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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2009 1 Comment

The New School, which used to be called the New School for Social Research, is a New York City institution of progressive politics and social theory. The President of the New School is former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey from Nebraska. Former Navy SEAL and Medal...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2009 0 Comments

Liberal radio talk-show host Ed Schultz was catapulted to fame when he was given a front row seat at Barack Obama's first presidential press conference. Apparently sensing a star in the making, and a person in favor with the White House, MSNBC hired Schultz for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2009 32 Comments

Robert Stacy McCain has the run down on the apoplectic reaction of liberals to the "tea parties" sweeping the country. His post appropriately is titled "WTF" based on this hyperventilation (via Instapundit) by someone who apparently only watches MSNBC:President Obama was elected democratically, according to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2009 0 Comments

While Obama is reaching out to moderate pirates, John Kerry is calling for hearings on pirates (ooh, I bet they're scared of congressional subpoena power).This is just another instance of Kerry betraying his matees. The pirates Kerry now attacks had endorsed Kerry for President, based...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2009 7 Comments

The dispute regarding the appointment of Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, to the top legal position at the State Department is heating up with the announcement that a coalition of conservative activists is beginning to form around opposition to Harold Koh, President Obama’s...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2009 2 Comments

President Barack Obama bowed down to a foreign monarch as part of his apology tour. Whatever one thinks about our relationship with the Saudis, no President has prostrated himself before a Saudi King before in a sign of subservience. The attempts to twist George Bush's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2009 12 Comments

Posted April 8, 2009 Newsweek magazine's cover proclaims The Decline and Fall of Christian America, while the article inside the cover proclaims The End of Christian America. The substance of the article doesn't really prove the headline, but the goal of whichever editor wrote the headline...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2009 3 Comments

The Obama "bowing" incident is taking on a life of its own. Even those who defend Obama without question are acknowledging "the fact that Obama briefly bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia." No more denial that the event took place, only over its meaning.What...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2009 11 Comments

Barack Obama is on his apology tour of Europe. There is hardly anyone to whom he hasn't apologized for American arrogance and mistakes. One thing Obama hasn't managed to do is ask the Europeans to apologize to us for:Two World Wars which resulted in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2009 8 Comments

President Barack Obama bowed down on bended knee when meeting the King of Saudi Arabia at the G-20 Summit recently. The incident is on video and was widely reported except in the U.S. mainstream media. The White House spin machine has been eerily silent on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2009 1 Comment

George Bisharat is a law professor at the University of California*, Hastings College of Law. His is the son of a Palestinian father who immigrated to the U.S. several years before the creation of Israel, and an American mother. I first learned of George Bisharat when...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2009 1 Comment

The left-wing group Think Progress is complaining of Conservatives Holding Up Increasing Number Of Key Obama Nominees. According to the post:Conservatives in Congress and in the media are attempting to block or delay a growing number of critical nominees for what amount to ideological witch...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2009 3 Comments

A bill pending in Congress, The Cybersecurity Act of 2009, sponsored by John Rockefeller (D) and Olympia Snowe (R) attempts to deal with very real threats to the nation's cyber-infrastructure. Attacks on military, government and civilian cyber-infrastructure are all too real, and it is time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2009 1 Comment

As predicted on this Blog several months ago, the indictment of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been handed down, and it includes a sweeping RICO charge alleging that Blagojevich and others conducted a criminal enterprise, which the indictment calls the Blagojevich Enterprise. That enterprise...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2009 6 Comments

Controversy is swirling around the appointment of Yale Law School Professor and Dean Harold Koh to the position of State Department Legal Advisor, essentially the top lawyer at State. Koh is being portrayed as willing to apply Sharia law in some circumstances, as is happening...

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

Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Jammie Wearing Fool, and others are reporting that the Obamas gave the Queen of England an iPod as a present. Putting aside the tacky nature of such a gift in this context, one point that has been overlooked is that iPods...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2009 1 Comment

Update 4-28-2009: Murphy declared the winner of the race by a couple hundred votes, as a result of doing better on absentee ballots than expected.----------------------------------------------------The Politico is characterizing the virtual tie between Jim Tedesco (R) and Scott Murphy (D) as a loss for Republicans....

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