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Ayatollah Khamenei Eliminated in Israeli Strike

Anti-Trump Revolt - Tucker Calls Iran Decision 'Disgusting and Evil'

My View From Moscow April 1980 - The Failed American Hostage Rescue Mission

What does it all mean?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2011 7 Comments

That's the question I had for reader Mike, who sent the photo and responded: All I can tell you is that it’s a take-off on that unanswerable woman’s question, “Honey, does this dress make my ass look big?” I’ll let you decide for yourself whether it...

A taste of the medicine

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2011 41 Comments

I'm finally back after a full day of travel, where I had to rely on CNN and MSNBC on the plane for coverage of the Politico story about Herman Cain. I can't really sort through all the details yet, too much has happened in the last...

I loathe lamp.

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 31, 2011 4 Comments

I was over at #OWS yesterday and I know the LI readership will be pleased to hear that the movement is still going strong. This is despite Mayor Bloomberg's crackdown on their primitive heating system.What will be the next challenge for the organizers? After, you...

Things you probably missed this weekend

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2011 4 Comments

Here are some things you may have missed this weekend: Please donate to the “Jonathan Alter Obama Scandal Education Fund” Why isn’t Obama protecting these Libyan civilians? Snowloween Tweet of the Day If this doesn’t motivate you for November, Part 2 Saturday Night Card Game - More on the attacks on Herman Cain ...

Primary Jewish #OWS Organizer – Lack of Structure At OWS Allows Non-Anti-Semites To Participate

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 31, 2011 4 Comments

#OWS's policy of having no set views has its advantages. They can include all manner of extremists and unsavory characters while preserving plausible deniability when taken to task for their relationship with such socially-unacceptable figures. Daniel Sieradski, #OWS's main Jewish organizer, last seen thinking up new...

U. Louisville Students Protest School's Partnership With Department of War Over Iran Strikes

Lawmakers in New Jersey Advance ‘Menstrual Equity’ Mandate for Public Universities

Colorado Mesa U. Queer Studies Prof Resigns After Told to Remain ‘Neutral’ in Class

U. Arizona Prof Who Told MAGA and Zionists to 'F--k Off' Faces Calls for Firing

Student Groups at Purdue Hold 'No War on Iran' Protest

Socialists at U. Vermont Protest Strikes on Iran

Obama’s Reelection Strategy And #OWS’s True Purpose: Party Like It’s 1936?

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 31, 2011 12 Comments

The conservative movement in America may have been had. #OWS is easy to attack, but the right's demonization of #OWS, even if successful, may be playing into Obama's hands by failing to address the real reason why the Democrats and their special interest allies...

Herman Cain – The First Real Test

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2011 36 Comments

Because I'm traveling all day, I'm not going to be able to cover the Politico's not very specific yet sensational claims about two settlements in the 1990s involving women who worked at the National Restaurant Association when Herman Cain ran the organization. It's not clear...

Blimey

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2011 2 Comments

Thanks to reader Thomas who writes: I spotted this in Portland, Oregon today. I'm not sure what the point of the message is. Perhaps it's some form of insurrection? ...

Open – Live from The OC

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 11 Comments

Slow day here, traveled back from Palm Desert. I never watched the show The OC, but I hope the scenery is better than what I saw on the drive back to the airport. Where has everyone gone this weekend? Ah, this explains it, Power outages from...

Tomorrow’s “unexpected” headline

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 8 Comments

Seeing not very far into the future: UNEXPECTED OCTOBER SNOWSTORM, WORST SINCE GREAT DEPRESSION, BLAMED FOR LAGGING ECONOMIC RECOVERY, SAYS OBAMA SPOKESMAN...

Emptying the countryside

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 20 Comments

Fascinating account of how new environmental regulations and restoration projects are emptying the northern California countryside, Rural rebellion brewing: Sacramento is Government Central, a land of overly pensioned bureaucrats and restaurant discounts for state workers. But way up in the North State, one finds a small...

If this doesn’t motivate you for November, Part 2

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 12 Comments

Sometimes the Editorial Board of The NY Times gets it right, even if for the wrong reasons, as in this editorial, The Court and the Next President: When Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. began the new Supreme Court term by congratulating Antonin Scalia on his 25th...

Snowloween Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 7 Comments

From Walter Russell Mead referencing cancellation of his own speech, and taking it all in good humor: I was scheduled to give a talk at the Hannah Arendt conference here at Bard this evening on the problems of the green movement in dealing with the connections...

Won’t you please come to Chicago

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 5 Comments

just to sing? Thanks to reader Joe, who writes: Spotted this unfortunate billboard in Chicago (which is shocking, I know) on Western Ave near the I-90 entrance ramp. Felt like it was juxtaposed nicely with the billboard from those greedy, evil corporate fat cats at Big Red. Keep up all the...

Why isn’t Obama protecting these Libyan civilians?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2011 11 Comments

The pretext for the U.N. no fly zone in Libya was to protect Libyan civilians from Gaddafi's army. The U.S., France and others then exceeded the U.N. mandate by attacking Gaddafi's forces more generally, leading eventually to Gaddafi's capture and field execution. Back in March I...

Saturday Night Card Game (Race-based attacks on Herman Cain expose left-wing hypocrisy, once again)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2011 17 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain The attacks on Herman Cain from the left are gruesome, as Cain is reduced by his attackers to an affirmative action candidate who helps white Republicans hide their racism by...

Just like the Tea Party