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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2010 18 Comments
Good news. The NY Times is reporting that the second in command of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Baradar, has been captured in Pakistan. The capture was undertaken by the Pakistanis with help from the CIA: Details of the raid remain murky, but officials said that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 41 Comments
Writing-on-hand-gate reminds me of one of the reasons Sarah Palin was put on this earth: To bring out and expose the worst misogynistic impulses in the hard core of the Democratic base. I’m not talking about criticism or mockery of the handwritten notes. That’s fair...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 7 Comments
The conspiracy to undermine the Constitution has taken an interesting turn. A career prosecutor at the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has determined that John Yoo and Jay Bybee did not violate their professional obligations in analyzing whether certain enhanced interrogation techniques constituted...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2010 2 Comments
Martha Coakley refuses to debate Scott Brown one-on-one. Coakley is the front-runner with better name recognition, so she has much to lose from debating Brown one-on-one. But Coakley has even more to lose from not having the courage to take on Brown. Put together with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 02, 2010 11 Comments
Unlike the plurality of Democrats who as recently as 2007 believed George W. Bush knew of the 9/11 attacks in advance, there is no traction among conservatives for the theory that Barack Obama or his administration had actual knowledge of the Undie-bomber plot beforehand. But...

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 18, 2009 3 Comments
The Newsweek cover of Sarah Palin in fitness clothing is becoming the teachable moment of the year. Because liberal women are beginning — just beginning — to acknowledge that liberals of both genders are so driven by hatred of Sarah Palin that their worst instincts...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2009 4 Comments
TBogg, who blogs at Firedoglake, doesn’t want to miss an excuse to take a dig at Trig Palin, Sarah Palin’s son who was born with Down Syndrome. The excuse this time is the Newsweek cover showing what even Media Matters calls a sexist portrayal of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2009 8 Comments
Will Newsweek ever stop trying to get attention by declaring things coming to an end? First it was the end of Christian America. Then the end of the recession. Now the end of monogamy as the basis for socially acceptable relationships, in a lead article...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2009 25 Comments
Liberal bloggers and media groups can’t get the Tea Party phenomenon out of their heads. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, to them. Ordinary people getting together to protest against the liberal establishment. There is a cognitive disconnect. There must be a plot; the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2009 7 Comments
The dispute regarding the appointment of Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, to the top legal position at the State Department is heating up with the announcement that a coalition of conservative activists is beginning to form around opposition to Harold Koh, President Obama’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2009 12 Comments
Posted April 8, 2009 Newsweek magazine’s cover proclaims The Decline and Fall of Christian America, while the article inside the cover proclaims The End of Christian America. The substance of the article doesn’t really prove the headline, but the goal of whichever editor wrote the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2009 6 Comments
Controversy is swirling around the appointment of Yale Law School Professor and Dean Harold Koh to the position of State Department Legal Advisor, essentially the top lawyer at State. Koh is being portrayed as willing to apply Sharia law in some circumstances, as is happening...
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