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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2009 9 Comments
Just a little true anecdote on how the “rich” cutting back is hurting the “not rich.” My wife went to a hair salon last Friday. The salon is located on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island, near Brown University. This is the premier neighborhood...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2009 1 Comment
Professor Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit fame but writing for Forbes, focuses on changing the way we view and treat “old” age as one of the keys to solving the social security problem: But even much more modest progress–extending healthy middle age from 60 to, say,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2009 0 Comments
Rule 2 – it’s nice to be nice to the nice — is alive and well in Shreveport: So, blogoverse, let me clarify my silly previous post and just say that Legal Insurrection is the greatest blog I’ve ever seen. It is full of insightful...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2009 7 Comments
While the Obama administration considers pulling back on continuing to develop technology to provide a missile shield for Europe and beyond, the Iranians have made important developments in missile technology. This is not coming from Chas Freeman’s dreaded Israel lobby, but from a Russian military...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2009 0 Comments
What to Do About John C. Yoo? That is the question posed in a Wall Street Journal Law Blog post. The post is quite fair and balanced; after all, it’s not a NY Times post. But the post does discuss a front-page NY Times article...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2009 6 Comments
Jim Cramer, the television investment personality, has been in the news recently since he criticized Barack Obama’s economic plans as a destroyer of wealth. The petty White House reaction to Cramer has put Cramer on the White House enemies list, along with Rick Santelli and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2009 1 Comment
The internet is abuzz with photos of Pork Brains In Milk Gravy, allegedly the “worst food product ever.” I beg to differ with these pundits, who obviously have not heard of The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls, by Serbian chef Ljubomir R. Erovic, who dedicates...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2009 4 Comments
Will it never stop? The deification of Obama, is what I’m talking about. Now it’s Obama’s marriage that is historic and a teaching lesson for the rest of us dim-witted wife-beaters. This, from a column in the Ithaca Journal written by Elizabeth Einstein (what else!):...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2009 0 Comments
An Obama spokesman has just announced that the likely “downpayment” on Obama’s plan to expand health insurance coverage over the next decade will exceed $1 trillion. That’s above and beyond what presently is paid through medicare and medicaid. The question is, what percentage of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2009 0 Comments
The website DebkaFile is reporting that Bibi Netanyahu’s choice for Israeli Foreign Minister is Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, a hero of the Soviet refusenik movement. For those of you who are not familiar with Sharansky, his story is inspiring. In the weeks just before and after...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2009 1 Comment
Larrey Anderson is a frequent contributor to, and an editor of, American Thinker. I’ve spoken with and corresponded with Larrey numerous times in connection with several of my articles published at A.T. One thing that always jumped out at me is how much Larrey talked...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2009 8 Comments
Ah, hope and change. Near silence from the American mainstream media, but this news item from the Brits about Obama appointing one of his key fundraisers as Ambassador to Great Britain: Barack Obama has been embroiled in a cronyism row after reports that he intends...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2009 37 Comments
The beginning of a protest movement against Barack Obama’s redistributive policies is underway. Though still small, every movement starts somewhere. While called the “Tea Party” after the Boston Tea Party, this movement is similar to movements throughout history where the producers of society refuse to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2009 3 Comments
The deer population in greater Ithaca, NY, is substantial. The tony Village of Cayuga Heights, adjacent to the Cornell campus and where many Cornell professors live, has a particular deer problem, and has been exploring ways of reducing the deer population. Because Cayuga Heights is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2009 2 Comments
Barney Frank has been on a rant over bonuses paid to bank executives. Frank asked one executive: “What is it you’d do differently if you didn’t get a bonus?” Bank executives are easy targets given the current economic climate. But don’t think Frank and others...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2009 2 Comments
I tried sending an e-mail to Senator Susan Collins, but her e-mail box is overflowing. I received the following error message: Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:[email protected] The recipient’s mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now. Microsoft Exchange will not try...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2009 9 Comments
Every now and then, someone writes something that says exactly what I wanted to say had I said it. An article by Yuval Levin in Commentary Magazine, titled “The Meaning of Sarah Palin” so well expresses my disgust at the treatment of Sarah Palin, that...
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