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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2009 3 Comments

Widespread abuse has been alleged, including one incident when they threatened a detainee "with a chainsaw as his autistic daughter looked on," another where they used cattle prods on detainees' genitals, another where they put a gun against a detainee's head, another where they slammed...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2009 20 Comments

I can't keep up with all the ways in which this administration is failing. From the health care restructuring proposals gone sour, to the slippage in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the appeasement of Hugo Chavez and Iran and the bullying of Honduras, to the end...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2009 17 Comments

A good example of how far off course Democrats in Congress have strayed on the issue of health care reform, are provisions in the Senate HELP Committee draft bill creating rules and regulations governing food disclosures at fast food restaurants and in vending machines.Titled the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2009 3 Comments

The House and Senate draft bills for health care restructuring are so odious that they are beyond repair.It's nice that Max Baucus and some others are trying to squeeze some of the disastrous provisions out of the bills, but it is a waste of time....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2009 2 Comments

Scrolling through Doug Ross' blog, Director Blue, reminded me of a name from the past who seems to have escaped mainstream media scrutiny, much less responsibility, for two of the largest fiascos in our recent history, the intelligence failures which led to 9/11 and the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2009 4 Comments

Why hadn't I seen this before?[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9GMKK_fWKg](h/t Tysk)--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bureaucracy Expansion Act of 2009IRS The New Health Care EnforcerFollow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2009 2 Comments

As much attention as the draft health care restructuring bills have received, so much has been missed in the thousands of pages of proposed legislation. It is not an exaggeration to say that these proposals create numerous and layered levels of new bureaucracies, on top...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2009 5 Comments

Tom Ridge's bombshell -- the allegation that he felt political pressure to raise the threat level in the run-up to the 2004 election -- is not the real bombshell. The real story here is that Tom Ridge has joined Meghan McCain in the freakish side-show...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2009 5 Comments

You would be hard-pressed to find a better example of how uncompromising the left-wing of the Democratic Party has become than the attempts to make sure the Obama administration and moderate Democrats do not compromise on the public option.Jane Hamsher, one of the most prominent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2009 0 Comments

To resolve the Mexican Standoff in which the Democrats find themselves over the health care restructuring bill, Harry Reid apparently has come up with the idea of splitting the bill. The popular insurance reform provisions would go to a full Senate vote subject to a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2009 1 Comment

Liberal Democrats say they will not vote for a health care restructuring bill without a public option. Less liberal Democrats say they will not vote for a health care restructuring bill with a public option.Democrats need both groups to vote in favor of any bill...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2009 5 Comments

So predicts Gerald Warner in The Telegraph newspaper, in a column with the lengthy and highly descriptive title President Pantywaist in retreat: Barack Obama hoists the white flag over Stalinist health care proposals. [h/t Tim Blair] After reading the title, I'm not sure you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2009 12 Comments

Ed Morrissey at HotAir has the rundown on the faltering boycott of Glenn Beck's Fox News show. As predicted here, the failure of the boycott has numerous benefits.What's more, the people pushing this boycott have stepped in it this time. There is no indication that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2009 43 Comments

Think Progress, the Democratic policy and media-watch organization, broke the story that someone in the audience at a health care town hall in Las Vegas shouted "Heil Hitler" at an Israeli giving a talk about the Israeli system. Needless to say, the video is being...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2009 4 Comments

The pressure put on advertisers to pull ads from the Glenn Beck show on Fox News has caused about a dozen major corporations to instruct their ad agencies to make sure their ads did not run on the show.These advertisers never directed their advertising to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 17, 2009 6 Comments

As set forth in my prior post, IRS The New Health Care Enforcer, the new tax provisions in the Senate and House draft health care bills tax people for failing to obtain acceptable health coverage. These taxes are crucial to implementing a health care mandate...

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