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June 2009

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2009 7 Comments

In Neda in Palestine, Sentenced to Die Alone, Max Blumenthal at Huffington Post compares Israel's self-defense against suicide bombers from the West Bank to the Iranian crackdown on protests against election fraud which resulted in the death of Neda Soltan. Once again, false analogies and...

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2009 5 Comments

CNN has released a joint CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll on Barack Obama's handling of the Iran uprising. The headline screams Americans don't want to intervene in Iran election crisis, and the write up notes that "nearly three out of four Americans don't want the U.S....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2009 10 Comments

There is something strange about the Obama administration's diplomacy. We speak softly to our enemies, but use a big stick against our friends.Protesters take to the streets in Iran in opposition to election fraud, and against a regime which is openly hostile to the U.S.,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2009 8 Comments

In a 5-4 ruling authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the ruling by Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor and two other Court of Appeals judges in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano. [Full opinion and analysis below]In Ricci, white New...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 28, 2009 100 Comments

It really is hard to understand why some adults feel the need to make fun of Trig Palin, a one-year old who has Down Syndrome. Politics alone cannot explain it. If you don't like Sarah Palin, fine, but why go after Trig?The controversy regarding the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2009 2 Comments

A court in Great Britain has found that a religious Jewish school engaged in racial discrimination by applying the traditional definition of who is a Jew as part of its admissions policy.Traditionally, whether one is Jewish is determined by maternal lineage. If one's mother is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2009 4 Comments

Barack Obama has apologized repeatedly for past U.S. transgressions, real and imagined, although he never demands apologies from others.So it is only natural that the Iranian Mullahs, whose thugs are beating people with axes in the streets, would demand that Obama apologize to Iran:“Change means...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2009 12 Comments

I didn't watch the ABC-White House health care special last night because the set up was one-sided. From an ABC report of the program, however, it appears that all did not go as planned for the White House, as two physicians in the audience challenged...

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

Bombing the funerals of your opponents is a red line in most conflicts. The Israelis don't bomb Hamas or Hizbullah funerals, and vice versa. George Bush refused to bomb Taliban funerals. Al-Qaeda, however, has no such compunctions, as it repeatedly has sent suicide bombers to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2009 4 Comments

During the campaign and after assuming the presidency, Barack Obama repeatedly stated his willingness to engage in negotiations with Iran without any preconditions. But that was and is not true.The events of the past two weeks, including the revelation that Obama sent a letter in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2009 9 Comments

Want to laugh out loud? Read "Barack Obama, Deficit-Slayer" by Matthew Yglesias: As the economy recovers, tax revenues will rise, social safety net outlays will fall, and stimulus measures will begin to tamp down. If we can assume further growth in 2011, the complete expiry...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2009 2 Comments

Flynt and Hillary Leverett of the New America Foundation are two of the main proponents of the "Grand Bargain" approach to Iran which has been adopted by the Obama administration. The Grand Bargain approach seeks to have the current Iranian regime promise to cease nuclear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2009 8 Comments

The claims of election fraud in Iran and resulting civil unrest have given rise to a conspiracy theory which is making its way through the internet: The claims of Iranian election fraud are an Israeli-created hoax spread by manipulating Twitter.The first reference to this conspiracy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2009 0 Comments

Many, including Barack Obama, have dismissed the notion that Mir Hossein Mousavi, the leader of the opposition in Iran, would make any difference to the policy of Iran since Mousavi, among other things, is considered the father of the Iranian nuclear program, and is steeped...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2009 6 Comments

(h/t MAinfo) -------------------------------------------- Take a look at Remember "Ahmadinejad Won. Get Over It." and Iran Election Fraud Truthers Emerge Follow me on Twitter and Facebook ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2009 11 Comments

To read Andrew Sullivan's posts on the suppression of the opposition in Iran, you would think American "NeoCons" (whoever they may be) were in the streets swinging batons from the backs of motorcycles, trashing the library at Tehran University, and breaking into homes in pursuit...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2009 4 Comments

Is the collapse of the Soviet Union a reasonable analogy for what may happen in Iran? There are certain parallels, including repressive regimes bent on imposing ideology to perpetuate their own rule. In each case, it is hard to imagine how the repression could end,...

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