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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 1 Comment

Last January, I warned of a dangerous slide by Turkey into the Islamist orbit, Turkey Looking Like The Next Iran. About a month ago, I further noted Caroline Glick's excellent article about Turkey's coziness with Iran and anti-democratic Islamism, Turkey is Lost to Islamists.In response...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 1 Comment

Mary Landrieu's deal for an extra $300 million in Medicaid funds for poor Louisiana residents has been hailed by Landrieu as a great victory for the people of Louisiana, and by just about everyone else as a shakedown of Harry Reid and the American people.But...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 8 Comments

The Nation magazine has an extensive article detailing a classified operation in Pakistan by Blackwater, acting expressly under U.S. authority and coordination, to fight al-Qaeda:At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 1 Comment

Today is just filled with wonderment at the unexpected nature of being. From the "I didn't see this coming" department:Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World StageWave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government Schumer: Dems...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 5 Comments

Great post by Michelle Malkin pointing out that MSNBC, whose commentators routinely lash out at conservatives and Republicans as being all-white, is in fact all white:--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

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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...

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...

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....

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