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Appeals Court Upholds No-Bond Detention Of Illegal Aliens In Huge Win For Trump

Red, White — and Ashamed? Team USA Skiers Bash the US

Are Nursing and Other “Caring” Professions a “Sink for Pathological Personalities”?

The election is not just about jobs, it’s about the vision thing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2012 22 Comments

There is a new jobs report out, with the usual caveats that the work force is shrinking, but the nominal unemployment rate is down to 8.5%. That's the number which counts politically. The rate would be 10.9% if the same number of people were in the...

“less intelligent, but angrier liberals”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2012 26 Comments

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that phrase used in the email from reader NCMont to explain his move from D.C. to Austin. I guess it's like when I make the trip from Rhode Island to Ithaca when school is in session. Or is it the other way...

WI Judge: Bugs Bunny can’t sign petitions to recall Scott Walker

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 19 Comments

You would think that Wisconsin state officials charged with ensuring the intergrity of elections, including the recall against Gov. Scott Walker, would want to check for duplicate, fictitious and fraudulent signatures on recall petitions. But no. As I reported in November, the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board decided...

Grow some

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 14 Comments

Things that deserve separate posts, but won't get it, for now: He's still trying to out liberal a real liberal, and it will not work: Scott Brown Says He Supports Obama’s Illegal “Recess” Appointment of Richard Cordray… and Scott Brown Accuses Gingrich Of 'Pandering To The Right-Wing Extreme'. ...

Now Eugene Robinson mocks Santorum’s mourning

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 42 Comments

I posted the other day about Alan Colmes mocking -- and then apologizing for mocking -- the manner in which Rick Santorum and his family mourned their child who died shortly after birth. Now Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post and MSNBC has done the same (via...

Pro-Palestinian Activism on College Campuses is Based on a Muslim Brotherhood Blueprint

Zohran Mamdani Wants to Scale Back Gifted Programs in NYC Schools

Diversity Hiring Has Backfired on Higher Education

San Francisco Schools Anticipate Closure Due to Possible Teachers Strike

Under the Big Beautiful Bill, Colleges With Low-Earning Grads Could Lose Access to Student Loans

Professor Likely to Become Harvard's New History Chair Has History of Hating Trump, Israel

Coulter: Santorum “more of a Catholic than a conservative”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 66 Comments

Having called the Tea Party birthers and Newt Ahmadinejad, Ann Coulter has identified another way of demonizing and belittling someone who is not Mitt Romney: As a two-time senator from a light-blue state, Rick Santorum is not as obviously unelectable as the rest. But don't leap too fast,...

Why do we even have to ask for permission to shoot?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 77 Comments

Two men break into a home in Oklahoma. A widowed young mother and her infant are alone in the house. The mother calls 911 to ask if it is okay to shoot the intruders: "I've got two guns in my hand -- is it okay to...

Going after Romney is patriotic, too

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 56 Comments

Remember when one Republican candidate viciously attacking the leading Republican candidate was patriotic? Like in Iowa, when everyone from Charles Krauthammer on down blamed Newt's past for the several millions dollars in negative attack ads run by a pro-Romney SuperPAC? When National Review devoted almost an entire issue to...

Do we really need 10 more months of this?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 26 Comments

No one could have seen this coming. Romney Tax Returns Become a Problem Mitt Romney, a multimillionaire who is by far the wealthiest of the Republican presidential candidates, said he has no plans to release his income tax returns if he wins his party’s nomination, setting himself...

Flee fishing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 5 Comments

Another one from John Ruberry's canoe trip in Morton Grove, Ill. Taken on a car with Wisconsin plates -- must be another one of those fleebaggers: ...

Obama desperately seeks a crisis to take advantage of

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 53 Comments

Obama's recess appointment of Richard Cordray to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau correctly is portrayed as a naked power grab. First, the Senate is not in recess. Harry Reid and other Democrats in the past treated the current Senate pro forma business status as not being...

No one tell him, he will be insufferable

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 9 Comments

From the Coffee Shop Blog: Comment of the week. No. The Year. "I'm Barack Obama and George Soros approved this message" LukeHandCool at Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion...

“they resent it when he attacks them for being to the left of positions he has very recently adopted”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 66 Comments

As long time readers know, I really didn't pay much attention to the 2008 Republican primaries. But as I've gone back in researching various issues, I've noticed that a lot of candidates in 2008 had a reaction to the way Mitt Romney ran his campaign similar...

Rick Perry not suspending campaign, going to South Carolina (Reader poll added)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 37 Comments

After his announcement last night that he was returning to reassess his campaign, everyone assumed Rick Perry was going to suspend his campaign. Apparently that is not the case, as Perry just announced via Twitter that he is heading for South Carolina: This has to be the...

Bachmann Suspending Campaign

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 10 Comments

Michele Bachmann is holding a press conference any minute. She is expected to announce she is "suspending" her presidential campaign. Video to be added when available. It was a classy speech. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com...

McCain’s Romney baggage

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 17 Comments

John McCain is set to endorse Mitt Romney today, and I'm sure there will be plenty of platitudes. But the McCain endorsement comes with baggage, like this: “Never get into a wrestling match with a pig,” Senator John McCain said in New Hampshire this month after reporters...

About last night

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 38 Comments

It was a late night, and apparently Mit Romney won by 8 votes. Don't let anyone tell you voter fraud is not a threat; what if this had been the general election and Barack Obama won by 8 votes in a state, would we not...