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NY Times’ poster child for #OccupyWallStreet not what he seems (Update: Cole responds)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 32 Comments

The NY Times Dealbook section takes a very sympathetic look at the Occupy Wall Street protests, On Wall Street, a Protest Matures. The article leads with a feature on Andrew Cole, who arrived from Madison, Wisconsin (shock!) where he recently lost a job: “I think a...

Sorry Ted, you can’t “talk our President down off of this rhetoric”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2011 15 Comments

Self-made millonaire or billionaire, and now most hated person at Firedoglake, Ted Leonsis wants Obama to stop with the class warfare: Someone needs to talk our President down off of this rhetoric about good vs. evil; about two classes and math. Our country was founded on...

Republican / Tea Party Florida Debate (Added: End Game Probing Analysis

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2011 55 Comments

Will not be “live blogging” it, but will have some observations. Feel free to comment. At the 8:30 break: Great line by Newt, Obama scares seniors every day. He made a strong substantive point, which is that why should be have to live in a...

Jet propelled back home

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 06, 2011 10 Comments

from overseas to the U.S.A. Good afternoon, all! I’m back from my summer at The Wall Street Journal Europe where I interned as a Bartley Fellow. I’m now in my senior year at Cornell & I will try to post here as much as I can...

Wisconsin Recall Results // Update – Dems hold both seats

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2011 49 Comments

Post-mortem — No excuses or hand holding. Bad News: Dems held both their seats, and Republicans hold the Senate by only one seat. Good News: Republicans hold the Governorship, Senate and Assembly, and the big things have been done, including the collective bargaining law, the budget...

Countdown to the debt deal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 8 Comments

Speculation abounds, from The NY Times on down (or is it, on up?): The Obama administration has informed Democratic Congressional leaders that President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner were starting to close in on a major budget deal that would enact substantial spending cuts...

Postal Workers Union: We’re not like those other public sector unions

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 14, 2011 19 Comments

I just saw this advertisement on television and thought it was interesting that the American Postal Workers Union felt the need to take to the airwaves to tell people that it’s not like those other public sector unions. I think this says a lot about...

If Even Ben Bernanke’s Not On Your Side, You Know You’re Spending Too Much . . .

Posted by Michael Alan on June 23, 2011 2 Comments

While I’m certainly not a fan, especially of his policies like the finally ending QE2, I was pleasantly surprised to see Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke offer up a sliver of straight talk on President Obama’s record breaking deficits earlier this week. Prodded to respond to...

A Case for Rick Perry

Posted by Katie Thompson on June 21, 2011 72 Comments

The pool of Republican candidates just keeps growing, and voters are beginning to vet stances and pick sides. In an economy burdened by a $14.4 trillion debt and over 9% unemployment, Americans want someone new at the helm who can turn this sinking ship around....

So Now All These People Will Apologize To Sarah Palin About Margaret Thatcher, Right?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2011 29 Comments

A week ago The Guardian reported that Margaret Thatcher was refusing to meet with Sarah Palin, attributing a quote to an “ally” of Thatcher as follows: Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts. The...

Kloppenburg Had No There There

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 01, 2011 8 Comments

Despite weeks of her campaign suggesting that “ballot bag security” issues tainted the election, JoAnne Kloppenburg decided not to pursue a court challenge. As described here many times, the ballot bag security issue never raised any serious concerns about either election fraud or mishandling of ballots. ...

Irony Meter Explodes As Jewish Voice For Peace et al. Stage Al-Nakba Day Protest Against The Museum of Tolerance

Posted by Matthew Knee on May 16, 2011 11 Comments

by Matthew Knee Sunday was Al-Nakba (“The Catastrophe”) Day, and it’s not just Arabs who are upset. Al-Nakba Day commemorates the defeat of the Arab armies in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, when, rather than accept a two state solution, they decided to try...

Sheldon Whitehouse Steamrolls Republican Caucus – Jack McConnell Survives Cloture Vote

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2011 13 Comments

Sheldon Whitehouse has steamrolled over the Republican caucus, and his nominee for the Rhode Island federal District Court, John J. “Jack” McConnell, Jr., will get a floor vote which Democrats have the votes to win. The final vote was 63-33 (with one “present”). By my...

Moi?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2011 8 Comments

I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest speaker at the Independent Media class taught by Jeff Cohen at Ithaca College. One of the students posted about it: “My independent media professor invited William A. Jacobson, creator of conservative blog “Legal Insurrection,” to our class...

Enough Signatures For Recall of Sen. Robert Wirch (D-22) In Wisconsin

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2011 14 Comments

I don’t know if this is a sign that perhaps all the noise and fury from the Democrats and unions in Wisconsin does not reflect reality, but it is worth noting that Republicans have collected enough signatures to force a recall election in Senate District 22,...

The Review has a banner week

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 01, 2011 0 Comments

Kathleen The Cornell Review began the week after Spring Break with esteemed Cornell alum, Keith Olbermann, stomping on a copy of February’s publication and calling most conservatives stupid. So while the week started rough, today the Review team distributed a parody of our resident lefty-newspaper,...

Prayer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2011 6 Comments

Via Israel Matzav, a translation of the Hebrew prayer hung above the bed of 11-year old Yoav Fogel, murdered in his bed by an intruder who also killed several members of his family, including his baby sister, as they slept: “May it be Your will, L-rd G-d...

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