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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2012 9 Comments
These scientists must be foot soldiers in the Rebublican War on Women, since they question the need for unfettered mammograms (and free! no co-pay!), Mammograms leading to unnecessary treatment, study finds: The routine use of mammograms has led to more than 1 million women being unnecessarily...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 73 Comments
The inevitable post-election lull seems like a good time to sits and think. And one of the things I sits and thinks about is the future of small conservative blogs. There seems to be a corporate consolidation of blogs on the right and the left.  Already...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2012 83 Comments
I thought Romney gave an excellent speech. It had a good mix of soaring rhetoric without veering into Greek columns territory. Clearly the speech was intended to help neutralize the “war on women” theme, and I think it was effective.  I also was glad that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2012 44 Comments
Is anyone surprised?  Crist’s only chance at rehabilitating a political career is a senior position in the second Obama administration. Crist has an Op-Ed in the Tampa Bay Times (via DaTechGuy) today explaining his treachery: As America prepares to pick our president for the next four...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on June 17, 2012 5 Comments
Now that Richard Mourdock has defeated Dick Lugar and is well into his general election campaign against Democrat Joe Donnelly, it is of paramount importance that we keep Mourdock’s campaign for Senate strong. Top-tier Republican figures are aware of this, as evidenced by Florida Senator Marco...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 11 Comments
It’s pretty unfair to compare Dana Milbank and Jayson Blair by lumping them together with no real connection, isn’t it? Almost as bad as this headline and column from Dana Milbank lumping Richard Mourdock and federal prisoner Keith Judd together, Richard Mourdock and Keith Judd...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2012 54 Comments
I have been pounding the keyboard all week about the lies and distortions of the Romney campaign and supporters about Newt’s record of support for Ronald Reagan. These allegations were played out by the Romney campaign and on Drudge, and did serious damage to Newt,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 99 Comments
S.E. Cupp, who previously called Newt a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, is on the verge of a breakdown, Newt’s Doomed Crusade: At the risk of sounding maudlin or apocalyptic, the conservative movement is  poised to become irrelevant or simply extinct…. [C]onservatives are in dire...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2011 10 Comments
Here were my “not predictions” for 2011, graded: I would not classify the following as predictions unless they come true, in which case I am a genius.  Here are some things I’m looking at in the coming year (list to be updated throughout the day)....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2011 8 Comments
Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post has a post today in which she contrasts Mitt Romney’s non-pandering to the Jewish community with Newt Gingrich’s supposed pandering. She highlights Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, and whether he should be granted clemency.  She...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2011 21 Comments
The government is not shutting down at midnight.  So here’s some more stuff: Incandescent light bulb ban not banned, but not really going into effect. Rich Lowry, Applying while Asian.  Commenter LukeHandCool made a similar point on the Tip Line earlier this month. Newt has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2011 42 Comments
I was in the car this morning when I heard on the news that Barney Frank was retiring and would not run for re-election. Obviously there is a lot of snark which could be thrown around, but this represents a bigger deal than Barney.  As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 25, 2011 18 Comments
Traveling all day, now in Palm Desert, CA.  Because there’s almost no way to get there from central New York, we ended up flying into Orange County airport and driving.  Along the way we saw these windfarms — Obama would so proud: From some sneak...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2011 12 Comments
I don’t always agree with Jennifer Rubin, the not-liberal blogger at The Washington Post, who used to blog at Commentary. But I respect her because unlike the Stockholm Syndrome suffering not-liberal columnists at The New York Times, Rubin is willing to take on her own...
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