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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2009 18 Comments
One idea being floated on the internet is a “National Strike” on January 20, 2010, to protest Obama’s State of the Union address in light of the irresponsible health care legislation and out-of-control spending. I completely sympathize with the emotion behind the idea. But the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2009 2 Comments
John Hawkins has an interesting post regarding a conversation he had with a Senate staffer on the chances of Obama-Pelosi-Reid-care passing this year (not likely) or in January (50/50): John: But still, it’s looking grim right? Senate Aide X: They are in much worse shape...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2009 3 Comments
Senator Orrin Hatch has written a Hanukkah song. The background is here. Thanks, Orrin. There’s a lesson to be learned here, but unfortunately the Jewish community will not learn it because it is so deep in the pocket of the Democratic Party that it cannot...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 05, 2009 11 Comments
After the Bill Sparkman incident, in which the left-wing blogosphere immediately blamed tea party attendees and conservatives for Sparkman’s (as yet unsolved) death, even this shocked me. Digby at Hullabaloo: I have no idea what happened at Ft Hood. They’ve confirmed that the perpetrators were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 26, 2009 3 Comments
It’s slipping away from the protectors of the Obama image. Increasingly, the mainstream media is using the term “Nixonian” in the same sentence as Obama. And all because of an unnecessary fight Obama picked with Fox News. The term Nixonian has taken on a meaning...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2009 2 Comments
I’m starting a new theme, the Saturday Night Card Game, to highlight the use of the race card as a political tool. Those on the left, lacking meritorious arguments, increasingly turn to false accusations of racism as a way of ending an argument they are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2009 2 Comments
First it was the Senate Gang of Six who took it upon themselves to fix Joe Wilson’s imaginary loophole, the one which caused Wilson out of frustration to accuse Barack Obama of lying as to whether Democratic health care proposals included illegal aliens. And caused...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2009 5 Comments
You would be hard-pressed to find a better example of how uncompromising the left-wing of the Democratic Party has become than the attempts to make sure the Obama administration and moderate Democrats do not compromise on the public option. Jane Hamsher, one of the most...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2009 4 Comments
The pressure put on advertisers to pull ads from the Glenn Beck show on Fox News has caused about a dozen major corporations to instruct their ad agencies to make sure their ads did not run on the show. These advertisers never directed their advertising...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2009 15 Comments
Barack Obama has invoked his experience with his grandmother’s death in support of his health care restructuring plans. Does this mean Obama used his grandmother as a “prop,” and that this would justify mocking his grandmother? No. We each have personal experiences with the health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 12 Comments
The political world looked bleak on April 29, 2009, just after Arlen Specter had announced that he was switching to the Democratic Party. The Democrats, understandably crowing, seemed to be unstoppable. The Democratic agenda to control the most minute aspects of our lives through health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2009 71 Comments
I waited a whole day before posting about the Sarah Palin resignation. Well, not a whole day, but longer than almost everyone else in the blogosphere. Here’s my take as of this moment in time, subject to change: I don’t know why Sarah Palin resigned,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2009 2 Comments
The controversy over Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA repeatedly misled her and Congress as to detainee interrogation has taken a new turn: Word games. What Pelosi knew, when she knew it, and what she did in reaction, rightly has become a center of attention...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2009 2 Comments
Former Congressman Tom Tancredo was shouted down and bullied off the stage a couple of weeks ago at the University of North Carolina by protesters opposed to Tancredo’s stand on illegal immigration. Tancredo espouses the apparently radical view that we should enforce immigration laws; in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2009 30 Comments
Update: Welcome NY Times readers. Do not be alarmed. You have not landed on the set of the movie Deliverance. I just happen to have a point of view you don’t hear at The Times. See my related post, I’m Seething Over The NY Times...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2009 12 Comments
Posted April 8, 2009 Newsweek magazine’s cover proclaims The Decline and Fall of Christian America, while the article inside the cover proclaims The End of Christian America. The substance of the article doesn’t really prove the headline, but the goal of whichever editor wrote the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2009 0 Comments
In the current controversy regarding Tom Daschle’s failure to report income (and thereby evade the taxes on that income), Daschle has portrayed himself as the most honest person in America, who always intended to pay all the taxes he owes, and who simply made an...
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