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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 13 Comments

The Indiana Republican primary is moving against Richard Lugar, and now his campaign and SuperPAC are getting desperate, running false ads against Richard Mourdock claiming Mourdock cheated on taxes. Matt Lewis at The Daily Caller explored the falsehood yesterday: In what appears a pathetic last gasp at...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 41 Comments

for free. Because taking your stuff is a basic human right.  And they know their rights. From reader Tacitus2: Greetings from Wisconsin, land of the permanent election cycle. Spring is here and I have been seeing more bumper stickers than usual. I append one I had not encountered before. What...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 29 Comments

I'd rather sit in the dark. That's my sense of today: Secret Service agent scandal gets worse with allegations of cocaine use, and here is a headline which tells us this drama will play out for a while: Escort Recounts Quarrel With Secret Service Agent. Image of the Day,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 12 Comments

Dick Clark passed away this morning in Los Angeles. For those of us of a certain age, he was MTV before there was MTV (and when MTV actually played music). ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 12 Comments

I check in every now and then with the efforts of the Limbaugh boycott movement at the Twitter hashtag #stoprush. I noticed over the past few days a lot of chatter and anger directed at @AngiesList, as well as at new local advertisers on the Limbaugh show...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 16 Comments

This is just a poll of delegates who will vote on April 21 at the Utah Republican nominating convention, not an actual vote, but if true, it would be an earthquake in UT-04:In Utah's newly formed 4th district, things are considerably tight, according to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 54 Comments

Oh, sure it's not as important as the future of mankind, or the debt cliff Obama is driving us off. But since Democrats are in full Seimus on the Roof mode, why not point out: or  or More at HotAir, Daily Caller, Twitchy. Update:  It has come to this: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 13 Comments

When Indiana primary voters go to the polls on May 8, they should remember that in 2008 Dick Lugar verbally embraced Barack Obama and gave Obama bipartisan cover at a critical time in the campaign, so much so that Lugar became a prominent fixture in Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 23 Comments

with such ease and confidence: Reality: Notice that support for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first legislation President Obama signed in 2009, is now equated with support for women’s equal pay. Thus do liberals constantly ratchet the country in a leftward direction, declaring every piece...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 52 Comments

There has been a pressure campaign against corporate sponsors of the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) led by Color of Change and some of the same groups targeting conservative talk radio: Here’s how it works.  An issue which is neutral, such as voter i.d. laws, is portrayed as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 27 Comments

The "anti-pinkwashing" campaign continues in all its irony. Israel is to be "featured" at the annual Equality Forum on May 3-6 in Philadelphia, based on Israel's record on gay issues.  Israel, of course, is the only nation in the Middle East where homosexuality is not punished, much less punished with...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 17, 2012 17 Comments

Two standout appearances at Chicago's Tea Party this Monday were familiar faces from Saturday's Wisconsin event: BigJournalism's Dana Loesch and Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. These two women, working moms who are relatively recent entrants into the political fray, are examples of one of the most...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 31 Comments

From Linda in Tennessee, a variation on the Coexist bumper sticker: I was riding shotgun today...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 12 Comments

A PPP poll for Daily Kos shows Gov. Scott Walker in a good position: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leads all of his Democratic challengers in the Wisconsin recall election, per a new Public Policy Polling poll out this afternoon. Walker, the incumbent governor, has a 5-point lead...

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