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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2009 5 Comments
There is Scott Brown the Senate candidate in Massachusetts, and there is Scott Brown, the musician in New Zealand. They each have Twitter accounts, but the Scott Brown from Down Under laid claim to @ScottBrown first, and the Senate candidate had to resort to @ScottBrownMA....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2009 11 Comments
TMZ fell for a hoax regarding a supposed photo of JFK on a boat with lots of naked women. Before the hoax was revealed, Andrew Sullivan authored a post on the subject, which has been pulled completely. Here is what remains on Sullivan’s blog: The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2009 12 Comments
So says Matthew Yglesias, in a post titled Not So Scary “Terror” (emphasis mine): Obviously, people shouldn’t be lighting anything on fire inside airplanes. That said, all the big Christmas airline incident really shows to me is how little punch our dread terrorist adversaries really...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2009 2 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Vice-President/Executive Editor Tim King writing at Salem News.com plays the “Rush-O’Reilly-Beck inspire white supremacist killers” hand, while slipping in the Godwin’s Law card from the bottom of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2009 18 Comments
Not by me. By an über liberal feminist blogger at HuffPo, Two Black Role Models Done In By Hubris: In the past few weeks, the two most famous and arguably most successful black men in America have taken a huge fall. It has become clear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2009 6 Comments
From Mr. Privacy: I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 13 Comments
The Kentucky state police announced that the death of Bill Sparkman was an elaborate suicide made to look like a murder so that Sparkman’s son could collect on his insurance policy. Robert Stacy McCain has all the details and updates. I’ll let others delve into...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 5 Comments
The other day, when the news of “hacked” e-mails from a British climate institute hit the internet, I wrote Why The “Hacked E-Mails” Don’t Interest Me, Yet. In the post, I noted that I did not have the time to devote to the hacked e-mails...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2009 8 Comments
Is it possible to pay more than 100% of your last dollar of income in taxes? And if it were, would you bother to earn that last dollar? Herein lies the key to how Democrats will obtain a permanent, economically-enslaved majority if universal income-based health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2009 3 Comments
Hot on the heals of the Bush-Balloon Boy connection, and the Iraq-Stupak connection, now we have the inevitable Bush-Cheney-Hasan connection. Writing about the mass murder by al-Qaeda-infatuated Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, a blogger at Firedoglake invokes the evil spirit of Bush/Cheney, Will There Be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 09, 2009 2 Comments
I so love to say I told you so. On Sunday, after recovering from the intial reaction to the House vote, I cautioned that the Stupak Amendment created an impossible situation for Democrats. While Democrats were still drunk with jubilation over the Great Saturday Night...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2009 8 Comments
Alternative headline: “Obama Critic Says It’s Gone Too Far.” Let Obama play hoops and hit the links with the guys. Exactly which high-powered woman is he supposed to set a pick for, box out, or look the other way when she uses the foot wedge?...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 25, 2009 15 Comments
Toby Harnden, the great columnist and blogger for The Telegraph newspaper, has an article titled Barack Obama must stop campaigning and start governing. The thrust of the article is that the U.S., being the land of the permanent campaign, naturally gave rise to the President...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2009 17 Comments
Alan Grayson, Democratic Congressman from Florida, is building his claim to fame on the accusation that 45,000 Americans die each year from lack of health insurance. Grayson even has started a website to count the dead. Grayson bases this number on a study released by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2009 20 Comments
Anne Leary from Illinois blogs at Backyard Conservative. I’ve had a lot of contact with Anne, mostly because of my interest in the Rod Blagojevich fiasco last winter. Anne strikes me as a completely straight shooter. I felt an immediate connection to Anne because of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2009 9 Comments
Consumer Reports has decided to weigh in on the health care debate in favor of the Democratic health care proposals, or what CR euphemistically calls “health care reform.” Having decided to take sides, I think it is fair to hold CR to the standards it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2009 7 Comments
Consumer Reports, published by Consumers Union, is a valuable tool when trying to figure out which is the best washing machine, most reliable automobile, or most powerful drill. By staying out of politics, and not seeming to have a dog in any fight other than...
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