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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2012 46 Comments

Thanks to Charlie Sykes for reminding us that Scott Walker is not the only target in the June 5 Wisconsin recall elections: Other conservative moms have been subjected sexist attacks, but few have had to endure the volume of vile epithets raw hate directed at Becky. She has...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2012 38 Comments

Joel Brinkley, currently a Professor at Stanford who spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, has a column in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Islamists in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia not democratic. The thesis of the column is that Westerners who took...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2012 41 Comments

It always ends badly: A commenter using the pseudonym “Milwaukeean” has been active here for the past couple of weeks regarding the various court and other disputes in Wisconsin. Milwaukeean didn’t seem to cross the line from dissenter to troll, made some good points at times, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2012 18 Comments

I'm not sure of what. From reader Steve, who writes: From a gentrified rural nursery in the Seattle metro area. ...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2012 12 Comments

The Salt Lake Tribune released a poll showing that all three Republicans contending against incumbent Democrat Jim Matheson in the new Utah-04 district are competitive with Matheson. This is particularly significant for Mia B. Love (see my prior profile) since the main argument for her Republican...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2012 6 Comments

Richard Lugar has had a big bank account and fundraising prowess going for him in defense of the May 8 primary challenge from Richard Mourdock. Lugar still has the larger bank account by a lot, but Mourdock out-raised Lugar in the 1st Quarter of 2012, according...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2012 25 Comments

Flytilla 2012 is another stunt in which anti-Israeli activists from Western countries will attempt the air equivalent of the Gaza Flotilla, arriving en masse at Israel's Ben Gurian airport, ostensibly to make their way to the West Bank. In reality, it is a publicity stunt done in...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 13, 2012 27 Comments

Following up on my Penny Lobby post from earlier this week, I thought I'd tackle another coin-based issue: dollar coins. For the past decade or so, the government has been trying to produce and popularize dollar coins. Efforts to introduce the currency, though, have been met...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2012 103 Comments

I disagree with most of what Matt Lewis says in his post The triumph of political games: 7 reasons to reject ‘Rosengate’: The flap over Hillary Rosen’s comments  disparaging stay-at-home-moms like Ann Romney has gotten a  lot of play. I’ve been on the record (okay, on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2012 16 Comments

Starting next week, Anne Sorock will begin posting here. You may remember Anne from my post, When did you decide to become politically active? I had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago of meeting with Anne Sorock and Yvonne Ralsky, co-founders of The Frontier Lab. The Frontier...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2012 5 Comments

This is so 2008.  I bet many of the yutes don't know what it's about, and not knowing the source, probably think the owner of the car is racist for describing himself as a "typical white person." What's most surprising is to see this in Newton Center, MA, which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2012 46 Comments

One of hotest topics of argument has been whether George Zimmerman said "f-ing coons" under his breath on the 911 tape.  The left-blogosphere has used the alleged racial epithet endlessly to paint this as a racially motivated hate crime. CNN used three different audio experts to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2012 7 Comments

things we hold dear: Allen West -- They edited the tape, of course. Religion -- Vanderbilt tells Catholic Students To Change Name. Holocaust remembrance. Republicans -- We're rooting for failure again. Israel -- what do 74 Dems have in common? and some things we don't hold dear Their diversity-baiting. More Netural administration of justice,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2012 33 Comments

Twitter was lit up today with the @hilaryr controversy.  If you are not on Twitter, you need to be. Both Hilary Rosen and Ann Romney were trending during much of the day. Here are some of the better ones I picked out: Michelle Malkin: "Jim Treacher": Iowahawkblog: Drew M: John Nolte: Dan McLaughlin: Dana...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2012 12 Comments

I have posted numerous times about David Cicilline, former Providence Mayor and current Democratic congressman in my home district, RI-01. As I previously noted, Cicilline deliberately concealed the terrible financial condition of Providence during the 2010 election in a close fight with Republican John Loughlin: In June 2010, when...

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