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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2012 65 Comments
Endgame analysis:  No question Newt won, but no single huge moment that is likely to shift the polls dramatically (or fundamentally).  Just a consistent strong performance, that’s the pretty uniform assessment from relatively neutral people I’m following on Twitter.  Really bad night for Santorum, off...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2012 5 Comments
Blogger Gina Cobb passed away at the end of last year, as announced in this January 21, 2012, blog post from her family: It is with tremendous sadness and sorrow that the family announces the recent passing of Gina Cobb. She departed very peacefully to her...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 73 Comments
The Trouble With Mitt: It is ludicrous to claim that the fault lies among conservatives for Romney’s precipitous drop among independents, which he’s endured over the past month (in some polls, it’s been a negative swing of 20 points), the primary reason he now lags...

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on February 19, 2012 17 Comments
The Arab Spring has sprung. But for us, it has been mostly doom and gloom, an extended winter. Throughout the Middle East, we have seen an uprising against the established order. In most cases, these uprisings have been overdue as the tyrants had their collective...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 22 Comments
Glenn Greenwald had a post Friday titled Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics. The post concerns Frank VanderSloot, an Idaho businessman who Greenwald alleges bullies political opponents by threatening frivolous defamation and copyright suits.  I don’t know if VanderSloot is guilty as charged by...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on February 18, 2012 26 Comments
The film Slavery By Another Name recently was released.  It is a moving historical account of the post-emancipation enslavement by another name of blacks through a variety of segregationist and other laws and policies. Unfortunately, but predictably, some used the movie release as an opportunity to score...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2012 35 Comments
I don’t necessarily agree with everything Pat Buchanan says or writes, but his purge from MSNBC is a sign of the times, and his characterization is correct: The modus operandi of these thought police at Color of Change and ADL is to brand as racists...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2012 4 Comments
A new online newspaper launched by David Horovitz (former Editor in Chief of The Jerusalem Post, not David Horowitz of FrontPage Mag), via Honest Reporting (h/t Anneipt). The Times of Israel represents a determined effort, by a team of skilled, committed journalists, to report Israel,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2012 19 Comments
The latest installment of The Daily Caller’s exposé on Media Matters concerns an e-mail regarding an action plan against Fox News which included hiring private investigators to go after Fox News executives, lawfare, and other acts of disruption: A little after 1 p.m. on Sept. 29,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2012 39 Comments
Yesterday, the editors of National Review called on Newt to drop out of the race in favor of Santorum: When he led Santorum in the polls, he urged the Pennsylvanian to leave the race. On his own arguments the proper course for him now is to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2012 74 Comments
I previously posted about Rick Santorum’s endorsement in 2004 of Arlen Specter against a challenge from Pat Toomey, in what was a precursor to the Tea Party v. Establishment fights to come. One of the unintended consequences of Specter’s reelection was that in 2009 Specter switched...

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on February 12, 2012 22 Comments
The Obama administration has been tightening the grip around the collective necks of the fossil fuel industry. The goal is of course to kill it and nowhere is this more self evident than with oil exploration. The most recent example is the studying to death...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on February 12, 2012 6 Comments
With this being my first time ever attending CPAC, it can be easy to get caught up in the awe of it. The faces you see on the other end of the television every day turn into actual people and conference goers get a chance...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2012 13 Comments
A close runner up to “the finest example of fatuous, preening, liberal self-righteousness” Thanks to reader Matt, who took this photo in the rain in Denver near the Cheesman Park neighborhood just east of Downtown, and writes: Doesn’t the government …already force me to? But...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2012 25 Comments
I posted earlier in the week about the Super Bowl commercial run by Pete Hoekstra, who is running for Senate from Michigan against Debbie Stabenow. The commercial was part of a DebbieSpendItNow.com campaign highlighting the loss of jobs in Michigan to countries like China. The url now redirects...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2012 56 Comments
PPP polling shows Santorum with a huge surge in support since he won the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and non-binding Missouri primary, to the point that he leads nationally with 38 percent, to 23% for Romney, 17% for Newt, and 13% for Ron Paul. Although a surge...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2012 26 Comments
Things doing: One Romney Supporter’s Rant:  “What’s wrong with the nutjobs on the right?”  Why are you asking me? (h/t HotAir). 1 year ago: “Rick Santorum has some high hurdles to overcome, but don’t write him off. Just as Mike Huckabee came out of nowhere to...
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