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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2009 13 Comments
The remains of Navy Captain Scott Speicher, a pilot who has been missing since being shot down during the 1991 Gulf War, have been positively identified. The Pentagon has released a statement: The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) has positively identified remains recovered in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 01, 2009 4 Comments
The NY Times reports on whether the Treasury’s “Pay Czar” will try to break the contract Citigroup has with a Phibro commodities trader, under which the trader is owed $100 million. There apparently is no dispute that absent the Treasury lending Citigroup money, and the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2009 15 Comments
Democrats are tripping over the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii and that there is a cover-up by Hawaiian state officials, among others, who falsely have issued a “certificate of live birth.” On the one hand, Democrats and supportive blogs push...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2009 5 Comments
One of the joys of blogging under your real name is getting e-mails like this: Mr. Jacobson, You wrote: “While the mainstream media and left-wing blogs constantly tell us that Republicans and conservatives are dead politically, I don’t think they actually believe what they are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2009 2 Comments
The meeting at the White House yesterday between Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and James Crowley (with Joe Biden as the fourth wheel) has been dubbed the “Beer Summit.” Perhaps a better name would be the Thanksgiving Summit (emphasis mine): Pres. Obama: “I am...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2009 11 Comments
Blogger and media professor Jeff Cohen argues at HuffPo that the reason Obama’s health care plans are failing is that the liberal netroots are not pushing hard enough for a full-blown, nationalized, “single-payer,” “one nation, one plan” style medical system: Activists must recognize the surest...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2009 6 Comments
A Democratic pollster is quoted as saying that “this is a president who needs a vacation.” Obama is making a big push on everything all the time, but the polls are moving against him. If Obama were an endurance cyclist, we’d say he was bonking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2009 8 Comments
Will Newsweek ever stop trying to get attention by declaring things coming to an end? First it was the end of Christian America. Then the end of the recession. Now the end of monogamy as the basis for socially acceptable relationships, in a lead article...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2009 2 Comments
“Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun,” so said Noel Coward.* So must it seem to Barack Obama and the leading Democrats who are trying to force through a vote on health care “reform” without anyone having a fair opportunity to read...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2009 4 Comments
Gary Margolis, Executive Director of College Mental Health Services and Associate Professor in the English Department at Middlebury College in Vermont was moved to pen a poem in support of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The poem was titled “Ajar” and was published at the Boston...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2009 28 Comments
I have not devoted much attention to the Barack Obama “Birth Certificate” conspiracy theories, because I have been bogged down debunking so many other conspiracy theories, like Andrew Sullivan’s Trig Palin birth conspiracy theory and the recent theory that the Bush administration “concealed” evidence as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2009 0 Comments
Wendy Murphy, the lawyer for Lucia Whalen, who placed the 911 call which led to the arrest of Henry Louis Gate, Jr., was interviewed tonight on the Greta Van Susteren show. Murphy, speaking for Whalen, stated that Whalen heard Gates screaming at police, but refused...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2009 1 Comment
The Cambridge Police have released the 911 call by Lucia Whalen about a possible break-in at the home of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Here is the complete audio. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg7mHjr_d0c] The interesting part of the call is the caller, Lucia Whalen, is very circumscribed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2009 11 Comments
The big, breaking news of the day on the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. case is that the person who called the police to report a possible break-in, Lucia Whalen, denies that in the phone call she identified the race of the two alleged perpetrators, which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2009 15 Comments
The global warming debate has entered the conspiracy-theory phase with this hysterical article at The Guardian: Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide. Contrary to what the global-warming alarmists claim, however, there is scientific dispute over ice measurements. What is not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2009 26 Comments
The proper ending to the controversy over the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. should not be an apology or a sit down for beer at the White House. This no longer is a private affair, so Prof. Gates’ desire to “move on,”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2009 9 Comments
The Congressional Budget Office once again has poked a massive hole in the Democratic health care “reform” bubble, in a report issued today. One of the key elements of the Democratic proposals is to hand over the power to make cost cuts to an unelected,...
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