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My Take: "We Came Within An Inch Of The Country Coming Apart"

"GARM" Is New Version Of Old Tactic To Starve Conservative Media of Revenue To Silence Dissent

Strategery: Top Dems Reportedly Backing Off Removing Biden - Giving Up or Regrouping?

Something Ezra Klein Needs To Do Before Joining WaPo

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 23, 2009 1 Comment

Ezra Klein got a promotion. He's moving from The American Prospect to The Washington Post. He is receiving Obama-like kudos:This is a great move by the Post, and a risk. Ezra is among the cream of the crop of the new phase of journalism --...

Welcome To The Real World, Professor Obama

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...

Enough With The “Nazi” Analogies

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2009 1 Comment

Whether waterboarding should have been used on 9/11 mastermind Kalhid Sheikh Mohammed and two other top al-Qaeda operatives is a legitimate issue. Jay Bybee and others gave legal opinions with which many people disagree, but I have yet to see anyone present a convincing argument...

Maybe Jay Bybee and Jamie Gorelick Should Be In The Dock Together

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2009 3 Comments

I don't think Jay Bybee (or Alberto Gonzales or John Yoo or Stephen Bradbury) are criminals. At worst, they expressed legal opinions on interrogation of terrorism suspects which a court may someday declare to be wrong. Bybee's being wrong, if indeed he was, contributed to...

Which City Would You Sacrifice?

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...

American U. Has a $33K Graduate Certificate to Learn How to be an 'Antiracist' School Leader

Petition Calls on Duke U. to Drop 'Unscientific' Racial Agenda in Health Care System

St. Cloud State Grad Sues to Stop Mandatory Student Fee That Supports Liberal Activist Group

Progressives in Higher Education React to Trump Assassination Attempt Just as You'd Expect

Apologies for Angry Comments...

Republican National Convention Expected to Address Antisemitism on College Campuses

Further Proof Liberal Bloggers Need To Study History

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 10 Comments

Matthew Yglesias on the new tape released by Ayman al-Zawahri telling Muslims not to be fooled by Obama:Perhaps the best thing that ever happened to the relatively small group of people known as al-Qaeda was the rise to power of George W. Bush, whose brutality,...

Harman Tape Leak A Shot Across Israel’s Bow

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 3 Comments

CQ Politics reports, based on an anonymous source, that California Democratic Representative Jane Harman "was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs...

Do Not Repay This Loan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 22 Comments

The Financial Times reports that banks and other financial institutions which received TARP funds may not be allowed to repay the loans. Yes, that is correct:Strong banks will be allowed to repay bail-out funds they received from the US government but only if such a...

Evidence Obama Already Controls The Internet

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2009 3 Comments

Call me a paranoid wingnut, if you must, but look at this from CNNPolitics.com today:--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Obama Needs To Stop Hiding From The Presidency

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2009 9 Comments

Bloomberg news reports the following statement by Barack Obama in his speech at the Summit of the Americas, after Daniel Ortega had spent an hour ripping into the U.S. (emphasis mine):“You can’t blame the U.S. for every problem in this hemisphere,” Obama said. “I am...

Andrew Sullivan Still Silent On Obama-Chavez LoveFest

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2009 12 Comments

Andrew Sullivan complained that as of 7:27 p.m. on April 16, 2009 (approximately three hours after the interrogation memos were released by DOJ), none of DrudgeReport, Instapundit, Michelle Malkin or Pajamas Media had a post on the topic:No mention of the torture memos appears right...

Obama Throws Venezuelans Under The Bus

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2009 2 Comments

Obama's warm embrace of Hugo Chavez was worse than his bowing down to the King of Saudi Arabia. In the case of Saudi Arabia, there is no apparent movement for freedom, so all Obama threw under the bus was our country's dignity. As to Chavez,...

I’m Seething Over The NY Times Calling Me Seething

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2009 12 Comments

I long have criticized the bias of the NY Times, and mocked its business death spiral. My posts Nude Swiss Hikers Rescue NY Times and NY Times New Business Strategy: DEATH mocked the sensationalist trend on The Times' website. I was the first (as far...

No Prosecution Because No Crime

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2009 25 Comments

The Obama administration released today four memoranda detailing the legal analysis regarding interrogation techniques, most notably involving Abu Zubaydah. There is a lot of outrage regarding the interrogation techniques approved, but those are mostly non-legal issues. Some of the techniques approved, such as grabbing the...

Looking At Tea Parties Through Binoculars, Like On Safari

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2009 2 Comments

I attended the Tea Party in Corning, NY, yesterday. There was a good crowd in this relatively small town in western upstate NY (several hours from NY City), several hundred in total. Corning is home to Corning glass and Steuben glass. The entire region has...

When Bush Was President, Secession Talk Was Cool

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2009 13 Comments

Texas Governor Rick Perry said that he doesn't think Texas should secede from the U.S. Here is Perry's quote:We got a great Union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it, but if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who...

When Fascism Comes To America, It Will Look Like Tea Party Crashers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2009 40 Comments

Liberals love to quote Sinclair Lewis' line that "when fascism comes to America, it will be draped in the flag and carrying a cross." Lewis was wrong. We have had the flag and Christianity for over 200 years, but we have not had fascism.To the...