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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2011 1 Comment

Reader Dan in Hawaii, who followed the Polling 101 series, sent this clip, which I enjoyed very much:--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2011 7 Comments

What a contrast to the brutal murder of the Fogel family, including their 3 month old baby daughter.Via Ynet News:After massacre, settlers help bring new life into world: IDF forces and local paramedics helped save the life of a Palestinian woman and her newly born...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2011 6 Comments

Sam Stein of HuffPo has important, breaking news:  Scott Walker has not changed since he ran for student body President in 1988 at Marquette -- Walker took on the crowds and the newspaper editors then, just as he does now:Several days removed from the budget battle that roiled...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 16, 2011 24 Comments

From The Corner: she is almost entirely a creature of liberals who want to use her as a prop to discredit and attack conservatives. I gather Meghan thinks she is some kind of youth recruiter for a hipper form of conservatism or Republicanism or something. I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2011 1 Comment

That statement about public employee union attitudes towards government fiscal health resulted in a county board chairman in Wisconsin being forced to step down (via JSOnline):Charles Rayala's resignation as Vilas County board chairman was made official at Tuesday's monthly board meeting - a decision he made as...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2011 6 Comments

Via Israel Matzav, a translation of the Hebrew prayer hung above the bed of 11-year old Yoav Fogel, murdered in his bed by an intruder who also killed several members of his family, including his baby sister, as they slept:"May it be Your will, L-rd G-d and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2011 1 Comment

From Hambone:"Hambone is a not-so-benevolent dictator. He will allow almost anything submitted as long as there is no profanity. Language is only offensive if it offends someone. The test is, if your comments would offend Hambone's grandmother they will be deleted and you will be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2011 12 Comments

GUEST POST by Matthew Knee:Professor Jacobson asked me to comment on the DKos/PPP poll regarding big labor's recall efforts in Wisconsin. The questions are mostly fine, but I have a few thoughts on the results that might be helpful.Wisconsin recalls do not work like the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2011 5 Comments

The Daily Beast - Newsweek merger apparently is not doing too well in terms of web traffic, with Newsweek plunging and The Daily Beast stagnant.How desperate is The Daily Beast to make the Newsweek merger work?When I clicked over from a link at HotAir, it brought up this pop-up,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2011 36 Comments

Thanks to a reader in Wisconsin for sending me this link to a press release from the Recall Jim Holperin Committee and video posted at the website of conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes, regarding intimidation efforts directed against Republicans seeking signatures on recall petitions against one...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 15, 2011 1 Comment

I've read so far is from Bob Costa of National Review:Walker knows that his Badger State battles have only begun. Facing down on-the-lam Democrats — and winning — was a relief; closing a $3.6 billion budget gap will be a higher-order task.Earlier this month, Walker...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2011 1 Comment

During the so-called Gaza flotilla last summer, I pointed out that the main goal was to bust the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, in which ship heading for Gaza would be inspected for weapons, to open up sea lanes for shipping large quantities of weapons...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2011 7 Comments

The tape of NPR officials trying to pry money from people who presented themselves as Muslim Brotherhood inspired, anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish advocates, has damaged NPR tremendously, as reflectred in my prior post, NPR Please Meet The Fork Which Is About To Be Stuck Into You...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 14, 2011 10 Comments

I was in New York over the weekend. Just as I had forgotten how polemic and distasteful Manhattan mini-storage ads were, I saw this gem on the West Side Highway. (I was in the passengers seat, no lefty or righty was hurt in the taking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2011 27 Comments

Or should I say, the first Media Matters post about me. regarding my post, The Great Tractorcade That Wasn't. And written by none other than the lead blogger there, Eric Boehlert: Right-wing Blogger Doesn't Know What "Brigade" Means. Doesn't Media Matters, with all its new...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2011 7 Comments

Ann Althouse posted a video about Ronald Reagan's criticism of the Berkeley protests in the 1960s, which includes this comment by Michael Rossman (at 1:22 of the clip):"He won by pandering to a citizenry that is outraged by what these terrible insolent ungrateful children were doing on the...

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