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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2010 6 Comments

Once again, someone is using the username "Legal Insurrection" to post comments elsewhere, this time at FoxNation. For the record, that person is not me, and is not authorized to use the name "Legal Insurrection."The last time, it was as HuffPo, and I convinced...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2010 3 Comments

The New York Times, July 14, 2010:There are plenty of things to buy in Gaza; goods are brought over the border or smuggled through the tunnels with Egypt. That is not the problem. In fact, talk about food and people here get angry because it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2010 5 Comments

Sharron Angle will not be able to match Harry Reid in fundraising, because Reid has used his position as Majority Leader to squeeze big dollars out of Big Pharma and Big Mass Tort Lawyers and all the other Bigs.Reid's campaign pockets are so full of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2010 0 Comments

It really is frustrating to hear Obama administration officials tout 3 million jobs saved or created.How many of those jobs did several miles of sidewalks in Warren, Rhode Island, save or create?Now that the project is over, the jobs are gone. But you still count...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2010 3 Comments

I am not someone who tries to keep track of how many of my predictions have come true. That sort of gamesmanship by hindsight is beneath me.And I don't try to settle scores with people who criticize me. That would be petty.So it...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2010 6 Comments

There is a silver lining for Democrats in recent PPP polling of hypothetical 2012 matchups.Obama trails Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich by low single digits, and is tied with Sarah Palin.That last one must have Andrew Sullivan spinning while he waddles in his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2010 4 Comments

Think Progress is possibly the worst of the worst when it comes to twisting words and sentences out of context to accuse anyone who opposes the Obama agenda of being violent and racist.It is what Think Progress, with its large budget, does best.Think Progress had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2010 16 Comments

Scott Brown didn't see the forest for the trees in deciding to support Chris Dodd and Barney Frank's financial reform legislation.Although Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins went along also, they did so only after Brown made his announcement. If Brown had come out strongly against...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 14, 2010 1 Comment

Harry Reid now:At a press conference announcing a package of proposals to help small business, the Nevada Democrat said Republicans were obstructing legislation to help the economy for political reasons.“They think the worse the economy is come November, the better they’re going to do election-wise,”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 14, 2010 42 Comments

to allow trolls, that is the question. For example, the Regular Troll: This guy is openly 180-degrees opposed to the purpose and/or ideological orientation of the blog. Whatever you're for, he's against, and vice-versa. If you're doing a free-market blog about tax policy, he's yelling...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 14, 2010 3 Comments

In response to my post, Harry Reid's Iraq Failure, reader A.W. alerted me to a story which should define the Harry Reid-Sharron Angle race.If you want a good idea at how upset people are with Harry Reid, take a look at the story in The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 14, 2010 10 Comments

It's beginning to feel like the hot August of 2009, again.You can feel it. A growing discontent with the top-down, big government, free-spending, patronizing, arrogant ways of Washington, D.C.If that were all there were, it would merely be another year.What kicked off the hotly debated...

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

The NAACP just passed a resolution condemning as racist the tens of millions of people who consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement.As originally proposed, the resolution was to call upon “all people of good will to repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2010 7 Comments

Harry Reid has a failed record on Iraq for which he never has been held accountable. Reid voted for the war, then falsely claimed he was misled, then tried to defund the war, then declared the war lost, and then stubbornly refused to acknowledge the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2010 9 Comments

The headlines regarding The Washington Post-ABC News poll just released focus on the finding that Confidence In Obama Reaches New Low.I certainly understand why that is the headline, but only if one digs deep into the actual polling data does one get a true picture...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2010 3 Comments

Harry Reid appeared for an interview on Face-to-Face with Jon Ralston.Among the headlines, as noted by Ed Morrissey, is that Reid backed the federal government lawsuit against Arizona (in segment 4 below). After much verbal sparring with Ralston, Reid finally was pinned down, and said...

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