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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2009 14 Comments

Bill Maher has attacked Michelle Malkin for her new book, Culture of Corruption, in typical Maher fashion. Ignore the substance to prove a political point.What was amazing, was that Maher did it while seated next to Rachel Maddow. Why mock a book when you have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2009 15 Comments

Democrats are tripping over the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii and that there is a cover-up by Hawaiian state officials, among others, who falsely have issued a "certificate of live birth." On the one hand, Democrats and supportive blogs push...

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 captioned:Only...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2009 28 Comments

I have not devoted much attention to the Barack Obama "Birth Certificate" conspiracy theories, because I have been bogged down debunking so many other conspiracy theories, like Andrew Sullivan's Trig Palin birth conspiracy theory and the recent theory that the Bush administration "concealed" evidence as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2009 2 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2009 15 Comments

The global warming debate has entered the conspiracy-theory phase with this hysterical article at The Guardian: Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide.Contrary to what the global-warming alarmists claim, however, there is scientific dispute over ice measurements.What is not lacking, however,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 24, 2009 2 Comments

Leave it to The NY Times to create a faux historical context to absolve Barack Obama of criticism over Obama's statement that the Cambridge Police acted "stupidly" with regard to the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.What faux historical context, you ask? The Times compares...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 23, 2009 2 Comments

Lynn Sweet is from Chicago, where Barack Obama launched and refined his community activist/politician credentials. Sweet writes and blogs for the Chicago Sun-Times, and is one of my favorite columnists/bloggers.When Sweet asked the now-famous question to Barack Obama last night about the arrest of Henry...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2009 3 Comments

Every now and then, David Brooks makes sense. Today is one of those days, in his column at the NY Times, Liberal Suicide Watch:It’s not that interesting to watch the Democrats lose touch with America. That’s because the plotline is exactly the same. The party...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2009 1 Comment

This video has been active on the internet because the head of the National Black Chamber of Commerce took offense to Barbara Boxer's condescending attitudeBut at least Boxer held her temper, even though the witness repeatedly called her "ma'am," in contrast to when Boxer chewed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2009 1 Comment

The title of today's NY Times article on Sarah Palin could have been titled "Palin Missed Briefing, Caused Swine Flu." But it wasn't. Instead The Times titled the article Palin’s Long March to a Short-Notice Resignation.Not much new in the article, except this:In mid-spring, as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2009 6 Comments

NY Times columnist Judith Warner writes today about "the fact that our country’s resentment, and even hatred, of well-educated, apparently affluent women is spiraling out of control." Her proof? A college professor is being charged with child endangerment for dropping three young children (ages 3,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 08, 2009 11 Comments

As I posted previously, Reuters ran a staged photo of a bloodied Honduran protester (upper right). Contrary to the clear implication of the Reuters story, the protester was not bloodied from the protests, but as reported by Hunter Smith at Honduras Abandoned, the protester deliberately...

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

Yes, the Democrats do own the federal government now. And everything that happens is theirs alone. The good, the bad, and the ugly. But since the mainstream media is in the tank for Obama, don't expect to hear that view in the major newspapers or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2009 13 Comments

Reuters has run photo of a bloodied Honduran protester (below) dramatizing the bloodshed at protests for Manuel Zelaya. (h/t) Problem is, this photo appears to be staged.Blogger Hunter Smith, who recently finished his Marine service including two tours in Iraq, flew to Honduras to cover...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2009 4 Comments

Sarah Palin is a quitter, according to certain commentators, because she did not serve out her term of office. If that is the case, Palin is in "good" company.I present to you, Barack Obama, photographed in front of the Capitol, the building where he served...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2009 71 Comments

I waited a whole day before posting about the Sarah Palin resignation. Well, not a whole day, but longer than almost everyone else in the blogosphere. Here's my take as of this moment in time, subject to change:I don't know why Sarah Palin resigned, what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2009 17 Comments

You know the 2012 campaign has started, because the hatchet-men and women of the media are attacking Sarah Palin based on anonymous sources (including some allegedly from the McCain campaign) and dubious rumors and innuendo.First there were the mounting attacks on the Palin daughters and...

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