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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 1 Comment
When we think of the First Amendment to the Constitution, we think of the freedoms of religion, speech and the press. Occasionally, someone will mention the right to peaceably assemble. But for most people, the discussion ends there. Can you name which right guaranteed by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 4 Comments
The JournoList has evoked much commentary. But a bigger question is being missed. What lurks beneath the outward gentility and civility of the most enlightened liberal bloggers and columnists? Apparently it is not pretty. Some people expressed surprise at the ugly tone of the thread...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2009 0 Comments
David Brooks is back on the Obama ranch, having been lassoed by White House officials when he briefly strayed. Brook’s latest puff piece is The Winnable War. You don’t need to read it. I’ll give you the punch line, which is a shocka: BUSH BAD,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 1 Comment
The JournoList was revealed by Politico. The founder of the JournoList, Ezra Klein, explained the purpose as follows (emphasis mine): Journolist is meant to serve a very specific purpose that’s actually related to my experience building this blog. The work of this site has always...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 1 Comment
Obama’s teleprompter has instigated a fight between Mr. Nasty and President O’Nasty. It started with a scripted dig by Obama at Simon Cowell on the Jay Leno show, to which Cowell responded in kind: When the historians of tomorrow take out their quill pens and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 2 Comments
It is amazing how this administration creates controversies because it expresses opinions without reading the documents on which the opinions are based. First, there was the AIG bonus controversy. The bonuses were authorized by the stimulus plan, which neither the administration nor Congress actually read...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 0 Comments
Michele Bachmann, the conservative Republican Congressman from Minnesota, has gotten into the heads of the left-wing blogosphere. Yesterday was the completely phony attack on Bachmann’s “armed and dangerous” comment, in which her metaphor for outrage was twisted into a supposed call to arms. Today brings...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 4 Comments
I have been waiting for this day, when one of the demonized executives at a bank or insurance company would tell Congress to “take this job and shove it.” The person singing this song today is Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2009 0 Comments
Conservative Republican Congressman Michele Bachmann has come under fire for stating that voters should be “armed and dangerous” over the administration’s engery tax plans. While the leftwing media tried to twist this statement into a literal call to arms, in fact Bachmann was using a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2009 7 Comments
My thoughts as the interview progresses: He says: Investment banking not like it was 20 years ago, when investment bankers only made 20 times what teachers made, not 200 times. I say: Are you kidding me? Remember Drexel and Michael Milkin? Remember the people who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2009 0 Comments
A large-scale car bomb attack outside a mall in Haifa, Israel, has been prevented after the car failed to fully detonate. According to reports, a small explosion alerted police, who then realized that the car was loaded with explosives. If the car had exploded outside...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2009 24 Comments
Ezra Klein, blogger for the “liberal” American Prospect, got caught by Politico coordinating his stories with other liberal bloggers and journalists. Exposed for being a journalistic fraud, Klein needed an enemy. He found Ann Althouse. Althouse, who has a very popular blog, could be considered...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2009 3 Comments
Richard Falk is a long-time anti-Israel (and often anti-American) polemicist. A retired Princeton professor, Falk has dedicated much of his life to blaming Israel and the United States for the world’s woes, while coddling extremism everywhere else in the world. Not surprisingly, Falk also is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2009 0 Comments
Note: Cuomo’s Press Release and The Indictment Are Posted Below This story is just breaking. Hank Morris, a top confidant of U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, has been indicted for pension fraud for using political connections to steer N.Y. State Pension Fund business for a fee:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2009 9 Comments
I am pleased to introduce The Official Guide To Obama Kitsch. Kitsch is a word of Germanic origin which denotes something that is in poor taste, tacky, pretentious, cheap or trashy. In order to qualify, the product must (1) feature the name or likeness of...
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