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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2011 11 Comments
In what will come as a shock to no one who lives in reality, the revolutions throughout the Middle East, while sparked in many instances by people who share western-style democratic values, are turning Islamist, and the Obama administration is dithering and accepting the outcome as a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2011 4 Comments
Andrew Sullivan loves to accuse conservatives and Republicans of blowing various racial and other dog whistles: The Bald Racism Of Rush Limbaugh (“Is any American more adept at exploiting racial dog whistles?”) “Media Is Everything” (“Breitbart, like Drudge, gets the web. He understands its subversive and rhetorical...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2011 3 Comments
Providence, Rhode Island, where I used to work and near where I now live, is a wonderful city.  The always colorful Buddy Cianci took a down-on-its-luck former industrial blight and turned it into the crown jewel not only of Rhode Island, but of the Northeast. ...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 28, 2011 4 Comments
K. McCaffrey — It’s always refreshing to see people coming together in countries that have seen nothing but strife and oppression. While the phrase “uprising” has an affiliation with violence, some folks in eastern Libya are finding themselves better off without their totalitarian state. Something...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2011 14 Comments
In the aftermath of the overthrow of the Mubarak regime in Egypt, Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post penned a meme which has become common among the mainstream media and left-blogosphere, that The GOP loves freedom, but not for Egypt: The conservative mantra has been:...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 24, 2011 4 Comments
One of my friends is studying in Berlin this year. Recently, he went to a neo-Nazi protest (and counter-protest) in Dresden and wrote up his experience. I left out the context (which can be found in the full article here), but here is the meat...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2011 56 Comments
That seems to be the import of the ruling by federal Judge Gladys Kessler in upholding the Obamacare mandate in a suit brought by a group of private plaintiffs in Mead v. Holder (pg. 45, emphasis mine): As previous Commerce Clause cases have all involved...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2011 15 Comments
To call the performance of the Obama administration at the UN, through Ambassador Susan Rice, “folly” would be far, far too kind. Mahmoud Abbas, despite repeated U.S. requests, insisted on pressing for a U.N. Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlement construction “illegal.”  The U.S. vetoed the resolution. Standing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 15 Comments
I’m not going to repeat all the background; read my prior posts: The Original Sherrod Clip Was Not “False” Shirley Sherrod May Prefer The Life Left Unexamined Shirley Sherrod Catches Andrew Breitbart’s Car Where we are today is that last Friday Sherrod filed and this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 6 Comments
In the wake of the overthrow of Hosni Mubarek, we have heard much praise for the “Arab Street,” including by Roger Cohen writing in The New York Times two days ago: In the Middle East you expect the worst. But having watched Egypt’s extraordinary civic achievement...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2011 18 Comments
You know that saying about the dog which chased the car but didn’t know what to do once it caught it.  Shirley Sherrod just filed suit against Andrew Breitbart, but I think she’ll find it was not worth the pursuit. The lawsuit concerns Breitbart’s release last summer...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2011 29 Comments
Medical malpractice tort reform is one of those supposed remedies frequently mentioned as a cure to lowering health care costs.  Currently being debated is H.R. 5 (most recent mark up here) which would create a federal medical malpractice reform modeled on what has taken place...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 05, 2011 9 Comments
This article will save you money if you actually buy into the premises of a recent article in the Journal about college admissions that had me rolling my eyes. It is no secret that the children of certain families (and we all know who we...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2011 7 Comments
I have posted about Juan Cole before, including this sadly humorous assertion that protesters chanting “death to America” really just wanted visas to visit Disneyland: Even the ones who are chanting “Death to America,” if you get them to the side, they say well you know “could...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2011 51 Comments
I’m late to this, but the story has not received a lot of coverage in the conservative blogosphere.  Paul Mirengoff of Power Line blog no longer is of Power Line blog. Mirengoff is an attorney at Akin Gump, a big law firm with a large presence in...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 28, 2011 4 Comments
In December, I covered a clever parody of ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’, lambasting Arthur Pigou. Last week marked Edgar Allan Poe’s 202nd birthday and, fittingly, there has been a wonderful parody of ‘The Raven’ criticizing former economist (and current pundit) Paul Krugman: Once upon...
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