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Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 29, 2013 9 Comments
More unintended consequences of laws which are too broadly worded. The Atlantic writer Derek Khanna recently named the Most Ridiculous New Law – 2013 a provision which previously had been waived but has come back making it illegal to “unlock” your cellphone.  And while there is...

Posted by Joel Engel on January 28, 2013 28 Comments
Thomas Jefferson thought that the best insurance against future tyrannies was an educated populace.  Historical ignorance is a petri dish that grows a lot of strange and destructive ideas. To wit: Silvio Berlusconi. Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi triggered outrage from Italy’s political left on...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 28, 2013 21 Comments
Many politicians fail to understand an inherent point of economics I refer to as the “Star Wars Tax Rule”:  The more you tighten the tax grip, the more revenues will slip through your fingers. Today, I would like to highlight three recent news items that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2013 78 Comments
There’s no Saturday Night Card Game tonight. I was going to write about some “Neo-Confederate” idiocy by a pretend lawyer who happens to be quite obsessed with me over at the liberal blog Glenn Greenwald calls ” a cesspool of unprincipled partisan hackdom.” When you are a liberal blog and...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 26, 2013 55 Comments
The timing of the recent announcement from the Obama Administration that it would lift the ban on women serving in combat positions was fascinating. After Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s responsibility dodging and Biden-esque responses to questioning by Senators yesterday, the White House needed a...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 25, 2013 9 Comments
President Barack Obama’s inaugural address was an ode to big government. And, of big government entities, perhaps the most toxic to the American economy is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  However, this federal agency cannot hold a candle to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2013 54 Comments
So writes Caroline Glick: After participating last week in a debate in London about Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines organized by the self-consciously pretentious Intelligence Squared debating society, I can now say from personal experience that Amis is correct. The public atmosphere in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2013 6 Comments
Update:  Looks like Bibi Netanyahu will be selected to put together a government, but is not in as strong a position as expected just weeks ago.  Carl in Jerusalem has all the details and live updates. Carl also updates on something I touched on below,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2013 8 Comments
I have pointed out before how In RI, Public Sector Unions Are The State and how behind almost every Democratic politician there stands a union. So the latest news is not surprising.  Via ProJo, Laborers’ union again gives two R.I. Senate leaders six-figure compensation: Annual reports...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 18 Comments
Obama wants Israel to go back to the pre-1967 borders, and he’s squarely placed the blame on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not being willing to go along. I addressed this the other day in my post, Obama’s interference in Israel’s election. Now Netanyahu...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 41 Comments
The left-blogosphere is joyous because there were accidental shootings at gun shows and events for Gun Appreciation Day. Really, they’re putting the full snark on, because nothing says “suspend the 2nd Amendment” like accidental shootings:   There’s something much more dangerous. Rock concerts, which have a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 13 Comments
Genealogist Megan Smolenyak is quoted in The Wall Street Journal article about common misperceptions about family lore, “Grandma Did What?” Digging Up the Roots of Family Lore. One of those common misperceptions, according to Smolenyak, is as follows: “Great grandma was a Cherokee.” Many people...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 24 Comments
You don’t need to be an expert in Israeli politics to understand that Israeli voters don’t like it when their leaders fight with an American president. That’s nothing new, and it’s not new in the age of Obama. That’s the context in which you need...
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