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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 32 Comments

Rhode Island is being crushed by pension debt, our cities are suffocating, we're driving businesses away with regulatory minutiae, and we're hemorrhaging young people.  Oh, and we just threw away up to $75 million on a video game company run by a former baseball player. So...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 5 Comments

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) earned a special place in the annals of odious Senatorial speeches when, on the eve of the Obamacare vote in the Senate in December 2009, he invoked Kristallnacht and lynchings when speaking of opponents of Obamacare: History cautions us of the excesses to which these malignant,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 22 Comments

There are times it's good just to be a spectator. I'm not going to try to sort this out, I'll just note that the "Stop Rush" movement has turned on one of its most prized Twitter activists, or that activist has turned on it, depending who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 42 Comments

No one could have seen this coming.  This could be the moment when Obama's campaign stopped receding. Sandra Fluke endorses Obama in an op-ed at CNN.com (because MSNBC.com was not available): Obama is committed to rebuilding our economy upon the values of fairness and opportunity and the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 13 Comments

A number of readers have sent me links or images of a Father's Day promotion Obama is running to scoop up e-mail addresses for fundraising. Here's an image sent by reader Bronwyn as it appeared at Real Clear Politics: Reader John saw a simlar ad at The NY...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 45 Comments

Yesterday I posted about Joe Scarborough bad-mouthing bloggers sitting in the basement eating Cheetos. Last night Michelle Malkin encountered the same attitude from Juan Williams (jump ahead to 6:45 if you don't have much time)(via HotAir): I'll tell you what Michelle, I'm a real reporter, not a blogger out in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2012 5 Comments

@SGLawrence has escaped the #TwitterGulag! Thanks to everyone who sent tweets. Special thanks to Michelle Malkin and her Twitchy team for their help. I've posted a new Broadcast Tweet letting people know to follow @SGLawrence -- send it out and follow her....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2012 46 Comments

Morning Joe (h/t Dan Riehl): >>let's see, if i'm going on intrade and trying to figure out whether the future of the republican party belongs to grover norquist who i know and like or the jeb bushes of the world, i'm pretty confident jeb wins. i...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2012 39 Comments

No one saw this coming. We have followed the saga of the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard for over a year. The decision on whether to grant endagered species status to the lizard was not expected until tomorrow.  Granting protected status to the lizard would have threatened oil production and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2012 137 Comments

Florida prosecutor Angela Corey has come under withering criticism from Alan Dershowitz for overcharging and leaving out important details in the Affidavit of Probable Cause filed in connection with the charge of Second Degree Murder lodged against George Zimmerman. Corey allegedly responded by threatening to sue...

Posted by Anne Segal on June 13, 2012 9 Comments

I was guest on Todd Feinburg of Boston's WRKO radio show this morning. I spoke about my experience covering Elizabeth Warren at the Netroots conference this past weekend. Listen to my segment below, or click here to access it on their website. &#a0; ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2012 27 Comments

I posted last night about how Obama's support among a core constituency, Jews in New York, has cracked. Support for Obama also is cracking among blacks in North Carolina: President Barack Obama is rapidly losing support among  African-American voters in North Carolina, a new poll out today from the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2012 14 Comments

More from Sandy's road trip: We arrived an intermediate destination, Culver, Indiana, late Friday night. Culver is a small mid-west town in Marshall County, about 50 miles south of South Bend. It is perhaps best known for the Culver Academies, composed of the Culver Military Academy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2012 42 Comments

Jews are a core Democratic liberal constituency, except for Orthodox Jews. In the greater New York City area, there is a demographic time bomb for Democrats in the form of a surge in Orthodox Jewish children who now constitute over 60% of all Jewish children in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2012 21 Comments

Friend of the blog @SGLawrence had her Twitter account mysteriously suspended last night. She has been very active tweeting conservative messages (including many LI posts) and engaging with "others with opposing views" on Twitter. We can't be sure why her account was suspended, but it fits the...

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