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Bankrupt City Uses Federal $ To Outbid Private Home Buyers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 1 Comment

Last week I chronicled the saga of Central Falls, Rhode Island, which has filed for receivership, the state equivalent of bankruptcy, under the weight of union contracts and debt, Has First Public Sector Union Domino Fallen?Now it turns out that Central Falls has been using...

There Probably Is Something I Care Less About

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 8 Comments

Than this: U2 Tour on Hold: Bono Recuperating from Emergency Back SurgeryI just can't think of what it is right now.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Another Dangerous Moral Equivalency

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 2 Comments

The perpetually anti-Israel British newspaper The Guardian ran an article suggesting that Shimon Peres of Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa in the 1970s.The article was based upon minutes of a meeting recently uncovered, which, depending upon how you interpreted the minutes,...

Arizona Will Not Come To Rhode Island

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 4 Comments

A bill introduced by Democratic Deputy Majority Leader Peter Palumbo in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, similar to the Arizona immigration law, will not be permitted to go to a committee hearing, much less a vote:House Speaker Gordon D. Fox decided Monday that Rep....

“Little-Noticed” is the New “Unexpected”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 17 Comments

"Unexpected" has become the term of choice for the mainstream media to excuse the Obama administration's economic failures.Yesterday I read an article in The NY Times about something unexpected in Obamacare, and one term jumped out at me (emphasis mine):About one-third of employers subject to...

New Report Indicates Widespread Antisemitism on College Campuses

Anti-Israel Groups in U.S. are Planting the Seeds of Domestic Terrorism

University of Rochester Identifies 'Persons of Interest' in Case of Jewish 'Wanted' Posters on Campus

Leftists Now Protesting at Office of MA Rep. Seth Moulton Over Trans Remarks

University of Portland Students Allegedly Drugged at Off-Campus Party

Dozens of Harvard Students Stage Anti-Israel 'Study-In' Protest at Library

As Deep Inside The Beltway As It Gets

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

Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post profiles Chuck Todd of NBC News, NBC's Chuck Todd: White House correspondent, anchor, blogger, twitterer:"Chuckie T," as he's sometimes called, is an unabashed political junkie from Miami who fed his habit during 15 years at the news digest Hotline....

Liberal Truck Run Amok

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 4 Comments

One of the difficulties of adhering to constitutional federalism is that liberals always, always want to use conservative acknowledgement of any acceptable role for the federal government as an excuse to require federal government control of just about everything. The slope is very slippery, indeed.In...

Eric Massa Wasn’t Crazy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 6 Comments

Of course, that depends upon what the meaning of "crazy" is.News has leaked out through an article in Esquire Magazine that Eric Massa, the disgraced Democratic rock star (was he the tickler, or the tickle-ee?), claims that Dick Cheney conspired with Gen. David Petraeus to...

An Army of One

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 3 Comments

One of the perks of being a big time blogger (hah) is that sometimes people send me stuff for free. As in a free copy of Zev Chafets' biography of Rush Limbaugh, An Army of One.Which now occupies a hallowed place on my bookshelf next...

When Failure is the Only Option

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 4 Comments

Why does Obama want us to be more like Europe, with its supposedly compassionate and fair welfare state?The welfare state is not compassionate; it is the height of selfishness and generational cruelty:Across Western Europe, the “lifestyle superpower,” the assumptions and gains of a lifetime are...

The First Victims of Obamacare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 3 Comments

From the day Barack Obama took office, the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress have been obsessed and possessed.Everything took a back seat to passing Obamacare.And other transformative legislation and regulations intended to turn us into the failing West European economic model.Because "he recognizes his...

If Only

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2010 1 Comment

The Washington Post on Elena Kagan:Kagan's version of middle-age seems stuck in a time warp, back when 50-something did not mean Kim Cattrall or Sharon Stone, "Cougar Town" or "Sex and the City." --------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Specter’s Legacy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2010 5 Comments

When Arlen Specter switched parties in April 2009 in order to avoid a near certain loss in the Republican primary, it was not hard to guess the outcome, as I did: Specter has become a caricature of the self-interested politician who hides his need for...

Gringo Mask – Yeah, This Should Work

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2010 14 Comments

Gringomask.com appears to be a real, not spoof, website in protest against the Arizona immigration bill. (h/t)The site proposes that as a protest people wear a mask featuring a blond-haired white person's face (image right). According to the website:The objective of this action is to...

Saturday Night Card Game (Joan Walsh’s Epistemic Opening)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 4 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Joan Walsh at Salon.com sought to atone for her prior use of the race card, in this observation (h/t James Taranto) in this column, Asking the wrong question about...

Sick of It

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 6 Comments

You can run, but it's too late to hide anymore:President Barack Obama is trying to ride the wave of anti-incumbency by taking on an unpopular politician steeped in the partisan ways of Washington. It doesn’t matter that George W. Bush left office 16 months ago....

Can We Get Back To Talking About Lying Politicians?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 10 Comments

Can we get back to Richard Blumenthal.Remember him? The DEMOCRATIC candidate for Senate whose multiple lies about serving in Vietnam over the course of multiple years dominated an entire 24 hour news cycle.The guy whose dissembling of his own words was Clintonesque in the extreme,...