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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...

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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...

LEGAL INSURRECTION QUICK TAKES

MIT Shuts Down Student-Run Anti-Israel Magazine After it Appears to Support Violence

Ohio Republicans Propose Ban on Asking for Preferred Pronouns on Applications to Public Universities

U. Minnesota Suspends and Fines Pro-Hamas Rioters Who Took Over Building

Brown University Transfers Ownership of a Portion of its Land to Local Indian Tribe

The Battle to End Wokeness is Just Getting Started

U. Michigan Regent Says School Reconsidering DEI Policies

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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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2009 8 Comments

In John Hawkins' latest quarterly ranking of Best Conservative Blogs, I have moved up to #16, from my previous #18 spot. Thanks John!Please remember, these rankings are based upon scientific consensus, so the results may not be questioned (at least not this quarter).--------------------------------------------Follow me on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2009 8 Comments

One of the hallmarks of an Obama health care speech is to pick one or two or three anecdotes of people who have had trouble with their insurance company as proof that we need to overhaul the entire insurance industry and health care system. These...

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

Barack Obama was interviewed tonight on 60 Minutes by Steve Kroft. This little nugget had been previewed in pre-interview press hype. Obama states that he will be held accountable by voters if health care restructuring fails, but in fact just the opposite is true:I have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2009 0 Comments

That some people have taken it upon themselves to use the death of a student from swine flu as a cause for mockery and snark.Pat at And So It Goes In Shreveport has the run down: Editor of HuffPo's Health Unit Mocks Death of Cornell...

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

When I first started this blog just under a year ago, I was ignorant of who was who in the blogosphere. Believe it or not, Memeorandum is not the world.But I did know about Little Green Footballs. I'm not sure why.Over the months, it became...

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

Afghanistan is one issue around which there should be bi-partisan support. The consequences of the Taliban taking over the country and giving al-Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups a home base is too much to risk.Obama seems to have a profound sense that the stakes...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2009 7 Comments

A movement is growing in Britain to slash government spending rather than impose tax increases, according to the Sunday Times:Voters are overwhelmingly in favour of cutting public spending rather than tax rises to close the budget black hole, a Sunday Times/YouGov poll finds today.Sixty per...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2009 11 Comments

Oliver Willis compares Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's statement that Pawlenty would consider whether the 10th Amendment allows a state to opt out of a potential federal health care plan with to George Wallace standing in the doorway to bar blacks from the University of Alabama.Here...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2009 2 Comments

First it was the Senate Gang of Six who took it upon themselves to fix Joe Wilson's imaginary loophole, the one which caused Wilson out of frustration to accuse Barack Obama of lying as to whether Democratic health care proposals included illegal aliens. And caused...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2009 5 Comments

With the politics which seems to dominate all our lives, it is easy to lose sight of what matters most. This afternoon the Cornell University community lost one of our undergraduate students to swine flu. As the father of three college-age students, my heart goes out...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2009 1 Comment

If critics are to be believed, South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson "is the liar" about whether illegal aliens could receive benefits under the various pending Democratic health care restructuring proposals.In response to this supposedly imaginary problem, the Senate "Gang of Six" bipartisan group is...

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