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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2010 13 Comments
Barack Obama reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down parts of McCain-Feingold campaign contribution restrictions: With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2009 10 Comments
Why am I not surprised. The head of the UN’s climate organization has demanded that American taxpayers “show me the money” by funding billions of dollars of climate change programs in poorer countries: At the Copenhagen climate summit, the world’s top environment watchdog welcomed the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 17, 2009 9 Comments
See Update below——————————————- Politico is one of the class acts in internet news to which I link frequently, and Ben Smith is a justifiably respected commentator at Politico. Which is why it pains me to have to point out that yesterday Smith unfairly smeared Robert...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 23, 2009 3 Comments
Britain has solved the problem of burning coal without emitting “greenhouse gases.” According to The Independent, cutting edge technology called Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) will be fitted on every new coal burning power plant: CCS, which takes power stations’ carbon dioxide waste gas, liquefies...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2009 25 Comments
The Obama administration released today four memoranda detailing the legal analysis regarding interrogation techniques, most notably involving Abu Zubaydah. There is a lot of outrage regarding the interrogation techniques approved, but those are mostly non-legal issues. Some of the techniques approved, such as grabbing the...

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 March 21, 2009 24 Comments
Ezra Klein, blogger for the “liberal” American Prospect, got caught by Politico coordinating his stories with other liberal bloggers and journalists. Exposed for being a journalistic fraud, Klein needed an enemy. He found Ann Althouse. Althouse, who has a very popular blog, could be considered...
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