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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2009 12 Comments

As reported by Jules Crittenden, the national GOP has all but abandoned Scott Brown in his bid for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in the January 19 special election.Brown's opponent, Martha Coakley, is a down-the-line liberal who is vulnerable because she will be a puppet for...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2009 3 Comments

Bob Herbert, in the NY Times, finally is waking up to the fact that the Senate health bill passed on Christmas Eve is all smoke and mirrors.Herbert, who backed Jimmy Carter in excoriating opponents of Obamacare as racists, now admits that the supporters of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2009 11 Comments

TMZ fell for a hoax regarding a supposed photo of JFK on a boat with lots of naked women.Before the hoax was revealed, Andrew Sullivan authored a post on the subject, which has been pulled completely. Here is what remains on Sullivan's blog:The link to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2009 3 Comments

TMZ has a flock-full of egg on its face today, as its monster break-through of the year -- the infamous JFK Photo that could have changed the world -- turned out to be a hoax.The photo (right), purportedly from the 1950s showing JFK on a...

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

In a prior post in late October, I sought the input of readers into whether and how I should change the appearance and format of this blog.The overwhelming response, in comments and e-mails, was that it doesn't appear to be broken in a major way,...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2009 5 Comments

Yet more utter nonsense spread in the left-wing blogosphere, this time about how Joe Lieberman wants the U.S. to "invade" Yemen.In fact, Lieberman said that we needed to act "preemptively" against al-Qaeda in Yemen to avoid Yemen becoming the next war, and said nothing advocating...

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

"You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie Janet Reno Napolitano"[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dudHzY5Qigw]--------------------------------------------Related Posts:About That "Firecracker"Not So Scary Terror?Terrorist Attacks Plane, Think Progress Attacks Pete HoekstraFollow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2009 10 Comments

During the June 2009 protests that rocked Iran over election fraud, the Obama administration was silent for days, then came out and embraced improved relations with the regime in the hope of improving the chances for a negotiated end to Iran's nuclear weapons program.The "grand...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2009 4 Comments

There has been a deliberate attempt to downplay the seriousness of the attempted bombing of an airplane over Detroit. The attempted detonation of an explosive in the airplane has been described by leading bloggers as "unserious" and evidence that al-Qaeda is "a joke."Below is the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2009 4 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took to the floor of the Senate earlier this week and delivered a speech which would have made Alan Grayson and Keith Olbermann blush. Following...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2009 12 Comments

So says Matthew Yglesias, in a post titled Not So Scary “Terror” (emphasis mine): Obviously, people shouldn’t be lighting anything on fire inside airplanes. That said, all the big Christmas airline incident really shows to me is how little punch our dread terrorist adversaries really...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2009 12 Comments

An Islamic terrorist, with apparent ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen, just attempted to blow up a plane as it was landing in Detroit. Al-Qaeda activities in Yemen are a real problem, as witnessed by the U.S. missile attack on Yemen just days ago against an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2009 3 Comments

Time Magazine Person of the Year: Ben Bernanke.The Times of London's Person of the Year: Neda Soltan.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2009 1 Comment

Media Matters is watching everything that FoxNews, and conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, say or do waiting to pounce on any sentence, or clause in a sentence, or word in a clause, which can be twisted out of context and blown up into a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2009 1 Comment

Juan Cole, who thinks people chanting "Death to America" are merely misunderstood, uses this Christmas morning to launch an attack on Israel, "Bethlehem Under Occupation; In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope."With an embedded video from al-Jazeera, and a...

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