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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2010 26 Comments

Reports are that Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) will not be running for reelection.Everyone is wondering why. If I weren't such a humble person, I might suggest the following:Now what do I do?Update: Upside of Patrick leaving so soon, I got an Instalanche out of it. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2010 34 Comments

As readers of this blog already know, I am cursed with two of the looniest Congressmen in existence, Patrick Kennedy in my home state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and Maurice Hinchey in Ithaca, NY, where I live during the academic year.In the wake...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2010 12 Comments

Martha Coakley's slap-shots fired at Fenway Park fans and devout Catholics, her vacation in the middle of a special election, her refusal to debate one-on-one, her D.C. lobbyist fundraiser, and her denial that she witnessed the subsequent assault on a reporter, all have people bewildered...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2010 9 Comments

A just released poll by Suffolk University shows Scott Brown leading by 4 points, what the pollster calls a "Brown Out":Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2010 12 Comments

"With all due respect. It's not the Kennedy seat, and it's not the Democrats' seat. It's the People's seat."[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJEEQHOnI2Q]--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2010 1 Comment

No surprise here. When the Massachusetts legislature passed a law, at the request of a dying Ted Kennedy, to allow the Governor to appoint an interim successor, a key justification was that the interim appointee not only would not run for office but also would...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2010 3 Comments

From CQ Politics blog:The Coakley campaign announced in a release that Kennedy's widow, Vicki, nephew Joe Kennedy, a former Massachusetts congressman, and great nephew Joe Kennedy III will endorse the Democratic nominee tomorrow in an event in Medford, Mass.Interim Senate appointee Paul Kirk, a close...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2009 3 Comments

TMZ has a flock-full of egg on its face today, as its monster break-through of the year -- the infamous JFK Photo that could have changed the world -- turned out to be a hoax.The photo (right), purportedly from the 1950s showing JFK on a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2009 10 Comments

Maurice Hinchey is the Congressman whose district includes Ithaca, NY, where I live during the school year. Hinchey is as "out there" as they come.Hinchey led an effort to impeach George W. Bush in the Summer of 2008, when Bush was just a few months...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 27, 2009 2 Comments

Or so it seems. Democratic Representative Mike Capuano is running in the Democratic special primary for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. While running against numerous other high-profile Democrats, such as Attorney General Martha Coakley, Capuano has put Dick Cheney at the center of his campaign strategy.In...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2009 7 Comments

Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) made news this week by joining the chorus of fear-mongering Democrats who suggest that those opposing Democratic health care restructuring proposals are prone to violence. As reported The Providence Journal:“My family’s seen it up close too much with assassinations and violence in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2009 3 Comments

Almost forgot that Bill Ayers glorified the killer of Robert Kennedy, but thanks to a commenter at Tim Blair's blog, it's time to remember:“Is now the time to remind everyone,” emails KP, “that Obama’s babysitters Ayers and Dohrn dedicated their communist manifesto to Robert Kennedy’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2009 3 Comments

CNN and MSNBC have been covering the Ted Kennedy death virtually non-stop. But it's not working out so well, per L.A. Times:Fox News maintained its top ranking among the cable news channels Wednesday as its competitors turned most of their coverage over to the death...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2009 6 Comments

Four years ago, someone published photos of a guy dancing on Ronald Reagan's grave. The photos were posted also at the "Princess Sparkle" blog, with this commentary:I've never met the sassy youngster in the above photos, but he's a Pony Pal™ by default. What's he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2009 7 Comments

As of August 24, 2009, the two Democratic draft health care restructuring bills were horrible monstrosities which contained a myriad of pernicious tax and other provisions which put at risk the well-being of hundreds of millions of Americans while doing precious little to help the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2009 47 Comments

How to react to Ted Kennedy's death? There certainly is an initial inclination to react the way so many left-wing blogs reacted to the death of Robert Novak, such as this post at the prominent Crooks and Liars:Novak will perhaps be best remembered -- if...

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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