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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 8 Comments

Spotted by reader Will in Denver, Colorado: The car owner obviously is operating under a false impression: That’s what the revenue debate is about.  It’s not because I want to raise revenues for the sake of raising revenues, or I’ve got some grand ambition to create a...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 22 Comments

Help me formulate possible answers for a reader poll asking that question. Considering that some people wanted more than two alternative in the Flash Poll today, I'm taking suggestions....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 30 Comments

The story about a Rutgers professor confronting Rep. Paul Ryan at a Washington, D.C., restaurant over the cost of wine ordered by people at Ryan's table rightly has been criticized, including by me. But most of the criticism deals with the professor being a busy-body and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 23 Comments

I was right, mostly. The serious, conciliatory Obama showed up at the press conference today. The only reasonable person in the room was the theme. I was wrong to the extent that in his opening statement and throughout Obama framed the issue as the Republicans not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 19 Comments

That's the question I have, because the French obviously have different rules than we do (h/t Israel Matzav): Syrians loyal to President Bashar Assad stormed the US and French embassies in Damascus on Monday. The crowds managed to break into and enter the American compound, but...

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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...

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...

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...

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