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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 11 Comments

Dana Milbank argues that conservatives are hypocritical in seeking government involvement in the Gulf oil cleanup, Through oil-fouled water, big government looks better and better:There is something exquisite about the moment when a conservative decides he needs more government in his life...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 3 Comments

Not who you think, although there could be more than one.''I believe Gordon Brown has been the worst prime minister we have had in this country. ''It is a disgrace and he owes an apology to the people and the Queen.'' As stated by Manish...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2010 17 Comments

One of the arguments raised against the Arizona immigration law (in addition to it being the modern incarnation of Nazism) was that states had no authority under the U.S. Constitution to conduct their own immigration policies.So I presume we will hear howls of constitutional outrage...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2010 24 Comments

Nah, that would be too easy, and relatively painless compared to weighing in on the "Harvard Racist E-mail" controversy.Haven't heard of it? Join the other 99.999% of Americans. But in the law-related blogosphere, the controversy is all the rage the past few days.For various versions...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2010 7 Comments

Gordon Brown is feeling the wrath of the little and not so little people in Britain, after he called Gillian Duffy a "bigot."Now things seem to be spinning out of control, as even a Dean at Oxford University has heckled Brown for making the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2010 4 Comments

That's what David Cameron (Conservative - U.K.) has made one of his campaign themes:In a Sunday Times interview, the Conservative leader revealed the four pieces of legislation that would dominate his debut Queen’s speech ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 9 Comments

Intergenerational warfare is breaking out in Greece as youth blame their elders for the economic mess, resulting from decades of welfare-state policies, that has left Greece bankrupt.I wonder whether the questions being asked by the youth of Greece are the same questions our children and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 11 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:It has been eight days since the Governor of Arizona signed the immigration law. A few tweaks have been made in the wording of the law since then, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 27 Comments

post about it (yet). Link to it (yet). Sneak it into a post about something else (yet).Because you already know about it.And you know what I am talking about.(Comments are now open.)--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 19 Comments

My my, how Paul Krugman worries that our President may come under criticism from the vast right-wing conspiracy for the Eight Days In April.The Eight Days In April during which our President twiddled his environmental clean-up and emergency response thumbs in the face of what...

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

I said it: Oh, please. Obama's multi-trillion dollar spending spree is a lobbyist's wet dream. More money will be made by more lobbyists divvying up this pork than in the collective history of the United States.And they dreamed it: I can't believe I put "wet...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2010 12 Comments

The Justice Department has commenced a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs:Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into trading at Goldman Sachs, raising the possibility of criminal charges against the Wall Street giant, according to people familiar with the matter.While the investigation is still in a...

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

... if you want to be able to continue using terms like Nazi, Communist and Apartheid to describe the new Arizona immigration law. Or if, like President Obama, you want to claim that the law would allow people to be questioned merely for going out...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2010 26 Comments

This whole boycott thing is getting really confusing.California is boycotting Arizona because of the Arizona immigration law.But weren't we already supposed to be boycotting California because of Prop. 8?Or if not the entire State of California, then at least the counties which voted for Prop....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2010 19 Comments

There is a fundamental disconnect in the arguments being mounted against the Arizona immigration law. What many of the critics want to say, but do not, is that they view all immigration laws as inherently racist because most illegal immigrants are non-white.There are some legitimate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2010 5 Comments

Gordon Brown is a man of the people. When the people are around.When alone with aides, he dismissed as bigoted a woman who expressed concerns about how immigration from Eastern Europe would affect the economy. But moments earlier, in public, he praised the woman.As reported...

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