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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2011 4 Comments

What is it with Nobel Peace Prize winners lately?Now its 2005 Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei threatening war with Israel if Israel gets into another war with Hamas in Gaza:Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to run for...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2011 5 Comments

Former Congressman John Adler and his wife Shelley were law school classmates of mine.  John passed away yesterday at the age of 51 from complications from a heart infection.  As reported by the Newark Star Ledger:Former U.S. Rep. John Adler had a knack for beating...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2011 14 Comments

I don't know if this is a sign that perhaps all the noise and fury from the Democrats and unions in Wisconsin does not reflect reality, but it is worth noting that Republicans have collected enough signatures to force a recall election in Senate District 22,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2011 7 Comments

A post at POWIP by an author who lives in Madison, WI, documents how in mid-March, with the budget repair bill having recently passed, a variety of unions in Sauk County acceded to all management demands, including giving "carte blanche [to the county] with regard to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2011 8 Comments

Something about it always struck me as a stretch, but the words of Muammar Gaddafi, repeated endlessly in the media and from the White House, seemed to portent doom in Benghazi.  Now Steve Chapman has put the lie to the Obama claim that military intervention was...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2011 9 Comments

Obama announced via Twitter that his grassroots campaign will start today, on the eve of his nationwide tour of big money donors so that he can become the first billion-dollar candidate in the history of this country (sorry, that last part wasn't in the announcement).The Obama campaign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2011 2 Comments

I'm sorry that I forgot to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Marine Corporal Jonathan Daniel Porto, who was killed in Afghanistan on March 14, 2010, leaving behind his wife and infant daughter.  The original blog post by Cpl. Porto's wife, Rachel, announcing his death was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2011 6 Comments

When you aspire to be the billion-dollar candidate, turning off the security features on your credit card operation just isn't going to do the job.  You need big money donors to show you the money.And so it is for the most historic fundraiser ever, someone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2011 17 Comments

As noted yesterday, Richard Goldstone has recanted and regretted much of his report issued on behalf of the United Nations Human Rights Council accusing Israel of serious war crimes during the Gaza war.So how do we cleanse the world of the putrid stench of the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 03, 2011 3 Comments

KathleenOne of my favorite bloggers, Jeffrey Tucker, has an awesome article over at Mises.org about what is at stake amidst the teen jobs crisis (only about 14 % of teens aged 17 have jobs):And so fewer and fewer people know anything about the workplace. They...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 03, 2011 3 Comments

KathleenMy friend Steven is studying abroad in Berlin. In the past few weeks, Germany has been noticeably absent from the Libyan dilemma and Steve gives a pretty good explanation as to why:"Germans are actually a rather insular bunch of people who prefer to think about...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2011 1 Comment

We're part way there, but that was the easy part.  The next 18 months will be, in the words of the sage, hand-to-hand combat.Spotted by reader Scott:(Please remember my caution about taking photos while driving.)--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 02, 2011 18 Comments

KathleenCity Journal's Claire Berlinski has written a great article about the disinterest around Pavel Stroilov's 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents dating from the close of the Cold War.journalists [have] initially shown interest in the documents, only to [say] later that their editors have declared...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2011 7 Comments

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