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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2010 4 Comments

Merry Christmas to my readers.  Enjoy the day while, once again, I defend the internet for you!Here are some thoughts for the day, in no particular order:Self-fulfilling prophecy.  Charles, we get it, the lame duck was not good, but your repeated columns about the "comeback kid"...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2010 15 Comments

An op-ed in The Christian Science Monitor poses the question, Would Global Warming Be So Bad?What has always troubled me the most with the view that we needs to stop "climate change" in the form of "global warming" is the idea that it would be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2010 7 Comments

Someone please point me to a piece as puffy and fluffy as the one Ben Smith just wrote about Kamala Harris, the new Democratic Attorney General of California:It’s easy to understand why Kamala Harris, California’s next attorney general, is being called the future of the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 24, 2010 5 Comments

I just touched down in Paris three hours ago. I am sufficiently jet-lagged, but my boyfriend suggested I take a look at this recent article about France's credit risk. "The credit default swaps tied to the French bonds imply a rating of Baa1, seven steps...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2010 2 Comments

Remember how important it was to pass New START during the lame duck session, rather than waiting until January?  We were told that anything less would have angered the Russians and, in Harry Reid's words, put nukes in the hands of terrorists.  Any attempt to...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2010 13 Comments

She's "going rogue."  She's broken Mitch McConnell's "iron grip" on his caucus.  In the lame duck, she was Obama's best friend.She was permitted to keep her committee assignments and seniority when she lost the Republican primary and ran in the general election as an independent,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2010 14 Comments

From The Hill comes a report that Michelle Obama's failure to wait for her husband before leaving for vacation has cost the taxpayers $63,000, FLOTUS Chows At The Taxpayers' Trough:First lady Michelle Obama didn't feel like waiting around cold, boring old Washington, D.C., for her...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2010 6 Comments

This year, December was the cruellest month of all.How did I do?--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2010 14 Comments

I told you so, I told you so, I told you so.The worst aspect of Obamacare is that we have delegated enormous amounts of power through regulation to the Department of Health and Human Services.  Obamacare is the structure, but for every page there will...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 23, 2010 14 Comments

A headline you thankfully don't see often: "Former Inmate: Jews Used Witchcraft on Guantanamo Prisoners, Made Me Feel a Cat Was Trying to Penetrate Me." HT Jonah Goldberg writing from The Corner. (Something must have changed since Nov 1, 2009 when the UK Telegraph had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2010 11 Comments

Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) was right to insist on greater financial accountability and fraud prevention in the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (history of text changes here).The Zadroga Act had all the hallmarks of the type of government spending which, without vigilance, gave rise to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2010 11 Comments

Thanks to a reader for this photo taken in St. Petersburg, FL, earlier this week:I almost missed the most important part of the photo, which would cause heads to explode:It would be worth it, just to see the reaction.  And if they won ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2010 9 Comments

Thanks for this link to reader Robin, who writes "speaking from experience, it's right on." This video is by the same author as the video in my prior post, The Left Is Always Right. -------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Visit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress! ...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 22, 2010 10 Comments

Today there was an interesting article in the Hill about Rudy Giuliani being a possible "dark horse" in 2012. Apparently, "It’s not because Giuliani has shifted; it’s because the Republican Party has. The 2010 election was less about social conservatism than it was fiscal conservatism,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2010 1 Comment

This is the sort of thing which infuriates taxpayers, with good reason.No one is against fair compensation and fair pensions for firefighters, but once again union rules provide for abusive tactics, as highlighted in this Providence Journal story about two management fire officials in Providence...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2010 11 Comments

This is not the post you probably were expecting from me given my harsh -- and as always prescient -- criticism of Republicans in the lame duck session.  I was screaming "capitulation!" before screaming "capitulation!" was fashionable.Notwithstanding the lame duck session, give Mitch McConnell some credit...

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