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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2011 32 Comments

Newt Gingrich wants to restore a balance between the branches of government, and address what a lot of people see as an imperial judiciary. His white paper lays out a variety of mechanisms, most of which are not controversial.  One in particular, that Congress should subpoena judges...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2011 18 Comments

How disgusting and politically corrupt is the Washington Post?  This disgusting and politically corrupt (h/t Ed Morrissey). WaPo runs this headline, FBI considered a sting aimed at Newt Gingrich in 1997, accompanied by an ominous super-close up of Gingrich: Sounds pretty bad.  Even if not charged, Newt must...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2011 40 Comments

John Hinderaker at Power Line writes the following about the departure of Herman Cain (bracketed "Points" mine): [Point 1] What happened to Herman Cain is what the Democrats intend to do to whoever the Republican nominee turns out to be.  They know they can’t win a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2011 8 Comments

Chris Cillizza's The Fix blog at The Washington Post presents itself as a political reporting blog, not an advocacy blog.  It purports to be journalism in a blog format. That distinction in the mainstream media, of course, really doesn't exist in the newsroom or the blog...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2011 19 Comments

Dr. Melissa Clouthier writing about An Indictment Of Right Leaning Journalism By Ben Domenech: Here’s the nutshell: The Left-leaning journalism investigates the right. The Right-leaning journalism provides commentary and (and Ben doesn’t say this, but I am) when they do rarely investigate, investigates the right after being...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 17, 2011 32 Comments

Newt Gingrich appeared on the Mark Levin Show last night to address a variety of issues.  Levin has been pretty harsh towards Newt at times in the past. Thanks to The Right Scoop for the audio: I find it very interesting that while Gingrich is more than willing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 16, 2011 19 Comments

The ABC News interview with Gabrielle Giffords was worth watching except for one moment, when ABC decided that it could not put on a widely-watched full hour program without smearing Sarah Palin by trying to connect Palin's electoral map to the Giffords shooting (via Newsbusters): I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 15, 2011 7 Comments

Best photo from the debates, at least so far, via Right Scoop: You know the rest of the story....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2011 23 Comments

Rick Perry has been right to do the talk show circuit in the wake of Wednesday's brain freeze, and he has been more impressive in the interviews I have seen in the last 24 hours than in any appearance since he announced in August.  Perhaps if Perry did...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2011 35 Comments

Just the stats: Days as of 8 p.m. Eastern today since Politico broke the story - 7 Politico news stories about or mentioning "Herman Cain": 138 Politico news stories about or mentioning "sexual harassment": 91 Politico news stories about or mentioning "sexual harassment" not involving Herman Cain: 0 Politico news stories...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 05, 2011 7 Comments

HillaryIs44 has a good post on the Obama-lovin' media and how it covers for Obama's campaign dirty tricks. The post is in response to this statement by Ben Smith at Politico: If the catchphrase weren’t already taken, you could call Barack Obama’s signature style of negative politics...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 03, 2011 49 Comments

which prove that George W. Bush lied about his military service. History No. 1:  Dan cannot let you see the documents which he obtained from an anonymous source he cannot reveal.  But the documents, in Dan's estimation, reflect "inappropriate" conduct the exact nature of which cannot...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 02, 2011 44 Comments

by the behavior of numerous "conservatives" and "libertarians" on Twitter dancing on Herman Cain's (presumed) political grave. Let's sum up the "facts" as they are known right now.  Mostly unnamed people accused Herman Cain of unspecified conduct which some people who will not specify the people or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2011 41 Comments

I'm finally back after a full day of travel, where I had to rely on CNN and MSNBC on the plane for coverage of the Politico story about Herman Cain. I can't really sort through all the details yet, too much has happened in the last...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2011 28 Comments

Never has there been a love as true or as blind as media Obamalove, as evidenced by this adoring puff piece written by Jonathan Alter for Bloomberg News, Obama Miracle is White House Free of Scandal: President Barack Obama goes into the 2012 with a weak economy that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2011 11 Comments

I will not repeat everything about how The Washington Post misstated Marco Rubio's record in order to portray Rubio as having misrepresented how his parents came to the U.S. and whether they were exiles. But true to form, WaPo not only is not backing down, it's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 26, 2011 5 Comments

The New York Times is shocked, just shocked to find that a New Poll Finds Deep Distrust of Government: With Election Day just over a year away, a deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest...

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