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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2009 3 Comments
“The time for talk is over.” That sentence should be the new slogan of the Obama administration. Forget “Change We Can Believe In” or “Yes We Can.” Those were yesterday’s slogans, when Obama wanted but did not yet have power. The time for talk was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2009 6 Comments
With all that is happening in the world and at home, it would be easy to forget about the drama unfolding in Honduras this weekend. Manuel Zelaya is threatening another attempt at a return to Honduras this Sunday, is taking steps to set up an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2009 20 Comments
Week-by-week, world event-by-world event, the public humiliation of Hillary Clinton is taking place right before our eyes. Actually, not before our eyes. Hillary has gone missing. There was a time when United States Secretaries of State were front and center in foreign policy making and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2009 5 Comments
CNN has released a joint CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll on Barack Obama’s handling of the Iran uprising. The headline screams Americans don’t want to intervene in Iran election crisis, and the write up notes that “nearly three out of four Americans don’t want the U.S....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2009 8 Comments
In a 5-4 ruling authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the ruling by Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor and two other Court of Appeals judges in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano. [Full opinion and analysis below] In Ricci, white...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2009 9 Comments
Want to laugh out loud? Read “Barack Obama, Deficit-Slayer” by Matthew Yglesias: As the economy recovers, tax revenues will rise, social safety net outlays will fall, and stimulus measures will begin to tamp down. If we can assume further growth in 2011, the complete expiry...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2009 10 Comments
You knew this was inevitable. Regardless of what Barack Obama said or did, the Iranian regime would accuse the U.S. of meddling in Iran’s internal affairs: Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of “intolerable” meddling in its internal affairs, alleging for the first time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2009 9 Comments
Barack Obama has come under criticism not only for his silence for several days, but also his failure to issue more forceful words of support for the protest movement in Iran. Others counter that more forceful words of support would be counter productive, that there...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2009 1 Comment
Barack Obama is spinning his public health plan option today as just another way of helping preserve the private insurance system. According to Obama, the existence of a public plan will provide healthy competition for private insurers, and will not be the first step toward...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2009 2 Comments
Election result are in from Lebanon, and the pro-Western “March 14” parties are the big winner: The March 14 alliance clinched around 70 out of 128 seats, maintaining its majority in parliament after defeating the Hizbullah-led alliance in Sunday’s crucial elections. Celebrations broke out in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2009 10 Comments
I didn’t know what the term “shorter” meant until I started blogging. A “shorter” is someone who exaggerates someone else’s opinion, or creates a false choice between two extremes. Back in the day, such form of argument would be called setting up a “strawman.” As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2009 2 Comments
On December 9, 2008, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald held an emergency press conference to announce a criminal complaint against then Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. While there were many accusations, the most prominent and inflammatory was that Blagojevich attempted to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2009 48 Comments
On May 20, 2009, John Bolton wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled “Get Ready for Another North Korean Nuke Test” in which he noted that the complacency of the Obama administration about North Korea’s nuclear ambitions (and Iran’s) was misplaced: “The curtain...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2009 10 Comments
We are in the process of nationalizing and/or federalizing vast stretches of our economy, including the auto industry, banks, and health care. Individual property rights have taken a back seat to political priorities. I am against this trampling of individual property rights, which are the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2009 96 Comments
My post the other day, MSNBC Hides Obama’s Dijon Mustard (aka Dijongate), has hit a nerve unlike anything else I have written. The post concerned the lunch trip of Obama and Biden to a burger shop to get a “Hell Burger.” I accept that this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2009 0 Comments
I was critical of Senator Susan Collins of Maine for her support of Obama’s stimulus plan. But Collins did not deserve to be charged with contributing to the possible swine flu pandemic, which is a charge leveled against her and spread throughout the internet and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 24, 2009 3 Comments
Bill Roggio, who runs a great website, The Long War Journal, has been reporting for months on the steady increase in the power of the Pakistani Taliban, who are approaching the capital of Islamabad. What is most frightening is that the Taliban also are approaching...
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