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February 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2011 10 Comments

strap a suicide belt to a 14-year-old? This video is from several years ago, but it is a reminder of what the Israelis are up against, and how checkpoints and the security barrier were both necessary and effective.So the next time you hear the usual...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2011 12 Comments

Thanks to @DDsModernLife for pointing out this comment by reader A. Dumas, in response to my post Houdini Economics:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:SOTU Speech In One SentenceExclusive - First Draft of Obama's SOTU Speech Jewish History In One Sentence Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Visit the Legal Insurrection...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 2 Comments

I have kept away from writing about "news" generated from WikiLeaks disclosure of stolen U.S. diplomatic cables.  One of the main problems with using stolen diplomatic cables is that one is unlikely to get the full story in a single cable, leaving the ground clear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 9 Comments

Thanks to reader James for the link to this chart by Nate Silver, showing where Silver believes various potential Republian candidates fall on a sliding scale of insider/outsider and conservative/moderate:Sweet spot, or mushy middle?If it is any help, here's how Silver describes Pawlenty's position:Tim Pawlenty...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 6 Comments

David Cameron has generated a stir in Europe by giving a speech in which he said that state-sponsored multiculturalism has failed:Note that Cameron was not criticizing multi-racial or multi-ethnic societies; he was proclaiming the failure of policies which sought to segregate and separate groups in the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 05, 2011 9 Comments

This article will save you money if you actually buy into the premises of a recent article in the Journal about college admissions that had me rolling my eyes. It is no secret that the children of certain families (and we all know who we...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 12 Comments

Let's face it, he'd get the "hands off" treatment from this administration. Regime change seems to be United States policy only for our friends.Did Obama demand that Hugo Chavez transition to leave office when peaceful protesters were beaten in the streets of Caracas, or at any...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 04, 2011 5 Comments

K. McCaffrey --- The grandfather of classical liberal policy institutes, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), is a wealth of great resources for the liberty-minded. One of my friends reposted this article from 2003 in their journal, The Freeman, that puts, in very simple terms,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 04, 2011 1 Comment

If there were any Africans able to ignore the recent protests, they are gone now:Oil-rich Libya and gas-rich Algeria have indefinitely extended their suspension of all soccer matches with anti-government demonstrations planned for February 12 in Algiers and February 17 in Benghazi and Tripoli. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2011 6 Comments

I wish I had written such a post, but instead I happened upon it via an e-mail sent from a relative.  And it was at HuffPo, of all places.Rarely have I seen someone hit the hypocrisy of the anti-Israel movement the way David Suissa does in Israel's...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 03, 2011 10 Comments

(K. McCaffrey) -- We all know how the liberal narrative goes: the Tea Party is supposed to be racist. Even after Andrew Breitbart's $100,000 challenge and the continual failure to pinpoint awful tragedies on the Tea Party, lefties everywhere persist on blaming the Tea Party...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 03, 2011 2 Comments

During the Rand Paul Senatorial campaign, there was much speculation about his positions - particularly because of the obvious connection he has with his father, Ron. Libertarians and conservatives were united in their skepticism of the Tea Party favorite - each camp criticizing him for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2011 7 Comments

I have posted about Juan Cole before, including this sadly humorous assertion that protesters chanting "death to America" really just wanted visas to visit Disneyland:Even the ones who are chanting "Death to America," if you get them to the side, they say well you know "could you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2011 8 Comments

A column by James Taranto, 'Death Panels' Revisited (via Instapundit) points out:Obama ran for office on opposition to the individual mandate, then made it the centerpiece of his signature legislative initiative. Perhaps this should have been "lie of the year." At PolitiFact.com, it wasn't even a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2011 12 Comments

Not long after starting this blog I received an e-mail from Mark Finkelstein, who writes for Newsbusters, and for a while, at his own blog, Finkelblog.Mark invited me on his long-running conservative talk show, The Right Angle, which had been on local Ithaca cable TV...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2011 13 Comments

As much as I would have liked to weigh in on a bunch of issues during the day, I've been fighting the snow and the snow hit (my) back.Now that I can sit up straight, here are some thoughts, as usual in no particular order:Egypt...

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