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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 10 Comments
You may remember that Amazon.com stopped doing business through “affiliates” (websites and blogs) in California, after the state passed a law requiring companies like Amazon to collect state sales taxes on purchases made through California affiliates. Amazon has settled with California and will resume its relationships, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 8 Comments
I’ll be watching the Massachusetts Senate Democratic Debate tonight at 7 p.m. because it will be the first appearance of Elizabeth Warren.  I haven’t decided what to do in the race, despite the overwhelming reader vote to support Brown, but I’ll be listening. The debate...

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 30, 2011 9 Comments
As Instapundit said, it’s  Brownshirts vs. Browncoats, as a University of Wisconsin professor displays a poster of an unapproved rebellious figure. ‘Firefly’ and Anti-Fascism Posters Get Professor Threatened with Criminal Charges on University of Wisconsin Campus MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 26, 2011—A professor has been censored twice,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2011 51 Comments
This is almost enough to cause me to rescind my Bye Bye Brown pronouncement, because Elizabeth Warren ascending to the Senate to replace Scott Brown would make Ted Kennedy seem like the good ol’ days. The progressives are in a lather about this video by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2011 7 Comments
So she writes another “Obama’s not all he was cracked up to be” column, and everyone is ready to stick a fork in him because MoDo says he’s done. Pahleeeese.  This is what MoDo does.  Two weeks after Republicans nominate someone for president, she’ll write...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2011 18 Comments
Via The Hill: The White House announced Friday that it is shelving a major planned Environmental Protection Agency regulation that would have tightened smog standards, dealing a huge blow to environmentalists that had pushed the Obama administration to resist industry pressure to abandon the regulation....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2011 7 Comments
As readers know, I’ve been blogging about the Recall (Robert) Wirch effort for several months, long before the national media paid attention to the fact that there were Democratic State Senators in Wisconsin subject to recall. Here are links to some (but not all) of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2011 22 Comments
The past several days have seen a feeding frenzy by the mainstream media and left-blogosphere trying to blame Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer for the murder of dozens of innocents in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik.  It was a horrific crime which deserves universal condemnation....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 1 Comment
Now I can’t say bumper stickers never taught me anything. I spotted this bumper sticker in Providence last night, near Thayer Street and Brown University: My first impression was that this was some sort of political statement, but thanks to the miracle of Google, I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2011 12 Comments
The Revolt of the Kulaks has come to California. Via Drudge, California’s attempt to tax internet sales has met with a reaction: Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law California’s tax on Internet sales through affiliate advertising which will immediately cut small-business website revenue 20% to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2011 13 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Some guy apparently was permitted by US Airways to board a plane wearing almost only women’s underwear (image here, put down uncovered drinks before viewing). I’m not sure...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2011 11 Comments
Just a quick follow up to my post Bye-Bye Brown. This analysis by Nate Silver of how Republicans may reach a “tipping point” on the Ryan budget as there begins a trickle of defections, and how damaging Scott Brown’s Politico op-ed was (emphasis mine):  More recently,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2011 7 Comments
Democrat Kathy Hochul won NY-26, a Republican District, in a special election yesterday, with 48 % of the vote.  Jane Corwin, the Republican received 42% and phony Tea Party candidate Jack Davis 9%.  These percentages may change as there are several thousand absentee ballots, but the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2011 5 Comments
Yawn.  Chuck “my flight attendant is a bitch and Scott Brown is an far-right teabagger” Schumer is threatening to use Newt’s criticism of Paul Ryan in the 2012 election cycle. That should make a big difference.  Just like this statement by a prominent Republican candidate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2011 23 Comments
The appetizer from someone of enormous intellect: “As president, Barack Obama would be a genuine uniter.” Now on to the main course: I noted yesterday, to the surprise of many readers, that Obama’s 60 Minutes appearance was his best yet, and that the bin Laden killing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2011 5 Comments
John J. “Jack” McConnell, Jr. was confirmed by the U.S. Senate yesterday after a struggle by Sen. Mitch McConnell and other Republican Senators to block the nomination by opposing an unexpected cloture petition filed by Harry Reid. A key group of Republican Senators, led by...
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