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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2012 108 Comments
The latest wildfire spreading through the media and blogosphere is that armed neo-Nazis are patrolling Sanford, FL, in anticipation of trouble if George Zimmerman is not charged in the killing of Trayvon Martin.  In what has become a prime example of media malpractice, none of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2012 16 Comments
Operation Counterweight is just taking shape for 2012.  Redistricting has slowed down my process of identifying House races. But in the Senate, I’m focused on Richard Mourdock’s primary challenge to Dick Lugar, and Barry Hinckley’s general election challenge to Sheldon Whitehouse. As you know, the theory...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2012 17 Comments
Via Columbus (OH) Dispatch: Three bank robberies are the crime of the week in the Crime Stoppers program. In all three cases, the robber wore a baseball cap and a hoodie and gave the teller a note demanding money. He was described as white, in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2012 22 Comments
Sign of trouble No. 1:  Warren is running to the left of Obama on gay marriage and portraying herself as heroic, apparently, per Greg Sargent (via Instapundit): In an interesting move, Elizabeth Warren comes out and calls on the leader of the Democratic Party to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2012 23 Comments
As I have said before, they don’t really want to Coexist. And at this point, I’m not sure I want to, either. From reader Brownyn, who has had prior experience with the coexisters: Saw this car as we pulled onto our street here in Tustin,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2012 2 Comments
One of my focus races is the attempt by Republican Brendan Doherty to unseat Democrat David Cicilline in RI-01, my home district. Cicilline is very unpopular due to the mess he left behind when he was the Mayor of Providence.  While Cicilline was able to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 36 Comments
An article at Boston Catholic Insider asserts that Mitt Romney lied during the Arizona debate about forcing Catholic Hospitals to provide the “morning after” pill to rape victims. Here’s the debate passage (via Right Scoop): KING (Moderator): Governor Romney, both Senator Santorum and Speaker Gingrich...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 24 Comments
I bet the reaction would be quite different if NY Times columnist Charles M. Blow mocked religious Jewish undergarments the way he mocked religious Mormon undergarments in this tweet (h/t Jim Geraghty): But then again, he’s a NY Times columnist with a long history of foul hyperbole directed at the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 12 Comments
Republicans can learn something from Rhode Island about standing up for taxpayers as a winning political strategy. I have written many time before about the efforts of Democratic Mayor of Providence Angel Taveras, who has taken on school teacher unions and other public sector employees...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2012 19 Comments
The City of Providence, in my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is in dire financial trouble, as I have posted here many times before. The City, with its large tax-exempt university base and decades-long history of lush public sector benefits, has struggled...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2012 82 Comments
More to follow. The decision is embedded below. The Court essentially used a bootstrap argument — that since there was a prior right to samesex marriage (based on a California Supreme Court decision which gave rise to Prop. 8 ) — the taking away of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2012 16 Comments
Tomorrow will be a big legal day, as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has pre-announced that it will release its decision in the Prop. 8 – California same-sex marriage case: The Court anticipates filing an opinion tomorrow (Tuesday, February 7) by 10:00 a.m. in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2012 43 Comments
Last night ABC News aired the much ballyhooed interview with Marianne Gingrich, Newt’s ex-wife. The ballyhoo was not warranted.  The “interview” was not so much an interview as an 8-minute ABC News attempt to portray Newt in an unfavorable light interspersed with very short clips...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2012 40 Comments
There’s more to the story than you are hearing in the media.  Marianne Gingrich is no innocent, and she was the one who broke the marriage and cleaned out the house, via Robert Costa via AP report from 1999 (h/t Burke): Documents related to the divorce filed Friday in Cobb...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2012 42 Comments
Links I’ve collected today but could not squeeze in: Obama not happy with the alleged Israeli hit on the Iranian nuke scientist, via Arutz Sheva and Commentary.  In other news, Bibi is quite happy with the U.S. hit on Osama and other al-qaeda types. Conservatives...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2012 38 Comments
in politics and elsewhere, here’s some things: Be sure to check out the blog troll argument.  I think I got someone’s attention. Todd Palin endorses Newt.  I think this helps with Tea Party groups in the south, probably not much in NH.  Will Sarah endorse...
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