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Kamala Picking Walz: "This is doubling down on leftism and doubling down on anti-Israelism"

Van Jones: Harris Appeases 'Anti-Jewish' Democrats by Picking Walz

Race- and Ethnicity-Based Scholarships At Fordham University Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Connecting The Corrupt Dots

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2010 6 Comments

The Gail Collins has a column today in which she reviews the sordid history of corruption in New York and Illinois (with shout outs to some other states), and concludes that Illinois wins the most-corrupt state race.But TGC forgot to connect the dots: Everyone...

Being Anti-Israel Is Not Being Anti-Semitic, But It Helps

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2010 4 Comments

I'm not going to wade into the minutiae of Leon Wieseltier's article at The New Republic as to whether Andrew Sullivan is anti-Semitic because of Sullivan's anti-Israel tirades.I agree with James Joyner that the terms "anti-Semitic" along with "racist" and "homophobe" are so overused as...

Black Bracelet Author Needs A Mirror

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2010 5 Comments

Eric Robinson, author of the Black Bracelet hit piece on Sarah Palin, has written a response to the criticism (emphasis mine):Author's Note: In my column in the News Wednesday, I criticized former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for wearing a black memorial bracelet with her son’s...

Anti-Palin Faux-troversy of the Day: The Black Bracelet

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2010 25 Comments

I thank Yale Graduate School student Eric Robinson for his service to the country in Iraq and Afghanistan.But Robinson's hit piece on Sarah Palin, Palin’s bigger blunder, leads me to believe Robinson has succumbed to the New Haven funny water, either that, or he is...

One Way To Stop A Tell-All Book

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2010 5 Comments

One only can imagine what she knows.The most disturbing part of it all is that Sarah Palin could have been Vice President. Update: An Edwards spokeperson is denying the story. But of course, Edwards has denied everything all along, until almost the very end....

Dorm Room Shortage Causing Chaos at University of Utah

Cal Poly Humboldt Creates ‘Whiteness Accountability Space’ to Help White People ‘Confront Racism’

House Republicans Go After Anti-Israel Protests With 'No Tax Dollars for College Encampments Act'

Kamala Harris Running Mate Tim Walz Supports Free College for Illegal Aliens

Harvard Student Who Glitter-Bombed School President Faces Felony Charges

Penn State Student Facing Federal Charges Over Alleged Ties to ISIS

Palin Causes Left and Right To Lose Reading Ability

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2010 17 Comments

TPM ran a story yesterday, based on Sarah Palin's interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday, claiming that Palin had come out in favor of Obama bombing Iran to improve Obama's political standing. The TPM headline was Palin Advocates War With Iran After Apparently Misunderstanding Buchanan...

Huh? Staying On Course is Not Staying the Course?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2010 18 Comments

It's not good when a political spouse has to jump to the rescue. It makes the politician look weak.Michelle Obama's interview in which she complains about the treatment of her husband certainly is not a first in political history, but this statement really baffled me...

Electronic Intifada Against Israel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2010 4 Comments

Clark Hoyt, "The Public Editor" at The NY Times, apparently doesn't know when he is being used.Or at least Hoyt didn't know it when he reacted to a complaint from the Electronic Intifada website that Ethan Bronner, The Times' Jerusalem bureau Chief (an American) had...

Beware Statisticians Bearing Advice

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2010 16 Comments

Nate Silver, January 5, 2010, Wicked Awesome Thoughts on Massachusetts Special Election: Rasmussen is supposed to have a poll out tomorrow (Tuesday) on the Massachusetts Senate Special Election, which will take place on the 19th. There's been some speculation, mostly from Republican blogs but also...

Negotiations Without Preconditions for Iran, But Not Republicans

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2010 18 Comments

Barack Obama was steadfast during the campaign and after his election in his willingness to enter into negotiations with Iran without preconditions.But Obama is not willing to enter into health care negotiations with Republicans without preconditions.In inviting Republicans to the negotiating table for the first...

Palin Exposes Misogyny In The Democratic Base, Again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 41 Comments

Writing-on-hand-gate reminds me of one of the reasons Sarah Palin was put on this earth: To bring out and expose the worst misogynistic impulses in the hard core of the Democratic base.I'm not talking about criticism or mockery of the handwritten notes. That's fair game....

Waiting For TPT From TOTUS

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 6 Comments

I will not react in haste. I will wait until TOTUS passes judgment, and tells us how to react.Oh TOTUS, wherefore art thou TOTUS when we need you most?Please call it "The People's Teleprompter" or something like that.And make them go away so I don't...

Obama Misplaying the “Birther” Card

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 33 Comments

At one level, Obama and his supporters have played the "Birther" issue brilliantly. By refusing to release his birth certificate and by equating a demand that Obama release his birth certificate with being a racist, Obama has created the single most toxic charge that can...

Worst Snowfall “Since The Great Depression”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 7 Comments

Why is Obama calling the 2-3 foot snowfall in Washington, D.C. "Snowmaggeden"?In keeping with one of Obama's favorite lines repeated in his speeches, Obama should be saying:"This is the worst snowfall since the Great Depression." --------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Saturday Night Card Game (Max Blumenthal)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2010 3 Comments

This is the latest in the Saturday Night Card Game series on the use of the race card for political gain:Max Blumenthal at Salon.com declared James O'Keefe to have a "race problem," which are just code words for being a racist.Blumenthal's story was based on...

My New Project: Patrick Kennedy Must Go

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2010 34 Comments

As readers of this blog already know, I am cursed with two of the looniest Congressmen in existence, Patrick Kennedy in my home state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and Maurice Hinchey in Ithaca, NY, where I live during the academic year.In the wake...

Sky Is Falling, Fire The Senate Quick

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2010 12 Comments

Hissy fit alert. The left-wing blogs are screaming in perfect harmony about bad, bad, bad Richard Shelby of Alabama (R-of course), who put a hold on the entire government.That's not quite clear at this point, it appears that Shelby used a longstanding Senate mechanism to...