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Daniel Penny Case - There But For Fortune May Go You Or I

Harris Campaign Desperate Staffers 'Went Rogue' to Reach Minority Voters

Tim Walz's Daughter and Friends Use Joe Rogan as Their Dating 'Litmus Test'

Rachel Maddow Sexualizes Christine O’Donnell

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2010 48 Comments

Christine O'Donnell won the Delaware primary last night, and within minutes (literally) über liberal Rachel Maddow started running video and commentary on MSNBC about O'Donnell's views on masturbation.The pretext for sexualizing O'Donnell was a 1996 video in which O'Donnell was interviewed about her conservative Christian views on...

Will The GOP Build More Castles In The Sand?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2010 30 Comments

The victory last night of Christine O'Donnell over Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary signals a sea change. Not so much because O'Donnell won over the heavily favored establishment GOP candidate; that pattern is not new this election season.Instead, the reaction of the...

Unite for November

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2010 27 Comments

Christine O'Donnell just won the Delaware Primary.Put the rancor of the past couple of weeks behind us, and unite behind her and other Republicans.And get to work (tomorrow, you can celebrate tonight if you want).Remember everything that has motivated us the past year. Because they...

Sharron Angle Who Cannot Win Slightly Ahead Of Harry Reid

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2010 13 Comments

Fox News has released a set of polls of likely voters, including in the Nevada Senate race, showing Sharron Angle up a point, 45-44. This is consistent with several recent polls showing the race a dead heat:Angle drew 45 percent support, while Reid took in 44...

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2010 5 Comments

Meme of the Day:Christine O'Donnell is polling worse than a month ago, which proves that all of our attacks on her for the past month which drove down her numbers were justified.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

The Murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Indicates a Need to Address Left-Wing Violence

National Campaign Launched to Combat 'Faculty for Justice in Palestine'

The Death of DEI at the University of Michigan is a Symbolic Victory

Professor Glenn Reynolds: America's Mood Upbeat after Trump's Win

Drexel University Lays Off 60 Staffers Due to Lowered Enrollment

Former Assistant Dean Gets Three Years In Prison For Embezzling $1.3 Million From Seton Hall Law School

Our Ladies Are Not For Turning, But Our Men Are

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2010 0 Comments

This year, the backbone of the conservative movement is provided by the ladies, who are not for turning. Unlike our men.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-M0KEFm9I?fs=1]--------------------------------------------Related Posts:The Party of Whatever Nuts and Sluts In DelawareFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

The Party of Whatever

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2010 13 Comments

Because not having an ideological purity test means we must have no test at all, no standards, no principles.All that matters is the long shot possibility that if the planets are in alignment and the cards all fall into place in every Senate race across...

Memory Hole: Munich Massacre Week

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2010 11 Comments

September 1972. Worth remembering. I'll bet most of our children never heard of it, because we don't teach such things anymore.History and terrorism started with the election of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nOnRbTlWs0?fs=1][youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTqZPKZ4_wk?fs=1]--------------------------------------------Related Posts:It's al-Quds Day at WaPo (feat. George Bisharat) What Does The...

Sus·te·nance

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2010 6 Comments

Spotted by a reader in Tampa, Florida:Update 9-15-2010: Thanks to reader Sylvia for e-mailing me this link to an article about the store (it is in St. Peterburg, not Tampa):It's Barack Obama's 100th day as president of an economically depressed country. It's Mahmoud's 169th day as...

Nuts and Sluts In Delaware

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2010 33 Comments

The "nuts and sluts" defense is a common employment law tactic whenever a female employee brings a claim. It doesn't matter what the claim is, the defense -- after the usual legal mumbo jumbo -- will be something like this:"She's nuts. And by the way,...

Vote Mike Stopa on Tuesday In MA-03 Primary

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2010 4 Comments

I previously have highlighted the candidacy of Mike Stopa, running in the Republican primary for Congress in the MA-03 District. The primary is this Tuesday, September 14.If there are any voters in MA-03 reading, please get out and vote for Stopa. And tell others.Whoever runs...

Nicholas Kristof Wouldn’t Know The Truth If It Hit Him In The Face And Then Sat On His Head

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2010 10 Comments

Is that too long a post title? I don't think so. Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times has joined the anti-Marty Peretz jihad because Peretz -- who runs The New Republic -- allegedly wants to deprive Muslims of their constitutional rights and thinks Muslim life should...

Not Buying What They Are Selling

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2010 12 Comments

Janet Daley at The Telegraph in Britain (h/t POWIP) has an interesting column on anti-Americanism in Europe, and how the Europeans just don't understand why we feel so strongly about our Constitution and personal freedoms.Daley makes some good points, but I particularly liked this portion of the...

Saturday Night Card Game (What Brings Us Together)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2010 5 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Usually, on Saturday nights I focus on the people who tear us apart by injecting race into politics, by manipulating our feelings, by seeking political gain from the worst...

John Ralston: Me! Me Me! Me Me Me!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2010 2 Comments

I saw this coming.A couple of weeks after her Nevada Senate primary victory, Sharron Angle appeared on journalist John Ralston's television show. Ralston apparently is one of the most prominent political reporters in Nevada.At the time, this was my first introduction to Ralston. Here was how I observed...

Southern Poverty Law Center Completes Its Descent Into Madness

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2010 13 Comments

I have written many times before about the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization to which I contributed for many years back in the late 1970s and 1980s, when SPLC was fighting Klan groups.In the past two decades, however, after the Klan ceased to be a...

How’s That BP Oil Spill Fund Going? (Part II)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 10, 2010 4 Comments

On June 17, when Obama "informed" BP how much money it would have to set aside in a claims fund, I cautioned as follows:If the Constitution means nothing to you, and all you want is retribution, you will be left very unsatisfied.The claims procedures apparently...