Image 01 Image 03
Sign In or RegisterLogout

Search

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2013 29 Comments
The “unilateral” “across-the-board” sequester cuts seemingly absolve government of any responsibility. Actually, the opposite is true.  While some decreases in the growth of government are mandated, and government has less flexibility than usual particularly as to the defense budget, government still controls the pain meter....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2013 32 Comments
Thomas K. Brown, a banking industry analyst and investor, writing at BankStocks.com, makes a point similar to what I made in my post, Elizabeth Warren’s heroic Senate demagoguery, that Warren’s Banking Committee YouTube performance was pure political grandstanding without substance or legitimate regulatory purpose. As with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 31 Comments
In her debut on the Senate Banking Committee, Elizabeth Warren once again became the hero of the left because she embarrassed Hapless Bank Regulators, as the Huffington Post put it: Bank regulators got a sense Thursday of how their lives will be slightly different now that...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 14, 2013 15 Comments
Last night I attended another candidates forum for the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Having attended quite a few by this point, my main takeaway is that the people of the Second District have a sorry, sorry...

Posted by Joel Engel on February 13, 2013 32 Comments
When Antonio Villaraigosa became mayor of Los Angeles in mid 2003, he promised to focus on quality-of-life issues the way Rudy Giuliani had so successfully in New York.  To Angelenos, the number one quality-of-life issue is transit.  Pretty much everything else pales in comparison (as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2013 43 Comments
Do not care what he has to say.  It’s the same old, same old straw men and class warfare. “Some say that government should do nothing while grandma dies and children starve as owners of corporate jets eat jumbo shrimp at 38,000 feet in the air, but I say we...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2013 24 Comments
I consider BuzzFeed Politics to be one of the most influential websites at setting the narrative in the blogosphere, and to some extent the more mainstream media. That influence only is going to grow due to the well-funded Buzzfeed brand, which just raised $19 million...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 4 Comments
David Gerstman a/k/a SoccerDad has a Mideast Media Sampler he circulates by email which is very informative and used by many bloggers. With his permission, I’m posting today’s sampler about the anti-Israel lawfare being conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council cheered on by The New York Times and law professor George...

Posted by Joel Engel on January 28, 2013 28 Comments
Thomas Jefferson thought that the best insurance against future tyrannies was an educated populace.  Historical ignorance is a petri dish that grows a lot of strange and destructive ideas. To wit: Silvio Berlusconi. Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi triggered outrage from Italy’s political left on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2013 32 Comments
Here we go. Saxby Chambliss will not be running for reelection in 2014: Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss said Friday he will not seek a third term next  year, expressing deep frustration with Washington gridlock that he doesn’t see  changing in a divided government. Chambliss, 69,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2013 9 Comments
It’s no secret that Obama doesn’t like Bibi Netanyahu, and the feeling seems to be mutual.  It’s been a virtual warfare of insults since Bibi took Obama to school on the 1967 borders: and then got a more rousing welcome in Congress than Obama ever...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 41 Comments
The left-blogosphere is joyous because there were accidental shootings at gun shows and events for Gun Appreciation Day. Really, they’re putting the full snark on, because nothing says “suspend the 2nd Amendment” like accidental shootings:   There’s something much more dangerous. Rock concerts, which have a...
Accessibility by WAH