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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2010 7 Comments
Keep moving, nothing to see here: Now Mr Obama is expected to rule out the development of new weapons systems — despite reservations from the military, which is mindful that Russia and China are modernising and expanding their nuclear forces respectively. He will also drop...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2010 5 Comments
The United States has a hard time getting a sanctions resolution against Iran through the U.N. Security Council because Iran has two protectors (Russian and China) among the five permanent members with veto power. Israel has only one reliable veto-wielding friend on the Security Council,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 3 Comments
In order to justify China’s crackdown on free speech on the internet, including banning YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, a Chinese communist newspaper posed this question: The People’s Daily editorial asked rhetorically if obscene information or activities promoting terrorism would be allowed on the internet in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2010 5 Comments
As I posted earlier, the key elements in “green” technology are rare metals mined mostly in China. The green economy envisioned by the Obama administration as the means by which we will grow “green jobs” and lessen our dependence on foreign oil in fact simply...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2009 1 Comment
In honor of the first historic trip of the first “Pacific President” to the Pacific; and In further honor of the capitalist entrepreneurship of the Chinese people who have honored the occasion with the “Obama Mao” T-shirt; and The Communist government of China having banned...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 04, 2009 3 Comments
There are many reasons for Doug Hoffman losing by four points. Yes, Hoffman was unknown just a month ago. Yes, Dede Scozzafava and the Watertown Daily Times scared people that Hoffman would not bring home the federal pork. Yes, union backing helped Bill Owens organizationally....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2009 15 Comments
The drafters and supporters of the 1,990-page health care restructuring bill released by Nancy Pelosi this morning really don’t understand how business works. I’ve had only a few minutes to look at the bill, but one fundamental and profound stupidity jumped out at me. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2009 6 Comments
Barack Obama is fiddling on his grand plans to remake the U.S. health care and energy systems, while our economy and our position in the world burn. The most recent evidence of the harm being caused by our fiddler-in-chief is the move internationally to abandon...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2009 0 Comments
A study reported in today’s New York Times suggests that the practice of sex-selection, commonplace in Asia, continues in subsequent generations of immigrants to the United States: The trend is buried deep in United States census data: seemingly minute deviations in the proportion of boys...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2009 5 Comments
Critics, including me, of Obama’s economic plans have made the point that the unprecedented huge deficits necessary to pay for expanded health insurance coverage, college education guarantees, the present and future “stimulus” plans, infrastructure projects, budget expansion, financing and operational takeovers of the auto industry...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2009 25 Comments
It would be very easy to fall into a depression over Arlen Specter switching political parties, giving Democrats a likely filibuster-proof Senate majority. The result will be that Obama will be able to push through much of his agenda without meaningful debate. Not that I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2009 13 Comments
Texas Governor Rick Perry said that he doesn’t think Texas should secede from the U.S. Here is Perry’s quote: We got a great Union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it, but if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2009 0 Comments
Rather than worrying about news aggregators stealing its stuff, AP should worry about its credibility. A news article titled Obama Hopes to Use Dealmaking Skills Honed Abroad (run in the NY Times, which seems to be reprinting a lot of AP articles verbatim these days),...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 11, 2009 9 Comments
Talk about the law of unintended consequences. In countries where a woman has a virtually unfettered right to choose abortion, the result is that women overwhelmingly choose to abort female fetuses. A just published study, reported in the NY Times, of Chinese population growth ties...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2009 1 Comment
As predicted on this Blog several months ago, the indictment of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been handed down, and it includes a sweeping RICO charge alleging that Blagojevich and others conducted a criminal enterprise, which the indictment calls the Blagojevich Enterprise. That enterprise...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 2 Comments
It is amazing how this administration creates controversies because it expresses opinions without reading the documents on which the opinions are based. First, there was the AIG bonus controversy. The bonuses were authorized by the stimulus plan, which neither the administration nor Congress actually read...
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