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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 11, 2010 8 Comments

Apparently the FDNY is going to implement emergency services "crash tax" starting next year. "Getting hurt in a car accident is painful enough, but if firefighters have to respond, expect more pain — in your wallet.Starting next summer, the city plans to bill drivers in...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2010 8 Comments

One of the truly amazing aspects of the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme is that throughout it all, Bernie maintained a smirk on his face.  The almost perfect psychopath, Bernie felt no sympathy for his victims, even those who committed suicide upon discovering that a life's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2010 17 Comments

The original compromise tax bill was a mixed bag, at best.  I understood the benefits, as well as the conservative arguments against.  At least we were arguing over the merits of the bill.Now the tax deal is becoming an insult to the Republican and independent voters who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2010 25 Comments

A reader in the military just forwarded me this screenshot showing that the Department of Defense computer system has been upgraded to block internal users from accessing Legal Insurrection:This apparently just happened, as the reader had accessed the site earlier today.Hey, whoever makes these decision...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 10, 2010 3 Comments

Appropriately, "[as] negotiators from nearly 200 countries met in Cancun to strategize ways to keep the planet from getting hotter, the temperature in the seaside Mexican city plunged to a 100-year record low of 54° F. ...

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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 10, 2010 1 Comment

One of my friends text messaged me this morning "Lowry is good today." Indeed, today Rick Lowry's column is all about the decline of marriage in the US middle class. It makes for an interesting read, but reminds me of a piece I wrote a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2010 33 Comments

When the "framework" of the tax deal was announced, I wrote that Obama "had a pretty good day."As the details of the actual bill are coming out, it looks like Obama had a great day, Senate tax bill lures Democrats with sweeteners:But in the face...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2010 2 Comments

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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 09, 2010 5 Comments

My friend Alec Jacobs is interning at the Daily Caller. They recently sent him on a field trip to the White House to take a tour in order to cover a story on the decorations. As a bonus, they got a funny anecdote: "The tour...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2010 7 Comments

News crossing the wires is that the Democrats in the House have rejected Obama's tax deal with Republicans in a non-binding vote:The House Democratic Caucus on Thursday rejected the tax deal negotiated between the White House and Senate Republicans. The non-binding vote of the caucus...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2010 7 Comments

Another rush of legislation, taxes, budget, and a host of social agenda items.We've seen this bad movie before.  It resulted in Stimulus, and the Christmas Eve Obamacare vote last year.And it appears to be happening again.This lame duck Congress has no political legitimacy to pass...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 39 Comments

Via ABC News:The website and personal credit card information of former Gov. Sarah Palin were cyber-attacked today by Wikileaks supporters, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate tells ABC News in an email.Hackers in London apparently affiliated with “Operation Payback” – a group of supporters of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 17 Comments

I take offense to MoDo's PDS hyperbole:Sarah’s view of America is primitive. You’re either a pointy-headed graduate of Harvard Law School or you’re eviscerating animals for fun, which she presents as somehow more authentic.I'm the former, but not the latter, yet.  But the two absolutely are...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 08, 2010 0 Comments

Mario Vargas Llosa, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, addressed a crowd in Stockholm during his Nobel Lecture yesterday. The transcript is worth reading, but here is one part I found to be particularly lovely:"Let those who doubt that literature not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 4 Comments

The tax framework is falling apart, as a substantial number of Democrats and a few Republicans start taking shots at various provisions unrelated to marginal tax rates.Once again, Obama has chosen complexity for the sake of complexity, a lot of moving parts and social engineering.There...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 17 Comments

One of the interesting aspects of the "framework" announced by Obama to prevent marginal income tax increases on anyone is that part of the quid pro quo demanded by Obama was a one-year 2% drop in the portion of social security (FICA) taxes paid by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 11 Comments

They huff, and they puff, and they threaten to blow Obama's house down.Not the right-wingers, the left-wing "base" of the Democratic Party.  Dick Durbin is threatening that a bloc of Democrats may "walk out" on Obama by voting against his tax deal.  Mary Landrieu calls the...

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