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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 23, 2009 2 Comments
Lynn Sweet is from Chicago, where Barack Obama launched and refined his community activist/politician credentials. Sweet writes and blogs for the Chicago Sun-Times, and is one of my favorite columnists/bloggers. When Sweet asked the now-famous question to Barack Obama last night about the arrest of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 23, 2009 1 Comment
William F. Buckley, Jr. famously said: I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Reflecting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2009 25 Comments
I guess I owe something of an apology to Huffington Post blogger Martha St. Jean who wrote yesterday about the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: I believe Gates did what anyone would do, he yelled at the officer, probably called him a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2009 8 Comments
“Keep your laws off my body” has been a rallying cry of liberals, and the pro-choice movement in particular, for decades. The concept is that medical procedures are so intensely personal that government, regardless of its intent, should not be involved in the decisions. Yet...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2009 3 Comments
“The time for talk is over.” That sentence should be the new slogan of the Obama administration. Forget “Change We Can Believe In” or “Yes We Can.” Those were yesterday’s slogans, when Obama wanted but did not yet have power. The time for talk was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2009 10 Comments
On the controversy regarding the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Martha St. Jean at Huffington Post writes: I believe Gates did what anyone would do, he yelled at the officer, probably called him a few names and maybe told him he was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2009 7 Comments
The current Democratic House bill on health care includes fines to force people to purchase health insurance, which is consistent with Barack Obama’s current position on mandates. This type of coercion, however, was criticized by Obama during the campaign, when he attacked Hillary Clinton’s health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2009 3 Comments
Every now and then, David Brooks makes sense. Today is one of those days, in his column at the NY Times, Liberal Suicide Watch: It’s not that interesting to watch the Democrats lose touch with America. That’s because the plotline is exactly the same. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2009 1 Comment
If you want a good measure of how desperate Barack Obama has become to force through his health care agenda before the August recess, there is no better evidence than Obama’s conference call yesterday with far left bloggers such as Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2009 9 Comments
Harvard Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested for disorderly conduct. According to news reports, police responded to a call from a neighbor that someone was trying to break into Gates’ house by forcing open the door. It turns out the person trying to break...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2009 6 Comments
With all that is happening in the world and at home, it would be easy to forget about the drama unfolding in Honduras this weekend. Manuel Zelaya is threatening another attempt at a return to Honduras this Sunday, is taking steps to set up an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2009 29 Comments
Yes, the Senate should vote Yes on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to be the next Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The main reason I reach this conclusion is that there is no compelling reason to vote no. I watched about half of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2009 2 Comments
The Drudge Report links today to a Craigslist-San Francisco ad (right) by the Fund for the Public Interest, Inc. (formerly known as the Fund for Public Interest Research, Inc., referred to as The Fund), seeking people willing to help the “CAMPAIGN TO FIX THE HIGH...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2009 6 Comments
The headline you will never see, even in response to a post such as Palin: All Tail, No Head. The post title that has nothing to do with the post (which was about fundraising). But using sexual innuendo when writing about Sarah Palin has become...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2009 4 Comments
At Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, Sotomayor was asked by Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to explain her comment that “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2009 8 Comments
I have blogged about the horrendous treatment of Trig Palin by many left-wing bloggers. While making fun of Trig’s Down syndrome makes such attacks particularly disgusting, the point is … leave politicians’ kids alone. Period. The same holds true for Malia Obama, who has been...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2009 1 Comment
The Obama administration and Democrats in Congress are on the verge of a multi-fronted investigation of the Bush administration’s handling of the war on al-Qaeda, including a secret CIA plan to capture or kill senior al-Qaeda leaders which never became operational, before being terminated by...
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