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Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 28, 2013 12 Comments
Earlier this week, I noted that the banks in Cyprus will be opening Thursday, once the regular people had time to embrace the levy and understand all the awesome goodness in the new bailout plan. Shockingly, the Cypriots are still not down with the political...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2013 46 Comments
A reader called to my attention the case of Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their children. The Romeikes are devout Christians from Germany who wanted to homeschool their children because of what they perceived as the secularist agenda in German public schools. In the United...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2012 39 Comments
The amount of money spent by Romney/RNC and Obama/DNC was astounding — over $1 billion each. As Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com (and others) have been exploring, the Republican money was concentrated on a small number of connected consulting firms: One-Third of RNC’s Final Five Weeks...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2012 95 Comments
In response to my post yesterday, Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem, Michael Fredrickson, General Counsel of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, gave an interview with Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (MLW) which widely is being cited as exonerating Warren. League of Ordinary Gentlemen and Above The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2012 29 Comments
We need to start going there.  Nothing is off limits anymore. Via Mediaite: “They really don’t want to talk about the economy now, do they?” Eric Bolling asked, before handing it off to Greg Gutfeld, who seemed somewhat amused by the whole thing amusing consider...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2012 43 Comments
A long while ago I expressed that Obama lost the Obamacare litigation politically the moment the Supreme Court decided to take the case on a track to render a decision before the election.  (Can’t find the post, help!)[see Update] My view was that a total legal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2012 25 Comments
There already are efforts to bus supporters of the recall to the polls for early voting. There’s nothing illegal or unethical about that, so long as only eligible voters vote.  But it’s a reminder that some good polling is not a substitute for going to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 21 Comments
I have serious problems with Dick Lugar’s record, particularly on his alleged foreign policy expertise. As documented here, Lugar has engaged in repeated wishful thinking on Iran (one more post in the series still to come), and irresponsibly vouched for Obama’s foreign policy credentials just...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2012 79 Comments
I will grant the Martin family enormous deference in the way they interact with the media.  They lost a child.  Whatever the facts of this case end up being, they lost a child.  Whatever the legal outcome ends ups being, they lost a child.  They are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 04, 2011 19 Comments
One of the accusers against Herman Cain apparently has requested that she be relieved of the confidentiality agreement she entered into with the National Restaurant Association to the extent of releasing a statement setting forth her version of what happened over a decade ago, but not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 23, 2011 34 Comments
John Podhoretz notes that Obama is trying to talk the markets into a panic as part of Obama’s political strategy (emphasis mine): An enraged Barack Obama just took to the nation’s airwaves to announce his effort to strike a deal with Republican Speaker of the...
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