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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 24 Comments

Obama is holding another press conference today, at 11 a.m. , with regard to the debt talks.  The last press conference was an unmitigated disaster for him, leading one MSNBC talking head to drop the "D" bomb. My take is that we will see a different...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 22 Comments

Democrats have an idea.  Let's take an additional $2 trillion from the private sector and give it to the federal government. What possibly could go wrong? ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 26 Comments

Last night John Boehner announced that Republicans were abandoning an attempt to reach a $4 trillion deficit reduction deal with Obama because Obama inisted on $1 trillion in tax increases.    Obama always wants new taxes on the "rich."  As Michael Alan wrote here, Obama wanted tax...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 14 Comments

Not the bumper sticker, you know what. Sent by reader Thomas from Austin, TX: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 20 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: A couple of weeks it was saggy-pants bias.  Now its poofy hair profiling. A mixed-race woman from Seattle is charging racism because TSA screeners asked to check her poofy hair...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 29 Comments

Don't spy on the labels on wine bottles ordered by people at tables near you, because it's none of your business. Don't then look up the price on the wine list, because it's none of your business. Don't then calculate how long a family of four could live...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 34 Comments

Just saw him interviewed by John King Roberts on Fox News, and I have to say, he was refreshingly blunt, as is his campaign website. King Roberts referenced this tweet by McCotter: But I don't know much (indeed, almost anything) about him.  I do know he supported...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 8 Comments

I knew I should have paid more attention. But the question remains: Did he mention windmills? or at least "wind energy"?...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 7 Comments

Last year I documented the saga of the city of Central Falls, Rhode Island, which went into state receivership only to be "rescued" by a new state law which prohibited municipalities from using traditional court receiverships in favor of a new state takeover mechanism. Central Falls became a model of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 1 Comment

Now I can't say bumper stickers never taught me anything. I spotted this bumper sticker in Providence last night, near Thayer Street and Brown University: My first impression was that this was some sort of political statement, but thanks to the miracle of Google, I learned that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 08, 2011 36 Comments

... The only way for Obama to stimulate the enormous private sector job growth needed to ensure Obama's reelection is for Obama to announce he is not running for reelection, which would unleash a wave of investment and economic activity not seen since the Great Depression....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 08, 2011 40 Comments

There are two candidates still waiting, either of whom could shake up the Republican primaries big time. It's impossible to read the tea leaves on whether Sarah Palin is running, but it seems increasingly likely that Rick Perry is running. How much longer can they wait? Bonus question:  If...

Posted by Michael Alan on July 08, 2011 9 Comments

Edward Larkin, a professor of German at the public University of New Hampshire, plead guilty in November 2009 to charges accusing him of exposing himself to a 17 year old girl and her mother earlier that year. Despite this, he is still fully employed at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 08, 2011 1 Comment

I've written many times about Rhode Island's public sector pension problem, which is like an albatross hung around the necks of taxpayers.  Although some reforms have been made, retiring at a relatively early age on full or near full salary forevever has created an absurd situation...

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