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Let them come to Tegucigalpa

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2009 12 Comments

With each passing day, the vapidness of the Obama administration's foreign policy becomes more clear. Lofty words spoken in the capitals of Europe and the Middle East were just words. From the warm embrace of the bully Hugo Chavez, to the cynical mixed-messages on the...

Hands Off Honduras

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2009 28 Comments

The Obama administration's actions towards Honduras continue to defy logic. On the one hand, Obama states that he is for the rule of law. Yet Obama meddles in the worst possible way in Hondurans' attempt to protect their country from a Chavez-style tyranny. Read Fausta's...

Now The Sotomayor Polls Don’t Matter

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2009 6 Comments

I don't think confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee should turn on public polling. Nonetheless, when the public polls favored Sonia Sotomayor, supporters of Sotomayor argued for the relevance of these polls, arguing that "that Obama apparently found the American political center in appointing her."Then...

Psst…Don’t Tell Andrew Sullivan Our Secret

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2009 16 Comments

Andrew Sullivan is back on his Trig Palin birther hoax theory, that Sarah Palin is the grandmother and Bristol Palin is the mother. Or what Sullivan calls And The Story The MSM Still Won't Touch.Sullivan has no evidence, just unanswered questions. That's all it takes...

Neda Never Strapped On A Bomb

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2009 7 Comments

In Neda in Palestine, Sentenced to Die Alone, Max Blumenthal at Huffington Post compares Israel's self-defense against suicide bombers from the West Bank to the Iranian crackdown on protests against election fraud which resulted in the death of Neda Soltan. Once again, false analogies and...

Jewish Faculty Members Targeted in 'Wanted' Posters at the University of Rochester

Professor Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit Returns to Twitter/X for the 'New Era'

Bill Ackman Declines to Write Yale Recommendation Letter for Friend's Daughter

Prof. Glenn Reynolds: FEMA's Outrageous Act Reveals Weaponized Government

Pro-Hamas Madness is Spreading on College Campuses

Michigan State Prof Offers Students 'Bonus Points' for Attending Class After Trump Victory

2012 Campaign Has Started

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2009 17 Comments

You know the 2012 campaign has started, because the hatchet-men and women of the media are attacking Sarah Palin based on anonymous sources (including some allegedly from the McCain campaign) and dubious rumors and innuendo.First there were the mounting attacks on the Palin daughters and...

CNN’s Misleading Iran Poll

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....

“Heads They Win, Tails We Lose” Diplomacy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2009 10 Comments

There is something strange about the Obama administration's diplomacy. We speak softly to our enemies, but use a big stick against our friends.Protesters take to the streets in Iran in opposition to election fraud, and against a regime which is openly hostile to the U.S.,...

Supreme Court Reverses Sotomayor

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 New...

Wonkette Goes After Trig Palin Again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 28, 2009 100 Comments

It really is hard to understand why some adults feel the need to make fun of Trig Palin, a one-year old who has Down Syndrome. Politics alone cannot explain it. If you don't like Sarah Palin, fine, but why go after Trig?The controversy regarding the...

Jewish School Held “Racist” For Preferring Jews

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2009 2 Comments

A court in Great Britain has found that a religious Jewish school engaged in racial discrimination by applying the traditional definition of who is a Jew as part of its admissions policy.Traditionally, whether one is Jewish is determined by maternal lineage. If one's mother is...

Hoisted By His Own Apology

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2009 4 Comments

Barack Obama has apologized repeatedly for past U.S. transgressions, real and imagined, although he never demands apologies from others.So it is only natural that the Iranian Mullahs, whose thugs are beating people with axes in the streets, would demand that Obama apologize to Iran:“Change means...

Nail On Health Care Head

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2009 12 Comments

I didn't watch the ABC-White House health care special last night because the set up was one-sided. From an ABC report of the program, however, it appears that all did not go as planned for the White House, as two physicians in the audience challenged...

Did Obama Just Commit A War Crime?

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

Bombing the funerals of your opponents is a red line in most conflicts. The Israelis don't bomb Hamas or Hizbullah funerals, and vice versa. George Bush refused to bomb Taliban funerals. Al-Qaeda, however, has no such compunctions, as it repeatedly has sent suicide bombers to...

Negotiations Preconditioned On Mullah Rule

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2009 4 Comments

During the campaign and after assuming the presidency, Barack Obama repeatedly stated his willingness to engage in negotiations with Iran without any preconditions. But that was and is not true.The events of the past two weeks, including the revelation that Obama sent a letter in...

For Crying Out Loud: “Barack Obama Deficit-Slayer”

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...

Remember “Ahmadinejad Won. Get Over It.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2009 2 Comments

Flynt and Hillary Leverett of the New America Foundation are two of the main proponents of the "Grand Bargain" approach to Iran which has been adopted by the Obama administration. The Grand Bargain approach seeks to have the current Iranian regime promise to cease nuclear...