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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 24, 2010 3 Comments
John Stossel wrote a great column about how, if the present political class had been in power four hundred years ago, we would not have Thanksgiving today. “Long before the failure of modern socialism, the earliest European settlers gave us a dramatic demonstration of the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 18, 2010 19 Comments
As a college student, my Facebook feed has been saturated with complaints about the recent discontinuation of “Four Loko,” an alcoholic drink which is sold in 23.5-ounce cans containing 12% alcohol by volume. The combination is now illegal following several reports of underage drinkers being...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2010 10 Comments
Somewhere, Andrew Breitbart must be smiling about this article at Counterpunch, The Other Side of Shirley Sherrod, which exposes Shirley Sherrod in rather bleak terms as to her treatment of black farmers and their families: The swirling controversy over the racist dismissal of Shirley Sherrod...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2010 3 Comments
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! (h/t daily timewaster via Daily Telepgraph): Rescued eight years ago during a police drugs raid in Atlanta, Georgia, the three friends were only cubs at the time and barely two months old. They had been kept as status...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2009 5 Comments
The NY Times is naming names of House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill. It’s all public record, so it’s not “outing.” But it is interesting that The Times feels the need to go into such detail to highlight the Democratic heretics. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2009 2 Comments
When Barack Obama warmly greeted Hugo Chavez last April, Obama sent a message of despair to Venezuelans who sought freedom from Chavez’s cult of personality. Any hope the Venezuelan opposition had of a near-term reversal of newspaper closings, political imprisonments, street intimidation, and nationalizations, died...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2009 4 Comments
Although most commentators predicted a close election in Iran, the official results show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a sweeping victory. There are many allegations of election fraud mostly as a result of the failure to require photo IDs and other voter identification, which permitted multiple voting:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2009 12 Comments
I long have criticized the bias of the NY Times, and mocked its business death spiral. My posts Nude Swiss Hikers Rescue NY Times and NY Times New Business Strategy: DEATH mocked the sensationalist trend on The Times’ website. I was the first (as far...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2009 0 Comments
Much has been written about ammunition shortages, and skyrocketing prices. It is about to get worse, as the Obama administration has implemented scrap metal policies which will make it much more difficult for manufacturers to get the material needed for civilian munitions. An interesting post...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2009 5 Comments
Barack Obama sent a letter to the Russians offering to halt the European missile shield in exchange for Russian help in stopping Iran’s nuclear development. The Russians said thank you for agreeing to halt the missile shield, but we don’t haggle, so you get nothing...
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