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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2013 6 Comments

Update:  Looks like Bibi Netanyahu will be selected to put together a government, but is not in as strong a position as expected just weeks ago.  Carl in Jerusalem has all the details and live updates. Carl also updates on something I touched on below, Breaking:...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2013 35 Comments

While he puts the usual liberal spin on it, Greg Sargent at WaPo is correct that Obama sees his path forward as overwhelming Republicans.  Sargent writes: Yesterday, President Obama used his Inaugural Address to lay out an expansive case for progressive governance, one rooted in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2013 22 Comments

in a blue county in Ohio.  Could this be to 2014 what Obamacare was to 2010, an issue which cuts across party lines outside of the big cities? From Kathryn: Thought you might be interested in a couple photos from the very blue Lucas County, Ohio, gun...

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 superior...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2013 8 Comments

I have pointed out before how In RI, Public Sector Unions Are The State and how behind almost every Democratic politician there stands a union. So the latest news is not surprising.  Via ProJo, Laborers' union again gives two R.I. Senate leaders six-figure compensation: Annual reports showing the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2013 48 Comments

No need to watch Obama's inaugural speech. Text is here. Same old, same old straw men, platitudes, and ode to big government and collectivism: Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can...

Posted by Anne Segal on January 21, 2013 5 Comments

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. There could be no more appropriate time to reflect on Martin Luther King's words than Inauguration Day, when the man who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2013 23 Comments

There is a fascinating discussion of gun control at Eudaimonia blog. I don't know who the author is, but the really, really loooong A Few Thoughts On Gun Control is well worth the read. It is chock full of interesting images and charts like this one: and this and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2013 45 Comments

I'll use this as my own inauguration day, spending the day thinking about what we can do better. I have not given in to all the doom and gloom, although it's hard not to.  There is a deliberate effort to declare the Republican Party, conservatives, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2013 15 Comments

The Lower Hudson Journal News infamously published a list of licensed gun permit holders in two counties in New York, including names and home addresses. The reaction included retaliatory publication of Journal News staff home addresses and phone numbers, widespread condemnation even from other journalists, and ultimately,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2013 24 Comments

From "D" in Rahm-town: I saw this sign yesterday outside a church in Obama's old neighborhood, one block from the University of Chicago campus. No matter how you interpret it, we are up against a lot of Kool-Aid drinkers. Keep up your fine work.  ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 41 Comments

I can't imagine why GWB would want to miss Obama's 2nd Inauguration Really, it's hard to understand. I mean, really....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 9 Comments

Advocates of gun control and liberal pundits generally disparaged the notion that David Gregory even possibly was subjected to criminal prosecution for violation of the D.C. gun law by possessing a high-capacity ammunition magazine on television. The non-prosecution was declared the only reasonable conclusion, and those of us...

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 banks,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 18 Comments

And still be right. Via Ed Driscoll: In the illustration above, the Newsweek cover on the left was mocked-up by the Photoshop artists at National Review to accompany a 2009 satire by Rob Long titled, “A Conversation from Heaven,” regarding what Bernard Goldberg might call Newsweek’s “Slobbering...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 18 Comments

Obama wants Israel to go back to the pre-1967 borders, and he's squarely placed the blame on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not being willing to go along. I addressed this the other day in my post, Obama’s interference in Israel’s election. Now Netanyahu is speaking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 41 Comments

The left-blogosphere is joyous because there were accidental shootings at gun shows and events for Gun Appreciation Day. Really, they're putting the full snark on, because nothing says "suspend the 2nd Amendment" like accidental shootings:   There's something much more dangerous. Rock concerts, which have a sordid history of serious...

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