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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2012 22 Comments

Can lesbians be charged with a hate crime for beating up a gay man? Why not? Once we make motive an element of a crime, it goes both ways, and all ways. So a Jew can be guilty of an anti-Jewish hate crime, a black of an anti-black hate...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 36 Comments

Why Madison has become the weird news capital of the Midwest.  (h/t Dan Collins)  Of the Midwest? How about of the nation? Weirdest Correction of the Day.  They are so precise in everything they do. Democrats Are Praying for a Santorum Nomination.  SoccerDad says I'm going to bronze...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 55 Comments

A  former editor in chief of Ms. Magazine observed in October 2008: It's difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin's “intelligence,” coming especially from women such as PBS's Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 88 Comments

Obama on our energy future: "We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance, algae -- you've got a bunch of algae out here," Obama said at the University of Miami today. "If we can...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 53 Comments

Newt has released a 28 minute video discussing energy independence. (h/t numerous readers) Via Human Events, the video will be broadcast in key markets, in its entirety. Also, it was done entirely from memory, without aid of notes or a teleprompter. Big question: Will people watch a...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 24, 2012 10 Comments

I don't worry that some of my information can be easily accessed on the web. I think I'm typical of most people in my generation who have grown accustomed to taking privacy into their own hands. My rule of thumb is this: if it's a free...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 36 Comments

An article at Boston Catholic Insider asserts that Mitt Romney lied during the Arizona debate about forcing Catholic Hospitals to provide the "morning after" pill to rape victims. Here's the debate passage (via Right Scoop): KING (Moderator): Governor Romney, both Senator Santorum and Speaker Gingrich have said...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 5 Comments

From Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg (h/t @ChuckTodd): The President and the Democrats are indeed doing very well at the outset of 2012, and the Republicans are doing pitifully. They are not unrelated. Republicans in Congress and in the primary battles are driving independents into the Democrats’...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 3 Comments

From reader and frequent photographer Matt in Denver: Please don't worry. I made up for their saved gas going a little out of the way on our way home from to get this picture within the LI safety standards. Unfortunately, I could not make out the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 24 Comments

I bet the reaction would be quite different if NY Times columnist Charles M. Blow mocked religious Jewish undergarments the way he mocked religious Mormon undergarments in this tweet (h/t Jim Geraghty): But then again, he's a NY Times columnist with a long history of foul hyperbole directed at the Tea...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 32 Comments

Rick Santorum endorsed Arlen Specter because he was a good establishment Republican in 2004, and that's what the Republican President wanted.  The precursor to the Tea Party movement backed Pat Toomey. Santorum's endorsement was no crime.  It was a pure political calculation, one which many others in Santorum's place...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 12 Comments

Republicans can learn something from Rhode Island about standing up for taxpayers as a winning political strategy. I have written many time before about the efforts of Democratic Mayor of Providence Angel Taveras, who has taken on school teacher unions and other public sector employees in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 46 Comments

Newt made headlines for this comment at the debate last night: I had forgotten about that controversy, involving Obama's obfuscation of his failure to support the Born Alive Infant Protection Act as an Illinois state senator. Jill Stanek was responsible for bringing attention to the practice of killing babies who survived...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 47 Comments

I posted last night and again this morning that Rick Santorum had a terrible debate. But it's fair also to point out that many of the shots Romney scored on Santorum were cheap shots, as pointed out by George  Neumayr at The American Spectator (h/t reader OccamsrazorX): Romney,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 26 Comments

I am really liking The Times of Israel, the new online publication I posted about a week ago. This story is one of the reasons, Onward Christian Soldiers: Think North American campus activism for Israel and chances are you won’t think of a Hispanic Catholic organizing pro-Israel...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 36 Comments

It's hard to know just how much of an effect Rick Santorum's horrible debate last night will have on the vote in Michigan and Arizona. It's hard to believe it helped, and it has to have hurt badly.  I think Philip Klein from The Washington Examiner...

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