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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 3 Comments
Mission accomplished.  We’re just like Europe, at least in terms of Gross Domestic Product per person (emphasis mine): For quite some time, the US and the leading EU countries have been fairly comparable in terms of output per hour worked. The US has had higher output per...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2010 10 Comments
Someone please tell me why I fall for it every time. Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Winner Extraordinaire™ (NPWE), writes a biased rant against anything that smacks of fiscal conservatism, and I get all worked up. The latest is Krugman’s attack on how fiscal conservatives, who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2010 26 Comments
I was asked by Voting Female to comment on Peggy Noonan’s recent op-ed at The Wall Street Journal, America Is At Risk Of Boiling Over. The central thesis of Noonan’s column is that our political leadership does not understand the rupture in society and growing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2010 16 Comments
Scott Brown didn’t see the forest for the trees in deciding to support Chris Dodd and Barney Frank’s financial reform legislation. Although Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins went along also, they did so only after Brown made his announcement. If Brown had come out strongly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2010 15 Comments
In an upcoming issue of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol pens an editorial in which he argues that while “we are not not now quite at a founding moment, or even a re-founding moment,” we are approaching a point of political crisis which will be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2010 1 Comment
Sharron Angle has come under withering fire from Harry Reid’s campaign and its operatives for highlighting the need to move away from the entitlement state in favor of policies which foster personal choices and responsibility. Yet a budget report just released by the Congressional Budget...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2010 2 Comments
Thanks to Solomonia for posting this 1956 cartoon about Israel’s aggression. (Added) The cartoon shows Egyptian Gamal Abdel Nasser repeatedly taunting Israel’s David Ben-Gurion, and in the last segment Ben Gurion finally hits back. The cartoon appears to be an allusion to the 1956 Suez...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2010 8 Comments
Public sector unions just won a huge victory in Rhode Island, with the signing into law of legislation denying municipalities the ability to file for state receivership as a means of renegotiating unsustainable union contracts. I previously highlighted the state receivership filing by the City...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2010 5 Comments
Many bloggers and news outlets are using a graphic printed in The Economist to show that Israel prevents basic foodstuffs from entering Gaza, including Coriander and Chocolate. Since the chart is in The Economist, most people accept it at face value, and mock any suggestion...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2010 23 Comments
The MV Rachel Corrie is a cargo ship named after an American anti-Israeli activist (photo right burning a mock U.S. flag) killed while trying to prevent Israeli bulldozers from operating in Gaza in 2003. The Free Gaza movement operating the ship has announced that it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2010 4 Comments
The rise of Islamist Turkey, and its deliberate and calculated instigation of a crisis in the Middle East, is reminiscent of the time period prior to the fall of the Shah of Iran. The Turkish Islamists know exactly what they are doing by precipitating a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 02, 2010 6 Comments
An Iranian port in Gaza is the goal of those who want uninspected sea shipping to Gaza. The “Freedom Flotilla” is a lie and a fraud. The Islamist government of Turkey, which has an ongoing rapprochement in progress with Iran, instigated the crisis, and a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 02, 2010 13 Comments
Glenn Greenwald is venomous in his attacks on Israel. Greenwald calls supporters of Israel, including Rep. Anthony Weiner, “Israel-firsters,” an obscene charge of disloyalty. Anyone who disagrees with Greenwald on whether the flotilla actually had a humanitarian intent, or whether Israel had a right under...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2010 58 Comments
The left-wing blogosphere is full of useful idiots, who pretend that the flotilla which just was stopped by Israel was a humanitarian mission. The flotilla was organized by the Islamist government in Turkey to aid Hamas with the goal of opening up shipping channels for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 6 Comments
Of course, that depends upon what the meaning of “crazy” is. News has leaked out through an article in Esquire Magazine that Eric Massa, the disgraced Democratic rock star (was he the tickler, or the tickle-ee?), claims that Dick Cheney conspired with Gen. David Petraeus...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 4 Comments
Why does Obama want us to be more like Europe, with its supposedly compassionate and fair welfare state? The welfare state is not compassionate; it is the height of selfishness and generational cruelty: Across Western Europe, the “lifestyle superpower,” the assumptions and gains of a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 3 Comments
Central Falls, a Rhode Island city which gained fame when it fired its entire High School teaching staff after unions refused concessions (the unions later agreed), now has filed for receivership, the state equivalent of bankruptcy: A Rhode Island city facing a severe financial crisis...
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