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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 06, 2011 15 Comments

My friend, Steven Samols, is studying abroad in Berlin. Though I attended the same program in the fall of '09, Steven has learnt from my mistakes and has been graciously keeping his observations written down. This small passage reminds me that the Berlin subway system...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2011 6 Comments

The Board of Editors of The New York Times is demanding significant cut backs in public sector union contracts, but refuses to recognize the cause of the problem, which is the entire structure of public employee unions:At a time when public school students are being...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2011 7 Comments

It takes someone with a big pair to display this pair of bumper stickers in Ithaca:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2011 13 Comments

The comments directed at the Koch brothers at left-wing blogs have been among the most vile I have seen anywhere on any topic.But this one by frequent Salon.com commenter Marc22309, who has published over 1800 "letters" (what Salon.com calls comments) certainly is among the most vile:It's interesting how...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2011 7 Comments

The New York Times had an article today about David Koch, focused on the opening of a cancer center in Boston donated by Koch, but also touching on the Think Progress and left-wing smear campaign against Koch.Koch made an interesting comment regarding the "prank" call in which...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 05, 2011 21 Comments

Bill Maher '78, the most deranged and arrogant Cornell alum on the air by default since Olbermann was pulled, managed to make a news story into an insult about Sarah Palin for the millionth time. [On Charlie Sheen] "So yes, it's childish, it’s needlessly defensive,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2011 11 Comments

Anything goes.Spotted in Ithaca this morning:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2011 8 Comments

Democrat David Cicilline was Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, for 8 years, replacing the colorful and convicted Mayor Buddy Cianci.  Cicilline was elected in November to Congress in Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District (my home district), for the open seat vacated by Patrick Kennedy.Cicilline is an openly gay Italian...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2011 11 Comments

There is an economic measurement phenomenon developing which has the potential -- in a bass ackwards way -- to help Obama's re-election prospects.The jobs situation is so bad and so lacking in hope that more and more people simply are dropping out of the workforce,...

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

Among the many, many false narratives Barack Obama successfully perpetrated on the American public in 2008 with the help of a compliant and fawning media was the notion that Obama's election was the result of "small donors" and a grassroots fundraising movement.It all was part...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 04, 2011 9 Comments

Bono made a bit of a stir in late January with an Op Ed in Le Monde, a French newspaper. As he wrote:Africa is rich in natural resources yet it is rarely Africans (save some corrupt officials) who get rich off their extraction. Meanwhile the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2011 10 Comments

As my readers know, I have taken an interest in polling, primarily because it seems so many polls are agenda driven.  In a post last week, I pointed to a PPP poll on Wisconsin which used sample data which underweighted Walker voters from 2010 and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2011 11 Comments

In what will come as a shock to no one who lives in reality, the revolutions throughout the Middle East, while sparked in many instances by people who share western-style democratic values, are turning Islamist, and the Obama administration is dithering and accepting the outcome as a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2011 15 Comments

A campaign by Think Progress to demonize and marginalize the Koch brothers has jumped the shark.No, I'm not referring to the cretin who posted a comment here calling me a "Koch whore."No, I'm not referring to the theft of David Koch's identity by a liberal blogger.No,...

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