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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 48 Comments

Consider this the opening of a time capsule from a gentler, kinder, more delusional era, when love of composite Obama swept the land. In my post Sunday, It made you happy, but it was that bad, I asked readers for suggestions for the best worst Obama-adoring...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 14 Comments

Exile? If you think being conservative in Lee County, Florida, is being in "exile," there's this bridge in Ithaca I'd like to sell you. From reader John: In Westchester County, NY. I saw the sticker out of the corner of my eye and expected to see a license...

Posted by Anne Segal on June 10, 2012 61 Comments

If you love Daily Kos, Van Jones and Keith Ellison, you'll love Elizabeth Warren.  If you love public employee unions running the state, you'll love Elizabeth Warren.  If you loved the Wisconsin Recall, you'll love Elizabeth Warren. The big union and Hollywood money and progressive media machine are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2012 20 Comments

James O'Keefe is loathed on the left almost on a par with what Andrew Breitbart experienced.  From ACORN to NPR to voter fraud in 2012, O'Keefe and his camera have caused havoc. Yet when blogger Adam Weinstein of Mother Jones approached O'Keefe this year at Netroots Nation, they had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2012 81 Comments

What the hell were we thinking? By "we" I don't mean me or most of the readers here. By "we" I mean the nation, which fell in love with composite Obama. So now she's not feeling the love no more. (Daily Caller via Instapundit.) Amber Lee Ettinger, widely known...

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Posted by Anne Segal on June 10, 2012 21 Comments

It only took one panel discussion at Netroots to reveal just how divided the left is in its narrative over how to handle Wisconsin. Audience member Lisa Graves from The Center for Media and Democracy's PRWatch, upset with the panel's analysis of Obama's interaction with the Wisconsin...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2012 11 Comments

They've all gone to look for America. Another one from Sandy's road trip, taken on the Pennsylvania Turnpike west of Pittsburgh by a: guy who appeared to be a miserable creature, whose mom would even have a hard time trying to love, and we know a mother's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 25 Comments

An update on Flame, from BBC: The creators of the Flame malware have sent a "suicide" command that removes it from some infected computers. Security firm Symantec caught the command using booby-trapped computers set up to watch Flame's actions. More technical details at Symantec: Late last week, some Flamer...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 38 Comments

Mike Lupica is a sports writer who now is a political columnist.  Lupica suffers from Keith Olbermann Disease. Lupica hasn't been mentioned much here, but we did call him out when he claimed that a Stop Obama sign was a call to violence based on race: We are 100 yards, no...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 93 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 16 Comments

The reaction of the left to the Wisconsin loss reminds me of the old joke about the businessman who loses money on every sale, but makes it up on volume. Via Newsbusters (h/t Tim Blair): ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 24 Comments

I attended the Breitbart Awards dinner in Providence last night.  It was part of the Future of Journalism Summit sponsored by The Heritage Foundation and The Franklin Center. Jim Hoft has the details on the winners.  There were about 100 people in attendance. Via Jim's blog, here's Anne...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 28 Comments

A lot of readers seem to be on road trips these days.  From reader Sandy: Prof, am on a road trip this weekend, from Virginia to Indiana and then return via Hillsdale, where older daughter begins junior year in August. Along the way we are seeing some...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2012 53 Comments

Angela Corey is the special prosecutor in the George Zimmerman case. Yesterday, Alan Dershowitz alleged that Corey threatened to sue for libel based on Dershowitz's criticisms of Corey's handling of the Zimmerman case, particularly the decision to charge 2nd Degree murder and the alleged failure to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2012 76 Comments

Anne Sorock attended the Netroots Nation convention yesterday morning, and asked a thoroughly legitimate question of the members of a panel on Native American identity: "I thought it was really interesting in particular that you wondered to yourself, 'what is a real Indian,' and you also...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2012 65 Comments

Yesterday I posted about how Alan Dershowitz alleged that Zimmerman prosecutor Angela Corey called up Harvard Law School complaining about Dershowitz and treatening to sue for libel based on Dershowitz's criticisms of her handling of the case. The whole incident seemed strange, and reflected conduct that should...

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