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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2011 20 Comments

I have posted before about how the shrinking workforce tends to mask just how bad unemployment really is because people who have given up hope and stopped looking are not counted in the most widely cited calculation. So the news yesterday that the unemployment rate held...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2011 8 Comments

I guess the driver of this vehicle didn't hear what John Conyers had to say about West Virginia. Thanks to reader Marisa for this photo taken just outside Raleigh, NC: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2011 27 Comments

Painful to watch. No one could have seen this coming. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Can you say "Teapot Dome"?...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2011 18 Comments

Via The Hill: The White House announced Friday that it is shelving a major planned Environmental Protection Agency regulation that would have tightened smog standards, dealing a huge blow to environmentalists that had pushed the Obama administration to resist industry pressure to abandon the regulation. In a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2011 10 Comments

... of hitting fellow Justice Michael Gableman: State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is sticking by his story that Justice Ann Walsh Bradley hit him on the back of the head, but said Thursday it happened a year later than he originally claimed. Bradley said in a...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2011 12 Comments

John Ruberry has the details: Valerie Jarrett, a close friend of the Barack and Michelle Obama is the former CEO of Habitat Company, which managed Grove Parc, a federally subsidized apartment complex on Chicago's South Side that can be accurately described as a slum. Jarrett is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2011 23 Comments

That's how many net new jobs were created last month in newly released unemployment numbers: The Labor Department says total payrolls were unchanged in August, weakest report in almost a year. It's the first time since February 1945 that the government has reported a net job...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2011 5 Comments

I posted yesterday about a U.N. report finding that Israel's sea blockade of Gaza is legal under international law, that Israel had a right to board and search the vessels in the May 2010 Gaza flottila (organized by a Turkish Islamist group), and that the Israelis...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2011 1 Comment

... it will be wrapped in a John Galt bumper sticker and carrying a Vietnam service ribbon. Who could have imagined the revolt of the kulaks would arrive so soon? Thanks to Dr. J. for this photo he took yesterday of the rear window of a pick up truck in Ithaca.  ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 7 Comments

All this talk about Rick Perry being too much like Dubya has infiltrated the brain of the person who tweets for The Hill. From @thehill: From The Hill, at the link in the tweet:  Just a mistake, or creating a story?...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 5 Comments

From the guy no longer on MSNBC because he was so outrageous they had to tone things down a bit by replacing him with Al Sharpton: These guys in the Obama camp are in for a horrible, rude awakening. Sometime in the next year, they are going to...

Posted by Michael Alan on September 01, 2011 13 Comments

The White House is rolling out a new "petition" system designed, apparently, to help citizens get straight answers from the White House on issues they care about. Yeah, I'm not buying it either.  Isn't this the same White House that tried to claim the high ground...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 18 Comments

Obama is getting tough with Congress, implementing steps to have federal agencies take (supposedly) job creating actions without waiting for Congress to act, Obama Rolls Out a Jobs Plan That Doesn't Need Congress: On Wednesday, Obama took a now-familiar path in adopting a program--this time a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 14 Comments

Maybe I have not recovered from witnessing the ability of the nation to delude and deceive itself, as happened in 2008. I never understood the attraction in the first place, so I'm not believing that when the recovering deluded and deceived enter the voting booth, they will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 6 Comments

... Obama decided to do it again on a jobs plan. The 2009 health care speech was what I dubbed the "have your cake and eat it too" speech, in which Obama lashed out at critics of the pending House and Senate legislation while offering solutions which were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 13 Comments

That's what the driver of this car would have to do if not for big bad oil. Thanks to reader Joseph, who writes: I noticed this in a Jacksonville Beach parking lot as I was on my way to catch some waves from the hurricane after a Michele...

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