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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2010 5 Comments

I stumbled upon this unusual video, taken by American Jews in China and narrated in Yiddish, of man-on-the-street interviews regarding perceptions of Jews and Israel.The money line is at 7:30 of the video, in which a sympathetic Chinese man wonders whether it is true that Jews...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2010 34 Comments

If you demand to see Obama's actual birth certificate, you will be called a "Birther."  It doesn't matter if your position is that anyone ascending to a constitutional office should provide the best evidence of constitutional qualification, you're a Birther.  It doesn't matter that you...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 25, 2010 7 Comments

Merry Christmas everyone! There's a viral video going around called 'A Social Network Christmas.' It retains the story, so I'll post it here, but I'd be curious to know everyone's thoughts on it. I'm not particularly fond of the fusion of the two media myself...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2010 15 Comments

China is ascendant so our administration wants us to emulate China's infrastructure investments and constructions, by building high-speed and light rail projects few will use and which will further drain state budgets.It will not last.  China's ascendancy, that is.  I agree with this analysis by...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2010 3 Comments

Imagine a place where legislators who had been thrown out of office hurried to pass legislation they knew would not pass once the new Congress was seated in order to defeat the will of the people as expressed in recent congressional elections.Such a thing could not...

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"...

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...

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...

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