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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2011 3 Comments
Cousin of Michelle Malkin, has disappeared mysteriously in Seattle. Please spread the word, particularly those of you in the Seattle area. Here is the latest news report: Seattle Police say a missing persons detective will be investigating a University of Washington student reported missing Saturday....

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 07, 2011 4 Comments
Christopher Hitchens has really been phenomenal in the past few weeks. In his Vanity Fair April article, he does not disappoint. He mulls over all the revolutions he has seen, and concludes that Egypt is not as poignant as it seems: Neither in exile nor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2011 11 Comments
In what will come as a shock to no one who lives in reality, the revolutions throughout the Middle East, while sparked in many instances by people who share western-style democratic values, are turning Islamist, and the Obama administration is dithering and accepting the outcome as a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2011 3 Comments
Providence, Rhode Island, where I used to work and near where I now live, is a wonderful city.  The always colorful Buddy Cianci took a down-on-its-luck former industrial blight and turned it into the crown jewel not only of Rhode Island, but of the Northeast. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2011 19 Comments
As I have documented here many times, one does not need to question Barack Obama’s birthplace or citizenship to be called a “birther.” “Birther” simply is the new “racist,” an epithet thrown around at anyone who questions — or in the case of Mike Huckabee failed to accurately state —...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 28, 2011 4 Comments
K. McCaffrey — It’s always refreshing to see people coming together in countries that have seen nothing but strife and oppression. While the phrase “uprising” has an affiliation with violence, some folks in eastern Libya are finding themselves better off without their totalitarian state. Something...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2011 9 Comments
Despite threats by some police union members to stop the evacuation of the Madison Capitol, and some wishful thinking by supporters of the protesters, the Capitol has in fact been closed as of 4 p.m. (CT) today, with “peaceful resistance” by some protesters. As reported a little after...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2011 9 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: And now we go deeper into the linguistic gymnastics which are required to avoid being called a racist.  Having covered Black Friday, Black Hole, Providence Plantations, Rejigger, Gobbledygook,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 26, 2011 4 Comments
Christopher Hitchens has been on fire recently. First, he thoroughly excavated the falsifications in The King’s Speech (and went on to defend his criticism) and now he has called out President Obama’s inaction with his signature acerbic wit, asking if he is really Swiss. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2011 5 Comments
I’m sure the Iranian Minister of Whatever will soon announce that Iran has completely cured its Stuxnet problem. But that announcement will have to wait, because Iran is too busy right now unloading nuclear fuel rods from the Bushehr nuclear reactor, even though the reactor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2011 8 Comments
Egyptian Cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa calling for the killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi.  How could anyone be opposed to taking out the guy who killed over 250 people on Pan Am 103 and who now is killing protesters in the streets? Certainly not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2011 13 Comments
The Obama administration came close to what many of us have feared would happen, abandoning Israel at the U.N. Yes, the U.S. finally — after a sustained bipartisan Congressional outcry — did veto a one-sided and politically opportunistic resolution pushed by the Palestinian Authority declaring...

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...
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