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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2010 8 Comments

I've written before about Barack Obama's penchant for creating strawman arguments, in which Obama presents an exaggerated and misleading characterization of Republican proposals in order to make Obama's own policy seem like the only reasonable choice.Most typically, Obama will frame the sentence beginning with words similar...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2010 15 Comments

As I write, the "tax deal" worked out between Obama and Republicans in Congress has passed its first procedural hurdle, with more than 60 Senators voting to open debate on the legislation.As I have pointed out before, a marginally acceptable bill as originally announced has become an...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 13, 2010 2 Comments

Twenty years after she left her post as Prime Minister, the spirit of Margaret Thatcher is reportedly back in Britain. According to The Telegraph, "Only a quarter of people believe more money should be spent on benefits compared with more than half in the mid-1980s,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2010 19 Comments

A Judge in Virginia has held the health care mandate to be unconstitutional.  The decision is here and embedded below.The Judge rejected the position of the government that the mandate was an exercise of taxing power:It is clear from the text of Section 1501 that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2010 18 Comments

Michael Shaw, who blogs at HuffPo, has a serious case of PDS.  Upon seeing an AP photo with a caption asserting that Sarah Palin had "her hair done during a visit to a cholera treatment center," Shaw went wild:If I find the fantastically clever Sarah Palin to...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2010 14 Comments

I have posted previously about the plight of the Jews of Malmö, Sweden, who have been under siege by the Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition, what I called Malmö Syndrome.Islamists across Europe have used anti-Israel agitation to justify acts of anti-Semitic violence, and anti-Israel leftists have either encouraged or excused...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2010 7 Comments

From the "How do they think this stuff up?" files comes the absolutely worst argument ever against TSA screening procedures at airports:All things considered, though, I’d still rather just put less emphasis on airport security. Actually preventing terrorist attacks is a valuable thing to do,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 12, 2010 8 Comments

My favorite Congressman, Paul Ryan, is really on the ball this Sunday. Today, he was on Fox discussing the end of looming tax hikes. He also had an op-ed published in one of his hometown newspapers. "The deficit debate is not merely an exercise in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2010 5 Comments

I posted on Friday about how the internet filters at the Department of Defense blocked access for internal users to Legal Insurrection.  As a reader pointed out, technically it wasn't DoD, but the Navy and Marine Corps. filters.Regardless, I should have been more concerned about...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2010 8 Comments

How many of you would have left an important work meeting with the excuse that you didn't want to keep your wife (husband) waiting?Only the boss would do that, right?Isn't that attitude part of the problem here?--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 11, 2010 8 Comments

Apparently the FDNY is going to implement emergency services "crash tax" starting next year. "Getting hurt in a car accident is painful enough, but if firefighters have to respond, expect more pain — in your wallet.Starting next summer, the city plans to bill drivers in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2010 8 Comments

One of the truly amazing aspects of the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme is that throughout it all, Bernie maintained a smirk on his face.  The almost perfect psychopath, Bernie felt no sympathy for his victims, even those who committed suicide upon discovering that a life's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2010 17 Comments

The original compromise tax bill was a mixed bag, at best.  I understood the benefits, as well as the conservative arguments against.  At least we were arguing over the merits of the bill.Now the tax deal is becoming an insult to the Republican and independent voters who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2010 25 Comments

A reader in the military just forwarded me this screenshot showing that the Department of Defense computer system has been upgraded to block internal users from accessing Legal Insurrection:This apparently just happened, as the reader had accessed the site earlier today.Hey, whoever makes these decision...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 10, 2010 3 Comments

Appropriately, "[as] negotiators from nearly 200 countries met in Cancun to strategize ways to keep the planet from getting hotter, the temperature in the seaside Mexican city plunged to a 100-year record low of 54° F. ...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 10, 2010 1 Comment

One of my friends text messaged me this morning "Lowry is good today." Indeed, today Rick Lowry's column is all about the decline of marriage in the US middle class. It makes for an interesting read, but reminds me of a piece I wrote a...

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