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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2009 6 Comments

The NY Times has discovered that the Health Debate Fails to Ignite Obama’s Grass Roots:But even among those who turned out for the meetings, many of whom had Obama buttons affixed to their shirts and spoke glowingly of the president, there was a sense of...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2009 36 Comments

A group called Color of Change is putting pressure on advertisers to stop running ads on the Glenn Beck show on Fox News because Glenn Beck said mean things about Barack Obama. Apparently several advertisers, including Geico, Sargento Cheese, and others, have succumbed to the...

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

The Independent newspaper in Britain ran an article titled The Brutal Truth About America's healthcare, focusing on lack of health services in a poor section of Los Angeles. But at the same time, The Independent also ran a column by Christina Patterson in which Ms....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2009 2 Comments

This is great. My home State of Rhode Island says it did not receive promised stimulus money for energy projects. The federal government says it sent the money weeks ago: The U.S. Department of Energy says it sent about $22 million in federal stimulus funds...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2009 30 Comments

People often joke that government-run health care will have the efficiency of the motor vehicle department, and the compassion of the Internal Revenue Service. This joke will become reality if present Democratic health restructuring proposals are enacted.Under both the House and Senate Health, Education, Labor...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 6 Comments

Think Progress, the Democratic policy and media-watch group, has come up with an amazing discovery. Sarah Palin was in favor of voluntary, private counseling so that people could put their end-of-life affairs in order, before she was against government bureaucrats getting involved in a mandatory...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 12 Comments

The political world looked bleak on April 29, 2009, just after Arlen Specter had announced that he was switching to the Democratic Party. The Democrats, understandably crowing, seemed to be unstoppable. The Democratic agenda to control the most minute aspects of our lives through health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 6 Comments

Camille Paglia, a supporter of Barack Obama, gets it (emphasis mine):As a libertarian and refugee from the authoritarian Roman Catholic church of my youth, I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism. This is in fact what Sarah Palin...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2009 8 Comments

Mary Robinson will get the United States Medal of Freedom today.Ms. Robinson presided over the 2001 “"World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance," in Durban, South Africa. Durban was an anti-Semitic hate fest, a grotesque and macabre exercise in linguistic word games...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2009 3 Comments

FreedomWorks, which had the temerity and meanness of spirit to encourage people to attend town hall meetings, was subjected to an organized attempt to jam its phone lines, much like happened to the Republican National Committee. FreedomWorks has published the audio files of some of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2009 7 Comments

The notion of August being a time to debate the specifics of the Democratic and Obama health care restructuring plan is something of a misnomer, since there is no single plan. The illusion is being created of a true debate, but in fact we are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2009 8 Comments

"We don't know who Obama really is," or words to that effect, has been a standard theme of people opposed to Obama's election and governance. What I called the "Door No. 2" effect in the very first post I did on this blog, back on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2009 2 Comments

What is it about this August. It seems that every caricature of Democratic incompetence, intolerance, snobbery, tax-and-spendiness, and manipulation is coming true right before our very eyes:Matthew Yglesias: If Only We Had Some Means of Taking Rich People’s Money and Devoting it to Public Purposes.Greg...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2009 7 Comments

Not this President, that one. The bad one who wanted to strip us of all our freedoms.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRyxOzlJK98]--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2009 13 Comments

So this is what it comes to. After eight years of protesters hanging George Bush in effigy, calling him a Nazi, disrupting conservative speeches on campuses by taking over stages or throwing pies, creating websites and movies that wished for Bush's death, and a myriad...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2009 4 Comments

The much ballyhooed Cash for Clunkers program has had the unintended consequences of driving up the cost of new and used vehicles and used auto parts, according to independent studies of the auto markets. The Cash for Clunkers program demonstrates the danger of government trying...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2009 4 Comments

An article in the NY Times, Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security, deserves a special place in the annals of journalism in the service of liberal politics. The thrust of the article is that global climate change "could" cause massive geopolitical disruption in...

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