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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2010 11 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Sometimes the cards fall right in my lap:The Politico story at issue is about how members of the Black Congressional Caucus are playing the race card against fellow Democrats over...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2010 3 Comments

I previously posted about John "Jack" McConnell, Jr., a major Democratic Party campaign donor who had been nominated by Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to an open seat on the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island.McConnell was a controversial nominee not only because he donated several hundred...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2010 3 Comments

..."Let Them Eat Paella"Actually, I had.But a quick Google search revealed that someone else had posted it already.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2010 26 Comments

I was asked by Voting Female to comment on Peggy Noonan's recent op-ed at The Wall Street Journal, America Is At Risk Of Boiling Over.The central thesis of Noonan's column is that our political leadership does not understand the rupture in society and growing anger...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2010 9 Comments

Dave Weigel was the first Journolista to fall in the recent Daily Caller series. Weigel was fired from his blog at The Washington Post (resignation accepted) after emails in which he bad-mouthed conservatives were revealed. Weigel ended up at Slate.com, owned by WaPo.Weigel either...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2010 59 Comments

Ever since Hillary Clinton supporters started circulating claims that Obama was not born in the United States, Obama's supporters and strategists have taken a very aggressive posture.Almost any attempt to discuss the subject is met with a furious response from Media Matters, Think Progress, their...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 10 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 21 Comments

Ethan Haines is a law school graduate who blogs at unemployedJD.com, a website devoted to the plight of law students who graduate with loads of student loan debt and few job prospects.Glenn Reynolds has written of the higher education bubble in general, and law student...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 7 Comments

Mary Katherine Ham and Guy Benson have a guest post at HotAir setting forth 10 key false promises by Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats about Obamacare, ObamaCare: The sum of all fears. The post is long, but worth the read. Here are the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 6 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 22 Comments

Nothing would surprise me anymore.Some are expecting an "August Surprise" in which Democrats would propose that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac write off hundreds of billions in mortgage debt owed by people who are under water (i.e., they owe more than the house is worth).Call...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 16 Comments

Yesterday I made the point that Chief US District Judge Vaughn Walker, who declared California Prop. 8 to violate the U.S. Constitution, was trying a bit too hard to insulate his decison on appeal by engaging in fact finding and credibility determinations on what essentially...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2010 49 Comments

A federal lawsuit was filed in May 2009 challenging Proposition 8, the California referendum which amended the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Prop. 8 previously was upheld by the California Supreme Court.The federal lawsuit, Perry et al v....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2010 8 Comments

The Missouri vote overwhelmingly approving a referendum opting out of Obamacare's mandate has left-wing bloggers scratching themselves with bewilderment.The reaction falls into three basic categories: (1) the folks just don't understand that this is good for them, (3) if only we had a public option...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2010 7 Comments

John McCain and John Cornyn Tom Coburn have just released a devastating report on the 100 most wasteful stimulus projects, titled Summertime Blues.Being someone who has taken an unnatural interest in Stimulus-funded sidewalks, I searched the report, and sure enough found this: 10. Town...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2010 5 Comments

Reuters-Ipsos has released a poll showing Harry Reid up 48-44 over Sharron Angle among likely voters. This is 2% higher than the leads shown in very recent Rasmussen, PPP and Mason-Dixon polls.The back up data is not linked in the Reuters-Ipsos release, so it is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2010 10 Comments

Somewhere, Andrew Breitbart must be smiling about this article at Counterpunch, The Other Side of Shirley Sherrod, which exposes Shirley Sherrod in rather bleak terms as to her treatment of black farmers and their families:The swirling controversy over the racist dismissal of Shirley Sherrod from...

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