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Posted by David Gerstman on February 28, 2013 9 Comments
1) Water, water everywhere At the Times of Israel, editor David Horovitz writes about how Israel’s dealt with its water crisis. (h/t Yaacov Lozowick) “How did we beat the water shortage? Because we said we would. We decided we would,” says Kushnir, a big man...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 21 Comments
How low will this administration go on the sequester political jockeying? This low, As sequester nears, immigration detainees are released: The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it had released hundreds of illegal immigrants held in detention facilities, saying it could no longer afford to house...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2013 23 Comments
Forgive me for forsaking the Tip Line. It’s not that I don’t read it, I do. I just have neglected promoting items: donb — Paul Rahe in Obama’s Next Move:  “The name of the game for our President is to force a crisis that will...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 25, 2013 19 Comments
Earlier today Prof. Jacobson covered an issue I wanted to get to, Gov’t still controls the sequester pain meter. His argument was: The “unilateral” “across-the-board” sequester cuts seemingly absolve government of any responsibility. Actually, the opposite is true. While some decreases in the growth of government...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 25, 2013 8 Comments
Intifada: then and now In response to a recent news program in Israel, Col. Jonathan D. Halevi wrote The Palestinian Authority’s Responsibility for the Outbreak of the Second Intifada: Its Own Damning Testimony for the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs. Even now, as Halevi writes:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2013 32 Comments
Thomas K. Brown, a banking industry analyst and investor, writing at BankStocks.com, makes a point similar to what I made in my post, Elizabeth Warren’s heroic Senate demagoguery, that Warren’s Banking Committee YouTube performance was pure political grandstanding without substance or legitimate regulatory purpose. As with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2013 20 Comments
I’m glad that my post, Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals, has garnered a fair amount of attention. Mandy Nagy at Breitbart.com, has an interesting history, in response, that we all should consider, Why LOLcats Matter in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2013 11 Comments
From The Daily Star in Lebanon, one of the best websites for news about what’s happening there and in Syria, Three Hezbollah fighters, 12 Syrian rebels killed in clashes: Three Hezbollah fighters and 12 Syrian rebels were killed in fierce battles near Syria’s border with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 19 Comments
No water, no money, no reason to stay. From Mike: I sleep a little better knowing that not everyone in California is a loony leftie. I took the attached photos on Rt. 152 between Fresno and Los Banos in December. This is part of the...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 06, 2013 24 Comments
UPDATED! On my own blog, Temple of Mut, I post news about discoveries related to ancient Egypt. I also keep up with the news about modern Egypt, and today the country is being overrun with boobs.  The first example is Egypt’s Prime Minister Hisham Qandil,...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 25, 2013 9 Comments
President Barack Obama’s inaugural address was an ode to big government. And, of big government entities, perhaps the most toxic to the American economy is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  However, this federal agency cannot hold a candle to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2013 16 Comments
Text here In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is...

Posted by Anne Segal on January 20, 2013 36 Comments
British MEP Daniel Hannan delivered an electrifying take down of the central tenets of the Occupy movement during a debate about the movement at the Young Britons’ Foundation this week. Hannan described the bank bailouts, which have led to a landscape now filled with “zombie...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 16, 2013 48 Comments
In the wake of the pathetic and distorted American coverage of the attack on our Libyan embassy and the subsequent death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, I wrote: American Journalism Has Been Officially Outsourced. The stories from international sources proved to be far...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2013 34 Comments
I don’t think I knew who Aaron Swartz was, but this announcement of his death moved me: Aaron Swartz, online activist and founder of Infogami, a service later merged with Reddit, has committed suicide in New York City on Jan. 11, the Tech reports. The news...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2013 32 Comments
Who demands purity and wants chaos? Harry Reid who refused to bring House bills to a vote in the Senate? Nope. Obama, whose Treasury Secretary took to the airwaves to proclaim that Obama “absolutely” was willing to go over the cliff if tax rates were not...
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