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Posted by David Gerstman on March 14, 2013 3 Comments
The Ranting of Levine Last week the New York Times published an essay by a philosophy professor, James Levine On Questioning the Jewish State. I won’t quote from the essay, but here are some of the responses. Elder of Ziyon argues: In fact, if you...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 13, 2013 3 Comments
1) Being a reporter means never having to say you’re sorry The New York Times has reported on the UN report that raised doubts about the death of Omar Masharawi. Isabel Kershner wrote U.N. Ties Gaza Baby’s Death to Palestinians: Paul Danahar, the BBC Middle...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 09, 2013 7 Comments
In late February, the Washington Post ran an editorial Solution Politics in Virginia that began: IN VIRGINIA, A REPUBLICAN governor and a GOP-dominated legislature have joined forces with Democrats to enact the first long-term increase in transportation funding since the Reagan administration — and the...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 07, 2013 19 Comments
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s 12-hour filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination yesterday was so outstanding because brought people representing the entire spectrum of political belief together to defend constitutional due process rules. As a Palin Democrat, I would like to make an observation. As I conduct...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 05, 2013 15 Comments
Two recent articles provided explanations as to why Mitt Romney failed to win the presidency. In The GOP and the City Edward Glaeser writes: After the presidential election in November, New York Times exit polls found that Republican candidate Mitt Romney had received only 29...

Posted by Joel Engel on February 10, 2013 19 Comments
On the syllabus of my Econ 101 class was Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb.  This being a year or two after the book’s publication, our class discussions weren’t debates about the veracity of the book’s thesis: In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines—hundreds of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2013 35 Comments
Chuck Hagel was an embarrassment yesterday at this confirmation hearing.  John Podhoretz has it right: Well, as a result of this confirmation hearing — the most disastrous of its kind since another veteran senator, John Tower, blew himself up in his pursuit of the same...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2012 12 Comments
There is no conventional wisdom pushed as hard by the anti-Republican media than the notion that Republicans were in a self-contained media and punditry bubble and refused to believe — or worse yet, deliberately distorted — contrary polling.   Beware this conventional wisdom. I have examined how that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2012 24 Comments
As with many good intentions, my pledge to address the “demography is destiny” political nonsense has fallen by the wayside, consumed by intervening events.  Consider this just a touch on the issue. It’s not that broadening the appeal doesn’t matter, it’s just that demographic arguments...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 15, 2012 30 Comments
I am still trying to obtain an interview with Father Joseph M. McShane, President of Fordham University, who spoke out forcefully condemning the invitation by the Fordham Republicans to Ann Coulter. Robert Shibley of The FIRE notes at College Insurrectionthat Fordham defends its invitation to infanticide...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2012 24 Comments
Why else would they want to raise taxes on drug companies? Such as the provision in Obamacare which took effect January 1, 2011, raising $2.3 billion annually from the drug industry (Politifact confirmation here). The political logic is there, just look at how Democrats argue that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 23, 2012 31 Comments
This is a GUEST POST, at my invitation, by commenter Karen Sacandy in response to my post Where’s Rick?  ———————————————- Criticism has been leveled at Sen. Rick Santorum, that he’s not doing  enough for  Gov. Romney to defeat  Obama.  From my vantage point, that view misses a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 16 Comments
It’s not enough for Operation Counterweight to get a candidate through the primary.  We need to support the candidate immediately to keep the momentum going. Richard Mourdock is not running to the left (often mischaracterized as running to the center) one bit. Listen to this interview, which has...
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