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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2009 2 Comments
The New York Times has an article today about Sonia Sotomayor’s board membership at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEP) starting in the 1980s until she joined the federal judiciary in 1992. According to the article, Sotomayor was far from a passive...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2009 15 Comments
Barack Obama campaigned on the theme of a new era of transparency. Obama used that theme as a justification for the release of four highly classified internal Justice Department memos detailing strategies for interrogation of al–Qaeda detainees, over the objections of Obama’s own Director of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2009 2 Comments
The California Supreme Court has issued a split ruling, upholding Proposition 8 but also upholding the validity of gay marriages which took place prior to passage of Prop. 8. Proposition 8 enshrined in the California Constitution the traditional definition of marriage, providing that only marriages...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2009 48 Comments
On May 20, 2009, John Bolton wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled “Get Ready for Another North Korean Nuke Test” in which he noted that the complacency of the Obama administration about North Korea’s nuclear ambitions (and Iran’s) was misplaced: “The curtain...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2009 11 Comments
The latest internet outrage-bubble started with a post at Politico titled RNC’s below-the-belt shot at Nancy Pelosi, regarding a Republican National Committee YouTube video about Nancy Pelosi. I agree with AllahPundit that the RNC should not have produced the video, among other reasons, because “they...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2009 4 Comments
Obama is giving his speech now on the issue of terrorist detention policy and the closing of Gitmo. I’ll leave it to others to parse all aspects of the speech, although it is clear that the overriding theme is: “It’s not my fault, blame Bush.”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2009 6 Comments
Harry Reid made the following statement yesterday regarding the Democrats’ flip-flop on closing the prison at Guantanomo Bay, and bringing the detainees to prisons in the United States. Reid rejected the idea, stating: “Can’t put them in prison unless you release them.”The internal inconsistency of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2009 10 Comments
We are in the process of nationalizing and/or federalizing vast stretches of our economy, including the auto industry, banks, and health care. Individual property rights have taken a back seat to political priorities. I am against this trampling of individual property rights, which are the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2009 2 Comments
The controversy over Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA repeatedly misled her and Congress as to detainee interrogation has taken a new turn: Word games. What Pelosi knew, when she knew it, and what she did in reaction, rightly has become a center of attention...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2009 5 Comments
A Pakistani newspaper, The Nation, published a story claiming that former Vice President Dick Cheney ran an assassination squad which killed, among others, Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan: Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2009 7 Comments
My article, Nancy Pelosi Is The Central Issue, appears today at American Thinker: Nancy Pelosi recently accused the CIA of misleading Congress as to interrogation techniques employed against three al-Qaeda leaders. The CIA pushed back, claiming that Pelosi was given truthful details at briefings at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2009 15 Comments
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has denied being briefed in September 2002 about the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah. Pelosi claims she was told that the technique had not been used (when in fact it had been used a month earlier). Pelosi uses this September...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2009 8 Comments
Two heartbeats away from President Barack Obama, in the line of succession, sits the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. Two heartbeats away from the Presidency sits someone who has alleged that the Central Intelligence Agency repeatedly misled Congress as to the interrogation...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2009 8 Comments
Obama knows that there is no way to pay for universal health care insurance coverage. He also knows that there is no way to borrow enough money for such coverage. The well is running dry on the national credit card. The solution: Cut health care...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2009 16 Comments
Nancy Pelosi is holding a press conference in which she has acknowledged being briefed by the CIA about waterboarding in 2002, but accuses the CIA of lying to Congress about the use of the technique and whether the techniques were legal. Pelosi also acknowledged, when...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2009 3 Comments
Give praise where praise is due. Barack Obama acted wisely in deciding to continue appealing the court-ordered release of detainee abuse photos. These photos, by the way, have nothing to do with the controversial interrogation program which was the subject of the four legal memoranda...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2009 19 Comments
Many Democrats in Congress have pushed for release of documents and the holding of hearings on waterboarding and other interrogation methods. Putting aside for now whether the release of such information should take place, it appears that Obama started the ball rolling down hill by...
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