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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 02, 2011 6 Comments

K. McCaffrey -- Last week, Britain's chief central banker, Mervyn King, painted a grim picture of the years to come in the UK. - “In 2011, real wages are likely to be no higher than they were in 2005… One has to go back to...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2011 20 Comments

Strike that:JobsDebt Service AbilityYour DoctorYour Private Health InsuranceYour HouseOffshore Oil DrillingCoal MiningFreedom to be left aloneIncentive to work harderYour Junk's PrivacyLebanonTurkeyEgypt South America Hope ChangeDid I miss anything?--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 01, 2011 9 Comments

(K. McCaffrey) -- As a partner in a firm that deals mostly with web promotion on social media, the Egyptian affair has been fascinating to watch. As Mohamed Haykal, a Nasser confidante, said in a British interview, "The effect of mobiles, computers, satellites—there is a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2011 16 Comments

Everyone is all excited because some South Dakota legislators have proposed a mandate requiring each citizen to own a gun (h/t reader Brian):Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2011 3 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2011 4 Comments

Granted, it's not Tang or memory foam, but trillions of government debt did result in health advice no one else could have thought of:Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less This successful conclusion to FDA research actually was in doubt for decades:"While the recommendations may seem obvious, it is nonetheless considered major...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2011 12 Comments

According to Chuck Schumer, via Townhall (h/t @gpollowitz):So if these are the three branches of government, what do we call the 57 states?--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2011 2 Comments

Not really.  Here's Jon Podhoretz's take on the recent troubles in Egypt, It's never been about Palestine:The anti-Mubarak revolution won't only topple an authoritarian regime. It will also topple 40-plus years of wrong-headed thinking about the causes of Middle East instability among the world's foreign-policy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2011 0 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2011 51 Comments

I'm late to this, but the story has not received a lot of coverage in the conservative blogosphere.  Paul Mirengoff of Power Line blog no longer is of Power Line blog.Mirengoff is an attorney at Akin Gump, a big law firm with a large presence in Washington,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 30, 2011 2 Comments

One of my friends at Cornell is keeping a blog as he studies abroad in Syria. Jonathan Panter is a conservative in support of Bush foreign policy, as well as a junior government major at Cornell. He speaks Arabic and has traveled extensively in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2011 19 Comments

Mohamed ElBaradei is one of those figures who, because he is fairly westernized, easily manipulates western media and left-of-center bloggers and pundits into thinking he wants a western-style democracy in Egypt.It is not surprising that despite his obvious opportunism, ElBaradei has become something of a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2011 2 Comments

Definitely needed a long walk in the snow, including past Ithaca Falls, to escape the craziness.  A fall version of this shot is here.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2011 18 Comments

Obama does bear responsibility for the high, and now likely perpetual, unemployment rates, the skyrocketing budget deficits, and the rapid rise in our national debt in the past two years.  Domestically, the obsession with passing Obamacare and expanding government had a direct cause and effect...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2011 10 Comments

The upheaval in Egypt demonstrates the folly of those who claim to support Israel yet who seek to compel Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 borders without adjustment.The pre-1967 borders are what amounts to the completely arbitrary armistice lines drawn at the end of fighting when...

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