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June 2010

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2010 10 Comments

The Rolling Stone article, The Runaway General, is generating extreme buzz and indignation based on descriptions in the mainstream media that in the article Gen. Stanley McChrystal harshly criticized Obama and others in the administration.Indeed, I relied on these reports for my post, Shinseki Hero,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2010 24 Comments

General Eric K. Shinseki was a hero to Democrats and the mainstream media because he publicly criticized the Bush administration on Iraq:In a contentious exchange over the costs of war with Iraq, the Pentagon's second-ranking official today disparaged a top Army general's assessment of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2010 2 Comments

The decision by Israel to "ease" the blockade of Gaza has evoked pretty strong opinions as to whether it represents a wise strategic move by Israel (my view) or a caving in which strengthens Hamas.One thing is clear, however, the easing of the land blockade...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2010 6 Comments

Remember when "Medicare for All" (also known as "Single Payer") was the banner under which Alan Grayson and his followers in the left-wing blogosphere marched?Medicare for All would not have meant "Health Care for All" because the dirty little secret was that Medicare reimbursement rates...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2010 0 Comments

I just noticed the "Anyone Butt Reid" campaign taking place in Nevada, where an angered former Obama supporter has been planting signs around Nevada with that message.Unlike the astroturfing of the Reid campaign, which is planting people at events and manipulating audio-visual systems to post...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2010 1 Comment

If you were around here Saturday, you would have seen my post regarding this blog's first fundraising drive. You also may notice that I've added "Donate" buttons in the left sidebar.My hope is to get professional help (boy, do I need it) ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2010 2 Comments

Israel has announced an "easing" of the land blockade on Gaza, a largely symbolic step since large quantities of humanitarian and other supplies already enter Gaza.While The NY Times and others portray this as a loss for Israel, which had to bow to world pressure,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2010 0 Comments

Democrats are at it again, planting speakers at events in order to create the appearance of a grassroots movement, this time to attack Sharron Angle.As reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Reid's "machine" (their word) already is running astroturf operations against Angle: The day before...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2010 2 Comments

"I’ve never visited a democracy where more people whom I interviewed asked me not to quote them by name for fear of retribution ...

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

Barack Obama has staked the energy future of this country on wind energy:"Some say" Obama is obsessed with wind energy: Obama's speech: There's a pipe spewing a gazillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let's build more windmillsAs with Obama's dream for socialized health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2010 3 Comments

The Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition has found its most successful tactic -- the use of human shields in the form of Western Useful Idiots backed by Islamist Martyrs-in-Waiting to confront Israeli soldiers in the hope that Israel will be forced either to weaken its defenses or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2010 11 Comments

As those of you who have been following this blog for a while know, I have long contemplated changes to the blog to make it more user friendly.Every time I try to think through a change, I put it aside because I really, really have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2010 13 Comments

Alan Simpson, unlike Bob Etheridge, stayed and answered questions during a hostile ambush interview, and gave the questioner, Alex Lawson of Social Security Works (filming for Firedoglake's "live stream") an earful about the fallacies behind left-wing attacks on reforming Social Security and lowering the deficit.Lawson...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2010 1 Comment

Harry Reid crafted Obamacare without a Doc Fix built into the legislation so that Reid could get the CBO score he wanted. Now Reid admits that without additional spending, the legislation will create havoc:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had warned Thursday night of the “havoc”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2010 4 Comments

The pathetic, lie-infested legislation known as ObamaCare was based on phony numbers and unrealistic assumptions so that Democrats could sell the package to themselves and their delusional Democratic constituents.Those of us who followed the legislation called the Democrats out on it, but since Democrats had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2010 2 Comments

The world learned that the go-ahead had been given for the execution by firing squad of Ronnie Lee Gardner when the Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff sent out this tweet: Was this the first Death by Twitter?--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Arkansas Primary Result in 28 CharactersIsraeli Embassy Tweets...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2010 2 Comments

The Times of London and the Sunday Times are among my favorite sources of news, and I have linked to them very frequently.But now I must say good-bye.Beginning a couple of days ago, The Times group turned off the free TimesOnline and went behind a...

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