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Marco Rubio Makes 'Times New Roman' Font Great Again

Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Overturn Texas "Book Bans," Library May Remove LGBTQ Books

Harvard Paid Internship For "Students of Color" Challenged by Equal Protection Project

Another piece of the untold story of Obamacare

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...

Is that the phone I hear ringing?

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...

When a Rush tweet flapped its wings

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2012 27 Comments

When Rush Limbaugh sent his now famous "first tweet," Twitter went wild. It was as if a tweet had flapped its wings in South America causing chaos in the political system. There were many postive reactions. Surprisingly, there were no negative reactions which crossed any lines, at least...

Is anything ever “over” in Wisconsin?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2012 44 Comments

As previously posted, it appears that there were sufficient recall petition signatures submitted to hold recall elections as to Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, and several Republican state Senators. One of those state Senators, Pam Galloway, unexpectedly announced yesterday she was resigning and would not...

There’s no such thing as a free peace

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2012 13 Comments

From frequent photographer Bill who took this photo at his doctor's parking lot the other day: Bonus question: What does the blue sticker below the license plate depict?...

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

Arizona State Board of Education Votes to Cut DEI Standards in Compliance With Trump Executive Order

Seton Hall University Approves Democrat Club But Denies Turning Point USA

UC-Berkeley Suspends Lecturer for Bringing His Anti-Israel Politics Into the Classroom

Collapse of Western civilization delayed

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

but not averted. al-Qaeda's master plot to install Joe Biden as President and thereby cause the collapse of Western civilization, or at least the last part of Western civilization which still matters, was set in motion: “The reason for concentrating on them,” the al-Qaeda leader explained to his...

Risk of selecting a nominee before US Sup Ct rules on Obamacare mandate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2012 25 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court hears argument starting March 26 on various aspects Obamacare, front and center the mandate. A ruling is expected by the end of June. Purity in opposing mandates is the reason to be of Rick Santorum's campaign argument: Mitt is tainted due to Romneycare, and...

“Damn you for not running”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2012 33 Comments

So says Ben Domenech regarding Paul Ryan after seeing the video embedded below: ...

Carbonite and Howard Stern

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

As detailed yesterday, the Media Matters employee spearheading efforts to pressure advertisers to stop advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show considered the March 3 Saturday night announcement by Carbonite that it was ceasing all advertising on Rush's show to be a turning point. Just the day before,...

When Che comes to America, he will be driving a Prius in San Francisco

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2012 20 Comments

Does anything epitomized the current state of California more than a Che Guevara fan driving a Prius? Does it get any better than that? Reader Dave took this photo on March 13, 2012, in downtown San Francisco: ...

Slow day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2012 31 Comments

here in paradise. The Blog Post That Drove Rush Limbaugh to Tweet #FF Rush? He starts tweeting @limbaugh Educational purposes? No typos, but still he gives advice. Anti-Rush Campaign Was in the Works. We have not been worthy since at least 1990. Totally Bogus that 98 Advertisers are Targeting Hannity, Beck, Levin. Politico's...

Don’t blame the U.N. Human Rights Council

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2012 27 Comments

It doesn't know any better, it lives for self-parody, UN rights council delves into US voter I.D. laws: The controversy over requiring voters to provide photo IDs has reached the world stage. The United Nations Human Rights Council is investigating the issue of American election laws at its...

Regrets, they have a few

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2012 21 Comments

But then again, not too few to mention. Dave Serchuk in Forbes, Congratulations! You Just Made Rush Limbaugh Sympathetic! (emphasis mine): Imagine this scenario: you are a lifelong liberal. You pretty much hate everything Rush Limbaugh stands for, and says. You are really glad that the times have...

Media Matters astroturfed the Limbaugh secondary boycott

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2012 68 Comments

The secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh advertisers is portrayed in the media as a reaction to a groundswell of public outrage. In fact, the secondary boycott was initiated by and driven by Media Matters, which had a "Stop Limbaugh" campaign on the shelf waiting to be...

Et tu, Manhattan?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2012 5 Comments

From reader Kim: This was taken by a liberal friend of ours in manhattan if you can believe it. I thought of you when he sent it. I'm just sorry he cut off one of the stickers. I love your blog. I confirmed with the friend, so...

Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto, March 14, 2010

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2012 13 Comments

Today is the two year anniversary of the death of Cpl. Jonathan Daniel Porto in Afghanistan, as noted here before: Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto Promises a Marine Widow Cannot Bear to Hear Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto, Remembered His wife's original blog post, I Will Always Be A Marine Wife, is...

Democrat discovers private property rights

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2012 33 Comments

"This is private property, you're not allowed to touch anything. I'll call the police." The veterans should apologize to this lady, because we are not worthy of an Obama flag. We have not done everything that has been asked of us: Barack Obama will require you to...