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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 9 Comments
There is a must read article at City Journal by author Claire Berlinski, A Hidden History of Evil – Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?: In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 23 Comments
Joe Sestak says “I was offered a job” by someone senior in the Obama administration in exchange for getting out of the Democratic primary against Arlen Specter. “Joe heard what he wanted to hear,” said Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell on Greta last night (video below):...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2010 7 Comments
Admiral Joe Sestak’s political ship is sinking. Not from loose lips, but the opposite. Sestak has stated more than once that someone in the Obama administration offered him a job if he would drop out of the Democratic primary against Arlen Specter. But Sestak is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2010 0 Comments
John J. “Jack” McConnell, Jr. is the Obama administration’s nominee for an open seat on the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island. As documented in my prior post, McConnell donated at least $430,000 to Democrats, including tens of thousands to the Democratic Senators who nominated...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 1 Comment
Last week I chronicled the saga of Central Falls, Rhode Island, which has filed for receivership, the state equivalent of bankruptcy, under the weight of union contracts and debt, Has First Public Sector Union Domino Fallen? Now it turns out that Central Falls has been...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 2 Comments
The perpetually anti-Israel British newspaper The Guardian ran an article suggesting that Shimon Peres of Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa in the 1970s. The article was based upon minutes of a meeting recently uncovered, which, depending upon how you interpreted the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 4 Comments
A bill introduced by Democratic Deputy Majority Leader Peter Palumbo in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, similar to the Arizona immigration law, will not be permitted to go to a committee hearing, much less a vote: House Speaker Gordon D. Fox decided Monday that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 17 Comments
“Unexpected” has become the term of choice for the mainstream media to excuse the Obama administration’s economic failures. Yesterday I read an article in The NY Times about something unexpected in Obamacare, and one term jumped out at me (emphasis mine): About one-third of employers...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 4 Comments
One of the difficulties of adhering to constitutional federalism is that liberals always, always want to use conservative acknowledgement of any acceptable role for the federal government as an excuse to require federal government control of just about everything. The slope is very slippery, indeed....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 6 Comments
Of course, that depends upon what the meaning of “crazy” is. News has leaked out through an article in Esquire Magazine that Eric Massa, the disgraced Democratic rock star (was he the tickler, or the tickle-ee?), claims that Dick Cheney conspired with Gen. David Petraeus...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 3 Comments
One of the perks of being a big time blogger (hah) is that sometimes people send me stuff for free. As in a free copy of Zev Chafets’ biography of Rush Limbaugh, An Army of One. Which now occupies a hallowed place on my bookshelf...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 4 Comments
Why does Obama want us to be more like Europe, with its supposedly compassionate and fair welfare state? The welfare state is not compassionate; it is the height of selfishness and generational cruelty: Across Western Europe, the “lifestyle superpower,” the assumptions and gains of a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 3 Comments
From the day Barack Obama took office, the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress have been obsessed and possessed. Everything took a back seat to passing Obamacare. And other transformative legislation and regulations intended to turn us into the failing West European economic model. Because...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2010 14 Comments
Gringomask.com appears to be a real, not spoof, website in protest against the Arizona immigration bill. (h/t) The site proposes that as a protest people wear a mask featuring a blond-haired white person’s face (image right). According to the website: The objective of this action...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 4 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Joan Walsh at Salon.com sought to atone for her prior use of the race card, in this observation (h/t James Taranto) in this column, Asking the wrong question...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 10 Comments
Can we get back to Richard Blumenthal. Remember him? The DEMOCRATIC candidate for Senate whose multiple lies about serving in Vietnam over the course of multiple years dominated an entire 24 hour news cycle. The guy whose dissembling of his own words was Clintonesque in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 18 Comments
I’m glad I spent most of yesterday traveling, so that I missed much of the blogospheric tsunami regarding Rand Paul’s libertarian views on the virtue of the federal government banning racial discrimination in private businesses. Where I come down on the issue is that the...
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