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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2012 7 Comments
Song of the Day (via Quiznilo in the Tip Line) Another catchy tune. Image of the Day (via Browndog in the comments) Don’t believe the liberal media of the day. Yes, it it possible to go too far on the internet. Tax Day of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 9 Comments
My wife and I were talking about him not long ago.  For each of us, his disappearance left an indelible mark.  Whenever there was a report of a missing child, we inevitably said, I wonder what happened to Etan Patz. video platform video management video solutions...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 29 Comments
I’d rather sit in the dark. That’s my sense of today: Secret Service agent scandal gets worse with allegations of cocaine use, and here is a headline which tells us this drama will play out for a while: Escort Recounts Quarrel With Secret Service Agent. Image...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 26 Comments
you know the Democratic Party has a problem. From his going away interview (almost) in New York Magazine (italics added)(h/t @ByronYork): You think Obama overinterpreted his mandate with health care? The problem with health care is this: Health care is enormously important to people. When you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 38 Comments
A reader writes: Not sure if you have something planned for tax day, but thought you’d like a little perspective from the private sector. If you do use it, please hold back our names – a few of my clients are liberals! The joys of being a...

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...
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