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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2010 5 Comments

When Arlen Specter switched parties in April 2009 in order to avoid a near certain loss in the Republican primary, it was not hard to guess the outcome, as I did: Specter has become a caricature of the self-interested politician who hides his need for...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2010 14 Comments

Gringomask.com appears to be a real, not spoof, website in protest against the Arizona immigration bill. (h/t)The site proposes that as a protest people wear a mask featuring a blond-haired white person's face (image right). According to the website:The objective of this action is to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 4 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Joan Walsh at Salon.com sought to atone for her prior use of the race card, in this observation (h/t James Taranto) in this column, Asking the wrong question about...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 6 Comments

You can run, but it's too late to hide anymore:President Barack Obama is trying to ride the wave of anti-incumbency by taking on an unpopular politician steeped in the partisan ways of Washington. It doesn’t matter that George W. Bush left office 16 months ago....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 10 Comments

Can we get back to Richard Blumenthal.Remember him? The DEMOCRATIC candidate for Senate whose multiple lies about serving in Vietnam over the course of multiple years dominated an entire 24 hour news cycle.The guy whose dissembling of his own words was Clintonesque in the extreme,...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 18 Comments

I'm glad I spent most of yesterday traveling, so that I missed much of the blogospheric tsunami regarding Rand Paul's libertarian views on the virtue of the federal government banning racial discrimination in private businesses.Where I come down on the issue is that the history...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 1 Comment

When Democrats get on one of their rants about the dangerous effects of corporate campaign money, what they really mean is that they are against corporate campaign money which might support Republicans.The money which comes from unions to support Democrats is quite alright with them:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 4 Comments

There is a legal and political drama unfolding in Central Falls, Rhode Island, which has national implications for municipalities suffocating under union contracts and pension obligations, but which has received little attention outside Rhode Island.As I posted two days ago, the City of Central Falls...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2010 11 Comments

Did I say "massive fail"? Isn't this like a horse designed by a committee? There have been some pretty awful Olympic mascots, but these have to be the worst, androgynous one-eyed freaks of nature.You be the judge of the design of Wenlock andMandeville:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcT52By_aE]Click here for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2010 5 Comments

"Stocks fell sharply Thursday after an unexpected spike in jobless claims and as global jitters pushed the dollar higher." (via CNBC)More flesh put on the bone by The Washington Post:New jobless claims filed last week rose by 25,000 to 471,000, the government reported moments ago,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2010 3 Comments

No one could have seen this coming. From The New York Times, Voter Insurrection Turns Mainstream, Creating New Rules (emphasis mine):But to suggest that this week’s primaries are just part of the latest revolt against incumbency, brought on by pervasive economic angst, is to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2010 10 Comments

We really are into dumb territory here, with the Democratic media machine defending Richard Blumenthal on the ground that Blumenthal didn't lie about his service "in Vietnam" every time he spoke about the subject.The story line arises because earlier in the same appearance in which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 3 Comments

Central Falls, a Rhode Island city which gained fame when it fired its entire High School teaching staff after unions refused concessions (the unions later agreed), now has filed for receivership, the state equivalent of bankruptcy: A Rhode Island city facing a severe financial crisis...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 3 Comments

A Democratic state legislator in Rhode Island has filed a bill similar to the immigration law recently enacted in Arizona. As reported by The Providence Journal:State Rep. Peter Palumbo, D-District 16, Cranston, has filed a bill that largely copies a controversial Arizona law considered the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 6 Comments

The Obama administration considers all territory Israel captured during the 1967 war to be occupied territory, including sections of Jerusalem.Israel's plan to construct new houses in a Jewish section of Jerusalem outside the pre-1967 border was the excuse the Obama administration used for the contrived...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 12 Comments

Richard Blumenthal may have breathed life back into his political career yesterday, with a press conference in which he vigorously defended his record:But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 12 Comments

Just ask pro-life, pro-gun clinging, anti-Obamacare, anti-cap-and-tax Mark Critz, who pulled out a victory in PA-12 last night in a district in which Obama is unpopular:The district itself couldn’t have been more primed for a Republican victory. According to one recent poll, President Barack Obama’s...

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