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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 09, 2010 5 Comments

My friend Alec Jacobs is interning at the Daily Caller. They recently sent him on a field trip to the White House to take a tour in order to cover a story on the decorations. As a bonus, they got a funny anecdote: "The tour...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2010 7 Comments

News crossing the wires is that the Democrats in the House have rejected Obama's tax deal with Republicans in a non-binding vote:The House Democratic Caucus on Thursday rejected the tax deal negotiated between the White House and Senate Republicans. The non-binding vote of the caucus...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2010 7 Comments

Another rush of legislation, taxes, budget, and a host of social agenda items.We've seen this bad movie before.  It resulted in Stimulus, and the Christmas Eve Obamacare vote last year.And it appears to be happening again.This lame duck Congress has no political legitimacy to pass...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 39 Comments

Via ABC News:The website and personal credit card information of former Gov. Sarah Palin were cyber-attacked today by Wikileaks supporters, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate tells ABC News in an email.Hackers in London apparently affiliated with “Operation Payback” – a group of supporters of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 17 Comments

I take offense to MoDo's PDS hyperbole:Sarah’s view of America is primitive. You’re either a pointy-headed graduate of Harvard Law School or you’re eviscerating animals for fun, which she presents as somehow more authentic.I'm the former, but not the latter, yet.  But the two absolutely are...

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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 08, 2010 0 Comments

Mario Vargas Llosa, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, addressed a crowd in Stockholm during his Nobel Lecture yesterday. The transcript is worth reading, but here is one part I found to be particularly lovely:"Let those who doubt that literature not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 4 Comments

The tax framework is falling apart, as a substantial number of Democrats and a few Republicans start taking shots at various provisions unrelated to marginal tax rates.Once again, Obama has chosen complexity for the sake of complexity, a lot of moving parts and social engineering.There...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 17 Comments

One of the interesting aspects of the "framework" announced by Obama to prevent marginal income tax increases on anyone is that part of the quid pro quo demanded by Obama was a one-year 2% drop in the portion of social security (FICA) taxes paid by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 11 Comments

They huff, and they puff, and they threaten to blow Obama's house down.Not the right-wingers, the left-wing "base" of the Democratic Party.  Dick Durbin is threatening that a bloc of Democrats may "walk out" on Obama by voting against his tax deal.  Mary Landrieu calls the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 07, 2010 18 Comments

Sometimes you stumble upon a news story that is so absurd it makes you question your hope for the world. Today, I found one of those. An Egyptian official believes that Israel's intelligence agency might be behind the fatal shark attack of a German tourist in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 4 Comments

Imagine my surprise when I saw the Memeorandum headline Joe Biden / Washington Post - Obama: On The Way To A Failed Presidency?:Could it be?  Another Biden gaffe?  And in The Washington Post, of all places.Nah, just a screw up by Memeorandum's algorithm.  The op-ed actually...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 6 Comments

Sent to me by a reader as a potential "Video of the Day" candidate, but deserves its own post. As a youthful Zappa fan, I enjoyed this very much. The "I'm a conservative" statement comes at 3:15. I didn't realize until I graduated high school that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 8 Comments

I am saddened that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer has reached the point that treatment no longer is an option.Whatever her politics, she didn't deserve the cards she was dealt in life by an unscrupulous husband and disease.I wish her well in her final months.Update 5:48 p.m.: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 11 Comments

If Barack Obama had his way, taxes would be up across the board.  Most obviously for the job creators in the form of higher marginal income tax rates, but also for everyone in the form of a health care mandate, energy taxes, increases in capital gains...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2010 7 Comments

I am "honored" to have been asked by BigFurHat to be the judge of the PUK Award at iOwnTheWorld.This IS an honor, right?Do you think I made a mistake in giving him my social security and bank account numbers, and passwords?  He said it was...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 06, 2010 18 Comments

I was born in 1990. Therefore, for most of my life, I have had to live under the veil of Hillary Clinton as "every girl's role model." Clinton is undoubtedly very smart and talented. After all, you don't get into Wellesley or Yale Law school...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2010 17 Comments

If there were any doubt that WikiLeaks is not about open government, but giving aid and comfort to enemies of the U.S., then the latest release of a State Department document listing facilities vital to U.S. security ends any doubt.  The document is described by the...

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