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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 15 Comments

The New York Times has an interesting article in this Sunday's magazine, Can the Republicans be Saved From Obsolescence? There is much to learn from the article about how much more open Democrats are to the digital era, how insular Republican leadership is, and how Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 29 Comments

There are Times that we need to stick up for The NY Times. Whatever we have said about The Times, we don't regret. But we stand with The Times when it gets hacked by China: For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 4 Comments

David Gerstman a/k/a SoccerDad has a Mideast Media Sampler he circulates by email which is very informative and used by many bloggers. With his permission, I'm posting today's sampler about the anti-Israel lawfare being conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council cheered on by The New York Times and law professor George Bisharat (who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2012 20 Comments

It's time for the person most consistently wrong about the Muslim Brotherhood to admit that just about everything he said about the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Arab Spring was wrong, including: Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2012 54 Comments

The New York Times today ran a demeaning Op-Ed about Tim Scott, the Republican Congressman from South Carolina who was just appointed to the seat being vacated by Jim DeMint. The Op-Ed was written by U. Penn. Political Science Professor Adolf L. Reed Jr.,  The Puzzle of Black...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2012 13 Comments

Roger Cohen of The NY Times famously told us in February 2011 (emphasis mine): Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran 1979, a revolution for freedom that installs the Islamists. But this is not 1979, and Egypt’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2012 9 Comments

In February 2011, Roger Cohen of The NY Times demanded that we abandon the phrase "the Arab Street" as a relic of the past which no longer applied, even as crowds in Tunisia surged around a Synagogue shouting ""Jews, remember Khyabar, the army of Mohammed is returning"": Cohen further asserted...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2012 15 Comments

Roger Cohen was among the worst of the delusional dreamers about the nature of the Islamist uprising in Egypt. I frequently have quoted this prediction by Cohen on February 3, 2011: Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2012 15 Comments

James Taranto has a great column about how all the left-wing vitriol over the Citizens United case really is just an attempt to maintain the once monopoly power of left-wing corporations over political speech. News flash -- The New York Times is a corporation which protects...

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