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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2011 1 Comment

On Saturday, February 19, 2011, I was a guest on DaTechGuy's radio show on WCRN 830 True Talk Radio, a 50,000 watt superstation in New England.  We touched on the Sherrod v. Breitbart lawsuit, the Wisconsin union battle, the federal budget cuts passed by the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2011 3 Comments

from his plan to scale back (not eliminate) collective bargaining for state workers.  And contrary to the general mainstream media spin that Walker was rewarding a politically supportive group, perhaps Walker realized that when contronting the public sector unions, he would need all the protection he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2011 8 Comments

Egyptian Cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa calling for the killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi.  How could anyone be opposed to taking out the guy who killed over 250 people on Pan Am 103 and who now is killing protesters in the streets?Certainly not me,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2011 7 Comments

Spotted in Ithaca this morning, a pretty unusual combination of bumper stickers.  --------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2011 26 Comments

The Obama administration was very active in sheparding Hosni Mubarek out of power in Egypt, yet has been almost silent until today about Muammar Gaddafi, even as Libyan troops have used aircraft to bomb protesters.Explanation?--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on...

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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 21, 2011 8 Comments

K.McCaffrey --- In light of the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, it has been interesting to watch the way certain schools have reconsidered hosting a ROTC program on their campuses. As far as New York City schools go, currently only Fordham University in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2011 5 Comments

As I reported last September, TeaPartyTracker.org was formed by the NAACP, Think Progress, Media Matters and NewLeft Media to "monitor racism and other forms of extremism within the Tea Party movement."In fact, TeaPartyTracker.org never really served a monitoring function; it merely served as another outlet...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2011 5 Comments

I have received some e-mails from readers complaining that the blog is loading slowly or is generating "flash" errors.If you have had such problems, please post in the comments, so I can try to ascertain the problem.Of course, using Blogger gives me almost no control...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2011 10 Comments

The worldwide Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) campaign against Israel has mostly been a failure in the U.S., but that does not stop brainwashed youth brigades from trying to delegitimze Israel anyway.Via IsraellyCool comes this video posted by the Philadelphia wing of the BDS movement, trying stop a supermarket chain from carrying...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2011 13 Comments

The Obama administration came close to what many of us have feared would happen, abandoning Israel at the U.N.Yes, the U.S. finally -- after a sustained bipartisan Congressional outcry -- did veto a one-sided and politically opportunistic resolution pushed by the Palestinian Authority declaring Israeli...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2011 30 Comments

When it came to overthrowing Hosni Mubarek, the western media thrust itself into the situation and portrayed the uprising as a western-style demand for freedom.The television screens were filled with stories of relatively western figures such as Google employee Wael Ghonim, who became the face...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2011 14 Comments

To its credit, The New York Times ran the video produced by the Wisconsin Republican Party of signs carried by union protesters against the Governor of Wisconsin (featured in my post here), under the headline Republicans Accuse Liberals of Hateful Rhetoric in Wisconsin:The Republican Party of Wisconsin has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2011 17 Comments

We have seen the future of the health care system, and it is the doctors on the streets of Madison, Wisconsin, handing out free sick notes to public sector union members so they can fraudulently collect their pay for missing work.Boy, oh boy, I can't...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 19, 2011 10 Comments

In Annandale, VA there is an election every year to appoint the president of the Civic Association: This past election, to make the meeting move faster, only the names and qualifications of the candidates were announced. Running for president, Ms. Beatha Lee was described as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2011 4 Comments

The New York Times has a story on the return of Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi to Egypt (emphasis mine): Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential Sunni cleric who is banned from the United States and Britain for supporting violence against Israel and American forces in Iraq, delivered his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2011 15 Comments

To call the performance of the Obama administration at the UN, through Ambassador Susan Rice, "folly" would be far, far too kind.Mahmoud Abbas, despite repeated U.S. requests, insisted on pressing for a U.N. Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlement construction "illegal."  The U.S. vetoed the resolution.Standing in isolation,...

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