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November 2009

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2009 9 Comments

Ithaca, NY, where I work, is in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Ithacans hate global warming because it is so corporate and capitalist.So at what point in time should global warming have stopped?"The 'Ice age' was really a series of many advances...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2009 3 Comments

Sarah Palin's visit to a turkey farm last year made news when the camera caught a shot of the owner slaughtering a turkey. The NY Times Editorial Board was all over the controversy.Turns out the farmer in question has had a tough year, for a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2009 5 Comments

Another post by Matthew Yglesias engaging in gross generalizations and stereotypes of the politically acceptable kind, Stuff White People Like: Disapproving of Barack Obama:The diversity issues that you see at the elite level of most of American life are, in my opinion, particularly egregious in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2009 9 Comments

I really hope this is a bad Photoshop, not the real thing. From DrudgeReport: "Obama leaves WH clutching GQ mag -- featuring himself...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2009 3 Comments

Obama's new Afghanistan strategy, to be announced formally next week, centers around the phrase "finish the job."That is an interesting concept. Seems simlar to "peace with honor," a very Nixonian phrase signaling that we will claim one thing (the dreaded "V" word) while accepting something...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2009 11 Comments

Does playing the race card never grow old? Apparently not when Palin Derangement Syndrome is at work.At Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, Scott Eric Kaufman is counting non-white people at Sarah Palin book signings, with smoking gun photos such as the photo (right) of white...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 1 Comment

Allison Kilkenny at HuffPo (September 24, 2009 11:34 AM) on the right-wing inspired killing of Bill Sparkman: By utilizing the branding "Fed," the killers were clearly trying to make a political statement, namely "Obama: Stay Out."Worst call since the criticism of John Bolton for warning...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 13 Comments

The Kentucky state police announced that the death of Bill Sparkman was an elaborate suicide made to look like a murder so that Sparkman's son could collect on his insurance policy. Robert Stacy McCain has all the details and updates.I'll let others delve into all...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 7 Comments

When the story of the e-mails "hacked" (or leaked) from a British climate institute first exploded, I was very cautious. I'm turning from a "hacked e-mails skeptic" to a "hacked e-mails believer" for two reasons.First, numerous bloggers have done a good job exploring and explaining...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 1 Comment

Last January, I warned of a dangerous slide by Turkey into the Islamist orbit, Turkey Looking Like The Next Iran. About a month ago, I further noted Caroline Glick's excellent article about Turkey's coziness with Iran and anti-democratic Islamism, Turkey is Lost to Islamists.In response...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 1 Comment

Mary Landrieu's deal for an extra $300 million in Medicaid funds for poor Louisiana residents has been hailed by Landrieu as a great victory for the people of Louisiana, and by just about everyone else as a shakedown of Harry Reid and the American people.But...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 8 Comments

The Nation magazine has an extensive article detailing a classified operation in Pakistan by Blackwater, acting expressly under U.S. authority and coordination, to fight al-Qaeda:At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 1 Comment

Today is just filled with wonderment at the unexpected nature of being. From the "I didn't see this coming" department:Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World StageWave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government Schumer: Dems...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 5 Comments

Great post by Michelle Malkin pointing out that MSNBC, whose commentators routinely lash out at conservatives and Republicans as being all-white, is in fact all white:--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 3 Comments

In my post the other day, Berkeley Students Should Be Protesting Obamacare, I made the point that the Berkeley student protesters were too stupid to realize that their future was being sold out from under them under the Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care restructuring plans because younger...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 11 Comments

It is reported that Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, is paralyzed. So you knew this was coming:How barbaric that the military will seek to kill a man with no sensation in his body from the chest down. He might prefer it (I certainly would)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 5 Comments

Saturday, November 21, 2009. State: Louisiana. Verdict: Bad Day. Proof:LSU butchers final few seconds"It's not $100 million; it's $300 million!"Somebody is not happy.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 7 Comments

It gets curiouser and curiouser.Yesterday, Mary Landrieu closed the deal for a payoff to Louisiana in exchange for her vote to let Harry Reid's health care restructuring bill go to Senate floor debate. The deal had been negotiated over weeks, with initial reports putting the...

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