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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2009 0 Comments

Wendy Murphy, the lawyer for Lucia Whalen, who placed the 911 call which led to the arrest of Henry Louis Gate, Jr., was interviewed tonight on the Greta Van Susteren show. Murphy, speaking for Whalen, stated that Whalen heard Gates screaming at police, but refused...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2009 1 Comment

The Cambridge Police have released the 911 call by Lucia Whalen about a possible break-in at the home of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Here is the complete audio.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg7mHjr_d0c]The interesting part of the call is the caller, Lucia Whalen, is very circumscribed in what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2009 11 Comments

The big, breaking news of the day on the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. case is that the person who called the police to report a possible break-in, Lucia Whalen, denies that in the phone call she identified the race of the two alleged perpetrators, which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2009 15 Comments

The global warming debate has entered the conspiracy-theory phase with this hysterical article at The Guardian: Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide.Contrary to what the global-warming alarmists claim, however, there is scientific dispute over ice measurements.What is not lacking, however,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2009 26 Comments

The proper ending to the controversy over the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. should not be an apology or a sit down for beer at the White House. This no longer is a private affair, so Prof. Gates' desire to "move on,"...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2009 9 Comments

The Congressional Budget Office once again has poked a massive hole in the Democratic health care "reform" bubble, in a report issued today.One of the key elements of the Democratic proposals is to hand over the power to make cost cuts to an unelected, unimpeachable...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2009 0 Comments

The French army finally has won a war. It managed to burn down a suburb of Marseille during artillary pracice without suffering any casualties among its troops:MILITARY bombing practice has caused one of France's worst fires for three years which continues to rage on the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 24, 2009 2 Comments

Leave it to The NY Times to create a faux historical context to absolve Barack Obama of criticism over Obama's statement that the Cambridge Police acted "stupidly" with regard to the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.What faux historical context, you ask? The Times compares...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 24, 2009 2 Comments

This video, courtesy of The Right Wing Czar, is too funny. Somehow, I recall Obama channeling Seinfeld once before.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3ln3swL7Q]--------------------------------------------Related Post:Obama Channels SeinfeldFollow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 24, 2009 15 Comments

I hope the Cambridge Police Department releases the 911 call which reported a burglary in progress at the home of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gate, Jr., and the subsequent radio calls from Sgt. James Crowley. Add to that, all witness accounts, including by the two...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 23, 2009 2 Comments

Lynn Sweet is from Chicago, where Barack Obama launched and refined his community activist/politician credentials. Sweet writes and blogs for the Chicago Sun-Times, and is one of my favorite columnists/bloggers.When Sweet asked the now-famous question to Barack Obama last night about the arrest of Henry...

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

William F. Buckley, Jr. famously said:I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Reflecting on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2009 25 Comments

I guess I owe something of an apology to Huffington Post blogger Martha St. Jean who wrote yesterday about the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.:I believe Gates did what anyone would do, he yelled at the officer, probably called him a few...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2009 8 Comments

"Keep your laws off my body" has been a rallying cry of liberals, and the pro-choice movement in particular, for decades. The concept is that medical procedures are so intensely personal that government, regardless of its intent, should not be involved in the decisions.Yet when...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2009 4 Comments

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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 over...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2009 10 Comments

On the controversy regarding the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Martha St. Jean at Huffington Post writes:I believe Gates did what anyone would do, he yelled at the officer, probably called him a few names and maybe told him he was not...

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