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Thanksgiving Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2010 10 Comments

Some thoughts, and inviting reader comments, on a variety of topics today (a running list): Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers. Which is an interesting point, because some of my readers are trolls and nutroot lurkers. I even wish them a Happy Thanksgiving, because I’m that...

Actually, I Do Have One More Thing To Say To Barney Frank

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 04, 2010 23 Comments

Need I say more to Barney Frank than Margery Egan says today in The Boston Herald: After 30 years, Barney Frank finally lost my vote. On election night, he lost my respect as well. Frank’s road rage acceptance speech was an out-of-body experience. There was...

Saturday Night Card Game (Bill Maher Out Juan-Williamses Juan Williams, Media Silence Erupts)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2010 22 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Unless you spent the past 10 days high in the Himalayas worshipping the Aqua Buddha, you are aware that Juan Williams was fired from NPR, and subjected to howls of “racist”...

Count Frankula’s Blood Lust

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2010 6 Comments

Frank Rich has a blood lust as do many of those pushing the false meme that opposition to Obama equals racism and violence, as witnessed by Rich’s latest polemic in the NY Times today, The Rage Is Not About Health Care. As happened with the...

Scalia Was Right About Releasing Gitmo Detainees

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2009 9 Comments

Reports indicate that two of the planners of the attempted airplane bombing over Detroit were released Gitmo detainees, Muhamad Attik al–Harbi and Said Ali Shari. Each of these detainees went through a military hearing system and were released in 2007. At that time, the U.S....

Not So Scary Terror?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2009 12 Comments

So says Matthew Yglesias, in a post titled Not So Scary “Terror” (emphasis mine): Obviously, people shouldn’t be lighting anything on fire inside airplanes. That said, all the big Christmas airline incident really shows to me is how little punch our dread terrorist adversaries really...

Which City Would You Sacrifice?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 13 Comments

The debate over interrogation of the three top-level al-Qaeda leaders who were subjected to waterboarding is entering the honest phase. The first phase was the “this is the worst thing that has happened in the history of the earth” handwringing on the left. The second...

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