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Campaign imagery alert: Sarah Palin for Mourdock, Pat Boone for Lugar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 13 Comments

A series of events in the past few days give every indication that Dick Lugar is losing the primary race, and his campaign devolves into almost bizarre and frantic accusations against Mourdock. Two recent polls show Mourdock with 1 point and 5 point leads, respectively. While Lugar's campaign...

One less guard on the wall

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 36 Comments

Don Surber is giving up blogging: After 7 years of blogging, I am quitting. I am exhausted. It was simply too much work. I am still employed by the Charleston Daily Mail and still writing editorial and columns and performing the sundry other tasks that go...

Barack still got enemy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 26 Comments

Obama has been narrowing his targets for attack and derision ever since the 2008 campaign. Everywhere he looks, he finds some group to hold up for public scorn, and that group has narrowed from the top 5% to the top 2% to the top 1% to Wall...

Can the Florida Senate race be salvaged?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 16 Comments

I have not followed the Florida Senate race, and the attempt to unseat Bill Nelson, very closely. But I did post a couple of general items about it last Fall: So tell me about Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV Florida Senate seat in play My focus has been elsewhere, but...

Minimum wage gone viral

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 27, 2012 18 Comments

A map of US wages that suggests most Americans live in some sort of indentured servitude has gone viral. Thankfully, the claim is easily debunked: If that sounds bogus, it’s because it is. Here’s why: Very few people who earn the minimum wage are living on that wage alone;...

Penn State Students Protest ICE, Block Traffic in Solidarity With Renee Good

St. John’s University Continues to Block Approval of Turning Point USA

Columbia Picks Former U. Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor as Fourth New President in Two Years

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Does not fit the (Obama campaign’s #WarOnWomen) narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 12 Comments

Kay Hymowitz: Why Women Make Less Than Men (h/t Instapundit): One stubborn fact of the labor market argues against the idea. That is the gender-hours gap, close cousin of the gender-wage gap. Most people have heard that full-time working American women earn only 77 cents for every dollar...

Dick Lugar’s Iran problem: 1998 – one of only four Senators to oppose Iran Missile Sanctions Act

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 3 Comments

Dick Lugar's strong point in the campaign against Richard Mourdock is Lugar's claim to foreign policy expertise. Yet an examination of Lugar's history shows consistent wishful thinking on Iran, something which will be the subject of posts over the next two weeks in the run up to the...

Should be banned within 50 feet of schools

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 5 Comments

From reader and frequent photographer Ulises in Maryland: Caught at a stoplight in Hunt Valley...

Carbonite Limbaugh boycott cracking?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 7 Comments

Very, very interesting. I had heard from a reader a couple of weeks ago that she heard a Carbonite ad running on the Rush Limbaugh show on a radio station in Texas: I was in the car running errands so I just don't remember the exact time....

Battle of the Obama Celebrity ads

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 25 Comments

Which do you think is better, the original Obama Celebrity ad run by the McCain campaign in 2008, or the new one from American Crossroads which was just released? First, the original: Here's how the NY Times Editorial Board characterized the McCain ad: The ad gave us an uneasy...

Don’t stand your middle ground

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 21 Comments

A reader sent me the following in response to my post about that thing that doesn't matter in the least to me: Over the past year, I've moved your bookmark steadily up & to the left. Since last fall it's been among the 18-20 that my screen width...

RNC marketing fail: Is the Republican convention about parking?

Posted by Anne Segal on April 26, 2012 41 Comments

Today some on the Right conceded that Obama's the one with the "cool" factor. Does that mean the Republicans need to cede all marketing savvy, though? Compare the RNC and DNC convention websites and ask yourself what caption you'd write under the images. The splash page...

Why Israel fights

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 22 Comments

Today's is the 64th anniversary of Israel's founding. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, Israel survived the War of Independence, and then some. Now it is engaged in an existential struggle with the Islamists of every persuasion and location, and their anti-Israel allies in NGO's, "peace" groups, academia, the...

“Young Guns Support Elderly RINO” Dick Lugar (Update: Mourdock up by 5 in new poll)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 34 Comments

That's the headline Bill Kristol gives to this Politico report: The Young Guns Network, a group affiliated with two former aides to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, paid more than $100,000 in mail costs to help embattled Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, federal filings show. The expenditure showed...

Thank you, Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 53 Comments

Newt Gingrich will be exiting the race next week. Newt not only will endorse Mitt Romney for President, Newt will pledge to work without rest to defeat Obama. Is there anyone Romney would rather have on his side than Newt? Oh yes, Newt will go there so...

The House fell on her head

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 5 Comments

Yes it did. From reader Kathy, taken near Gainesville, FL: ...

Where are they now?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 23 Comments

One of my favorite photos, run on the blog a number of times in the past. Something about it just seems to sum up the mania which swept the nation in 2008. Now that Obama is in full-out pander mode to the youth (as he sells out...