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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 5 Comments

It has been a bad week for Dick Lugar: But it just got worse. A critical part of Lugar's campaign narrative is the scare tactic that if Richard Mourdock is the nominee, the seat may be lost to Democrats.  I've addressed that argument before, pointing out that Democrat Joe...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 75 Comments

Kohler, based in Wisconsin, has joined the Rush Limbaugh boycott, according to tweets it sent out yesterday from its Twitter account, @Kohler: It is not clear that Kohler actually ever advertised on the Limbaugh show, almost certainly not nationally.  This may be another of the pre-emptive...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 8 Comments

Captain Carroll “Lex” Lefon, USN (ret), of Neptunus Lex blog, passed away on March 6: Carroll "Lex" LeFon, ATAC F-21 pilot, retired Naval Aviator, TOPGUN Graduate and prominent military blogger known as Neptunus Lex, was killed in a plane crash on the morning of March 6th,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 7 Comments

This has some great ones, including a take off on the Coexist sticker, and a "You are not entitled to what I have earned" sticker.  But the best is the WORST. From reader Tim: I snapped a shot of these in the lot at Best Buy, in...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 251 Comments

I predicted Saturday night that the Trayvon Martin case was being set up for an explosive outcome in which expectations of a conviction faced the reality of the rights of an accused and evidence which cast "reasonable doubt" on what happened. Two developments today make the facts supporting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 6 Comments

The refusal of the State Department to recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, and to issue passports listing Jerusalem as a birthplace in Israel, made its way to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that courts can decide the issue under U.S. statutes.  While it appears to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 19 Comments

This morning was the first day of oral argument in the Supreme Court on challenges to Obamacare.  The audio should be available in a little while. Today was the issue of the Anti-Injunction Act, which arguably would prohibit court involvement if the mandate were viewed as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 45 Comments

Herman Cain's Sick of Stimulus website has released a new web ad. It's right up there with the "greats" of web ads.  (h/t Robert Costa, who says he is speechless.) Update:  This reaction from one of the people behind the Rush boycott actually is quite unintentionally funny: And, Cain...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 76 Comments

Notice how the Obama captured when he doesn't think he is being recorded is so differenct from campaign Obama.  The  "bitter clinger" remarks and the Netanyahu put-down are the most memorable. And there are the hot mic sound bites which the media won't release, like CBS refusing to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2012 124 Comments

Off the road, finally. I'm catching up on what was going on today.  What did I miss? Okay, here's what I'm finding: Rick Santorum on Face the Nation prejudges the Zimmerman-Martin case, and attributes malicious motives to Zimmerman (emphasis mine): NORAH O'DONNELL: Senator, the President did not use the word...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2012 60 Comments

There have been numerous threats made against George Zimmerman, the shooter of Trayvon Martin.  It is unclear whether a crime was committed, and Zimmerman has not been charged. Spike Lee's most famous film was Do the Right Thing, about racial tensions which spill into violence: Yet Lee...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on March 25, 2012 50 Comments

As the primary season has continued to wear on, some supporters from the not-Mitt Romney voting bloc are deciding to fold up shop and reluctantly begin shifting their support from their candidate of choice. They do this largely because they’re worried that if conservatives don’t...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2012 34 Comments

Starts today. More evidence of the education bubble. On Monday be sure to check out: Positivity: Tips for a Modern World from Good Vibrations:  Join HLSRJ and Good Vibrations for a short discussion of positivity, a demo, then Q&A. Free Food! You had me at "Free Food!" "HLSRJ" is the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2012 3 Comments

Can't miss what you never had. From reader Jim, who took this photo in a Publix parking lot yesterday in Lake Mary, FL (suburb of Orlando), and notes that the license plat "kind of puts a nice twist on the anti-obama message." ...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on March 24, 2012 19 Comments

81% Reporting: Santorum: 50%, Romney: 26%, Gingrich: 16%, Paul: 6% ----------------- With 10% Reporting, Fox News has now called the primary for Rick Santorum as well. Here are the results so far: Santorum: 42%, Romney: 30%, Gingrich: 20%, and Paul: 5% Its not clear yet, but it appears that Gingrich...

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