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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2011 13 Comments
Some of these may turn into full posts at some time, but for today, just snippets: Richard Lugar, facing conservative challenger Richard Mourdock, is resurrecting the false meme that the Tea Party cost Republicans control of the Senate in 2010.  Au contraire, Carley Fiorina (CA), Dino...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2011 8 Comments
So reports The Providence Journal regarding the nomination of John J. “Jack” McConnell, Jr. for an open seat on the Rhode Island federal District Court. The reason this has become a “war” is that Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has threatened to block future nominees under Republican presidents,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2010 2 Comments
I saw this coming. A couple of weeks after her Nevada Senate primary victory, Sharron Angle appeared on journalist John Ralston’s television show.  Ralston apparently is one of the most prominent political reporters in Nevada. At the time, this was my first introduction to Ralston.  Here was how...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2010 5 Comments
Trust me, I’m not counting my chickens before they have come home to roost.  But it is enjoyable to read the distraught comments from those trying to run away from the wave. The “wave” is the most recent Gallup poll showing a 10 point generic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2010 5 Comments
Jon Ralston, a Nevada journalist, has announced the death of Sharron Angle’s campaign. Do not believe it. Not for a second. I don’t know Ralston, other than watching him interview Angle and Harry Reid. My impression is that he is very keyed into Nevada politics,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 4 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Joan Walsh at Salon.com sought to atone for her prior use of the race card, in this observation (h/t James Taranto) in this column, Asking the wrong question...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2009 1 Comment
Media Matters is watching everything that FoxNews, and conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, say or do waiting to pounce on any sentence, or clause in a sentence, or word in a clause, which can be twisted out of context and blown up into a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2009 6 Comments
Bruni de la Motte explains in The Guardian why East Germans were better off before the Berlin Wall fell: On 9 November 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down I realised German unification would soon follow, which it did a year later. This meant the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2009 21 Comments
With each passing day, I am becoming more and more convinced that the Obama administration’s sustained and crude attacks on Fox News are a big diversion. Sure, the attacks on Fox News are unprecedented in the post-Nixon era. Barack Milhous Obama may not be change...
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