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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...

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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...

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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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