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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2009 17 Comments
You know the 2012 campaign has started, because the hatchet-men and women of the media are attacking Sarah Palin based on anonymous sources (including some allegedly from the McCain campaign) and dubious rumors and innuendo. First there were the mounting attacks on the Palin daughters...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2009 4 Comments
Barack Obama has apologized repeatedly for past U.S. transgressions, real and imagined, although he never demands apologies from others. So it is only natural that the Iranian Mullahs, whose thugs are beating people with axes in the streets, would demand that Obama apologize to Iran:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2009 4 Comments
Is the collapse of the Soviet Union a reasonable analogy for what may happen in Iran? There are certain parallels, including repressive regimes bent on imposing ideology to perpetuate their own rule. In each case, it is hard to imagine how the repression could end,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2009 0 Comments
A study reported in today’s New York Times suggests that the practice of sex-selection, commonplace in Asia, continues in subsequent generations of immigrants to the United States: The trend is buried deep in United States census data: seemingly minute deviations in the proportion of boys...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2009 1 Comment
Barack Obama is spinning his public health plan option today as just another way of helping preserve the private insurance system. According to Obama, the existence of a public plan will provide healthy competition for private insurers, and will not be the first step toward...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2009 19 Comments
Conservative blogger Ed Whelan “outed” an anonymous liberal blogger who penned under the name Publius. Turns out Publius is a junior law professor who was afraid that revealing his identity would jeopardize his career prospects and family relationships. While Publius worried about the reaction of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2009 3 Comments
A portion in Barack Obama’s “historic” speech to the Muslim world was particularly odd. In apologizing for religious intolerance in the United States, Obama said as follows: Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together. We must always examine the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2009 10 Comments
I didn’t know what the term “shorter” meant until I started blogging. A “shorter” is someone who exaggerates someone else’s opinion, or creates a false choice between two extremes. Back in the day, such form of argument would be called setting up a “strawman.” As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2009 8 Comments
Here is a one sentence summary of Barack Obama’s “historic” speech to the Muslim world: “I have no right to tell you how to live, because we’re as bad as you are, but here’s how you need to live.” ——————————————–Follow me on Twitter and Facebook

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2009 5 Comments
Three card monte is a scam in which the sucker is led to believe he is following the winning card, when in fact the skillful dealer has distracted the sucker into following the wrong card. The sucker never wins. Right now, everyone’s focus is on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 01, 2009 7 Comments
In my post yesterday, I noted that Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus wasn’t “buying” the Obama administration spin that Sonia Sotomayor made a “poor” choice of words or misspoke in her speech in 2001 when Sotomayor said “I would hope that a wise Latina woman...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2009 0 Comments
Ruth Marcus is a columnist for the Washington Post. By any standard, Marcus is left-of-center, not an Obama-basher, and not hostile to liberal causes. So when Marcus rejects the White House spin on Sonia Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” statement, it deserves attention: Nice try, Mr. President,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2009 3 Comments
At a 2001 conference, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor uttered these now-famous words: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2009 7 Comments
My article, Nancy Pelosi Is The Central Issue, appears today at American Thinker: Nancy Pelosi recently accused the CIA of misleading Congress as to interrogation techniques employed against three al-Qaeda leaders. The CIA pushed back, claiming that Pelosi was given truthful details at briefings at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2009 96 Comments
My post the other day, MSNBC Hides Obama’s Dijon Mustard (aka Dijongate), has hit a nerve unlike anything else I have written. The post concerned the lunch trip of Obama and Biden to a burger shop to get a “Hell Burger.” I accept that this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2009 110 Comments
MSNBC, Obama’s favorite network, reported on Obama’s trip with Joe Biden to get a burger. Just two wild and crazy guys out for some red meat. Andrea Mitchell (does she have nothing else to do?) reported that Obama ordered a burger and mustard. Sounds like...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2009 0 Comments
For the past several Supreme Court nominations, the hot issue has been abortion. Whether a nominee supported Roe v. Wade was the litmus test, both for conservatives and liberals. Predictably, nominees shied away from opining on whether they would vote to uphold either the outcome...
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