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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2009 2 Comments
I made the classic blogger’s mistake of getting a full night’s sleep last night, rather than checking the internet every hour. When I awoke, every single blog I know had a post about how Van Jones had resigned sometime just before or after the stroke...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2009 7 Comments
MSNBC just cannot stop covering and cheering for the Obama administration. Either they don’t understand their own news biases, or they don’t care, or both. This blog post by several of MSNBC’s news staff, including reporter Chuck Todd, says it all: *** Remind us again...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2009 0 Comments
This is the sixth in a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in HR3200, the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. The hope is that through random selection of pages from the House Bill, using the dartboard method, some light will be shed on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2009 20 Comments
I can’t keep up with all the ways in which this administration is failing. From the health care restructuring proposals gone sour, to the slippage in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the appeasement of Hugo Chavez and Iran and the bullying of Honduras, to the end...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2009 3 Comments
The House and Senate draft bills for health care restructuring are so odious that they are beyond repair. It’s nice that Max Baucus and some others are trying to squeeze some of the disastrous provisions out of the bills, but it is a waste of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2009 5 Comments
You would be hard-pressed to find a better example of how uncompromising the left-wing of the Democratic Party has become than the attempts to make sure the Obama administration and moderate Democrats do not compromise on the public option. Jane Hamsher, one of the most...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2009 0 Comments
To resolve the Mexican Standoff in which the Democrats find themselves over the health care restructuring bill, Harry Reid apparently has come up with the idea of splitting the bill. The popular insurance reform provisions would go to a full Senate vote subject to a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2009 15 Comments
Barack Obama has invoked his experience with his grandmother’s death in support of his health care restructuring plans. Does this mean Obama used his grandmother as a “prop,” and that this would justify mocking his grandmother? No. We each have personal experiences with the health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2009 4 Comments
The Independent newspaper in Britain ran an article titled The Brutal Truth About America’s healthcare, focusing on lack of health services in a poor section of Los Angeles. But at the same time, The Independent also ran a column by Christina Patterson in which Ms....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 6 Comments
Think Progress, the Democratic policy and media-watch group, has come up with an amazing discovery. Sarah Palin was in favor of voluntary, private counseling so that people could put their end-of-life affairs in order, before she was against government bureaucrats getting involved in a mandatory...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 12 Comments
The political world looked bleak on April 29, 2009, just after Arlen Specter had announced that he was switching to the Democratic Party. The Democrats, understandably crowing, seemed to be unstoppable. The Democratic agenda to control the most minute aspects of our lives through health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 6 Comments
Camille Paglia, a supporter of Barack Obama, gets it (emphasis mine): As a libertarian and refugee from the authoritarian Roman Catholic church of my youth, I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism. This is in fact what Sarah...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2009 7 Comments
The notion of August being a time to debate the specifics of the Democratic and Obama health care restructuring plan is something of a misnomer, since there is no single plan. The illusion is being created of a true debate, but in fact we are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2009 7 Comments
Barack Obama’s penchant for creating strawman arguments is trickling down, way down. The argument now is that since government delivers water to our faucets, maintains roads, and regulates the electric grid, anyone who opposes a government take over of our health system hates modern life:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2009 4 Comments
Oliver Willis: Steve Benen tries to understand just why wingnuts are so angry about health care reform. He doesn’t make bad points, but its so much simpler than that. We on the left think that rage has to be somewhat rational, for instance we raged...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2009 89 Comments
Sarah Palin has kicked off (another) firestorm of criticism because of the statement she released on her Facebook page: The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2009 0 Comments
Iranian/American dual citizen Kian Tajbakhsh has a Ph.D in Urban Planning from Columbia University. Tajbakhsh was arrested in Iran in early July as part of a crackdown by the Iranian regime on moderates and leaders of the protest movement. Last week, Tajbakhsh and approximately 100...
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