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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2013 21 Comments
A group of 40 tourists peasants stormed Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida, as reported by First Coast News (h/t Amy): A group of tourists didn’t let the government shutdown or the gate at the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine stop them...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 23, 2013 62 Comments
In a unanimous verdict, Nidal Hasan has been found guilty on all counts in the November, 2009 Fort Hood massacre. #BREAKING Maj. Nidal Hasan has been found guilty on all counts for the 2009 mass shooting at #FortHood http://t.co/0vnO9yaf2Q — NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) August 23,...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 08, 2013 12 Comments
The Fort Hood shooting trial resumed Thursday after the judge refused to grant a request from Nidal Hasan’s standby defense attorneys to drop out of the case.  The attorneys argued Wednesday that Hasan’s strategy in court thus far has demonstrated that the defendant – who...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 07, 2013 21 Comments
Day two in the trial of the accused Fort Hood shooter came to an unexpected halt Wednesday morning, after standby defense attorneys for Nidal Hasan requested to either be reinstated as official counsel or be removed from the case entirely.  The attorneys filed a motion,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2012 15 Comments
First they came for the countryside, now they’re coming for the suburbs From Meg in the Philadelphia “Main Line” suburbs: I thought that you would enjoy this picture of a pickup with bumper stickers. What is very interesting is where it was parked – in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 20 Comments
The much demonized kulaks (a/k/a the top 5%, 2%, 0r 1% depending upon the speech) were the first to rise up against Obama. Now the kulaks have been joined by the common peasantry, via NPR: As Mitt Romney and President Obama get ready for their second...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2011 14 Comments
OMG, the feeling sure is catching on. Another one from Linda and her happy hunting grounds, the Lowe’s parking lot in Nashville:

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2010 1 Comment
I posted some time ago about a study by an MIT health economist, Jonathan Gruber, on the supposed cost savings of the Senate health bill, Are Our Liberties Worth Only $200-$500?. Even to my non-mathematical mind, Gruber’s analysis was shoddy: Gruber has based his projections...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 11 Comments
It is reported that Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, is paralyzed. So you knew this was coming: How barbaric that the military will seek to kill a man with no sensation in his body from the chest down. He might prefer it (I certainly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2009 3 Comments
Hot on the heals of the Bush-Balloon Boy connection, and the Iraq-Stupak connection, now we have the inevitable Bush-Cheney-Hasan connection. Writing about the mass murder by al-Qaeda-infatuated Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, a blogger at Firedoglake invokes the evil spirit of Bush/Cheney, Will There Be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 09, 2009 7 Comments
It is not a good thing to jump to conclusions when there is a shooting, at least on the issue of whether the shooting was a mere crime or terrorism. On Thursday, I cautioned against jumping to the conclusion that Nidal Hasan was motivated by...
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