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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 49 Comments
Opening new post for post-results — problems with embedded tweet codes here. % Reporting – 95 Mourdock – 60 Lugar – 40 Sen. John Kerry: Sen. Lugar’s defeat is a “tragedy for the Senate” #INSEN — Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) May 9, 2012 Obama: As a friend...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 13 Comments
When Indiana primary voters go to the polls on May 8, they should remember that in 2008 Dick Lugar verbally embraced Barack Obama and gave Obama bipartisan cover at a critical time in the campaign, so much so that Lugar became a prominent fixture in Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 8 Comments
Captain Carroll “Lex” Lefon, USN (ret), of Neptunus Lex blog, passed away on March 6: Carroll “Lex” LeFon, ATAC F-21 pilot, retired Naval Aviator, TOPGUN Graduate and prominent military blogger known as Neptunus Lex, was killed in a plane crash on the morning of March...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2011 3 Comments
I have posted many times before about David Cicilline, former Mayor of Providence who hid the city’s financial problems during the 2010 election, and ran a scare grandma campaign, allowing him a relatively (for Rhode Island) narrow win over John Loughlin in my home RI-01...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 13 Comments
Obama gave a good speech today at the U.N. on the Israel-Palestinian conflict: President Barack Obama told a meeting  of the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday that Mideast peace “will  not come through statements and resolutions” by the world body, arguing against  a proposed resolution...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2011 6 Comments
Well, he keeps saying we need to emulate China. This video has caused a stir: The controversy was not the protest, but that the White House communications team threatened to suspended the reporter who took the videotape, because multimedia coverage of Obama’s fundraiser was not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2011 56 Comments
That seems to be the import of the ruling by federal Judge Gladys Kessler in upholding the Obamacare mandate in a suit brought by a group of private plaintiffs in Mead v. Holder (pg. 45, emphasis mine): As previous Commerce Clause cases have all involved...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 19, 2011 11 Comments
(K McCaffrey) — I’ve read two really fascinating articles in the past twenty-four hours. In Politico, Roger Simon delved into some interesting territory by discussing coverage of the Arizona shooter, Jared Loughner. In “Is Jared Loughner insane or just evil?” Simon looks at our modern...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 26, 2010 7 Comments
Today we’re running a guest column from Michael Alan, a freshman in Cornell’s school of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Michael is a contributor to the Cornell Review, and hails from Lewisburg, PA. The Albany Times-Union reported last week that the records from NY Governor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2010 14 Comments
I told you so, I told you so, I told you so. The worst aspect of Obamacare is that we have delegated enormous amounts of power through regulation to the Department of Health and Human Services.  Obamacare is the structure, but for every page there...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2010 12 Comments
We have returned to the pre-Clinton policy of leaving it up to the military as to whether and on what terms servicemen and servicewomen may openly acknowledge same sex sexual orientation.  Contrary to popular media hype, repeal of the law does not itself require the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2010 2 Comments
I have written several times before about the controversial nomination of John J. “Jack” McConnell, Jr. to an open federal court seat in Rhode Island.  It appears that Democrats will use the lame duck session to force through McConnell’s nomination, which has been stalled for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2010 7 Comments
We have to get to the bottom of this. There is no higher national purpose than to determine whether Sarah Palin rolled her eyes when a propester[*] carrying an anti-Palin banner asserted that she was a teacher. Via Andrew Sullivan and the other members of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2010 7 Comments
Harry Reid has a failed record on Iraq for which he never has been held accountable. Reid voted for the war, then falsely claimed he was misled, then tried to defund the war, then declared the war lost, and then stubbornly refused to acknowledge the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 08, 2010 8 Comments
Harry Reid’s campaign and the Nevada State Democratic Party appear to be playing games with federal campaign finance laws as to expenditures to maintain and promote the fake “TheRealSharronAngle.com” website. That fake website was launched by the Reid campaign, as a press release from the...
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