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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2010 0 Comments

From the Lebanese website Naharnet:"Israel once again penetrated Lebanon's mobile phone networks on Tuesday, sending text messages to citizens announcing a tangible reward for information about the fate of Israeli airman Ron Arad, NBN television reported." It is hard to believe that the Israelis actually...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2010 2 Comments

TBogg to Tucker Carlson:"Go get a real job."You mean, like yours?--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 3 Comments

On Friday, Barack Obama dropped a political bombshell with wide ranging implications for the U.S. war on terror and relations with the Muslim world.  Obama then disappeared from the domestic political scene, as a fury of recriminations reverberated throughout the political sphere and blogosphere.  Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 2 Comments

Strike 1 was the now infamous "when I served in Vietnam" (but I actually didn't) statement by Richard Blumenthal.Strike 2 (via HotAir) is Blumenthal's "I don't take PAC money" (but I actually do) statement by Blumenthal:Richard Blumenthal's words are haunting him again. Already forced to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 4 Comments

Ethan Bronner of The New York Times has a classic piece on the opening of a luxury mall in Gaza.How does one balance the endless propaganda that Gaza is a concentration camp and that Israelis are committing genocide, with the reality that Gaza exceeds most...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 8 Comments

I haven't posted about Count Frankula in a while.  Frank Rich's latest column, How Fox Betrayed Petraeus, is stuffed full of Rich's usual "people who don't agree with me are crazy and dangerous" filling.Frank's point apparently is that opposition to the Cordoba mosque and Islamic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 3 Comments

Mission accomplished.  We're just like Europe, at least in terms of Gross Domestic Product per person (emphasis mine):For quite some time, the US and the leading EU countries have been fairly comparable in terms of output per hour worked. The US has had higher output per person...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 1 Comment

Soon after the Nevada Republican Senate primary, in which Sharron Angle was a surprise winner, Harry Reid announced that he would not be available to debate Angle for several months because he was too busy.  Here is a report from a local news station from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2010 7 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:I will not use that word even to talk about the word.  I will not say the word even in condemning people who call other people the word.  I also will hesitate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2010 1 Comment

In a story today at Politico, Harry Reid's strategy: Winning ugly, Reid makes one of his favorite points in responding to Sharron Angle's assertions that Reid bears at least some responsibility for the economic decline in Nevada:Reid contends that if Angle attacks him on the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2010 20 Comments

I was on record, before the Cordoba mosque and Islamic Center became a national story after Obama weighed in, that the organizers should have picked a different location, because the location was bound to result in the center being a target of radical Islamists for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 14 Comments

The Democratic National Committee released an advertisement, posted on the DNC's "Rapid Response" YouTube Channel, mocking George W. Bush.  The ad was laughable, and much derided.Here is how it appeared in my post earlier today, Extremely Effective DNC Ad:Now the DNC has pulled the video...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 9 Comments

The latest release by the Rapid Response team at the Democratic National Committee will persuade everyone who, since January 2009, has been living on Mars, in a diving bell at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, on a respirator while in a deep coma, or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 2 Comments

In mid-June, when Obama went on television to announce that he would "inform" BP how much it had to contribute to a compensation fund for the Gulf oil spill, I predicted that the fund -- despite the grandstanding -- would not put much money in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 1 Comment

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 21 Comments

Amanda Terkel, one of the lead writers at Think Progress, is exasperated that the "right-wing" has convinced the "media" that Obama's religion is open to question (emphasis mine):While journalists and pundits on cable news today did acknowledge the “media” have had a role to play,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 0 Comments

From The Telegraph, Neuroscientist Paralyzed By Love:Matt Frerking, 39, from Portland, Oregon, is left immobile if he even has a romantic thought or sees others showing displays of affection...

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