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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2009 1 Comment

From the London Times, on continuing problems in the British health care system:An immediate investigation to uncover the true extent of death rates across the NHS has been ordered by the Health Secretary after scandals at two hospital trusts. Amid claims that patients are dying...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 27, 2009 7 Comments

Do not worry that your electronic medical records, once in the possession of the government, will not be safe. The government has extensive procedures in place to assure that the never, ever, could there be a breach of security.These security procedures have been developed and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 27, 2009 2 Comments

Or so it seems. Democratic Representative Mike Capuano is running in the Democratic special primary for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. While running against numerous other high-profile Democrats, such as Attorney General Martha Coakley, Capuano has put Dick Cheney at the center of his campaign strategy.In...

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

From an op-ed by Sen. Jeff Session (R-Ala.), on how Harry Reid was one of the architects, during the Bush administration, of the judicial filibuster. Now that Reid is Majority Leader, Reid is against the use of the filibuster for judicial nominees, and indignantly so:This...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 27, 2009 4 Comments

Scott Eric Kaufman, at the Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, thought counting non-white people at Sarah Palin book signings was a cool way to prove that Palin and her supporters were racist because there were so few non-whites pictured in available photos.In fact, all Kaufman...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2009 3 Comments

Before I head into a turkey-induced stupor, I'll leave you with these two wonderful clips of the great Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. The first clip is the first time they danced together shortly after Nureyev defected. The second clip will leave your...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2009 9 Comments

Ithaca, NY, where I work, is in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Ithacans hate global warming because it is so corporate and capitalist.So at what point in time should global warming have stopped?"The 'Ice age' was really a series of many advances...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2009 3 Comments

Sarah Palin's visit to a turkey farm last year made news when the camera caught a shot of the owner slaughtering a turkey. The NY Times Editorial Board was all over the controversy.Turns out the farmer in question has had a tough year, for a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2009 5 Comments

Another post by Matthew Yglesias engaging in gross generalizations and stereotypes of the politically acceptable kind, Stuff White People Like: Disapproving of Barack Obama:The diversity issues that you see at the elite level of most of American life are, in my opinion, particularly egregious in...

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

I really hope this is a bad Photoshop, not the real thing. From DrudgeReport: "Obama leaves WH clutching GQ mag -- featuring himself...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2009 3 Comments

Obama's new Afghanistan strategy, to be announced formally next week, centers around the phrase "finish the job."That is an interesting concept. Seems simlar to "peace with honor," a very Nixonian phrase signaling that we will claim one thing (the dreaded "V" word) while accepting something...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2009 11 Comments

Does playing the race card never grow old? Apparently not when Palin Derangement Syndrome is at work.At Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, Scott Eric Kaufman is counting non-white people at Sarah Palin book signings, with smoking gun photos such as the photo (right) of white...

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

Allison Kilkenny at HuffPo (September 24, 2009 11:34 AM) on the right-wing inspired killing of Bill Sparkman: By utilizing the branding "Fed," the killers were clearly trying to make a political statement, namely "Obama: Stay Out."Worst call since the criticism of John Bolton for warning...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 13 Comments

The Kentucky state police announced that the death of Bill Sparkman was an elaborate suicide made to look like a murder so that Sparkman's son could collect on his insurance policy. Robert Stacy McCain has all the details and updates.I'll let others delve into all...

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

When the story of the e-mails "hacked" (or leaked) from a British climate institute first exploded, I was very cautious. I'm turning from a "hacked e-mails skeptic" to a "hacked e-mails believer" for two reasons.First, numerous bloggers have done a good job exploring and explaining...

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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