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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 3 Comments

In my post the other day, Berkeley Students Should Be Protesting Obamacare, I made the point that the Berkeley student protesters were too stupid to realize that their future was being sold out from under them under the Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care restructuring plans because younger...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 11 Comments

It is reported that Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, is paralyzed. So you knew this was coming:How barbaric that the military will seek to kill a man with no sensation in his body from the chest down. He might prefer it (I certainly would)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 5 Comments

Saturday, November 21, 2009. State: Louisiana. Verdict: Bad Day. Proof:LSU butchers final few seconds"It's not $100 million; it's $300 million!"Somebody is not happy.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 7 Comments

It gets curiouser and curiouser.Yesterday, Mary Landrieu closed the deal for a payoff to Louisiana in exchange for her vote to let Harry Reid's health care restructuring bill go to Senate floor debate. The deal had been negotiated over weeks, with initial reports putting the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 5 Comments

The other day, when the news of "hacked" e-mails from a British climate institute hit the internet, I wrote Why The "Hacked E-Mails" Don't Interest Me, Yet.In the post, I noted that I did not have the time to devote to the hacked e-mails because...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2009 7 Comments

Mary Landrieu should make Edwin Edwards proud. After being criticized for taking $100 million in earmarked aid for Louisiana as part of Harry Reid's health care bill, Landrieu shot back:“I will correct something. It’s not $100 million, it’s $300 million, and I’m proud of it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2009 0 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:I almost had forgotten about Jesse Jackson. But he's still out there, and still the master race card player:“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2009 2 Comments

The students taking over buildings at U.C. Berkeley are protesting large pending tuition increases. The ultra-liberal campus has a sense of entitlement out of whack with the reality of California; liberal economic policies have ruined California's economy, so these students will have to get used...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2009 4 Comments

The Associated Press has been at the forefront of efforts to prevent bloggers and websites linking to, and quoting, traditional media content: Taking a new hard line that news articles should not turn up on search engines and Web sites without permission, The Associated Press...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2009 7 Comments

I've spent some time going through Harry Reid's 2,074 page health care restructuring bill. If you read the dozens of prior posts regarding prior versions, you pretty much know the story. There are many good analyses of the tax and other aspects, so read up.While...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2009 5 Comments

The internet is on fire due to the heat generated by the e-mails hacked from a British climate institute, "allegedly" showing that some scientists, in order to justify their grant money, may have phonied-up some global climate numbers.I refuse to join the bandwagon alerting the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2009 2 Comments

Latest tracking poll from Rasmussen shows Obama at -14% on the strongly approve/strongly disapprove index. Look at the chart, and it shows a steady rise in negatives and steady fall in positives, for month after month since the Democrats rolled out their health care plans....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2009 4 Comments

Harry Reid wants a Saturday night vote to open debate in the Senate on Reid's 2,074 page attempt to restructure the health care system.What will the Senator then do? Actually start debate? No, they will leave for the Thanksgiving break.So what's the hurry? The same...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2009 1 Comment

Chuck Schumer defends Obama's decision to try 9/11 subjects in civilian court in lower Manhattan.But Schumer was against it (via HotAir and Washington Times) in 2001, using words which explained the lack of logic to a civilian trial for the planners of the 9/11 attacks...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2009 8 Comments

Tom Coburn (R-Ok) may request, as is his right under Senate Rules, that the entire 2,027 page Harry Reid health care restructuring bill be read out loud on the floor of the Senate prior to debate: A little quick math shows that at a minute...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2009 1 Comment

There is one number about which Harry Reid and the Democrats almost never talk: 255 million.That is the number of Americans who have health insurance, according to the September 2009 Report released by the Census Bureau (at page 20). The vast majority of those people...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2009 2 Comments

It is clear that Democrats, who opposed shock and awe on the actual battlefield, find it a useful tactic in the health care debate.Last night, Harry Reid released the 2,074 page bill he created in secret, and he wants to start debate immediately. If he...

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