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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2011 18 Comments

End Game Assessment:  Something different.  Not sure we learned much.  Not having everyone or at least multiple candidates together allowed for stock answers.  This was not a format in which one candidate clearly could be a winner or loser. Clearly went after Newt with the most...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2011 19 Comments

Michele Walk has noticed that Alan Grayson is gracing these pages with great frequency, and adds "I hope people are clicking on the ads -- nothing sweeter than making Grayson pay conservative bloggers!" I fully understand sentiment, but ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2011 15 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: PRAVDA HITS NEW LOW!!!!! I know, yawn.  Everyone knows there is not "truth" in Pravda. But really, how much lower can Pravda go than this article about the Ku Klux Klan which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2011 11 Comments

Headlines of the day: Obama: Congress 'shouldn't go home' until tax cut is extended Obama Off to Hawaii for 17 Day Vacation Over Christmas...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2011 59 Comments

Herman Cain just announced that he is suspending his campaign. "As false accusations against me continued, they have sidetracked and distracted my ability to present solutions to the American people." "Because of these false and unproved accusations it has paid and had a tremendous painful" effect on...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2011 0 Comments

His announcement now is expected around 1:30 p.m.   Any minute now (a/0 12:20) Eastern The Right Scoop already has embedded live feeds, on the off chance he speaks earlier....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2011 7 Comments

On June 6, 2010, I asked the question Can Israel Survive A Second Obama Term? This past week has seen the coming together of the growing Islamist-Leftist Coalition in the war against Israel. Leftists who, among other things, claim to believe in freedom of speech, women’s rights...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2011 17 Comments

Politico targeted Herman Cain in an almost unprecedented fashion, turning its homepage into all Herman Cain all the time for about two weeks. Politico can move and shape a story because of its high traffic (reportedly 60 million page views a month and 8-10 million "unique...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2011 8 Comments

the skywriting plane was not available. From reader Cat, who emailed yesterday: Seen this afternoon in Publix parking lot, Sanford, FL, Hwy 46 Sweet! ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2011 14 Comments

What a day.  I'm going to try to stay away from Newt-Mitt-fest, but no guarantees: Egyptian Unity: "All parties can agree on dislike for Israel" 25 year contempt of court sentence upheld. Yeah, but there's a back story. Someone is surging among Hot Air readers (I voted, but I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2011 35 Comments

What did I tell you just this morning.  Mitt Romney needs to take on Newt face-to-face, mano a mano, to demonstrate that Mitt is not Tim Pawlenty, someone who can dish it out through surrogates or in television interviews, but not in person. This is a sign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2011 12 Comments

I noted about a year ago that I had moved away from Politico as a prime source of news because of it's anti-Palin, anti-Tea Party bias.  That bias has been confirmed by the shoddy reporting of the accusations against Herman Cain, and its current obsession...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2011 7 Comments

From NRO to The Washington Examiner to the Romneyquest WaPo blogger, Newt's record is being picked over and criticized by Romney supporters as not sufficiently or consistently conservative. I'll save you the trouble of reading the critiques, as they can be summarized in one sentence the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 02, 2011 5 Comments

I take issue with Don Surber's recent piece, titled "Debates work.": The much-maligned mainstream media is doing its job and that is helping Republicans get their message out, while at the same time ridding the party of its losers quickly. Better to have a Rick Perry...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2011 22 Comments

There was an unemployment report released this morning which showed the unemployment rate dropping to 8.6%. That's a big plus for Obama, even though the drop almost entirely is the result of people leaving the workforce, as Jame Pethokoukis notes: The mainstream media pays no attention to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2011 18 Comments

Tim Pawlenty was the candidate who was going to be the not-Romney candidate conservatives could rally around. A successful relatively conservative Governor of a blue state, someone who had managed well, had campaign organization, and could bridge the gap between the Tea Party and establishment wings...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2011 9 Comments

What shocks me, though, is that a fan of Che Guevara attended the Democratic National Convention in Denver in 2008.  Quite unexpected. Thanks to reader Matt, who writes: Spotted this in the parking lot of my old neighborhood bar in uptown Denver. Couldn't help but start laughing....

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