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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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2009 9 Comments
Yes the nation was, to use a phrase popular with Democrats, “lied into” electing Barack Obama President. Or as this author puts it, Obama on the flying trapeze: We’ve seen him in action for a bit more than six months. What we can say with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2009 6 Comments
Frank Ricci was the lead plaintiff in Ricci v. DeStefano, the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Sonia Sotomayor on the issue of whether the City of New Haven discriminated against mostly white firefighters. The Supreme Court decision, as well as Sotomayor’s handling...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2009 6 Comments
NY Times columnist Judith Warner writes today about “the fact that our country’s resentment, and even hatred, of well-educated, apparently affluent women is spiraling out of control.” Her proof? A college professor is being charged with child endangerment for dropping three young children (ages 3,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2009 23 Comments
Sarah Palin’s announcement that she will resign as Governor of Alaska has kicked off a new round of attacks on Palin’s intelligence and integrity from pundits on both sides of the political spectrum. For most of the commentators, the resignation signals an end to Palin’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2009 2 Comments
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