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Posted by Anne Segal on April 17, 2012 17 Comments

Two standout appearances at Chicago's Tea Party this Monday were familiar faces from Saturday's Wisconsin event: BigJournalism's Dana Loesch and Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. These two women, working moms who are relatively recent entrants into the political fray, are examples of one of the most...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 31 Comments

From Linda in Tennessee, a variation on the Coexist bumper sticker: I was riding shotgun today...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 12 Comments

A PPP poll for Daily Kos shows Gov. Scott Walker in a good position: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leads all of his Democratic challengers in the Wisconsin recall election, per a new Public Policy Polling poll out this afternoon. Walker, the incumbent governor, has a 5-point lead...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 26 Comments

you know the Democratic Party has a problem. From his going away interview (almost) in New York Magazine (italics added)(h/t @ByronYork): You think Obama overinterpreted his mandate with health care? The problem with health care is this: Health care is enormously important to people. When you tell them that...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 94 Comments

Defeating Barack Obama is a priority. So is keeping the presumptive nominee from etch-a-sketching and erasing the conservative movement. Via Byron York: At a closed-to-the-press Florida fundraiser Sunday night at which his remarks were overheard by some reporters standing outside, Mitt Romney was asked about his media strategy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 22 Comments

This afternoon I received my 5000th follower on Twitter. If you are on Twitter, you can follow me at @LegInsurrection.  If you are not on Twitter, get on it. Facebook switched everyone to the new Timeline view.  You can "like" LI's Facebook page, which has just over...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 16, 2012 37 Comments

This past Saturday marked a change for the now-annual Wisconsin Tax Day Tea Party in Madison, Wisc. While thousands turned out -- an organizer said it was 6,300 --  it wasn't the masses that had showed up in the pouring rain last year to see...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 23 Comments

“Barack Obama Deficit-Slayer”, by Matthew Yglesias, June 22, 2009: As the economy recovers, tax revenues will rise, social safety net outlays will fall, and stimulus measures will begin to tamp down. If we can assume further growth in 2011, the complete expiry of Recovery Act provisions, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 17 Comments

Considering the bumper sticker below, spotted in Ithaca, a little history lesson is in order: The Saint Patrick's Day Four (also, The Saint Patrick's Four, or SP4) are four American peace activists of Irish Catholic heritage who poured their own blood on the walls, posters, windows,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 28 Comments

This video (via Above The Law, h/t tip from Badger Pundit) was taken on the edge of the Harvard Law School campus.  The building in the opening shot is a new building where Wyeth Hall, the dorm I lived in first year, used to stand. They...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 78 Comments

but will they vote in larger numbers and against Obama this year? I'm not really in a position to assess that, so enlighten me. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 38 Comments

A reader writes: Not sure if you have something planned for tax day, but thought you'd like a little perspective from the private sector. If you do use it, please hold back our names - a few of my clients are liberals! The joys of being a small business...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 22 Comments

What is known in the media and Obama campaign speak as The Worst Recession Since The Great Depression, or The Great Recession, is Obama's excuse for everything. It's Bush's fault, Obama inherited all our problems, etc. The Bush Great Recession is Obama's pass to pass the buck. So keep in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 19 Comments

Via Jerusalem Post: Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch told reporters at the airport Sunday, "As you can see, things are working normally at Ben-Gurion." The minister said the attempts by pro-Palestinian activists to enter Israel as part of the "flytilla" protest were still at their peak and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 50 Comments

Put aside, for the moment, the snotty and snide aspect of Hilary Rosen's comment that Ann Romney "never worked a day in her life." Put aside, for the moment, the psychological need of liberal female pundits to belittle a woman who chose a different path in life, while the person...

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