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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2013 0 Comments
Cause: While you were sleeping, radical 1960s leftists took over the education system Video: Bill O’Reilly and Charles Krauthammer Analyze the Liberal Takeover of Higher Ed Professor attacks Pope for blessing disabled man, claims Christian bias against disabled USC Student Exposes Professor Who Routinely Calls...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2013 16 Comments
Margaret Thatcher rescued Britain from its economic death. Yet that dying patient now is glorified by the socialists and sympathizers who fought the tough medicine needed to break the death grip. Andrew Sullivan summed it up well in a post I linked on the day...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 10, 2013 2 Comments
1) Egyptian plagues Last week Zvi Mazel wrote in the Jerusalem Post (h/t Leslie Eastman) In a remarkable and enduring show of unity, non-Islamic opposition parties under the banner of the National Salvation Front are boycotting the regime until their demands – canceling the Islamic...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 08, 2013 3 Comments
Earlier today Prof Jacobson noted the passing former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. What I remember most about her was a speech she gave in 1985 to the American Bar Association in which she argued against giving terrorists the “oxygen of publicity.” The more open...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 03, 2013 6 Comments
1) Meanwhile in Egypt The New York Times is reporting Egyptians Struggle as Wary Tourists Stay Away: Tourism plummeted in 2011 with the fall of President Hosni Mubarak and the unrest that followed. Some tourists have started to return, but officials say they are mostly...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 28, 2013 12 Comments
Earlier this week, I noted that the banks in Cyprus will be opening Thursday, once the regular people had time to embrace the levy and understand all the awesome goodness in the new bailout plan. Shockingly, the Cypriots are still not down with the political...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 26, 2013 20 Comments
I was reviewing World War I history with my son yesterday. The global-scale conflict started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914.  This event set in motion a series of diplomatic incidents that led inexorably to...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 24, 2013 15 Comments
Cyprus has certainly shaken up the world. Our Congress is now addressing concerns over the European Union demands that a percentage of Cypriot deposits be seized before it bails-out the banks on the Mediterranean island.  There are reports that Cyprus still may seize bank accounts,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2013 16 Comments
What he said, Liberman calls Turkey apology a ‘serious mistake’: Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday for his decision to apologize to his Turkish counterpart for the “operational errors” made by Israel during the 2010 raid on the Turkish...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2013 6 Comments
A follow up to Kaliforniya. From R: I took this photo in the San Joaquin Valley: As can be seen, it is a farmers’ sign attacking politicians who created a legislated agricultural crisis. Further up I-5 I saw a vast dead orchard that I couldn’t...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 17, 2013 2 Comments
1) When elephants crash land Recently, I brought up an example of how Professor Barry Rubin handled a mistake. First he admitted it. Then he explained the forces involved. His behavior showed a few things. 1) He is serious about what he has written. 2)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2013 43 Comments
As part of a financial aid package from the European Union, Cyprus is being asked to confiscate up to 10 percent of bank deposits. Cyprus’ savers bear brunt of unprecedented bailout The euro zone agreed on Saturday to hand Cyprus a bailout worth 10 billion...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2013 4 Comments
“Buy when everyone else is selling.” From Warren Buffett on down, it’s a time tested approach to investing. It doesn’t mean purchase anything that comes along, or overpay, but it’s a contrarian approach to the madness of markets which tend to drive valuations to extremes...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 04, 2013 27 Comments
Back in the early 2000’s, the Enron scandal lead to California’s rolling blackouts.  As a result, as an environmental health and safety specialist, I began including information on handing power outages into company safety manuals. Now, thanks to “Green Energy”, it looks like I am...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2013 16 Comments
You don’t get more “progressive” than the Political Animal column at Washington Monthly, which has seen such luminaries as Steve Benen (now Rachel Maddow’s blogger) grace its pages. In a column yesterday, Samuel Knight took Elizabeth Warren to task for voting in favor of corporate...
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