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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....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2011 18 Comments
Here we go, from Democratic House Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, writing at HuffPo (emphasis mine), who claims that the Obamacare repeal bill must be renamed in the wake for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting: As I write this, the motivation behind the shooting of my friend...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2010 32 Comments
Gloria Allred is doing more to drive illegal immigrants underground and to target Latinos for racial profiling than anything the State of Arizona has even thought of doing. Allred dropped a late-September surprise on Meg Whitman based on the allegation that Whitman did not do...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 33 Comments
The result of the injunction granted today by the federal court in Arizona preventing the key provisions of S.B. 1070 from taking effect is not just the maintenance of the status quo. At a legal level, it is true that nothing has changed. S.B. 1070...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2010 12 Comments
The latest meme being pushed is that Sarah Palin somehow, someway, compared Obama to Hitler. Think Progress started it off with: Palin encourages followers to read column warning that the BP escrow fund could lead to a Nazi-like dictatorship Greg Sargent at The Washington Post...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2010 3 Comments
Predictions sometimes do come true. Just not this time. Someone must be very disappointed. You know who you are. I bet you think this post is about you, don’t you, don’t you? Hispanic Voters’ Preferences Unchanged Post-Arizona Law Hispanic voters nationwide haven’t shifted their congressional...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2010 14 Comments
Gringomask.com appears to be a real, not spoof, website in protest against the Arizona immigration bill. (h/t) The site proposes that as a protest people wear a mask featuring a blond-haired white person’s face (image right). According to the website: The objective of this action...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 6 Comments
You can run, but it’s too late to hide anymore: President Barack Obama is trying to ride the wave of anti-incumbency by taking on an unpopular politician steeped in the partisan ways of Washington. It doesn’t matter that George W. Bush left office 16 months...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 4 Comments
There is a legal and political drama unfolding in Central Falls, Rhode Island, which has national implications for municipalities suffocating under union contracts and pension obligations, but which has received little attention outside Rhode Island. As I posted two days ago, the City of Central...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 3 Comments
Central Falls, a Rhode Island city which gained fame when it fired its entire High School teaching staff after unions refused concessions (the unions later agreed), now has filed for receivership, the state equivalent of bankruptcy: A Rhode Island city facing a severe financial crisis...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2010 5 Comments
Apparently, it constitutes race baiting to mention Al Sharpton when criticizing the boycott of Arizona, according to Kevin Johnson, at ImmigrationProf Blog: The Securetheborder.org website mentioned in Palin’s message includes the following “defense” of Arizona: “instead of taking action to help, the state has come...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2010 14 Comments
Remember when Democrats fell all over themselves trying to prove that Obamacare would not cover illegal aliens? When Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” about coverage for illegal aliens, Obama and Democratic leaders assured the nation that illegal aliens would be excluded. Under the final Senate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2010 21 Comments
It is over-the-top and out-of-control when it comes to the Arizona immigration bill recently signed. Not the law itself, but the reaction. Linda Greenhouse’s opinion piece in The NY Times epitomizes the absurd rhetoric (emphasis mine): I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon. Because...
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