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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 07, 2010 18 Comments

Sometimes you stumble upon a news story that is so absurd it makes you question your hope for the world. Today, I found one of those. An Egyptian official believes that Israel's intelligence agency might be behind the fatal shark attack of a German tourist in...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 4 Comments

Imagine my surprise when I saw the Memeorandum headline Joe Biden / Washington Post - Obama: On The Way To A Failed Presidency?:Could it be?  Another Biden gaffe?  And in The Washington Post, of all places.Nah, just a screw up by Memeorandum's algorithm.  The op-ed actually...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 6 Comments

Sent to me by a reader as a potential "Video of the Day" candidate, but deserves its own post. As a youthful Zappa fan, I enjoyed this very much. The "I'm a conservative" statement comes at 3:15. I didn't realize until I graduated high school that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 8 Comments

I am saddened that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer has reached the point that treatment no longer is an option.Whatever her politics, she didn't deserve the cards she was dealt in life by an unscrupulous husband and disease.I wish her well in her final months.Update 5:48 p.m.: ...

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

If Barack Obama had his way, taxes would be up across the board.  Most obviously for the job creators in the form of higher marginal income tax rates, but also for everyone in the form of a health care mandate, energy taxes, increases in capital gains...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2010 7 Comments

I am "honored" to have been asked by BigFurHat to be the judge of the PUK Award at iOwnTheWorld.This IS an honor, right?Do you think I made a mistake in giving him my social security and bank account numbers, and passwords?  He said it was...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 06, 2010 18 Comments

I was born in 1990. Therefore, for most of my life, I have had to live under the veil of Hillary Clinton as "every girl's role model." Clinton is undoubtedly very smart and talented. After all, you don't get into Wellesley or Yale Law school...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2010 17 Comments

If there were any doubt that WikiLeaks is not about open government, but giving aid and comfort to enemies of the U.S., then the latest release of a State Department document listing facilities vital to U.S. security ends any doubt.  The document is described by the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2010 5 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2010 2 Comments

Robert Stacy McCain has a hilarious post about being threatened by the lawyer for someone no one has ever heard of because McCain questioned whether that no one really knew someone else no one has ever heard of.How many nobodies does it take to result...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2010 1 Comment

Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic Senator from my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is up for re-election in 2012.Whitehouse snuck into office in 2006 after a bitter Republican primary between incumbent Lincoln Chaffee and conservative challenger Steve Laffey.  Chaffee won the primary, but the damage was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2010 12 Comments

A traditional method of sending a powerful message to those who seek to harm you is to use their own weapons against them.The Israelis did this to great effect during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, in which the Israelis captured an almost unimaginable quantity of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2010 6 Comments

I'm trying really, really hard not to take the bait.  I promised you I would be better next time.At least I've recognized that I have a problem, which is the first step, right?You see, the thing is, I just enjoy it too much, so I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2010 14 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Tonight's issue came to my attention due to the controversy stirred up in Australia over these two t-shirts: The t-shirts, particularly the one that says "we eat meat, we drink...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 04, 2010 6 Comments

Yesterday I posted on the Manhattan Institute's online magazine, Minding the Campus, which "is dedicated to the revival of intellectual pluralism and the best traditions of liberal education." The post was in response to the outrage that ensued after an announcement that the African Studies...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2010 12 Comments

That's what Caroline Glick says of the WikiLeaks document dumps:Make no mistake about it, the ongoing WikiLeaks operation against the US is an act of war. It is not merely a criminal offense to publish hundreds of thousands of classified US government documents with malice...

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