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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2010 15 Comments
Paul Krugman reserved July 4 for what must be a deliberate deception, Punishing the Jobless, on the issue of extending unemployment benefits, which recently failed to pass the Senate. Krugman blames Republicans, whom he terms “heartless”: By the heartless, I mean Republicans who have made...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2010 1 Comment
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Last week I featured a “Breaking News” video of NY Freedom Party leader Charles Barron, a New York City councilman, insisting that attempts to ban the blowing of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2010 7 Comments
Another “emergency” and pending “catastrophe” is being used to justify more federal government spending to support unsustainable teachers’ union contracts: Education Secretary Arne Duncan says President Obama “absolutely supports” a congressional proposal for $23 billion in emergency education spending in order to stave off teacher...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2010 15 Comments
Barack Obama has a long history as President of bowing to foreign leaders, the latest being the President of China. Media Matters, which has a good roundup of reaction, says there is a “tired obsession with Obama’s supposed ‘bowing.'” I assume the defense is that...

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...
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