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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2009 0 Comments
The Congressional Budget Office has released its preliminary assessment of draft legislation to reform health insurance, and the picture is ugly. (h/t/ HotAir) Contrary to the claims by the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats that the reform will provide coverage for all Americans without busting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2009 4 Comments
In the weeks prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Johns Hopkins Professor and noted Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami wrote that a free Iraq might have a profound impact on neighboring Iran: It is in the nature of things today, in an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2009 13 Comments
Barack Obama’s proclivity to talk endlessly, particularly on television, has earned the mockery of supporters such as Bill Maher. But on what may be the most important evolving events in a generation, Obama is silent. As hundreds of thousands of Iranians protest fraudulent elections, and...

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 June 14, 2009 2 Comments
The Blog of Legal Times (BLT) is reporting that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated recently that she expected Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed, and that Sotomayor would be a welcomed and qualified addition to the Court. BLT noted that such commentary by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2009 0 Comments
I have to say, the left-wing blogosphere has been pretty responsible as relates to the Iranian election fraud. I’ve followed the posting via Memeorandum by Andrew Sullivan, Matthew Yglesias, Spencer Ackerman, Digby, Hilzoy, and others with whom I normally disagree. While I might not have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2009 4 Comments
Although most commentators predicted a close election in Iran, the official results show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a sweeping victory. There are many allegations of election fraud mostly as a result of the failure to require photo IDs and other voter identification, which permitted multiple voting:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2009 9 Comments
In the aftermath of the passage of California Proposition 8, which enshrined the traditional definition of marriage into the California Constitution, some gay marriage advocates engaged in anti-Mormon agitation, as I documented repeatedly. There were ugly scenes of protesters carrying signs urging a boycott of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2009 2 Comments
Although the Democratic health care reform proposal currently in Congress is not final, two key elements are emerging as to how the government will pay for the trillion dollar plus price tag: Taxing private insurance benefits, and cutting hundreds of billions in Medicare and Medicaid...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2009 6 Comments
From Tim Blair down under: According to a source on the scene, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin – in Sydney after being released from quarantine – tonight told guests at a United States Studies Centre dinner that he feared he would be assassinated by the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2009 10 Comments
Paul Krugman proved, once again, why he has no credibility. In a column in today’s New York Times, titled “The Big Hate,” Krugman blames conservatives for the shooting at the Holocaust Museum because conservatives have had the audacity to harshly criticize the Obama administration. Krugman...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2009 1 Comment
Barack Obama is spinning his public health plan option today as just another way of helping preserve the private insurance system. According to Obama, the existence of a public plan will provide healthy competition for private insurers, and will not be the first step toward...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2009 14 Comments
One thing, to a certainty, is that the Holocaust Museum shooting by a long-time neo-Nazi white supremacist, who previously committed an attempted shooting at the Federal Reserve in 1981, will be used for political purposes. Although the shooting is only hours old, numerous blogs already...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2009 2 Comments
Latest tail-wags-dog faux story: Israeli “Minister without Portfolio” Yossi Peled sent an 11-page letter, revealed by the Jerusalem Post, to Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. At one point in the letter, Peled says that if the U.S. keeps moving in an anti-Israel direction, Israel should reconsider...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2009 5 Comments
See Update No. 2 Below——————————————————When I saw the link at Memeorandum, I did a double take: Palin’s `Rashomon moment’. Was CBS News’ Political Hot Sheet blogger Charles Cooper really using a rape analogy for Sarah Palin, on the heels of the raging controversy over CBS...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2009 9 Comments
Ed Whelan “outed” law professor “Publius” causing an interesting Sunday at Memeorandum. My last post concluded that Whelan and Publius deserved each other. Now Whelan apologizes. And Publius accepts the apology and wants to move on to covering John & Kate Plus 8 (not that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2009 1 Comment
In today’s New York Times, columnist David Brooks has a novel theory of why Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s Latina identity has worked its way into Sotomayor’s speeches, if not her judicial decisions: Blame it on the 1970’s. No, seriously. According to Brooks, Sotomayor had...
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