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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2010 4 Comments

More from The Daily Caller today, detailing the political connections on the Journolist, where Obama operatives, Democratic political strategists, and liberal media types mixed: Despite its name, membership in the liberal online community Journolist wasn’t limited to journalists. Present among the bloggers, reporters and editors...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2010 6 Comments

Rasmussen released its latest polling results in Nevada, showing Harry Reid up 45-43%. The numbers are almost identical to a recent PPP poll; an earlier Mason-Dixon poll showed Reid with a larger lead.The polls all are consistent in showing that despite the power of incumbency...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 33 Comments

The result of the injunction granted today by the federal court in Arizona preventing the key provisions of S.B. 1070 from taking effect is not just the maintenance of the status quo.At a legal level, it is true that nothing has changed. S.B. 1070...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 6 Comments

There is no better example of the hubris of Harry Reid than his stated intention last weekend at the Netroots convention to push through major agenda items in a lame-duck session (after the November 2 elections, but before the new Congress is seated in January).Listen...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 2 Comments

Remember my now-classic post about all the "little-noticed" provisions in Obamacare, "Little-Noticed" is the New "Unexpected"?Well, "little-noticed" is back, this time with regard to the equally massive text of the financial regulation overhaul, SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public Disclosure (emphasis mine):So much for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 8 Comments

Glenn Greenwald:"Anyone who believes that the Government abuses its secrecy powers in order to keep the citizenry in the dark and manipulate public opinion -- and who, at this point, doesn't believe that? -- should be squarely on the side of the greater transparency which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 3 Comments

Chuck Todd, of NBC, whose nomme de guerre is "Chuckie T.," has lost sleep over the Journolist, as quoted by Roger Simon at Politico in a column, Journolist veers out of bounds:“Journolist was pretty offensive. Those of us who are mainstream journalists got mixed in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 3 Comments

...for thinking that the election of David Cameron in Britain might make a real difference in the direction of British policy.I was wrong. In a speech in Ankara, Turkey, Cameron did his best imitation of Barack Obama's apology tour:... let me turn to the prejudiced...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2010 1 Comment

I have enjoyed chronicling the many not too big to fail boycotts which have taken place in the past 18 months that I've been blogging, including (but not limited to):California, Utah, and Mormons in general because of Prop 8Connecticut because of Joe LiebermanThe Susan G....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2010 2 Comments

Lowest bar ever set for hero-dom (is that a word?).Jonathan Strong, writing about the Heroes of the Journolist: The Daily Caller has highlighted some of Journolist’s worst moments — such as when liberal members of the media plotted to kill important stories about the presidential...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2010 8 Comments

I previously posted about how Jews were being driven out of Malmö, Sweden, by violence from Muslim immigrants tolerated by anti-Israel leftists, Malmö Syndrome.As I made clear in that post, Malmö Syndrome was just one of many examples of how anti-Semitism inevitably rises from the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2010 11 Comments

So many of the important decisions of the United States Supreme Court are decided by a single vote.Often that vote is Anthony Kennedy. Not a bad single vote to have, considering the alternatives.What if Kennedy's single vote didn't matter anymore because Kennedy or one of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2010 1 Comment

How did I miss this. Did The Daily Caller intend it?By "it," I mean the significance of the fact that the Journolist emails about Trig Palin were posted today. In my post about the emails, I gave no note to the date.Sarah Palin issued a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2010 1 Comment

No one with credibility is talking about the Nevada Senate race being over despite Sharron Angle's campaign having to start almost from scratch after the primaries.That start has taken time to get going, as Angle did not have a multi-million dollar campaign apparatus in place...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2010 15 Comments

I have posted before about the left-wing blogosphere's obsession with mocking Trig Palin and attacking Sarah Palin for bringing Trig on stage during the campaign.Now, in the latest revelations from the Journolist archives, The Daily Caller reprints Journolist emails regarding Trig. And obsessed with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2010 5 Comments

Obamacare as we know it is not enough, Reid to Netroots: "We're Going To Have a Public Option":Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking to console liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the national health care law, assured them that there would...

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