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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 49 Comments

You all know about the secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh advertisers. Media Matters threw its full weight into the boycott, continues to work on it, and so-called "independent" groups continue to tweet away and call mostly local advertisers. The boycott intimidation tactics failed to remove Limbaugh from...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 22 Comments

Um, there's so much I could say, so many comparisons I could make. But I'm not going to go there.  Because he knows who has been naughty, and I don't want to get fishy flagged or end up on an #attackwatch list like Fuzzy. From a reader who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 32 Comments

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was interviewed by Doug McIntyre of California radio station 790 KABC regarding Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was named Chairman of the Democratic National Convention. McIntyre ripped into Villaraigosa's record, to which Wasserman-Schultz responded: "I really find your comments disappointing and borderline offensive." Borderline offensive? Offensive...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 52 Comments

I knew I shouldn't have looked back. I have not read Jennifer Rubin in weeks. She has become so odious in her Romneyquest that reading her posts is like sipping poison; it doesn't kill you but it makes you nauseated. Every time I read one of her insulting...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 82 Comments

on what basis would sex-selective abortion be regulated? I previously highlighted the problem, When A Woman’s Right To Choose Results In Fewer Women – In The U.S. Via James Pethokoukis comes this article about the spread of sex-selective abortion in the U.S.,  Unwelcome import: Sex selective abortion: I’d read...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 6 Comments

From Linda in Tennessee, taken in late December at the Sportsmans Grill, Franklin TN, sent with the note: Mine is still not equal to Air Force One and Air Force Two jetting off to Hawaii for the tenth vacay of the year. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2012 22 Comments

Somewhere. If so, and if there are results, at some point I'll get around to it.  (As I'm writing, Romney wins big in MD)(and also, Wisconsin, now) In the meantime, some updates from prior topics (and maybe some new): Details on the plane crash which killed the founder...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2012 27 Comments

Piers Morgan interviewed crime writer Patricia Cornwell as to how critical forensics -- such as bullet distance and trajectory -- will be. Since no one, except perhaps the investigators, has that evidence so far, anyone who is speculating on what happend is just speculating. The transcript is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2012 15 Comments

Ah, Facebook.  Via The Shark Tank: Jew hate is nothing new, but within the Democratic National Committee, this is clearly unchartered territory. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s ol’ staffer and newly named the DNC’s Jewish Outreach Liason Dani Gilbert refers to herself an her fellow khevre...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2012 38 Comments

The normally supportive commentariat is not happy, for a variety of reasons: My law school classmate Ruth Marcus, WaPo, Obama’s unsettling attack on the Supreme Court: "I would lament a ruling striking down the individual mandate, but I would not denounce it as conservative justices run...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2012 79 Comments

I will grant the Martin family enormous deference in the way they interact with the media.  They lost a child.  Whatever the facts of this case end up being, they lost a child.  Whatever the legal outcome ends ups being, they lost a child.  They are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2012 20 Comments

This article at the NY Post about Chris Christie's visit to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem fairly is characterized as "one long fat joke." New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made a huge impression at Israel’s Western Wall yesterday during his first official overseas trip as head of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2012 57 Comments

Aw, a bunch of unelected judges may have a different view of the Constitution than Barack Obama, and may overturn a law passed by Congress. That never has happened before. The thing is, those judges may not be elected, and may not have any divisions. But they have...

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