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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2009 48 Comments
On May 20, 2009, John Bolton wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled “Get Ready for Another North Korean Nuke Test” in which he noted that the complacency of the Obama administration about North Korea’s nuclear ambitions (and Iran’s) was misplaced: “The curtain...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2009 11 Comments
The latest internet outrage-bubble started with a post at Politico titled RNC’s below-the-belt shot at Nancy Pelosi, regarding a Republican National Committee YouTube video about Nancy Pelosi. I agree with AllahPundit that the RNC should not have produced the video, among other reasons, because “they...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2009 110 Comments
MSNBC, Obama’s favorite network, reported on Obama’s trip with Joe Biden to get a burger. Just two wild and crazy guys out for some red meat. Andrea Mitchell (does she have nothing else to do?) reported that Obama ordered a burger and mustard. Sounds like...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 23, 2009 6 Comments
By trickling out bits and pieces of top secret memoranda regarding interrogation of al-Qaeda terrorists, Barack Obama thought he would have the best of all worlds. Obama believed that exposing the dark side of the war on terror would ingratiate us with the world. At...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 13 Comments
The debate over interrogation of the three top-level al-Qaeda leaders who were subjected to waterboarding is entering the honest phase. The first phase was the “this is the worst thing that has happened in the history of the earth” handwringing on the left. The second...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2009 3 Comments
If you want to know what the future holds if speech becomes too regulated, take a look at an article in the Times of London, titled “Bottom line gets Dutch Courage advert banned.” When I read the article, I had to check the date to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2009 25 Comments
Liberal bloggers and media groups can’t get the Tea Party phenomenon out of their heads. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, to them. Ordinary people getting together to protest against the liberal establishment. There is a cognitive disconnect. There must be a plot; the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2009 0 Comments
Rather than worrying about news aggregators stealing its stuff, AP should worry about its credibility. A news article titled Obama Hopes to Use Dealmaking Skills Honed Abroad (run in the NY Times, which seems to be reprinting a lot of AP articles verbatim these days),...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 11, 2009 9 Comments
Talk about the law of unintended consequences. In countries where a woman has a virtually unfettered right to choose abortion, the result is that women overwhelmingly choose to abort female fetuses. A just published study, reported in the NY Times, of Chinese population growth ties...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2009 7 Comments
The dispute regarding the appointment of Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, to the top legal position at the State Department is heating up with the announcement that a coalition of conservative activists is beginning to form around opposition to Harold Koh, President Obama’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2009 0 Comments
My favorite April Fools’ day headlines from around the globe: Obama confesses to treason and resigns, co-conspirators are in custody, Hillary Clinton sworn in as president Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink Microsoft releases Vista patch to improve battery life Dog poo...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2009 4 Comments
The Washington Post story, titled “Detainee’s Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots,” about how the interrogation of Abu Zubaida did not prevent a single terrorist attack, is old news. The story ran this morning, which is like so last century in the blogosphere. But the Post...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 1 Comment
The JournoList was revealed by Politico. The founder of the JournoList, Ezra Klein, explained the purpose as follows (emphasis mine): Journolist is meant to serve a very specific purpose that’s actually related to my experience building this blog. The work of this site has always...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 2 Comments
It is amazing how this administration creates controversies because it expresses opinions without reading the documents on which the opinions are based. First, there was the AIG bonus controversy. The bonuses were authorized by the stimulus plan, which neither the administration nor Congress actually read...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 4 Comments
I have been waiting for this day, when one of the demonized executives at a bank or insurance company would tell Congress to “take this job and shove it.” The person singing this song today is Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2009 0 Comments
Conservative Republican Congressman Michele Bachmann has come under fire for stating that voters should be “armed and dangerous” over the administration’s engery tax plans. While the leftwing media tried to twist this statement into a literal call to arms, in fact Bachmann was using a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2009 9 Comments
Well, that didn’t take long. On March 3, 2009, New York Times columnist David Brooks issued his “Moderate Manifesto” in which he confessed uneasiness with his choice of Obama. But Brooks is back on board the Obama ship of state, with a column in today’s...
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