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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....

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 18 Comments

I'm glad I spent most of yesterday traveling, so that I missed much of the blogospheric tsunami regarding Rand Paul's libertarian views on the virtue of the federal government banning racial discrimination in private businesses.Where I come down on the issue is that the history...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 1 Comment

When Democrats get on one of their rants about the dangerous effects of corporate campaign money, what they really mean is that they are against corporate campaign money which might support Republicans.The money which comes from unions to support Democrats is quite alright with them:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 4 Comments

There is a legal and political drama unfolding in Central Falls, Rhode Island, which has national implications for municipalities suffocating under union contracts and pension obligations, but which has received little attention outside Rhode Island.As I posted two days ago, the City of Central Falls...

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