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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2009 2 Comments
Another conservative secretly takes to the internet. The Commissioner: Where sports and politics collide. Ouch. But one thing, another new blog in the Ithaca area without name, rank and serial number. How can people attack you if you don’t identify yourself? Maybe that’s the point....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2009 3 Comments
A delegation of Hollywood stars, headed by Annette Bening, is traveling to Iran to open a dialogue on behalf of the Obama administration: Thirty-eight years ago, a ping pong team sent by US president Richard Nixon to Beijing opened the door to Communist China. February...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2009 1 Comment
The internet is abuzz with photos of Pork Brains In Milk Gravy, allegedly the “worst food product ever.” I beg to differ with these pundits, who obviously have not heard of The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls, by Serbian chef Ljubomir R. Erovic, who dedicates...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2009 4 Comments
Will it never stop? The deification of Obama, is what I’m talking about. Now it’s Obama’s marriage that is historic and a teaching lesson for the rest of us dim-witted wife-beaters. This, from a column in the Ithaca Journal written by Elizabeth Einstein (what else!):...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2009 0 Comments
An article at American Thinker lays out a chart showing how Obama won the election by overwhelming Republicans. The author compares Republicans to Ethiopian spear-carriers who, under an onslaught by Italian mechanized troops, didn’t know what hit them. I like the analogy, but I don’t...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2009 0 Comments
An Obama spokesman has just announced that the likely “downpayment” on Obama’s plan to expand health insurance coverage over the next decade will exceed $1 trillion. That’s above and beyond what presently is paid through medicare and medicaid. The question is, what percentage of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2009 1 Comment
Will AP’s cheerleading never stop? AP cheers the “audacity” of Obama’s speech to Congress last night, while Marketwatch reports on the reality of Obama’s massive plans for spending. —————————————————UPDATE: Drudge Report gets it right:

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2009 0 Comments
Nothing has changed. The mainstream media still is campaigning for Obama. On Obama’s announcement of troop withdrawals from Iraq, the AP headline screams “US troops to exit Iraq by August 2010.” Read several paragraphs into the story, and you will see that the headline and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2009 0 Comments
I wish this were a joke, but it’s not. The town of Dryden, NY, near Ithaca, has plans to build a bridge in an area so remote that the town does not want to spend its own money on it, so it is seeking federal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2009 0 Comments
The website DebkaFile is reporting that Bibi Netanyahu’s choice for Israeli Foreign Minister is Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, a hero of the Soviet refusenik movement. For those of you who are not familiar with Sharansky, his story is inspiring. In the weeks just before and after...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2009 8 Comments
Ah, hope and change. Near silence from the American mainstream media, but this news item from the Brits about Obama appointing one of his key fundraisers as Ambassador to Great Britain: Barack Obama has been embroiled in a cronyism row after reports that he intends...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2009 37 Comments
The beginning of a protest movement against Barack Obama’s redistributive policies is underway. Though still small, every movement starts somewhere. While called the “Tea Party” after the Boston Tea Party, this movement is similar to movements throughout history where the producers of society refuse to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2009 1 Comment
I am about to tread where sane people in this society dare not go for fear of having their words twisted: Discussing race. Attorney General Eric Holder told us not to be cowards on the subject, so let’s talk about whether non-racist cartoons or words...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2009 3 Comments
There’s an old saying on Wall Street that a bear market has not bottomed out until the last bull capitulates. News flash. The last bull has capitulated. Me. I’m a true believer in capitalism and markets. There is no better measure of what an item...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2009 0 Comments
The headline of an Op-ed on the website of The Guardian newspaper, the left-wing British newspaper, started out promisingly enough: “Hamas No, Human Rights Yes.” The sub-title was even better: “Why are the left and the anti-war movement ignoring Hamas’s repression of the Palestinian people?”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2009 0 Comments
Roland Burris has offered changing accounts of his communications with emissaries of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in the weeks leading up to Blagojevich’s appointment of Burris to Barack Obama’s open Senate seat. These changing accounts, including an updated Affidavit filed by Burris with the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2009 4 Comments
“This is the worst economy since the Great Depression!” How many times have we heard that phrase in the past six months? Put aside that by almost every measure (particularly the unemployment rate) that statement is outright false. Nonetheless, that argument is used to justify...
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