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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2012 74 Comments

I have been covering political boycotts frequently since the inception of this blog, including the Prop 8 boycotts, the Mormon Boycott, the DNC boycott, the Beck boycott, the King & Spalding boycott, boycotts of various states for various reasons, the anti-Israel boycotts, and so on. So when...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2012 21 Comments

Via The Times of Israel: Mohammed Merah, the man suspected of the Toulouse Jewish school massacre, was still holed up in his house in northern Toulouse early Wednesday afternoon after a pre-dawn gun battle. Merah had given up a pistol in exchange for a mobile phone, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2012 1 Comment

From reader Stephanie: In case you have not seen this bumper sticker.. My younger cousin took the picture in Anthem, AZ and agreed to let me send it to you. Also, thank you for the work you put into the blog. I have greatly enjoyed reading...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 82 Comments

Adam Kinzinger, a first term Congressman who was backed by Eric Cantor, defeated 10-term incumbent Don Mazullo.  Kinzinger had won election in 2010 with the support of Tea Party groups, but many conservative / Tea Party groups supported Mazullo in the new district which pitted two...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 18 Comments

A $17,000 Dumpster Ramp for the Handicapped.  Yes, but how many jobs did it create or save? Buffett Rule would bring in less than $3 billion a year in revenue.  Yes, but think how many dumpster ramps that could build. I'm going to do the Saturday Night Card...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 80 Comments

The reason I have pushed back against the Rush boycotters has nothing to do with Rush.  Social media anonymity has allowed all sorts of implied and explicit threats against advertisers and others as a means of shutting down speech, particularly conservative speech. Twitter is just one part...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 17 Comments

I'll have more on this as the date approaches, but anti-Israel groups in Arab countries and the West are planning a "Global March on Jerusalem" on March 30, which will include a planned rush at Israel's borders. The Free Beacon has background, March Madness: The Iranian regime...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 38 Comments

Obama's budget proposal shows mounting national debt and deficits.  Paul Ryan unveiled the House budget proposal today, which shows a very different trajectory. Via James Pethokoukis comes this chart demonstrating the difference: After the Obama White House released its 2013 budget plan last month, U.S. Treasury Secretary...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 23 Comments

Early on, Team Obama was bragging about raising $1 billion. When over the summer and fall fundraising did not seem to be all it should be, the confidence remained. Now, not so much.  Via The Hill: For some Obama supporters, the presidential campaign’s fundraising totals, released Monday, might have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 12 Comments

I've had readers follow people to get the a bumper sticker photo before, but this is a first. From reader and commenter vonbeck2: I followed this SUV into a Chick-Fil-A in Slidell, LA to get this picture. When i saw it I thought the pres just started laughing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 22 Comments

Via Jazz Shaw, NY redistricting is finalized and Ithaca -- part of retiring Maurice Hinchey's district which disappeared -- now is part of the district of Republican Congressman Tom Reed (campaign website).  I don't know a lot about Tom, but I'll be finding out for sure,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 36 Comments

I have posted before about the daily anti-Walker ritual chanting in the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. The other day a group of visiting student basketball teams stood on the balcony as the anti-Walker Solidarity Singers went through their usual ritual, but then turned the tables by breaking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 38 Comments

There's a lot of chatter and outrage over this tweet by David Axelrod using the term "Mittzkrieg," a play on "Blitzkrieg": The Republican Jewish Coalition reacted: “At a time when there is so much talk about the need for civility in political discourse, it is disturbing to see...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 37 Comments

Via The Times of Israel: Four people were shot and killed at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse Monday morning. A rabbi and his two young children were among the dead, as well as an 8-year-old girl. Several more people were injured. Rabbi Jonathan Sandler,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 3 Comments

I was glad to appear again last night as a guest of Kevin Whalen on Pundit Review Radio on WRKO Boston: On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 26 Comments

As posted yesterday, the people still pushing the Limbaugh advertising boycott rely on bombarding advertisers with Twitter messages, and have developed strategies to maximize the apparent number of tweets sent to advertisers, through retweets and multiple tweets by single users. It is not hard to see...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 7 Comments

From reader Tom: I've enjoyed your blog for some time now Mr. Jacobson. Born and raised in western and central NY, I'm well aware that you're something of a "unicorn" in Ithaca! Anyway, I spotted this sticker on a car outside a diner in Latham (Albany)....

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