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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2009 11 Comments
Barack Obama is on another “it’s all Bush’s fault” tear again. This time, using the tired campaign theme of cleaning up Bush’s mess: Another way of putting it is when, you know, I’m busy and Nancy busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2009 9 Comments
Consumer Reports has decided to weigh in on the health care debate in favor of the Democratic health care proposals, or what CR euphemistically calls “health care reform.” Having decided to take sides, I think it is fair to hold CR to the standards it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2009 5 Comments
It’s hard to know if the situation in Honduras is as dire as reports indicate. Apparently the Obama administration is on the verge of winning in Honduras by forcing the constitutional authorities — the legislature, the courts, the interim government — to allow back into...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2009 4 Comments
The Telegraph newspaper in Britain has details on a new report just released by the Patients Association which reveals one aspect of the health care crisis in Britain: In the last six years, the Patients Association claims hundreds of thousands have suffered from poor standards...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2009 2 Comments
Scrolling through Doug Ross’ blog, Director Blue, reminded me of a name from the past who seems to have escaped mainstream media scrutiny, much less responsibility, for two of the largest fiascos in our recent history, the intelligence failures which led to 9/11 and the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 12 Comments
The political world looked bleak on April 29, 2009, just after Arlen Specter had announced that he was switching to the Democratic Party. The Democrats, understandably crowing, seemed to be unstoppable. The Democratic agenda to control the most minute aspects of our lives through health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2009 4 Comments
An article in the NY Times, Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security, deserves a special place in the annals of journalism in the service of liberal politics. The thrust of the article is that global climate change “could” cause massive geopolitical disruption in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2009 0 Comments
Iranian/American dual citizen Kian Tajbakhsh has a Ph.D in Urban Planning from Columbia University. Tajbakhsh was arrested in Iran in early July as part of a crackdown by the Iranian regime on moderates and leaders of the protest movement. Last week, Tajbakhsh and approximately 100...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2009 11 Comments
Blogger and media professor Jeff Cohen argues at HuffPo that the reason Obama’s health care plans are failing is that the liberal netroots are not pushing hard enough for a full-blown, nationalized, “single-payer,” “one nation, one plan” style medical system: Activists must recognize the surest...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2009 3 Comments
“The time for talk is over.” That sentence should be the new slogan of the Obama administration. Forget “Change We Can Believe In” or “Yes We Can.” Those were yesterday’s slogans, when Obama wanted but did not yet have power. The time for talk was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2009 6 Comments
With all that is happening in the world and at home, it would be easy to forget about the drama unfolding in Honduras this weekend. Manuel Zelaya is threatening another attempt at a return to Honduras this Sunday, is taking steps to set up an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2009 20 Comments
Week-by-week, world event-by-world event, the public humiliation of Hillary Clinton is taking place right before our eyes. Actually, not before our eyes. Hillary has gone missing. There was a time when United States Secretaries of State were front and center in foreign policy making and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2009 5 Comments
CNN has released a joint CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll on Barack Obama’s handling of the Iran uprising. The headline screams Americans don’t want to intervene in Iran election crisis, and the write up notes that “nearly three out of four Americans don’t want the U.S....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2009 8 Comments
In a 5-4 ruling authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the ruling by Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor and two other Court of Appeals judges in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano. [Full opinion and analysis below] In Ricci, white...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2009 9 Comments
Want to laugh out loud? Read “Barack Obama, Deficit-Slayer” by Matthew Yglesias: As the economy recovers, tax revenues will rise, social safety net outlays will fall, and stimulus measures will begin to tamp down. If we can assume further growth in 2011, the complete expiry...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2009 10 Comments
You knew this was inevitable. Regardless of what Barack Obama said or did, the Iranian regime would accuse the U.S. of meddling in Iran’s internal affairs: Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of “intolerable” meddling in its internal affairs, alleging for the first time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2009 9 Comments
Barack Obama has come under criticism not only for his silence for several days, but also his failure to issue more forceful words of support for the protest movement in Iran. Others counter that more forceful words of support would be counter productive, that there...
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