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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2010 9 Comments

The spinning for Harry Reid is in full throttle.The meme is changing -- according to Democratic insiders! -- from one of doomed Harry Reid to Harry Reid the survivor:There’s no denying that Reid still trails in most polls and that his approval ratings back home...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2010 7 Comments

I've found it. The 2010 race about which I can get motivated the way I was motivated by Scott Brown v. Martha Coakley.There are plenty of choices out there, and I'll likely add more to my focus, but I've found The Race.It's not the one...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2010 58 Comments

The left-wing blogosphere is full of useful idiots, who pretend that the flotilla which just was stopped by Israel was a humanitarian mission.The flotilla was organized by the Islamist government in Turkey to aid Hamas with the goal of opening up shipping channels for Turkey's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2010 4 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Hey, did you hear the one where Bill O'Reilly called a black professor a drug dealer? What a racist.At least that is what Gawker wanted you to believe, in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2010 10 Comments

For two years, opponents of Obama's agenda have been painted by the mainstream media, left-wing blogs and Democratic leadership as racist and extremist white supremacists.The charges are malicious and false, as documented here dozens of times.So what happens when there is a real white supremacist,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2010 10 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:This is the first post in this series to focus on the use of the race card by both sides of a dispute, call it "race card v. counter-race...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2010 8 Comments

Not surprisingly, Scott Brown is a target for Think Progress, which regularly distorts what conservatives say as part of the Democrats' strategy to paint all opponents as extremist and crazy. TP ran the following headline yesterday related to the attack by Joe Stack who crashed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2010 6 Comments

Gallup has come out with another of its surveys showing how different groups self-identify in terms of liberal-conservative-moderate.The headline of the Gallup release focused on the liberal leanings of Asian-Americans, but the survey also showed that "non-Hispanic blacks" self-identified slightly more conservative (29%) than liberal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2010 19 Comments

While Democrats of all stripes are taking pot shots at each other over Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts, others are preparing to make sure the next Scott Brown is smeared before he or she can get traction.Martha Coakley's many gaffes were of her own creation....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2009 8 Comments

Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) commented soon after the attempted bombing of an airplane over Detroit that the Obama administration needed to do a better job at connecting the dots regarding terror threats from Yemen:“People have got to start connecting the dots here and maybe this is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2009 12 Comments

So says Matthew Yglesias, in a post titled Not So Scary “Terror” (emphasis mine): Obviously, people shouldn’t be lighting anything on fire inside airplanes. That said, all the big Christmas airline incident really shows to me is how little punch our dread terrorist adversaries really...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2009 12 Comments

An Islamic terrorist, with apparent ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen, just attempted to blow up a plane as it was landing in Detroit. Al-Qaeda activities in Yemen are a real problem, as witnessed by the U.S. missile attack on Yemen just days ago against an...

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