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Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 42 Comments

Service set identifiers, or SSIDs, are essentially the network names that people give to their wireless networks. It turns out many Americans--and people across the world--are turning to SSIDs as a unique way to express their political sentiments. Much in the same way a yard...

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 26 Comments

Chicagoans will (once again) have to put up with road closures, traffic backups, and helicopter "noise pollution" when Barack Obama comes (once again) to the Windy City this weekend. White House adviser Valerie Jarrett will also be in town for the wedding of her daughter, Laura...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 20, 2012 31 Comments

Coverage emerged yesterday of a recent conference held by Al Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) in Washington, DC. Among the breakout sessions, one entitled "The Church: Becoming Spiritually Fed and Feeding the Hungry" appears to have been especially ineptly titled given the actual content conveyed: The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2012 83 Comments

I've received a number of e-mails and comments about an Executive Order signed by Obama on Friday, titled National Defenses Resources Preparedness, and what it means. It appears that this Executive Order is an update of prior Executive Orders signed in 1988 and 1994 which elaborate similar...

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 12, 2012 34 Comments

Can you imagine the uproar if a major conservative publication ran an image like this? The image is from New York Magazine, however, and it's in support of gay marriage, so the response will be muted, Obama Gay Marriage Evolution Watch: Day 468. A writer at WaPo does take...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2012 14 Comments

This video is sure to result in great mockery, as Romney says that a couple of times in his life he feared getting a pink slip. But remember, fearing a pink slip a couple of times is a couple of times more than Barack Obama ever feared...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2011 24 Comments

The tease on the homepage of The Hill for an article about Obama's Christmas vacation dilemma reads: The tax fight could force Obama to spend the holidays in an empty White House listening to Elvis’s “Blue Christmas.”… The second I read that a scene from a movie came...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 20 Comments

How often have we heard that portraying Obama as out of touch with the American people constitutes a racially tinged and undertoned use of Otherness? Just the other day Rick Perry was accused of invoking Otherness when he said Obama had been privileged: Rick Perry, seeking to paint  President...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2011 14 Comments

The editors of the San Francisco Chronicle: The Obama White House's restrictions on media access to its fundraising  events makes a mockery of its claim to be the most transparent administration in  history. If anything, there is almost a Nixonian quality to the level of control,  paranoia...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2011 9 Comments

From Gallup, which registers Obama's lowest approval rating ever: President Barack Obama's 11th quarter in office was the worst of his administration, based on his quarterly average job approval ratings. His 41% approval average is down six percentage points from his 10th quarter in office, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2011 18 Comments

Not long ago The Washington Post was digging up rocks from 30 years ago to find dirt about Rick Perry. Now WaPo is digging up immigration papers from 50 years ago about Marco Rubio's parents, Marco Rubio’s compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show.  The gist of WaPo's dramatic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 33 Comments

What's new in the #OccupyWorld? The untold or at least not sufficiently told story here is the role of the Canadian firm AdBusters in organizing these protests.  Your links and info. would help me in pulling that story together. I also found quite interesting and distrubing the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2011 15 Comments

A tale of two videos. It is not okay to sit silently when a single person in an audience shouts something: We don’t believe in the kind of smallness that says it’s okay for a stage full of political leaders -- one of whom could end up being...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2011 25 Comments

but not a "golden calf." Or am I misreading this? What means it, says you? Thanks to reader Linda who spotted this message Sunday in The Tennessean. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2011 5 Comments

From the NRSC: ...

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