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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2011 19 Comments

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley has accused Justice David Prosser of using a "chokehold" on her.  The Dane County Sheriff's office is investigating. Remember the term "chokehold" as the investigation as to what really happened progresses and the facts eventually come out. "Chokehold" is a very specific term, and...

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

Mark Halperin confirmed my impression of Obama's divisive, dismissive and demeaning performance at his press conference yesterday: The interesting thing for me is not that Halperin thought it, but that he said it thinking it would not make it to the airwaves. Compare such a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2011 6 Comments

Is there any doubt that if Obama could do it on his own, Jerusalem would be divided and Israel forced back to the 1949 armistice borders?  A point I have made before is that the real danger comes in a second term, when he is freed of...

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

The Revolt of the Kulaks has come to California. Via Drudge, California's attempt to tax internet sales has met with a reaction: Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law California's tax on Internet sales through affiliate advertising which will immediately cut small-business website revenue 20% to 30%, experts...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2011 0 Comments

Lebanon has been pushed closer to the brink, as four senior members of Hezbollah have been indicted by a U.N. prosecutor: Four Hezbollah members have been indicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanese media outlets reported on Thursday. A delegation from the Special Tribunal...

Posted by Matthew Knee on June 30, 2011 5 Comments

The same institution that put countries such as Libya, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia on their  Human Rights Council and Iran on their Commission on the Status of Women has now put North Korea in charge of their Conference on Disarmament. Absurdities such as this are inevitable...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2011 9 Comments

First it was O Chit, now this. Sent in by reader Leslie who writes:  "Spotted on the back glass window in Jacksonville, FL on a Nissan truck." I'm not sure where we go from here. ...

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

A reader forwarded me this e-mail received from Obama's fundraising operation, titled "They're Wrong," which suggests that Obama is anticipating weak fundraising numbers.  The full e-mail is in the image below (click to enlarge), but here is the key portion (emphasis mine): We're closing the books...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2011 5 Comments

.... " I like to say that for the black community, nothing will change until we learn to love our children more than we love the Democratic party.” Some thoughts from the speaker here, and others here and here....

Posted by Michael Alan on June 29, 2011 3 Comments

You may remember "Priorities USA," the group former White House spokesman Bill Burton started back in April. Reports at the time indicated that the new "super PAC" will follow the new rules dictated by the Citizens United case, meaning that they can accept unlimited, undisclosed contributions from corporations...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2011 38 Comments

I watched Obama's press conference today, and he is a wonder to behold.  He is a relentless demagogue who plays Americans against Americans and sets up false choices as part of a class warfare agenda. Here's a false choice (my rough transcription) which jumped out at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2011 4 Comments

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who has lashed out repeatedly at Republicans and the Tea Party movement, is up for reelection. Whitehouse has a lot of money in the bank, and surely will use his connections to the White House in the campaign, but is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 28, 2011 23 Comments

I've been away from the blog for, oh, seven hours. Are we still the ones we have been waiting for? Is there anything he's not willing to sell or raffle off to get reelected? Have any more people piled on Michele Bachmann? Is the Chief Cheesehead of the Supreme...

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