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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2012 50 Comments

Being the mainstream media means making birth control an election issue, then wondering aloud why birth control is an election issue. Disingenuous Tweet of the Day: The tweet links to an article titled Birth control as election issue? Why? The issue of birth control has suddenly become an obsession...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 45 Comments

When Foster Friess, a funder of a pro-Santorum SuperPAC, made a joke about birth control in the old days (that women kept an aspirin between their knees, meaning they kept their legs closed and were not promiscuous), there was outrage (on the internet pronounced OUTRAGE)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2012 62 Comments

Interesting theory from Steve Kates at the Catallaxy Files ("Australia's leading libertarian and centre-right blog") that Obama does not want to run against Romney and that exciting the religious base in the Republican Party decreases Romney's chances. I'm not sure I agree with what amounts to a double-manipulation...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2012 41 Comments

Dick Morris appeared on Hannity  last night  (h/t @TheAnchoress) and made a connection between the January New Hampshire debate and Obama rolling out the contraception issue: If only I had thought of that earlier in the day and pushed the issue into the media with the help of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2012 74 Comments

We are at the mercy of misleading statistics which nonetheless form the media narrative. I posted earlier today about workers leaving the workforce in droves, which drives down the nominal unemployment rate and renders it a misleading statistic.  Yet the details are the details, and the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2012 48 Comments

Mitt Romney had an interview this morning in which he said the following: Romney says, "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair , I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2012 25 Comments

Be careful, very careful, about embracing anything Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart or Saturday Night Live or any of the other liberal entertainment media types do. Sometimes it is very, very funny.  Stewart in particular is an equal opportunity mocker, and seems the least malicious of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2012 43 Comments

Last night ABC News aired the much ballyhooed interview with Marianne Gingrich, Newt's ex-wife. The ballyhoo was not warranted.  The "interview" was not so much an interview as an 8-minute ABC News attempt to portray Newt in an unfavorable light interspersed with very short clips of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2012 22 Comments

This is from the "you can't make this stuff up" files Analysis from Small Dead Animals, The Other McCain, and Ace of Spades HQ: The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2012 35 Comments

Today is the anniversary of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of several others, including a federal judge and a young girl, by Jared Loughner. The victims appropriately will be remembered. Further investigation revealed that Loughner lived in a non-political paranoid delusional world, and to the extent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2012 29 Comments

One of the biggest applause lines of the night was when Newt Gingrich, responding to a long (and embarrassing for the moderators) line of questions trying to pin candidates down on gay marriage, contraception and gay adoption, responded as follows: Newt's response engendered praise even from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 02, 2012 67 Comments

This is lighting up Twitter.  Colmes also uses the incident in a blog post today, linking to this 2005 WaPo article: In his Senate office, on a shelf next to an autographed baseball, Sen. Rick Santorum keeps a framed photo of his son Gabriel Michael, the fourth of...

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

They love him so much but he doesn't love them back.  And it hurts. They know it is not healthy.  Some would call it abusive, a syndrome even.  They blame themselves; if only they had not talked back, if only ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2011 30 Comments

Why do Republican politicians go on Letterman?  I know it's good exposure, but it's exposure that always comes with a price. Letterman always makes the Republican look bad and weak.  I said it when Rick Perry went on Letterman, but at least in that circumstance Perry...

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...

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