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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2012 156 Comments

I'm not sure this helps. After this, an apology without a lecture would have been better. I would suggest someone download it, because I have a feeling it will not be up long. (h/t walnutdoor17 in the Tip Line) ...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2012 18 Comments

Love and kisses from the RNC, via The Hill: The Republican National Committee (RNC) sent the Democratic National Committee (DNC) a birthday cake on Friday, but the DNC sent it back. The cake read "you didn't bake this" over a picture of President Obama. Text written in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2012 23 Comments

Very nice video production by Jack Gately appearing at Red Mass Group: Update:  You knew this was coming, from a columnist at The Nation:  'Boston Herald' vs. Elizabeth Warren: Will Sexism Win?  Oh yes, because catching a candidate for Senate falsely claiming minority status and making outlandish rants...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2012 89 Comments

Carbonite famously dropped Rush Limbaugh on a Saturday Night at the height of the Sandra Fluke controversy.  Carbonite became the poster child for the Rush boycott movement organized by Media Matters, which coordinated the effort with so-called independent groups. At the time I examined Carbonite's SEC...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2012 45 Comments

Via The Wall Street Journal: The U.S. unemployment rate was rose to 8.3% in July and a broader measure ticked up to 15%, even as the economy added 163,000 jobs. Why the increase? The key reason is because the two numbers come from separate reports. The number...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2012 15 Comments

We've seen plenty of plays on the "O" in words, but this bumper sticker is a double. From commenter martywd, a footnoted email: Today, when leaving our Public Library situated in a 'burb just north of the *Bluest City in Texas I saw this pickup just screaming...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2012 46 Comments

From A.F. Branco (reprinted with permission): ...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 02, 2012 30 Comments

Ballotpedia has compiled data on the average net worth of our elected officials for the years 2004 to 2010. As the average net worth of Congress has increased since 2004, and held about even from 2007 to 2010, the average American family net worth dropped...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on August 02, 2012 59 Comments

It's been met with praise, and skepticism. (Via Yahoo!News) "Athletes representing our nation overseas in the Olympics shouldn't have to worry about an extra tax bill waiting for them back home," Rubio said in a statement. "We can all agree that these Olympians who dedicate their...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2012 4 Comments

Reader Charles writes: It's been something of a good week for conservatives, hasn't it? Ted Cruz's victory on Milton Friedman's birthday seems to take the cake, as it were, as did Romney's overseas trip and Glenn Beck's Restoring Love. It's at that last event in Arlington, Texas where I...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 02, 2012 17 Comments

Over the past 24 hours, we have been compiling Legal Insurrection and others' Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day pics from across the country and plotting them on a map by location. Click on a placeholder to see the pictures taken at that spot; zoom and pan across...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 01, 2012 96 Comments

Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day has proven something I've noticed before. Conservatives are very good at buycotts, but very bad at boycotts. There have been attempts by some conservative and religious groups to boycott various businesses over political issues. But I can't think of one, at least not recently,...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 01, 2012 50 Comments

We've been compiling Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day photos here and on our google map (click to see the map here). [caption id="attachment_28726" align="alignnone" width="300"] Tim, Knoxville, TN[/caption] [caption id="attachment_28817" align="alignnone" width="300"] Tom, Grand Junction, CO[/caption] [caption id="attachment_28744" align="alignnone" width="300"] L, Tulsa, OK[/caption] [caption id="attachment_28746" align="alignnone" width="300"] Anonymous, Peabody, MA[/caption] [caption id="attachment_28760"...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 01, 2012 81 Comments

Some of you asked just what the scene's like on Chick-fil-A appreciation day in Chicago, home to #ChicagoValues, and the city at the heart of the controversy over Chick-fil-A after our mayor congratulated an alderman in shutting the company out of opening a second location...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 01, 2012 7 Comments

Here is Ted Cruz's victory speech last night in its entirety. ...

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