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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2010 29 Comments

Raising tax rates on high income earners is the key to the Obama way, both during the campaign and in his latest budget and tax proposals. Taxing the wealthy, or rather, taxing those making over $250k a year, is the gospel according to Obama.Obama is...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2010 5 Comments

Today is the day to print Sitemeter histories, apparently.So here is mine, with a month of January likely never to be repeated. Unless Scott Brown runs for President, or something. I wish I were a better person, and could blog forward even if no one...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2010 5 Comments

In early November 2008, when gay activists were mounting a fundraising boycott of the Democratic National Committee, Barney Frank announced that a provision repealing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy would be attached to the defense appropriations bill to be voted on in the spring...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2010 7 Comments

Did you hear, Scott (we now all know who he is, no need for last names anymore) "refuses to rule out" running for President in 2012? And he's just been elected to the Senate, OMG, get headline ready:Brown: 'Humbled' by White House Talk, But Doesn’t...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2010 18 Comments

The global warming hysteria is ending the way all hysteria ends, first with a trickle of contrary evidence then with a flood of admissions exposing the underlying fraud.Part of this phenomenon is the classic madness of crowds, epitomized by the Tulipomania in Holland in the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2010 8 Comments

Paul Krugman is completely clueless.I'm watching him now on Sunday Morning with Barbara Walters. Krugman bemoans the fact that in our democracy, unlike in western Europe, the House cap-and-trade and health care bills already would be law. Krugman blames it all on that messy thing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 1 Comment

This is the latest in the Saturday Night Card Game series on the use of the race card for political gain:Tonight's post proves that the use of the race card does not stop at our shores, and does not depend upon the race of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 5 Comments

Please, Mr. Krugman, stop all the name calling directed at our President and those who work for him, Cossack Rahm Works For The Czar:But don’t blame Rahm Emanuel; this is about the president. After Massachusetts, Democrats were looking for leadership; they didn’t get it. Ten...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 7 Comments

The conspiracy to undermine the Constitution has taken an interesting turn.A career prosecutor at the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has determined that John Yoo and Jay Bybee did not violate their professional obligations in analyzing whether certain enhanced interrogation techniques constituted unlawful...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 8 Comments

When the Obama administration announced in November its intention to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and several other 9/11 plotters on trial in a civilian court in downtown Manhattan, the decision was met with derision on the right.There were two parts to that decision which were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2010 33 Comments

Do you even need to read this story to get the picture? Just look at the photo. The only thing missing is the cable spool table.Ladies, care to comment?--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2010 9 Comments

Why the sudden slew of attacks on the Supreme Court, specifically Justices Alito and Roberts, by leading Democrats?The decision in the Citizens United case, which struck down on First Amendment grounds some legislative restrictions on campaign speech by corporations, is the excuse but not the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2010 16 Comments

During the State of the Union address, Barack Obama singled out the Supreme Court for ridicule on its recent campaign finance ruling, which Obama asserted could open the door for foreign campaign contributions: With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2010 3 Comments

From The Gail Collins (yes, again): Looking out at the motley crew seated before him for the big speech, the president seemed at times to be pretending that he had never seen these people before in his life.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2010 23 Comments

The stupid meme of the day is that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was "rude" to Obama during the State of the Union address because Alito grimaced and mouthed the words "not true" when Obama stoked the crowd with a lie about a recent Supreme...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2010 13 Comments

State of the Union speeches regularly infuriate the opposing party, and to that extent Barack Obama met and exceeded expectations last night.One aspect of the speech deservedly is receiving most attention: The crude attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court in front of the Congress and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2010 7 Comments

I'll leave it to others to do the fact check. Here's my first impression of the State of the Union speech tonight:This was a small speech. A lot of petty pot shots, including at the Supreme Court. Very Nixonian, in that regard.The verbiage was anything...

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