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Kamala's Condescending and Mocking Debate Faces May Be What Voters Remember

Tim Walz's Discriminatory Minnesota Teachers Of Color Scholarship Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Apparently I'm Blacklisted in Tampa-Area Liberal Jewish Circles

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...

Fat Jokes Banned at Northwestern University

New Policy Requires School Leaders at University of Wisconsin System to Remain Neutral on Controversial Issues

Girls Field Hockey Team at High School in MA Refuses to Play Team With Male Player

Princeton University Study Links Gun Violence to Deer Hunting Season

Harvard Launches 'Introductory' Math Course for Students Due to Covid Learning Deficit

NYC Middle School Teacher Fired Over Sexually Provocative Questions in Class Assignment

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...

The Good Ol’ Days

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2010 3 Comments

Seem pretty much like the bad present days. Maybe it is all W's fault, or Bubba's, or HW's, or Ronnie's, or Jimmy's, or Gerry's, or Dick's. We know it's not O's fault.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ThHrqlGdSk]--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

How’s That Al Franken Going?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2010 9 Comments

Scott Brown's election destroyed the Democrats' filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. It would have been enough.Brown's election may have prevented the national disaster known as the Democratic health care bills. It would have been enough.Brown's election has killed the national disaster known as cap-and-trade. It...

No. 2

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2010 17 Comments

Earlier today, about 3000 visits ago, I passed 2 million visits since the start of this blog in mid-October 2008. The 1 million mark was passed in late September 2009 after 11.5 months, and the second million just 4 months later.I missed it earlier...

And Now We Stereotype Blacks As Liberals

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2010 6 Comments

Gallup has come out with another of its surveys showing how different groups self-identify in terms of liberal-conservative-moderate.The headline of the Gallup release focused on the liberal leanings of Asian-Americans, but the survey also showed that "non-Hispanic blacks" self-identified slightly more conservative (29%) than liberal...

I Almost Feel Sorry for Dem Senators

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2010 8 Comments

Barack Obama held a question-and-answer meeting with Democratic Senators yesterday to field questions about where the administration is heading on various initiatives. I posted yesterday about Obama's clueless answer to Blanche Lincoln's comment that her constituents feel like no one in the administration understands what...

No Offense to the Clueless

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2010 7 Comments

This exchange between Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark) and Barack Obama reflects just how clueless Obama is about the mood in this country and the damage his ideological intransigence is doing to his own party. As reported by The Hill:She also took a swipe at Obama's White...

Please Keep Up The Crazy Talk

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2010 9 Comments

Almost as if on cue, DailyKos, Steve Benen, Andrew Sullivan, Sam Stein and others are pushing hard on the meme that Republicans are "crazy" and Taliban-like in their ways.The "crazy" findings are based on a poll commissioned by DailyKos using the same pollster which found,...

So What If Bush Did It Too?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2010 9 Comments

Mike Allen at Politico created news yesterday, by reporting that Shoe-bomber Richard Reid was read Miranda rights in December 2001. The argument goes that since the Shoe-bomber was given Miranda rights while George Bush was President in December 2001, Obama is insulated from criticism...

Here’s What Early Draft Of Constitution Said

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2010 13 Comments

An early draft of the Constitution has been found in Philadelphia. Although the handwriting is not perfectly clear, my sources tell me that this is how the Preamble read in this early draft:We the people of the United States, in order to form a more...

Tax Chaos

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2010 6 Comments

Understandably, the raw numbers in Obama's budget -- both deficits and taxes -- are receiving huge attention.There is another aspect which makes the raw numbers even more pernicious. Many of the new tax increases are a function of the taxpayer's overall income, such as caps...

All. Fall. Down.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2010 7 Comments

Mission almost accomplished. Fail to the Chief: Even with tax hikes and spending cuts, Mr. Obama's budget foresees a record budget deficit of $1.6 trillion this fiscal year, sliding down to $706 billion in red ink by 2014, only to begin rising again as the...