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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2009 4 Comments

This story has not received enough play, and has been lost in the shuffle of Obama's UN and G-20 appearances.The Senate Joint Committee on Taxation is considering the tax aspects of proposed Democratic health care bills. Republican Senator John Ensign has revealed that the bill...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2009 2 Comments

The supporters of a government-run "public option" are touting a CBS/NY Times poll which purportedly shows that 65% of people support a public option. But examine how the question is framed, and it is clear that the question is intended to elicit a favorable response:"Would...

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

During the 2008 campaign, there were serious concerns that al-Qaeda would attempt to disrupt the elections in the United States as it had disrupted the elections in Spain.Warnings about the threat of terrorism gave prominent left-wing bloggers an excuse to accuse the McCain campaign of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 24, 2009 7 Comments

The efforts by Barack Obama to force NY Gov. David Paterson not to run for election in 2010 have roiled NY politics, and baffled many who wonder why a President felt the need to get involved in state politics.The crushing NY State budget gap has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 24, 2009 5 Comments

The saga of Manuel Zelaya should be a teachable moment to the Obama administration. As reported in the Miami Herald, Zelaya's insanity is seeping out. Zelaya claims he is the victim of radiation and mind control experiments and is being targeted by Israeli mercenaries.This is...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 23, 2009 7 Comments

I have argued before that the focus on the public option, while necessary, missed the key defect in Democratic health care restructuring plans. The problem is the health care mandate, which by the way, Barack Obama opposed during the campaign.The mandate that every individual carry...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 23, 2009 6 Comments

Barack Obama's speech to the United Nations today had some positive aspects. He gave lip service to freedom of the individual and political rights.But overall, the speech was more of the same, that whatever the United States has done right, was just making up for...

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

Barack Obama speaks at the U.N. today. What an opportunity, to call out all the thugs and dictators, and to defend personal and political freedom which is under attack daily in Venezuela, Iran and elsewhere. A real opportunity.But if history is any guide, it is...

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

Thank you, HondurasFor standing up to the U.S. government's legally dishonest and morally bankrupt attempt to engineer the return to power of Manuel Zelaya, the Hugo Chavez wannabe. You have exposed the lie (are we allowed to say that word?) that the Obama administration supports...

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

How oddly circular and ironic that Jimmy Carter believes that most opponents of Obama's policies are racists. In fact, racism is not Obama's main problem. Jimmy Carter is.In modern politics, the most damaging label a President can receive is to be compared to Jimmy Carter,...

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

Barack Obama is flooding the news shows this morning with appearances on five networks (excluding Fox, of course). More of the same, as if an address to a joint session of Congress and "major" speeches almost every day were not enough.The attitude from the top...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2009 8 Comments

If you've noticed, thing have been slow here the past couple of days. Still trying to recover from the flu and tonight starts the Jewish New Year, so I will not be doing new posts until Sunday. In the meantime, check out the blogs...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2009 4 Comments

Big news in Britain. If you move, you no longer have to drop your physician.Why would you have to drop your physician, you ask. Because in Britain's nationalized health system, doctors are rationed by geographic area and restricted to serving people in that area. As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2009 11 Comments

Chris Matthews is on Hardball right now making the argument that the assassination of John Kennedy was the result of right wing hate speech which incited people to violence. Even though Lee Harvey Oswald was an avowed communist who lived previously in the Soviet Union....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2009 8 Comments

The NY Times has been largely silent on the ACORN fiasco until today, with an article titled Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn, Favored Foe. The Times befools itself with the following analysis of why no one previously was able to convince the Obama administration to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2009 36 Comments

The increasingly hysterical use of the the race card by liberal columnists, bloggers and politicians reflects the last gasps of people who, being unable to win an argument on the merits, seek to end the argument.While the false accusation of racism is not a new...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2009 17 Comments

This video (h/t Tim Blair) carries a certain satisfaction. It shows the premature detonation of a roadside IED, taking out the bad guys planting the devide before the good guys had to fire a shot. That alone makes it worth posting.But listen to the...

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