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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2010 33 Comments
12-24-2010:  Welcome Matthew Yglesias readers.  I address Yglesias’ defense of why he called Haley Barbour racist, and his attack on me, in an update below.  And I see that Ta-Nehisi Coates is defending Yglesias, so I’ll address that too. —————————————————– 1947 was the year in...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 19, 2010 6 Comments
There was an interesting article today on the Forbes site about the prospects of Tuesday’s census report release. An expanding population in the sun belt, and a decline in the Rust Belt, may reform our elections in 2012 and beyond. “The population continues to shift...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2010 8 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Tonight’s post brings us back to a variety of topics I have touched upon before:  The Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition and its Useful Idiots in the U.S. who use terms such as “Israel-Firsters“; Leftist Jews who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2010 47 Comments
I traveled extensively throughout the Soviet Union during the early 1980s, both with groups and on my own approved itineraries.  I also lived in Moscow, and had a chance to slip out of the ring road with Soviet friends into the countryside, which was not permitted...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 15, 2010 5 Comments
Ann Heller sat down with Nick Gillespie to talk about her recent well-received biography of Ayn Rand. I think Heller “gets it”, she “[thinks] the core of [Rand’s] appeal is her deep love of freedom … old fashioned American values, hard work, application of your...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2010 5 Comments
Caroline Glick: “The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law.” ——————————————– Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 13, 2010 2 Comments
Twenty years after she left her post as Prime Minister, the spirit of Margaret Thatcher is reportedly back in Britain. According to The Telegraph, “Only a quarter of people believe more money should be spent on benefits compared with more than half in the mid-1980s,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2010 18 Comments
Michael Shaw, who blogs at HuffPo, has a serious case of PDS.  Upon seeing an AP photo with a caption asserting that Sarah Palin had “her hair done during a visit to a cholera treatment center,” Shaw went wild: If I find the fantastically clever Sarah Palin...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2010 8 Comments
One of the truly amazing aspects of the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme is that throughout it all, Bernie maintained a smirk on his face.  The almost perfect psychopath, Bernie felt no sympathy for his victims, even those who committed suicide upon discovering that a life’s...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 10, 2010 3 Comments
Appropriately, “[as] negotiators from nearly 200 countries met in Cancun to strategize ways to keep the planet from getting hotter, the temperature in the seaside Mexican city plunged to a 100-year record low of 54° F. … ClimateGate was “bad enough,” says Duncan Davidson inWall...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 08, 2010 0 Comments
Mario Vargas Llosa, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, addressed a crowd in Stockholm during his Nobel Lecture yesterday. The transcript is worth reading, but here is one part I found to be particularly lovely: “Let those who doubt that literature...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 17 Comments
One of the interesting aspects of the “framework” announced by Obama to prevent marginal income tax increases on anyone is that part of the quid pro quo demanded by Obama was a one-year 2% drop in the portion of social security (FICA) taxes paid by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 11 Comments
They huff, and they puff, and they threaten to blow Obama’s house down. Not the right-wingers, the left-wing “base” of the Democratic Party.  Dick Durbin is threatening that a bloc of Democrats may “walk out” on Obama by voting against his tax deal.  Mary Landrieu calls...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 06, 2010 18 Comments
I was born in 1990. Therefore, for most of my life, I have had to live under the veil of Hillary Clinton as “every girl’s role model.” Clinton is undoubtedly very smart and talented. After all, you don’t get into Wellesley or Yale Law school...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 04, 2010 6 Comments
Yesterday I posted on the Manhattan Institute’s online magazine, Minding the Campus, which “is dedicated to the revival of intellectual pluralism and the best traditions of liberal education.” The post was in response to the outrage that ensued after an announcement that the African Studies...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2010 32 Comments
Okay, blogging is tough.  We get it.  Great Grandma and Grandpa had it easy, with rotary phones and all (“You mean your Great Grandparents had a phone?”). If I hear another blogger complain about blogger burnout, I’m going to scream: I’m taking the evening off...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2010 5 Comments
In response to a ” a dear friend who runs a large charitable foundation” and who branded the tea party movement “a group of racists, xenophobes and bigots,” Rabbi Shmuley writes in The Jerusalem Post, Why the Tea Party resonates with human dignity: Lost in the...
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