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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 11, 2011 13 Comments
A few weeks ago, when the protests in Madison were still raging, it appeared that Justice David Prosser would go down to defeat by at least several percentage points, and the recall efforts seemed lopsided against Republican Senators.  I urged readers to get involved because we could not...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 08, 2011 5 Comments
Kathleen … and Barack Obama set the date. Today the Fed’l gov’t will shut down operations at midnight unless Reid, Boehner, & Obama come to agreement on the budget by the end of the day. The Dems have done a great job of claiming that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2011 6 Comments
Notice how Democrats have been talking lately about how Republicans in Congress are held hostage by Tea Party-backed new members?  And how for years Democrats have made sure to use the term “extremist” when referring to Tea Parties? It’s a pre-planned line of attack by...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 22, 2011 5 Comments
In the past two weeks or so, everyone has been discussing the tragedy in Japan. In addition to the death toll, news headlines have been relentlessly speculating the impact of the Fukushima reactors. Matthew Shaffer’s latest piece in NRO helps amalgamate some of the best...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2011 13 Comments
It is not surprising that there would be an enthusiasm gap in Wisconsin, with the national unions pouring substantial funds and efforts into recalling Republican Senators and eventually Gov. Scott Walker.  The efforts are not only monetary, but also through physical and other intimidation, such...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2011 9 Comments
My home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is as blue a state as they come.  Our entire congressional delegation is Democratic and Democrats control the state legistature.  Democrats outnumber Republicans by 37%, the highest gap in any state (only the District of Columbia has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2011 8 Comments
Democrat David Cicilline was Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, for 8 years, replacing the colorful and convicted Mayor Buddy Cianci.  Cicilline was elected in November to Congress in Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District (my home district), for the open seat vacated by Patrick Kennedy. Cicilline is an openly gay...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2011 3 Comments
Providence, Rhode Island, where I used to work and near where I now live, is a wonderful city.  The always colorful Buddy Cianci took a down-on-its-luck former industrial blight and turned it into the crown jewel not only of Rhode Island, but of the Northeast. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2011 18 Comments
The decision by the the Department of Justice to refuse to defend the Defense of Marriage Act is a massive power grab by the Executive Branch. The Justice Department is tasked with representing the “government” is the broad sense in legal matters coming before the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2011 14 Comments
To its credit, The New York Times ran the video produced by the Wisconsin Republican Party of signs carried by union protesters against the Governor of Wisconsin (featured in my post here), under the headline Republicans Accuse Liberals of Hateful Rhetoric in Wisconsin: The Republican Party of Wisconsin...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 11 Comments
The Democratic war room is back in action, and it is aimed at Darrell Issa, the California Republican Congressman who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. As reported by Politico, there is an almost unprecedented effort by Democrats to undermine Issa not for anything...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2011 24 Comments
They just can’t let go of the issues of where Obama was born or his religion. Not Obama’s opponents, but his political and media supporters, who insist on a political purity test from Republicans, and who use the “refused to repudiate” line of attack on all...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2011 25 Comments
As you know, I’ve expressed my doubts about Politico.  But the reality is that Politico is one of the major internet news sources and will be for the foreseeable future. While my prior criticisms applied to Politico’s news operations, I also was frustrated that whenever...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2011 13 Comments
Keith Olbermann is out at MSNBC according to a press release issued by MSNBC: STATEMENT REGARDING KEITH OLBERMANN MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. The last broadcast of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2011 1 Comment
In a fundraising e-mail supporting Martha Coakley in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Ted Kennedy, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) referred to then-candidate, now-Senator Scott Brown, as a “far-right tea-bagger.” At the time Schumer made the comment, everyone knew what “teabagger” meant...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2011 72 Comments
The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of several people by gunman Jared Loughner in Arizona yesterday has revealed two sicknesses. The first and most serious is the sickness living in Loughner’s head.  Evidence in the form of farewell videos, internet postings, and...
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