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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2010 4 Comments

It's the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. No one really is expecting you to work.So watch this video of the student speaker at Cornell Law School's graduation earlier this month, it's worth a few minutes out of your busy, important day. And you will be...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2010 8 Comments

The U.N. is taking the first steps in a process which inevitably will lead to various U.N. agencies and international N.G.O.s claiming that the drone strikes ordered by the U.S. government constitute war crimes, as reported by The New York Times:A senior United Nations official...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2010 8 Comments

Another rich person is building a house bigger than mine, right on the beach in my hometown, unlike my humble abode a few blocks in. Terribly unfair. The owners obviously did not know that they had made enough money two blocks from the beach.Can't we...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 11 Comments

The Atlantic Magazine thought it would be able to speak poetic historical justice, by splashing the headline that the original reviled one, Kenneth Starr of Monica and Bill and Blue Dress and Impeachment fame, had been arrested for running a Ponzi Scheme.Oh, the deep, deep...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 5 Comments

This was completely unexpected:Friends tell The Daily Beast that the departing senator, injured by Obama's failure to show last-minute support, may well shift right on key votes from Kagan to financial reform.Except to those of us who are attuned to the human condition:--------------------------------------------Follow me on...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 6 Comments

I am glad to be living in a nation where we have visionary thinkers, who think up thing that never have been thought up before in the history of our nation: Military superiority is not enough to maintain U.S. strength and influence in the world,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 9 Comments

There is a must read article at City Journal by author Claire Berlinski, A Hidden History of Evil - Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?:In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 23 Comments

Joe Sestak says "I was offered a job" by someone senior in the Obama administration in exchange for getting out of the Democratic primary against Arlen Specter."Joe heard what he wanted to hear," said Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell on Greta last night (video below):"And I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2010 9 Comments

Travel plans once again took me away from the world most of the day, but I did catch a glimpse of Dave Weigel's piece, Sarah Palin's strange, unprofessional and paranoid grudge, in which he excoriates Sarah Palin for complaining that a reporter writing a book...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2010 7 Comments

Admiral Joe Sestak's political ship is sinking. Not from loose lips, but the opposite.Sestak has stated more than once that someone in the Obama administration offered him a job if he would drop out of the Democratic primary against Arlen Specter.But Sestak is sticking by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2010 0 Comments

John J. "Jack" McConnell, Jr. is the Obama administration's nominee for an open seat on the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island.As documented in my prior post, McConnell donated at least $430,000 to Democrats, including tens of thousands to the Democratic Senators who nominated him...

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

Literally. Mexico told Obama what to do with the national guard troops Obama just ordered to the border.Not kidding. Mexico told Obama what to do with the national guard troops Obama just ordered to the border.You may not understand. Mexico did not make a profane...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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