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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2010 39 Comments
It would be easy to cheer as the Obama administration seeks to take down Goldman Sachs. After all, Goldman Sachs has become a proxy for Wall Street, since so many of the old icons no longer exist or have been consumed as a result of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2010 12 Comments
Dana Lithwick asks What Are Liberal Law Students So Sad About? Her conclusion is that liberal law students are sad because their liberal legal heroes can’t seem to get on the Supreme Court: Since it’s April, and America’s law students have nothing else to do...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2010 4 Comments
The ruling Labour Party in Britain has used its control of the National Health Service to help its campaign for the May 6 general election, via the Times of London: Labour was today caught up in a new row over its use of personal data...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2010 3 Comments
Frank Rich has been at the lead of the cabal of Democratic operatives, mainstream media columnists and left-wing bloggers who have engaged in a deliberate year-long smear campaign to paint opposition to Obama’s agenda as inherently racist. Rich’s most recent column, It’s a Bird, It’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2010 11 Comments
Another day, some more agitation by the Obama administration and Agitprop by the mainstream media, this time directed by Obama himself at Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk radio hosts. This country is boiling over, after over a year of a strategy of crazy, in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2010 7 Comments
Keep moving, nothing to see here: Now Mr Obama is expected to rule out the development of new weapons systems — despite reservations from the military, which is mindful that Russia and China are modernising and expanding their nuclear forces respectively. He will also drop...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2010 15 Comments
From Nile Gardiner at The Telegraph (h/t Gateway Pundit via Instapundit), on the destructive Obama foreign policy: I wrote recently about Barack Obama’s sneering contempt for both Israel and Great Britain. Further confirmation of this was provided today with new details emerging regarding the President’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2010 20 Comments
Kirsten Gillibrand should be toast in November, if only the Republicans could find someone with some decent name recognition and background to run against her. There simply is nothing remarkable about Gillibrand, and other than the support of Chuck Schumer, there is no reason Gillibrand...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2010 1 Comment
That seems to be the point of David Savage’s intellectually dishonest column in the L.A. Times. Savage tries to link Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the 2002 “torture memo” written by Thomas’ former clerk, John Yoo. Savage’s argument is that Thomas’ view of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2010 5 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Craig Crawford announced on his blog that he is leaving MSNBC because he is sick and tired of being a “cartoon player for lefty games” demanded of him...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2010 10 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: This is the first post in this series to focus on the use of the race card by both sides of a dispute, call it “race card v....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2010 9 Comments
Barack Obama is claiming credit for “saving” the economy from a full-blown depression based on passage of the stimulus plan. As with most Obama claims of success, Obama simply is exhibiting his prowess at using strawman arguments. Obama compares where the economy is now, versus...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2010 11 Comments
This is the latest in the Saturday Night Card Game series on the use of the race card for political gain: Charles Ogletree is a Professor at Harvard Law School. Ogletree who is black, has decided that to call Barack Obama “professor” has racist connotations:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2010 4 Comments
Clark Hoyt, “The Public Editor” at The NY Times, apparently doesn’t know when he is being used. Or at least Hoyt didn’t know it when he reacted to a complaint from the Electronic Intifada website that Ethan Bronner, The Times’ Jerusalem bureau Chief (an American)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2010 16 Comments
Nate Silver, January 5, 2010, Wicked Awesome Thoughts on Massachusetts Special Election: Rasmussen is supposed to have a poll out tomorrow (Tuesday) on the Massachusetts Senate Special Election, which will take place on the 19th. There’s been some speculation, mostly from Republican blogs but also...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2010 34 Comments
As readers of this blog already know, I am cursed with two of the looniest Congressmen in existence, Patrick Kennedy in my home state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and Maurice Hinchey in Ithaca, NY, where I live during the academic year. In the...
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