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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2011 30 Comments
When it came to overthrowing Hosni Mubarek, the western media thrust itself into the situation and portrayed the uprising as a western-style demand for freedom. The television screens were filled with stories of relatively western figures such as Google employee Wael Ghonim, who became the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2011 4 Comments
The New York Times has a story on the return of Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi to Egypt (emphasis mine): Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential Sunni cleric who is banned from the United States and Britain for supporting violence against Israel and American forces in Iraq, delivered...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2011 3 Comments
I have posted before about how “[t]he administration’s complete obsession with Obamacare” manifested itself in a “neglect and disregard” of the troubles brewing in the Middle East. Now we have confirmation that there were explicit warnings to the Obama administration about the likelihood of trouble in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 6 Comments
… “You don’t know how lucky you are, boy Back in the USSR, yeah” It was just a song.  But to Brian Leiter, a law and philosophy professor at the University of Chicago who frequently takes swipes and swings at conservatives, it had a ring...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 8 Comments
After yesterday’s speech by Hosni Mubarek, I noted: “Things will be interesting. I can’t imagine the situation will stay stable until September.” Well I was right, although I didn’t predict Mubarek would resign the next day. But it has happened, and now the military controls...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 8 Comments
While there was much speculation that Hosni Mubarek would resign tonight, he just announced that he was staying for the transition through September elections. There will be more on this later, but the highlights of his speech were to lash out at foreign interference (“we...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2011 3 Comments
Via And So It Goes In Shreveport comes news of the death of “snaggletoothie” and a link to a loving memory by his father, My son Christopher David Monson aka snaggletoothie: “Chris was born on April 1, 1948. He passed away on January 28, 2011....

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 05, 2011 9 Comments
This article will save you money if you actually buy into the premises of a recent article in the Journal about college admissions that had me rolling my eyes. It is no secret that the children of certain families (and we all know who we...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 02, 2011 6 Comments
K. McCaffrey — Last week, Britain’s chief central banker, Mervyn King, painted a grim picture of the years to come in the UK. – “In 2011, real wages are likely to be no higher than they were in 2005… One has to go back to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2011 51 Comments
I’m late to this, but the story has not received a lot of coverage in the conservative blogosphere.  Paul Mirengoff of Power Line blog no longer is of Power Line blog. Mirengoff is an attorney at Akin Gump, a big law firm with a large presence in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2011 2 Comments
President Obama visited Manitowoc, Wisconsin yesterday, to tout his “Sputnik moment” theme.  As reported by The Washington Post: President Obama took his State of the Union message on the road Wednesday afternoon in a state that he won easily in 2008 but that shifted sharply...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2011 9 Comments
I do not think you listened to the State of the Union Address very carefully.  How do I know that you were not listening carefully? Well, I bet you thought Obama said that one of the benefits of the New START Treaty would be that...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 26, 2011 2 Comments
I found two great pieces on the State of the Union address last night (I read the leaked version but didn’t bother finding a TV to watch): “State of the Union speeches are typically unimpressive and unmemorable. Last night’s address by President Obama was in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2011 62 Comments
If you have noticed, I am very intolerant of cheap shots and snide comments directed at Sarah Palin, particularly when those cheap shots and snide comments come from conservative bloggers and Republican politicians. Perhaps I react this way because when Palin Derangement Syndrome first struck...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2011 7 Comments
One of my readers has asked if we will be doing a Live Event (similar to what we did on November 2 and last January for the MA Election) for Tuesday’s State of the Union address. What do you think? (Poll closes at midnight tonight) ——————————————–Follow...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2011 3 Comments
… An amazing address (emphasis mine): In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2011 15 Comments
Jared Loughner was not a political person, so far as has been revealed to date.  There is no evidence whatsoever that Loughner was inspired by, or even listened to, right wing radio or commentators, much less ever saw the 10-month old Sarah Palin electoral target map which...
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