a couple buy house? Big deal, so did Tony Rezko nytimes.com/2012/08/10/us/…— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 10, 2012 ...

Massachusetts voter mass mailing looking like pro-Elizabeth Warren set-up

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 38 Comments

The lawsuit by Demos (an ACORN successor), which resulted in Massachusetts voluntarily taking the unprecedented step of mailing registration forms to almost 500,000 welfare recipients and other steps in welfare offices not required by law, is looking more and more like a pro-Elizabeth Warren set-up. The...

Why are infographics so irresistible?

Posted by Anne Segal on August 10, 2012 10 Comments

If you were to look to the masses to see what stereotypes persist about different states, analyzing the auto-completes that come up in google searches is certainly a creative way to start. The blog No Upside mapped the auto-completes for each state, with some amusing conclusions. Renee DiResta,...

Do I live in the same country as these mysterious non-liberal Obama supporters?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 77 Comments

Paul Rahe (via Instapundit) compares the polling punditry to those who could not see the collapse of the Soviet Union coming because they were too focused on minutiae: When I read Nate Silver, Sean Trende, Charlie Cook, Jay Cost, and the others who make a profession...

Update on Upstate NY Operation Counterweight races

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 1 Comment

This is an update on the Upstate New York races covered last month as part of Operation Counterweight, and as before was prepared by a Cornell undergraduate student who prefers to remain anonymous. Included at the bottom of each race update are the newest Cook Report...