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Thoughts and Prayers for Kamala Harris

Talking Turkey to Trump Derangement Syndrome - Thankgiving Day Guide

Pro-Hamas Mob Tries to Block Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

Unnamed Source Says MSM Still Hoping for Defeat

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2009 4 Comments

The Washington Post story, titled “Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots,” about how the interrogation of Abu Zubaida did not prevent a single terrorist attack, is old news. The story ran this morning, which is like so last century in the blogosphere. But the Post...

The American Left Outsources The Spanish Inquisition

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 4 Comments

UPDATE 4-16-2009: The Spanish Attorney General has rejected the attempt to open an investigation of the six Americans accused of, well it's not clear what, but the Spanish Judge at issue wanted to bring them up on charges related to Gitmo. See background below. ...

Obama Attempts to Rewrite The First Amendment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 1 Comment

When we think of the First Amendment to the Constitution, we think of the freedoms of religion, speech and the press. Occasionally, someone will mention the right to peaceably assemble. But for most people, the discussion ends there. Can you name which right guaranteed by...

Liberal Ugliness Revealed On The JournoList

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 4 Comments

The JournoList has evoked much commentary. But a bigger question is being missed. What lurks beneath the outward gentility and civility of the most enlightened liberal bloggers and columnists?Apparently it is not pretty. Some people expressed surprise at the ugly tone of the thread released...

Has Obamamania Reached Its Limit? Noooooo

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 0 Comments

Has Obamamania reached its limit, asks this Yahoo blog entry:This week alone, the president was on "60 Minutes," held a prime-time press conference (networks reluctantly bumped "American Idol" and "The Biggest Loser" to make room for it), and answered viewer questions at his first-ever...

San Francisco State U. Firing Lecturers Due to 'Financial Emergency'

New York's 'New School' to Offer Course on 'Fat Fashion' Next Semester

New Bipartisan Bill Would Withhold Federal Funding From Universities That Boycott Israel

U. Colorado-Colorado Springs Prof Praises North Korea, Argues Country Advances Socialist Revolution

NYC Diversity Staffer Caught Ripping Down Israel Hostage Poster and Allegedly Assaulting Person Filming it

Report Indicates Christian and Career Colleges Were Unfairly Targeted Under the Biden Administration

The JournoList Should Be Called The PlagiarList

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2009 1 Comment

The JournoList started by Ezra Klein as a place where liberal media elites could share ideas (i.e., make sure they had their stories straight) has been exposed as a repository of liberal elite media trash talk. But it gets worse. Klein took credit for designating...

Brooks Hearts Obama On Afghanistan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2009 0 Comments

David Brooks is back on the Obama ranch, having been lassoed by White House officials when he briefly strayed. Brook's latest puff piece is The Winnable War. You don't need to read it. I'll give you the punch line, which is a shocka:BUSH BAD, OBAMA...

Release ALL The E-Mails, Ezra

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 1 Comment

The JournoList was revealed by Politico. The founder of the JournoList, Ezra Klein, explained the purpose as follows (emphasis mine): Journolist is meant to serve a very specific purpose that's actually related to my experience building this blog. The work of this site has always been...

My First Tweet: The JournoList Sure Has A Lot Of Anti-Semitic Commenters

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 6 Comments

Here is my first Tweet, based on the disclosure at Slate (via Instapundit) of the liberal JournoList's vicious and repeated attacks on the Jew Marty Peretz, which means (using the logic of the Ezra Klein in his vicious smear of Ann Althouse):Follow me on Twitter----------------------------------------------------UPDATE:...

Obama’s Teleprompter Tells A Joke And Starts A Fight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 1 Comment

Obama's teleprompter has instigated a fight between Mr. Nasty and President O'Nasty. It started with a scripted dig by Obama at Simon Cowell on the Jay Leno show, to which Cowell responded in kind:When the historians of tomorrow take out their quill pens and attempt...

Will Someone Please Tell Tim Geithner To Read The Document

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 2 Comments

It is amazing how this administration creates controversies because it expresses opinions without reading the documents on which the opinions are based. First, there was the AIG bonus controversy. The bonuses were authorized by the stimulus plan, which neither the administration nor Congress actually read...

Yet Another Cheap Attack On Michele Bachmann

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 0 Comments

Michele Bachmann, the conservative Republican Congressman from Minnesota, has gotten into the heads of the left-wing blogosphere. Yesterday was the completely phony attack on Bachmann's "armed and dangerous" comment, in which her metaphor for outrage was twisted into a supposed call to arms.Today brings another...

Finally, Someone Says “Take This Job And Shove It”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 4 Comments

I have been waiting for this day, when one of the demonized executives at a bank or insurance company would tell Congress to "take this job and shove it." The person singing this song today is Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American...

Non-Profit Solution for Newspapers Predicted Here Two Months Ago

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 2 Comments

The internet and media are abuzz with the prospect of changes in the law which would permit newspapers to operate as non-profits. Michelle Malkin comments that And so, it has come to pass… after the well documented decline of newspaper revenues and profits.If you were...

Obama Press Conference In A Nutshell: A Thirst For Power That Will Not Be Quenched

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2009 2 Comments

I was going to live blog the Obama press conference. But as it started, I changed course because there is a bigger issue here which became obvious with Obama's lecturing opening statement.With each passing day, each television appearance, each mass e-mail, each door-to-door solicitation, and...

Phony Outrage Over “Armed And Dangerous”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2009 0 Comments

Conservative Republican Congressman Michele Bachmann has come under fire for stating that voters should be "armed and dangerous" over the administration's engery tax plans. While the leftwing media tried to twist this statement into a literal call to arms, in fact Bachmann was using a...

Double Standard On Americans Hurt In Israel