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August 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2011 2 Comments

... the owner of this vehicle. Saw this in the parking lot of a local supermarket in Rhode Island:   Update: One LI reader took the post title as an insult, believing that I was referring to Texans and the car owner as idiots (which is how the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2011 21 Comments

Consider this just an ideas open thread. Keep it clean, children could be reading. I'll start:  There is a deep sadness at the loss of members of SEAL Team 6.  Every soldier is valuable and mourned, but this tragedy seems to be special. Updates:  This chart from Division...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2011 28 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: It never ends. The attempt to turn disagreement with the policies of the Obama administration into a racial issue. In the past weeks, as there was a dispute over raising the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2011 16 Comments

Barack Obama never put forth a debt reduction plan.  Ever. All Obama did was talk in generalities about what he might be willing to consider as part of a "grand bargain," but it always was vague, the equivalent of voting present.  But when Republicans put forth...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2011 7 Comments

Let me guess, you still will vote for The One because this bumper sticker was pre-2008, right? Spotted in my neighborhood in Rhode Island, on the same vehicle as in Thursday's post: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2011 62 Comments

S&P has dropped the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+: The United States' credit rating was cut for the first time when Standard and  Poor's lowered it from triple-A to AA+, citing the country's looming deficit  burden and weak policy-making process. Standard and Poor's on Friday...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2011 19 Comments

So who are the global warming deniers, the people who treat projections and models as the gospel truth, or the scientists who keep investigating and questioning? This report from the BBC leads one to conclude that those who most frequently shout that the scientific "consensus" must...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2011 22 Comments

One of the greatest mistakes we make is to confuse academic credentials with leadership. Barack Obama, who guards his transcripts like they're the equivalent of the formula to Coke, presumably had very good grades at Harvard Law School because he graduated with high honors, a purely grade-based achievement. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2011 8 Comments

The breadth and depth of the Obama's administrations screwed up priorities is straggering. It's not bad enough that they are on the wrong side of big government history domestically, we have witnessed a wholesale abdication of power abroad in a myriad of ways. This story at Commentary,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2011 19 Comments

This is a very curious development, via The Wall Street Journal: Bank of New York Mellon Corp. on Thursday took the extraordinary step of telling large clients it will charge them to hold cash. The unusual move means some U.S. depositors will have to pay to keep big...

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

I told you this was coming. From Reuters via Yahoo, in explaining why the new unemployment numbers, while better than "expected," still were not great: A stand-off between Democrats and Republicans over raising the country's debt ceiling poisoned the atmosphere for employers and consumers....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2011 5 Comments

It seems like only yesterday, but it was February 2009, as the first trillion dollar Stimulus plan was pending. It could have been yesterday. ...

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

That's the subject line on the e-mail from reader and commenter "K" who send the following photo and message: The sight of a Coexistence bumper sticker in the company of other stickers that contradict the presumed coexistence message is so typical that I hardly give it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2011 13 Comments

I didn't do so good on the midterm, but there's always the final and class participation. B. Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2011 23 Comments

... according to Jonathan Capehart at WaPo: In the coming fights over the next budget, unemployment benefits and payroll tax cuts, I want Obama to show the Republican Party in general and the Tea Party in particular that he isn’t afraid to out-crazy the crazies. If that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2011 4 Comments

In light of Obama's "Putting Americans back to work" campaign theme and bus tour, it is worth revisiting Obama's Catch-2012: The only way for Obama to stimulate the enormous private sector job growth needed to ensure Obama’s reelection is for Obama to announce he is not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2011 10 Comments

This was what they feared, the day when they would have to convince public sector union members to kick in union dues voluntarily and separate from payroll deduction. While it is too early to say how successfu the unions will be, early signs are that there...

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