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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 3 Comments
Lords of the Flies: Johns Hopkins pro-choice group tries to silence pro-life students using “harassment” policy Northwestern Latino student group says eating tacos to celebrate Cinco de Mayo is racist Berkeley student govt calls for divestment from “United States Prison Industrial Complex” including, um, McDonalds...

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 William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2012 26 Comments
Prof. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, writing in The NY Post, suggests that Republican billionaires and money people use some of their dollars to buy up women’s magazines and websites, keep almost everything the same, except get rid of the anti-Republican content: Mitt Romney and the GOP...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2012 21 Comments
There is no question that Scott Brown won the debate last night. It wasn’t a knock out.  As Howie Carr correctly notes, a man can’t get away with hitting a woman too hard in a debate: When he was pummeling her on the asbestos litigation,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2011 8 Comments
to be anti-Republican in New York, because almost everyone who disagrees with you already has moved to Texas. We’ve seen these subway ads taking shots at Republicans before.  Thanks to reader Thomas who took this photo and writes: Spotted on the #1 train en route to my...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 02, 2011 6 Comments
The United States will be boycotting the “Durban III” conference: The US on Wednesday announced it will not attend the 10-year commemoration of a global UN conference on combating racism because past meetings have included “ugly displays of intolerance and anti-Semitism.” The Obama administration made...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2010 15 Comments
The comparison of the long-shot campaigns of Scott Brown and Christine O’Donnell frequently draws the objection that Brown was viewed as a serious and moderate candidate, whereas O’Donnell is viewed as a non-serious extremist. As someone who followed the Brown campaign closely, I can tell you that this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2010 8 Comments
When Scott Brown won the Republican nomination for Senate in Massachusetts in early December 2009, Brown was given close to no chance of defeating Martha Coakley. Coakley had almost a 30 point lead in the polls and much more money. Democrats held an enormous registration...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 7 Comments
My new favorite source of screen shots has outdone itself, with this post and headline The first senator of the reality show era: The text of the Politico post has nothing to do with reality: Brown’s arrival reflects a fundamental change in American politics, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2009 5 Comments
Snooze. Phillip Kennicott at The Washington Post engages in detailed analysis and comparison of Joker posters picturing Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Barack Obama. The analysis is contrived in the extreme and worthy of the worst Kremlinologists, who extrapolated the Soviet power structure by watching...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2009 0 Comments
Hillary Clinton went to China to assure Chinese investors (i.e. the Chinese government) about the safety and security of investing in the U.S. (video here). Great. What about assuring U.S. investors? Don’t we matter? With the export-heavy Chinese economy reeling from the U.S. downturn, Clinton...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2008 1 Comment
Joe the Plumber made it to prime time in last night’s debate. In fact, just about the only thing anyone will remember about the debate is the name Joe the Plumber. Joe the Plumber first became known when he confronted Barack Obama during a campaign...
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