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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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 0 Comments
Michele Bachmann, the conservative Republican Congressman from Minnesota, has gotten into the heads of the left-wing blogosphere. Yesterday was the completely phony attack on Bachmann’s “armed and dangerous” comment, in which her metaphor for outrage was twisted into a supposed call to arms. Today brings...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2009 4 Comments
Barack Obama is scheduled to go on the Jay Leno show on Thursday, March 19, 2009, as part of his campaign to get the almost $4 trillion budget passed. A few days after the Leno appearance, Obama will be attending $100-$2,500 per plate campaign fundraising...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2009 10 Comments
Change is in the air. Not just that the inside the Beltway pundits are noticing that He is not all that He is cracked up to be. Not just that people are taking to the streets in protest. Not just that our European allies no...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2009 3 Comments
I think the British paper The Times of London has it right, in its article, “Barack Obama bets the farm in $4 trillion poker game.” One of the most seductive elements of Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House was his unshakeable conviction that he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2009 0 Comments
I shudder to think of what would have happened if he failed to put the seat down: MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti) – A woman in central Russia’s Penza Region has been sentenced to 15 months behind bars after stabbing her husband in the eye...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2009 2 Comments
From Moscow News, this explanation of history: In this sense Russia has always differed from the West. Western countries regarded themselves as more developed and generally more advanced, while Russia was seen as backwards, barbaric and foolish. In spite of this negative view of Russia,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2009 5 Comments
Barack Obama sent a letter to the Russians offering to halt the European missile shield in exchange for Russian help in stopping Iran’s nuclear development. The Russians said thank you for agreeing to halt the missile shield, but we don’t haggle, so you get nothing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2009 37 Comments
The beginning of a protest movement against Barack Obama’s redistributive policies is underway. Though still small, every movement starts somewhere. While called the “Tea Party” after the Boston Tea Party, this movement is similar to movements throughout history where the producers of society refuse to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2009 3 Comments
The day before the presidential election, when Barack Obama’s victory seemed all but certain, I predicted that I would be able to say “I told you so” about what lay ahead: When this bubble bursts, I will be able to say “I told you so.”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2009 5 Comments
Dramatic increases in domestic drilling were offered as the answer to many of our economic problems last summer when gas was approaching $4 per gallon. Even Democrats were forced to recognize the need to open up some offshore drilling, and pressure was building to drill...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2009 2 Comments
Whenever it is a slow news day, or some event (like the Obama inauguration) is sucking the air out of the media and internet, someone whose blog I follow invariably posts a picture of a pretty woman under some pretext. When the picture pops up...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2008 1 Comment
Actually, I don’t know if Joe Biden read my article, A Harvard Trial Lawyer for McCain, and whether he agrees. But Biden made a point that the world would try to test Obama because of Obama’s lack of experience. I made a similar point in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2008 0 Comments
I was a student of Russian and Soviet history in college, and spent a considerable amount of time in the Soviet Union. While a student in Moscow, I became close friends with the Yakir family (more on them in a later post), a family steeped...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2008 13 Comments
The presidential election of 2008 is still three weeks away. By all likely measures, Barack Obama will win. It’s not a foregone conclusion, but a strong likelihood. Many people point to the recent economic turmoil as the reason for Obama’s rise. In the short run,...
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