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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2009 9 Comments
Well, that didn’t take long. On March 3, 2009, New York Times columnist David Brooks issued his “Moderate Manifesto” in which he confessed uneasiness with his choice of Obama. But Brooks is back on board the Obama ship of state, with a column in today’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2009 1 Comment
The Politico article (and AP Photo, right) “Obama’s safety net: the TelePrompter,” on how President Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his teleprompter, is quite disturbing. The article reminded me of the Michael Jackson song, Man in the Mirror: “I’m starting with the man in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2009 6 Comments
Jim Cramer, the television investment personality, has been in the news recently since he criticized Barack Obama’s economic plans as a destroyer of wealth. The petty White House reaction to Cramer has put Cramer on the White House enemies list, along with Rick Santelli and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2009 1 Comment
Back in the day, when the alpha male Clinton roamed the White House, the high tech stock bubble grew, and grew, and grew. That bubble began to burst in March 2000, nine months before “W” took office, and caused the S&P; 500 to head almost...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2009 7 Comments
Nothing quite like insulting our closest ally. Great job. Britain’s mistake was sacrificing its soldiers to help us in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gordy should have seen it coming once Obama sent back the statue of Winston Churchill. If Gordy wanted the red carpet treatment, he...

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 March 02, 2009 9 Comments
Obama’s fear mongering is well documented. Crisis, catastrophe, “since the Great Depression” and similar terminology are part of the plan to push through Obama’s agenda. But do the words cause economic harm, or are the words merely a reflection of a declining economy? In other...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2009 0 Comments
The Weekly Standard has reprinted a portion of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, written in 1835 and 1840. The words are eery in light of what is happening in this country under this new administration: I want to imagine with what new features despotism...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2009 23 Comments
What is it with this President? Obama has an obsessive need to find enemies against whom to campaign. When Obama’s presidency is over, hopefully in four years (but likely eight years) there will be two sets of psychologists: Those who provide therapy to the American...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2009 0 Comments
The New York Times has run a story on the travails of my home state, Rhode Island. The Times pays homage to the good things about Rhode Island, which is a quirky state with beautiful landscapes and beaches, in which everyone seems to know everyone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2009 2 Comments
Another conservative secretly takes to the internet. The Commissioner: Where sports and politics collide. Ouch. But one thing, another new blog in the Ithaca area without name, rank and serial number. How can people attack you if you don’t identify yourself? Maybe that’s the point....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2009 3 Comments
A delegation of Hollywood stars, headed by Annette Bening, is traveling to Iran to open a dialogue on behalf of the Obama administration: Thirty-eight years ago, a ping pong team sent by US president Richard Nixon to Beijing opened the door to Communist China. February...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2009 1 Comment
The internet is abuzz with photos of Pork Brains In Milk Gravy, allegedly the “worst food product ever.” I beg to differ with these pundits, who obviously have not heard of The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls, by Serbian chef Ljubomir R. Erovic, who dedicates...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2009 4 Comments
Will it never stop? The deification of Obama, is what I’m talking about. Now it’s Obama’s marriage that is historic and a teaching lesson for the rest of us dim-witted wife-beaters. This, from a column in the Ithaca Journal written by Elizabeth Einstein (what else!):...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2009 0 Comments
An article at American Thinker lays out a chart showing how Obama won the election by overwhelming Republicans. The author compares Republicans to Ethiopian spear-carriers who, under an onslaught by Italian mechanized troops, didn’t know what hit them. I like the analogy, but I don’t...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2009 0 Comments
An Obama spokesman has just announced that the likely “downpayment” on Obama’s plan to expand health insurance coverage over the next decade will exceed $1 trillion. That’s above and beyond what presently is paid through medicare and medicaid. The question is, what percentage of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2009 1 Comment
Will AP’s cheerleading never stop? AP cheers the “audacity” of Obama’s speech to Congress last night, while Marketwatch reports on the reality of Obama’s massive plans for spending. —————————————————UPDATE: Drudge Report gets it right:
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