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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...

Posted by Anne Segal on October 24, 2012 15 Comments

Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D) has had a rough few weeks. First, a lawsuit from an employee came to light revealing that her husband's business is being sued for sexual harassment. Then, whistleblower audio revealed that it appears her husband was cutting deals in the...

Posted by Joel Engel on September 14, 2012 48 Comments

There has been a complete lack of reality this week in our government and media. Words are not deeds.  This is especially important to remember if you're the President of the United States who has essentially talked himself into office. Behold a paragraph from President Obama’s stirring...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2012 22 Comments

The New York Times declares that the Bain attacks are working, Bain Attacks Make Inroads for President Propelled by a torrent of blistering television advertisements, President Obama is successfully invoking Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital to raise questions about his commitment to the middle class,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 22 Comments

Steve Almond writes in The NY Times, Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One: This, to be blunt, is the tragic flaw of the modern liberal. We choose to see ourselves as innocent victims of an escalating right-wing fanaticism. But too often we serve as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2012 29 Comments

Remember that Indelible Image of a Boy's Pat on Obama's Head? You know, the one that was so indelible that no one remembered it, and the NY Times felt compelled to remind you how indelible it was with a headline "Indelible Image of Boy's Pat on...

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