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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2010 4 Comments

I've been preoccupied the past few weeks, so I have not followed closely enough the end of the saga in Honduras.Manuel Zelaya, the one-term President of Honduras who wanted to be the forever-term President, will be leaving the country very soon:Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2010 9 Comments

The transparency President is now the President who feels your pain.According to the NY Times, in the State of the Union address Obama will unveil some highly targeted tax credits aimed at families, and some caps on student loan repayments: By focusing on what one...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2010 16 Comments

What would one call a political strategy which depended upon portraying the majority of Americans as crazy extremists? The answer is: The current Democratic Party strategy which ignores the meaning of the Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts races, and focuses on smearing opponents as extremists...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 16 Comments

Via Jammie Wearing Fool, Obama Needs TelePrompter to Talk to Schoolkids:No matter what I have said in the past, I want this to be a bad PhotoShop. Honestly. Update 1-26-1020: It's kinda so, but not completely. Read the comments.--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Please Tell Me This Is Not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 11 Comments

I really have very little patience for the "oh, I didn't realize what I was getting with Obama, he seemed so cool, and I was caught up in the hype, and now I realize that he talked a good game but doesn't know what he's...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 7 Comments

My new favorite source of screen shots has outdone itself, with this post and headline The first senator of the reality show era:The text of the Politico post has nothing to do with reality:Brown’s arrival reflects a fundamental change in American politics, the most complete...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 3 Comments

In order to justify China's crackdown on free speech on the internet, including banning YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, a Chinese communist newspaper posed this question:The People's Daily editorial asked rhetorically if obscene information or activities promoting terrorism would be allowed on the internet in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 6 Comments

A lot of people have been playing Waterloo in the wake of the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts. That's history.Here's the future. An exclusive preview of Obama's upcoming State of the Union address this Wednesday (btw, we'll be "live" again): Where are those happy days,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2010 2 Comments

This is the latest in the Saturday Night Card Game series on the use of the race card for political gain:A follow up to the "technology is racist" twist explored in the last of the series, HP Face Tracking Software Racist? Now, it's Nikon's photo...

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

Talk about dominance of the Internet.Patrick Ruffini has an article in The Washington Post, which relates how Republicans won the internet in the Scott Brown election.I'm shocked.Putting my shock aside, for the moment, there is something else worth noting.As of noon today, the article...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2010 9 Comments

From Charles Blow [sic] in the NY Times: Welcome to the mob: an angry, wounded electorate, riled by recession, careening across the political spectrum, still craving change, nursing a bloodlust...

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

The election of Scott Brown to the Senate left for dead the abomination known as the Senate health care bill.But it may not have been enough to get the message through to the Democrats who just seem to be begging to be thrown out of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2010 0 Comments

Nothing to worry about in Yemen: Because al-Qaeda is just a joke: Apparently, al-Qaeda doesn't have a Twitter account, so it never got the message.--------------------------------------------Related Posts:About That "Firecracker"Not So Scary Terror?Terrorist Attacks Plane, Think Progress Attacks Pete HoekstraFollow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2010 8 Comments

Sometimes a Memeorandum thread almost speaks for itself.In this case, the push launched by Balloon-Juice, Sadly No, Daily Kos and others to demand that the House pass the lousy and unpopular Senate bill as is.With backers like these, Democrats have nothing to worry about.Democrats, particularly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2010 3 Comments

Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu sold their reputations for hometown deals as part of the Senate health care bill. Now that the Senate bill is dead, they have nothing to show for the sale.Raymond J. Donovan was Secretary of Labor under Ronald Reagan. Donovan was...

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

The mainstream media finally is waking up to the under-the-radar social media revolution which hid in plain sight in the Massachusetts Senate special election. As reported by the Wall Street Journal:A study [embedded below] conducted by the Emerging Media Research Council out today found that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2010 3 Comments

April 29, 2009, Relax, The Dems Will Screw Up:What history shows us is that a liberal, blame-America-first Democratic President, urged on by a liberal, blame-America-first Democratic Congress, is a prescription for political self-destruction. Leave Democrats to their own devices, and they will screw themselves politically,...

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