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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 01, 2010 17 Comments

Turkey has repressed its large Kurdish minority, which seeks a nation of its own, and has threatened to invade Iraqi Kurdistan if it gained too much autonomy.Turkey, in turn, has been subjected to attacks from Kurdish separatist groups, and has responded harshly. The attacks on...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2010 3 Comments

The Great Lawn at Central Park, Memorial Day. Almost enough to get me to move back to New York City, even though there are people.Almost.--------------------------------------------Related Post:Early Sunday Morning New York Follow me on Twitter and Facebook ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2010 58 Comments

The left-wing blogosphere is full of useful idiots, who pretend that the flotilla which just was stopped by Israel was a humanitarian mission.The flotilla was organized by the Islamist government in Turkey to aid Hamas with the goal of opening up shipping channels for Turkey's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2010 16 Comments

The United States has a major problem in Turkey, which under increasingly authoritarian Islamist rule, has become a primary player in undermining U.S. policy in the Middle East, not to mention a growing antagonist of Israel.I have posted on Turkey's Islamist government before. The ploy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2010 16 Comments

The Gail Collins, in an otherwise humorous column Alabama Goes Viral, plays a sleight of hand when quoting the now famous television advertisement by Dale Peterson, running for Alabama Agricultural Commissioner.Here is Collins' description (emphasis mine):This is the start of Peterson’s campaign ad. He rides...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2010 2 Comments

The NY Times' headline writer got it wrong, The Hard Sell On Salt, which purported to show how the salt industry was manipulating public opinion and regulations on restricting salt: With salt under attack for its ill effects on the nation’s health, the food giant...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2010 6 Comments

Many moons ago, when I worked in Manhattan, I always enjoyed early Sunday mornings, because there were few people and even fewer cars.I'm in NYC this weekend for a wedding, and walked over to Park Avenue.In the photo, the Waldorf Astoria on the left, looking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2010 4 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Hey, did you hear the one where Bill O'Reilly called a black professor a drug dealer? What a racist.At least that is what Gawker wanted you to believe, in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2010 12 Comments

1. Why did it take until after the Pennsylvania Senate primary for details regarding the offer made to Joe Sestak, and the use of Bill Clinton as the conduit, to leak out?2. Would it have made a difference in the primary? (Did I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2010 7 Comments

Another "emergency" and pending "catastrophe" is being used to justify more federal government spending to support unsustainable teachers' union contracts:Education Secretary Arne Duncan says President Obama "absolutely supports" a congressional proposal for $23 billion in emergency education spending in order to stave off teacher layoffs...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2010 14 Comments

Like clockwork, I get in the car for the 6 hour drive from Ithaca to Rhode Island, and news hits the fan.This time, the revelation that the White House enlisted Bill Clinton to do the dirty work of getting Joe Sestak to drop out of...

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...

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...

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,...

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