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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2011 29 Comments
Here’s your “Arab Spring” and “Arab Street” for you. From a BBC correspondent (h/t Daily Dish): While walking in the street someone pushed me from behind with such force that I nearly fell over. Turning around, I found myself surrounded by five men, one of whom...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2011 79 Comments
Paul Krugman has a shameful column today, shameful even by Krugman standards. Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued? Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd. What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 24, 2011 5 Comments
Kathleen Commencement season is upon us, which means that insipid celebrities of all flavors will bestow their opinions upon a new generation of bright-eyed college grads. Notable was former President Bill Clinton. His prose at the NYU graduation read like so: “today’s business schools are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2011 9 Comments
Can I call ’em, or what.  Just yesterday I was noting Obama’s strangely detached from reality focus in his speech Friday night on avoiding having a school trip to the Washington Monument canceled if the government shut down. So what did he do yesterday afternoon?  He...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2011 8 Comments
Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature do not need a 3/5ths quorum to pass non-budgetary legislation. Gov. Scott Walker previously rejected calls to pass the collective bargaining provisions of the budget bill separately.  Walker’s reasoning was that while the collective bargaining provisions in isolation may not be budgetary,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2011 12 Comments
Public Policy Polling (PPP) is a long-time Democratic pollster, which last year became the official pollster for DailyKos. PPP is prolific in its polling, with new polls released almost daily.  I have linked to PPP’s polls in the past.  PPP has a good knack for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 15 Comments
I’m not going to repeat all the background; read my prior posts: The Original Sherrod Clip Was Not “False” Shirley Sherrod May Prefer The Life Left Unexamined Shirley Sherrod Catches Andrew Breitbart’s Car Where we are today is that last Friday Sherrod filed and this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2011 72 Comments
The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of several people by gunman Jared Loughner in Arizona yesterday has revealed two sicknesses. The first and most serious is the sickness living in Loughner’s head.  Evidence in the form of farewell videos, internet postings, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2010 7 Comments
Well, at least we now know for sure where Nevada’s top political reporter, who wanted also to be a debate moderator, stands on the Harry Reid-Sharron Angle race.  Not that you would have had any doubt if you had been reading this blog. Jon Ralston says...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2010 11 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Gloria Allred earns a special place at the Saturday Night Card Game table for her performance this week in jumping the race card shark with a late-September Surprise on Meg...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2010 7 Comments
On August 16 I wrote about how a post at the Coffee Party website, titled “Reversing the Coffee Party’s decline,” had been removed from the Coffee Party website after I called attention to the post on August 13. The removed post, along with dozens of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 14 Comments
The Democratic National Committee released an advertisement, posted on the DNC’s “Rapid Response” YouTube Channel, mocking George W. Bush.  The ad was laughable, and much derided. Here is how it appeared in my post earlier today, Extremely Effective DNC Ad: Now the DNC has pulled...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2010 16 Comments
On Friday, August 13, I ran a post Coffee Party Grows Cold, highlighting a post on the Coffee Party’s website titled Reversing the Coffee Party’s decline about how the Coffee Party was in decline. On Saturday night, August 14, Instapundit kindly linked to my post,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2010 7 Comments
A few days ago, Sharron Angle launched a new format to her website, giving the campaign a more professional looking web portal. Harry Reid’s campaign, however, took the code from the prior Angle website and launched a website called “TheRealSharronAngle.com.” The fake website was what,...
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