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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2009 8 Comments

South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson called Barack Obama a liar for claiming that Obama's health reform proposals do not apply to illegal aliens.As I pointed out before, whether Wilson or Obama is right on the subject depends upon which health care bill one looks...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2009 4 Comments

To read the left-wing blogosphere and mainstream media, one would think that the American people were victims of a vast right-wing conspiracy. As if the critics of creeping government control of the health care and economic systems somehow were misleading an otherwise liberal population into...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2009 6 Comments

At his Liberaland blog, Alan Colmes of the hated Fox Network asks: Van Jones Resigns; Who Will They Go After Next?Good question, but it depends on what the meaning of "they" is. According to Keith Olbermann and Gene Robinson, the next White House official to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2009 2 Comments

I made the classic blogger's mistake of getting a full night's sleep last night, rather than checking the internet every hour.When I awoke, every single blog I know had a post about how Van Jones had resigned sometime just before or after the stroke of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2009 9 Comments

A lot of people are asking "who vetted Van Jones?" or wondering how the Obama administration could have missed the problems. These are valid questions, but they miss the point.Van Jones is a mainstream member of the left-wing of the Democratic Party. Like over half...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2009 7 Comments

MSNBC just cannot stop covering and cheering for the Obama administration. Either they don't understand their own news biases, or they don't care, or both. This blog post by several of MSNBC's news staff, including reporter Chuck Todd, says it all:*** Remind us again how...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2009 5 Comments

The "I'm not a doctor, I just play one on TV" analogy moved into the political sphere long ago, most recently when a faux doctor appeared at a town hall run by Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.Now we have something of a reverse analogy, someone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2009 2 Comments

Greg Sargent at The Plum Line blog notes that the Obama campaign apparatus, Organizing for America, has upped its attacks on the media:This has to be the Obama camp’s most direct and premeditated shot at the media yet: His outside political operation just blasted an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2009 3 Comments

The media and left-wing blogosphere are in a tizzy because Virginia Republican candidate for Governor Robert F. McDonnell took negative positions on gay-rights and other topics in a university thesis 20 years ago. McDonnell now disavows those views, saying his views have changed over time,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2009 6 Comments

Barack Obama is on vacation. That's fine. It's a high-pressure job, and a little relaxation is a good thing. But White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton is not doing such a great job substituting for Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.In defending Obama's plans for a...

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 0 Comments

Steve Benen at Washington Monthly's Political Animal blog complains that conservatives are working off some pre-determined script as to Ted Kennedy's death:"It looks like word went out yesterday about what leading conservative voices should say about Ted Kennedy's death: complain about the memorial service that...

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 25, 2009 3 Comments

Widespread abuse has been alleged, including one incident when they threatened a detainee "with a chainsaw as his autistic daughter looked on," another where they used cattle prods on detainees' genitals, another where they put a gun against a detainee's head, another where they slammed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2009 7 Comments

NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd criticized Sarah Palin for using Facebook to write about Obama's health care plans:She took a forum, Facebook, more commonly used by kids hooking up and cyberstalking, and with one catchy phrase, several footnotes and a zesty disregard for facts, managed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2009 4 Comments

An article in the NY Times, Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security, deserves a special place in the annals of journalism in the service of liberal politics. The thrust of the article is that global climate change "could" cause massive geopolitical disruption in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2009 5 Comments

Washington Post business hysteria-generating columnist Steven Pearlstein has declared that opponents of Democratic health care restructuring are "political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems." Oh, okay, next time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2009 5 Comments

Snooze. Phillip Kennicott at The Washington Post engages in detailed analysis and comparison of Joker posters picturing Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Barack Obama. The analysis is contrived in the extreme and worthy of the worst Kremlinologists, who extrapolated the Soviet power structure by watching...

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