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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 22 Comments

Via Jazz Shaw, NY redistricting is finalized and Ithaca -- part of retiring Maurice Hinchey's district which disappeared -- now is part of the district of Republican Congressman Tom Reed (campaign website).  I don't know a lot about Tom, but I'll be finding out for sure,...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 36 Comments

I have posted before about the daily anti-Walker ritual chanting in the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. The other day a group of visiting student basketball teams stood on the balcony as the anti-Walker Solidarity Singers went through their usual ritual, but then turned the tables by breaking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 38 Comments

There's a lot of chatter and outrage over this tweet by David Axelrod using the term "Mittzkrieg," a play on "Blitzkrieg": The Republican Jewish Coalition reacted: “At a time when there is so much talk about the need for civility in political discourse, it is disturbing to see...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 37 Comments

Via The Times of Israel: Four people were shot and killed at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse Monday morning. A rabbi and his two young children were among the dead, as well as an 8-year-old girl. Several more people were injured. Rabbi Jonathan Sandler,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 3 Comments

I was glad to appear again last night as a guest of Kevin Whalen on Pundit Review Radio on WRKO Boston: On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 26 Comments

As posted yesterday, the people still pushing the Limbaugh advertising boycott rely on bombarding advertisers with Twitter messages, and have developed strategies to maximize the apparent number of tweets sent to advertisers, through retweets and multiple tweets by single users. It is not hard to see...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 7 Comments

From reader Tom: I've enjoyed your blog for some time now Mr. Jacobson. Born and raised in western and central NY, I'm well aware that you're something of a "unicorn" in Ithaca! Anyway, I spotted this sticker on a car outside a diner in Latham (Albany)....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2012 13 Comments

I ran a long string of Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson Videos of the Day recently. Thanks to reader Scott who just forwarded to me this video of Tony Snow in a duet with Anderson. Anderson's comments on Tony's death in 2008 are here....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2012 24 Comments

Rutherford B. Hayes never had it so good. His name and image are on the internet. (image here, more of mine here, even more here)...

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on March 18, 2012 33 Comments

Our Bill of Rights is the foundation of our protections from government intrusion, a bastion of liberty unknown in most of the world. The essence of the Bill of Rights, what defines us as a nation and a citizenry, is captured by the First Amendment...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2012 45 Comments

The advertiser boycott of Rush Limbaugh appears to be cracking, and Rush's move to Twitter has boycott organizers worried. Behind the scenes, anecdotal evidence suggests that advertising either never really was impacted at the local level, or to the extent it was it has returned to normal.  Via...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2012 83 Comments

I've received a number of e-mails and comments about an Executive Order signed by Obama on Friday, titled National Defenses Resources Preparedness, and what it means. It appears that this Executive Order is an update of prior Executive Orders signed in 1988 and 1994 which elaborate similar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2012 16 Comments

The thousands of rockets fired from Gaza randomly into Israeli towns and cities over the past several years into Israel have caused casualties and death, but these have been kept down by defensive Israeli actions such as warning sirens and bomb shelters. But the terror of living...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2012 4 Comments

From reader Korie: I saw this bumper sticker in the Democrat stronghold of Scranton, PA and just had to snap a picture of it. Love this one! It was my cell and that was zoomed. I knew it wouldn't be close enough for you to post but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2012 75 Comments

Please make more of these sort of arrogant and dismissive speeches. It helps motivate and bring out the base.  Our base: Update:  The Eagle has landed, er, pulled into the driveway, and this low blow on Rutherford B. Hayes has him agitated: The quote cited by Obama does exist...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2012 21 Comments

So many things had to go wrong for Obamacare to evade a Senate filibuster.  Arlen Specter had to switch parties.  Al Franken had to pull out a slight victory.  And Senator Ted Stevens needed to lose relection just after being convicted of corruption. If any one...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2012 69 Comments

Mitt Romney is waking up to the fact that his highly negative, in some cases vicious, campaign against Newt and Rick will create problems down the road, should Mitt win the nomination. So Romney's senior advisors are putting together an outreach strategy: Mitt Romney, mired in a...

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