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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2012 46 Comments

U.S. soldiers who accidentally burned Korans to be charged, "“For the soldiers, it will be serious — they could lose rank." Feels like a good night for a White House document dump.  Yup, something in the air. Ted Kennedy too conservative for today's Dem party?  Not sure,...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2012 89 Comments

JWF has some background on the Georgetown Law student who is challenging Georgetown's contraception policy.  She went to the law school knowing the university's policy, and per JWF, intending to challenge it. Unfortunately, Rush walked into this one without seeing the set up, and now the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 02, 2012 29 Comments

An eighth grader in upstate New York has ruffled some feathers with an essay that casts the public school system as modern slavery. I wish I hadn't clicked on the hyperlink, because - at face value - she seemed so right. Public schools discriminate based on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2012 93 Comments

George Will and Erick Erickson predict near certain loss in the presidential election. George Will: “[T]here would come a point when… conservatives turn their energies to a goal  much more attainable than… electing Romney or Santorum president. It is the goal  of retaining control of the House...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2012 22 Comments

Upon hearing of the death of Andrew Breitbart, Breitbart's Twitter nemesis Eric Boehlert of Media Matters sent a respectful and classy tweet: Even Media Matters itself, with whom Breitbart sparred almost daily, issued a respectful statement: Media Matters has a long history with Andrew Breitbart. We've disagreed more...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2012 4 Comments

Another one from reader Bruce, taken in Manhasset, NY: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2012 31 Comments

This is a classic. The story and a longer video are here. On Saturday, September 18th, Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart headlined an event entitled “Right Nation 2010,” held just outside of Chicago, Illinois. As you will see in our video report from the scene, when Andrew Breitbart...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2012 23 Comments

Koch brothers accuse Obama campaign of intimidation tactics Delegate dispute in Michigan Gay marriage signed into law in Maryland Thomas Sowell again points to Newt:  "Newt Gingrich is the only candidate still in the field who can clearly take on Barack Obama in one-on-one debate and cut through...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2012 112 Comments

I only spoke once with Andrew Breitbart. He reached out to me, and we spoke by phone.  The topic is not important, but I was shocked that he even knew who I was; but as I've come to learn, Andrew seemed to know who everyone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2012 101 Comments

Very sad news to report, just breaking.  Andrew Breitbart is dead. Via Big Journalism: Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles. We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2012 35 Comments

When it mattered in the period between the South Carolina and Florida primaries, Drudge was all anti-Newt all the time, promoting falsehoods about Newt's history with Ronald Reagan and assorted other Romney campaign themes. Now Drudge is being nice to Newt, with this banner linking to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2012 6 Comments

If free health care costs so much, maybe it's not free.  Just don't tell it to the yutes. I'm guessing this is from a doc's car.  From Linda, who e-mailed this photo with the subject line "nothing extra special ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 29, 2012 25 Comments

This video explaining how free contraception is a law student human right apparently was not parody.  This video of law students warning 16-year-olds not to go to law school is a parody, a take off on this 16-year-old me video.  (h/t @GabrielMalor) [Update:  Strange, the video now redirects to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 29, 2012 95 Comments

What is your political mood right now? 1-10, worst-to-best. Poll open until 10 a.m. Eastern, Thursday, March 1, 2012. What is your political mood right now? (1-10, worst-best)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 29, 2012 12 Comments

I guess the comparison to Obama was inevitable, and NBC goes full "deja vu" on the new Mayor of Ithaca, Svante Myrick. I wouldn't pigeonhole him yet; he ran an insurgent campaign against the entrenched Ithaca Democratic political establishment and also defeated the designated Progressive candidate.  He won with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 29, 2012 28 Comments

Lead singer of The Monkees has died at age 66: A rep for the singer tells us Jones suffered a heart attack at his home this morning ...

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