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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2009 7 Comments

Just do as he says, or you must want to kill the world: “The time for talk is over, this is the bottom line: We can embrace this accord, take a substantial step forward. We can do that and everyone who is in this room...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2009 4 Comments

From my new favorite screen shot source:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:From The Department of Obvious HeadlinesI'll Have Some Palin Derangement Syndrome with my Turkey, PleaseNude Swiss Hikers Rescue NY Times Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2009 14 Comments

PDS item of the day: A paparazzo with a long-range telephoto lense, hiding out in Hawaii to photograph Sarah Palin on vacation, snapped a photo of Palin in a campaign visor with the word "McCain" blackened out. TMZ scored the coup with the photo, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2009 4 Comments

From The Boston Herald:Republican Senate hopeful Scott Brown has filed a state ethics complaint after a report that a union backing rival Martha Coakley used state resources to urge workers to volunteer for her campaign.After Brown’s complaint Wednesday, the operations director of Service Employees International...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2009 18 Comments

Not by me. By an über liberal feminist blogger at HuffPo, Two Black Role Models Done In By Hubris: In the past few weeks, the two most famous and arguably most successful black men in America have taken a huge fall. It has become clear...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2009 8 Comments

Michael Moore is calling for a boycott of Connecticut because of Joe Lieberman. Yes, the whole state is persona non grata because Independent Joe acted like Independent Joe:"People of Connecticut: What have u done 2 this country? We hold u responsible. Start recall of Lieberman...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2009 2 Comments

As a follow up to my prior post, Read It Out Loud, note that today the clerk of the Senate is reading a version of the health care monstrosity out loud on the Senate floor, at the request of Tom Coburn, in response to an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2009 1 Comment

The headline in USA Today/Gallup's latest health care poll is that the public, by a 48-46% margin, is against or leaning against the current health care proposal:Forty-six percent of Americans say they would advise their member of Congress to vote for healthcare legislation (or lean...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2009 1 Comment

Obama yesterday:"From the discussions we had, it's clear we are on the precipice of achievement that's eluded Congresses, presidents for generations -- an achievement that will touch the lives of nearly every American." It appears, from the context, Obama was intending to use the word...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2009 2 Comments

Has anyone seen Senator Evan Bayh (D-Indiana)? He has gone missing on the health care debate.The almost VP-nominee has flown so far under the radar that a Google News search for "Evan Bayh health care" for the past month turns up very little as to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2009 13 Comments

Whether or not to blog anonymously has been debated for the internet-equivalent of forever.The Publius "outing" incident last spring certainly stirred the debate again, when a newly-minted law professor blogging under a pseudonym for fear of academic retribution had his identity disclosed by another blogger...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2009 2 Comments

Steve Benen, at Washington Monthly, suggests that the enthusiastic and open embrace by some single-payer advocates of the "Medicare buy-in" idea floated by Harry Reid, as a device to obtain a single-payer system, may have scared Joe Lieberman away from the idea.Benen laments that such...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2009 5 Comments

How long before arrest warrants are issued by politically motivated judges in Europe for high level U.S. politicians and military officials because drone strikes in Pakistan kill civilians?Don't think it could happen? How about this story from Britain, Israel fury over British war crimes warrant...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2009 2 Comments

I have to hand it to Harry Reid. He may be on the verge of pulling off the ultimate card play.Reid managed to get everyone excited and fearful through a whispering campaign about a last-minute "compromise" to expand Medicare, even though we can't pay for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2009 11 Comments

Good for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which leads the way in supporting breast cancer awareness and research.In a statement just released, the Komen Foundation refuses to cave in to the despicable attempt by Jane Hamsher and some of her followers to force the Komen...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2009 4 Comments

Not content to call upon the Susan G. Komen Foundation to fire Hadassah Lieberman, Jane Hamsher now is trying to organize secondary pressure on the Komen Foundation through various celebrities who are involved with the organization. The online Petition states:As I said before, it's a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2009 15 Comments

I didn't get a chance to comment this weekend on Matthew Yglesias' ground-breaking announcement that the country has become "ungovernable" because the majority (Democrats) seem unable to run roughshod over the minority (Republicans) in the Senate:We’re suffering from an incoherent institutional set-up in the senate....

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