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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2010 4 Comments
In a post early this morning, I noted that in written answers to questions in connection with her confirmation hearings for Solicitor General, Elena Kagan wrote: “There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.” In response to my post, Allahpundit (here and here), Ann...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2010 7 Comments
Gordon Brown is feeling the wrath of the little and not so little people in Britain, after he called Gillian Duffy a “bigot.” Now things seem to be spinning out of control, as even a Dean at Oxford University has heckled Brown for making the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 9 Comments
Intergenerational warfare is breaking out in Greece as youth blame their elders for the economic mess, resulting from decades of welfare-state policies, that has left Greece bankrupt. I wonder whether the questions being asked by the youth of Greece are the same questions our children...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2010 8 Comments
… if you want to be able to continue using terms like Nazi, Communist and Apartheid to describe the new Arizona immigration law. Or if, like President Obama, you want to claim that the law would allow people to be questioned merely for going out...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2010 14 Comments
Remember when Democrats fell all over themselves trying to prove that Obamacare would not cover illegal aliens? When Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” about coverage for illegal aliens, Obama and Democratic leaders assured the nation that illegal aliens would be excluded. Under the final Senate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2010 14 Comments
There are many voices of hate, but the voices most ignored by the mainstream media come not from Tea Parties or maligned conservative groups, but from the intolerant left. After someone who did commercial voice-overs for Geico was fired for leaving threatening messages at FreedomWorks...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2010 6 Comments
Move along, nothing to see from the government’s failure as to cancer treatment clinical trials. The clinical treatment system run by the National Cancer Institute has become so burdened with bureaucracy and paperwork that even the Editors of The New York Times are complaining (emphasis...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 24, 2010 25 Comments
“Marc Ambinder is the politics editor of The Atlantic. He has covered Washington for ABC News and the Hotline, and he is chief political consultant to CBS News.” Given Ambinder’s shoulder-deep mainstream media plumage, I was shocked to read that Ambinder thinks conservatives have gone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2010 10 Comments
Oh, the world they live in. Surrounded by enemies, they sit in their guarded lairs waiting for “the other” to approach. And then it happens. The guards are no more, and they must face the menacing horde. Alone with their paranoia and hypocrisy and thousand...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2010 6 Comments
Just a little anecdote about the likely future of Obamacare: I was speaking with a doctor friend earlier today, and the topic turned to Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance reimbursement rates. He told me that Medicare pays him about half what private insurance pays, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2010 12 Comments
Dana Lithwick asks What Are Liberal Law Students So Sad About? Her conclusion is that liberal law students are sad because their liberal legal heroes can’t seem to get on the Supreme Court: Since it’s April, and America’s law students have nothing else to do...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2010 3 Comments
In the company of Obama supporters, it’s called “inventing” oneself: Look at how much Barack Obama had to figure out. I mean, he’s born who he is, he can look in the mirror; but it must have been extraordinarily confusing to have this father who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2010 4 Comments
The ruling Labour Party in Britain has used its control of the National Health Service to help its campaign for the May 6 general election, via the Times of London: Labour was today caught up in a new row over its use of personal data...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2010 16 Comments
The President of Poland and much of Poland’s military and civilian leadership were killed when the presidential plane crashed in Russia on the way to commemorate the massacre of 22,000 Polish officers by the Soviets in 1940: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2010 8 Comments
Definitely a day of F.O.M.S. (fear of missing something). I couldn’t hit the blog during the day today because of meetings, and while I was away, the whole world freaked out. Resignations, arguments, threats, more resignations, and then some: Obama debated Sarah Palin on nuclear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2010 12 Comments
In 1940, the Soviet Union executed 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia. The mass grave was discovered in 1943 by invading German troops, but the Soviet propaganda machine create the mythology that the massacre was committed by the Nazis: In late...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2010 7 Comments
There is plenty of speculation that the Chinese will agree to, or at least not block, new sanctions on Iran. The Obama administration stands ready to claim the credit, but if China comes around, it may be the threat of unilateral Israeli action which made...
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