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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 40 Comments

This is a little scary, particularly if it were put in the wrong hands. Via The Times of Israel: A new, unprecedented computer virus called “Flame” (or “sKyWIper”) has hit Iran, the West Bank, and other Middle Eastern locations. It is already considered one of the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 16 Comments

As Politico notes, The Boston Herald has outdone The Boston Globe in reporting on Elizabeth Warren, although The Globe finally is coming around to some hard reporting after its editorial board declared the issue over weeks ago: Long before Republican Sen. Scott Brown vs. Elizabeth Warren...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 21 Comments

What an ironic statement from Jennifer Rubin (emphasis mine): It is awfully tempting for pundits to use people and personal conflicts as stick figures in a polemic play reaffirming one’s preexisting impressions and biases. That’s certainly been the case in the Richard Grenell case...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 16 Comments

On this day we honor all the fallen, three of whom we have remembered here before, Johnny "Mike" Spann, Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto, and U.S. Army, Spc. Dennis Weichel . We add a new person to our memory, Air Force Lt. Roslyn Schulte, of Ladue, Missouri, killed by a roadside bomb...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 4 Comments

Spotted by a reader in Orange County, CA: ...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 22 Comments

Congratulations to Power Line Blog on its 10th Anniversary.  Scott Johnson writes: It was ten years ago this weekend — ten years ago today, I think, but maybe tomorrow — that John Hinderaker went to Blogger and set up Power Line. On Memorial Day that weekend...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 36 Comments

Al Sharpton: Meghan McCain and Al Sharpton: Now Meghan is whining about criticism of her over the Sharpton interview, which is part of her schtick as pointed out by Noah Rothman at Mediaite , Meghan McCain Looks For Fight, Finds Many, Now Wants Sympathy? MSNBC contributor Meghan McCain appeared on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 5 Comments

Its case for a separate state is as good as if not better than the Palestinians since it was its own entity prior to French colonial rule. Via JPost: For Ferhat Mehenni, Israel is an ideal partner and friend for Kabylie, a geographic sliver of Algeria’s northern...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 29 Comments

In the continuing on-line war, Brett Kimberlin's Wikipedia entry which documented his history has been taken down, and get this, the excuse given is that Kimberlin was the victim of a harrassment campaign. Patrick Frey, the victim of a true harrassment campaign, has the story: I have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 38 Comments

I wasn't going to do an Elizabeth Warren post today.  Really. But in my in-box was a link to this story at The Boston Herald, Elizabeth Warren shuts door on Herald’s inquiry (video at the link): Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren, in a sequel to an awkward on-camera encounter...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 7 Comments

A reader sends this photo: This is the back of my 1996 ford explorer that i drive around in charlottesville, virginia. Some days i stop in to whole foods. Heh. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2012 33 Comments

Obama has lost roughly 40% of the Democratic primary vote to an imprisoned felon in West Virginia, to "uncommitted" in Kentucky, and to a Tennesee lawyer who "could fit snugly on Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC show" and who no one in Arkansas likely had heard of before...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2012 22 Comments

We're just about a month away from the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare. David Hogberg has a column at Investors Business Daily on the political fallout if the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare: A Supreme Court ruling next month striking down Obama-Care would immediately shift the battle...

Posted by Anne Segal on May 26, 2012 25 Comments

I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend while remembering the sacrifices of those who gave their lives to defend America and freedom. It seems the neo-socialists don't want to feel left out during this weekend of patriotism and honoring the fallen. Liberation News, the "newspaper for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2012 25 Comments

There already are efforts to bus supporters of the recall to the polls for early voting. There's nothing illegal or unethical about that, so long as only eligible voters vote.  But it's a reminder that some good polling is not a substitute for going to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2012 29 Comments

Alan Colmes appears to be going the Ed Schultz route and practically begging Elizabeth Warren just to come clean. Like Schultz, Colmes still is a supporter, but feels a pain from Warren twisting in the winds which have come sweeping off the plains of Warren's obfuscation...

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