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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2010 1 Comment
Welcome back from the July 4 vacation week. Now that you are back at work, you can take time off to catch up on the Harry Reid-a-thon which took place here: Sharron Angle Cannot Win – Just Like Scott Brown Reid Supporters Play The Rape...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2010 5 Comments
We have seen this tactic before. Last January, Democrats in Massachusetts sent out a mailer accusing Scott Brown of wanting to deny medical care to rape victims, because he had introduced state legislation providing health care providers with a religious conscience exemption to providing abortion-related services,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2010 4 Comments
Markos Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos, has accused Research 2000 of defrauding Daily Kos in conducting research polling. The accusation is about as inflammatory as one can get. For professional pollsters, a reputation for fairness and accuracy is everything. The damage to Research 2000...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 23, 2010 6 Comments
Every few days we are seeing some accusation made by Harry Reid’s campaign operatives which makes its way into the blogosphere and mainstream media. Today the meme is that Sharron Angle is refusing to state her position on Obama’s citizenship. Once again, the lead is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2010 9 Comments
The spinning for Harry Reid is in full throttle. The meme is changing — according to Democratic insiders! — from one of doomed Harry Reid to Harry Reid the survivor: There’s no denying that Reid still trails in most polls and that his approval ratings...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2010 2 Comments
While Bill Halter’s failed attempt to unseat Blanche Lincoln understandably has received all the media attention, there is a congressional race in Massachusetts in which labor is trying to unseat a politically incorrect (i.e., not sufficiently liberal) Democratic incumbent. Steve Lynch is a Democrat in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2010 7 Comments
I’ve found it. The 2010 race about which I can get motivated the way I was motivated by Scott Brown v. Martha Coakley. There are plenty of choices out there, and I’ll likely add more to my focus, but I’ve found The Race. It’s not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2010 6 Comments
Greg Sargent of The Plum Line blog now blogs under the banner of The Washington Post, a recognition of his status as one of the premier, and normally more reasonable, left-wing bloggers. Yet it appears that Sargent, while far less vitriolic than many of his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2010 4 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Hey, did you hear the one where Bill O’Reilly called a black professor a drug dealer? What a racist. At least that is what Gawker wanted you to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 3 Comments
From the day Barack Obama took office, the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress have been obsessed and possessed. Everything took a back seat to passing Obamacare. And other transformative legislation and regulations intended to turn us into the failing West European economic model. Because...

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 21, 2010 18 Comments
I’m glad I spent most of yesterday traveling, so that I missed much of the blogospheric tsunami regarding Rand Paul’s libertarian views on the virtue of the federal government banning racial discrimination in private businesses. Where I come down on the issue is that the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2010 10 Comments
The evidence mounts of bungled permitting, delays in response, and understating the impact: U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits – “Those approvals, federal records show, include one for the well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded on April 20, killing 11...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2010 2 Comments
So says Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (remember her?), regarding the arrests in Boston of possible Times Square bombing suspects on immigration charges. As reported by Where Are My Keys blog, via Howie Carr: The question at the press conference at the State House yesterday...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2010 8 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Charles Blow, the NY Times’ once-a-week “visual Op-Ed columnist,” is out to make a name for himself. Much like Frank Rich, who jumped from theater critic to political...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 3 Comments
Not who you think, although there could be more than one. ”I believe Gordon Brown has been the worst prime minister we have had in this country. ”It is a disgrace and he owes an apology to the people and the Queen.” As stated by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2010 7 Comments
Gordon Brown is feeling the wrath of the little and not so little people in Britain, after he called Gillian Duffy a “bigot.” Now things seem to be spinning out of control, as even a Dean at Oxford University has heckled Brown for making the...
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