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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2009 5 Comments
This is my obligatory “Dede Scozzafava endorses Bill Owens” post. With a twist. Not sure what this all means two days before the election, except that it is clear that Dede belongs to the John Murtha party of pork-barrel politics. Scozafava’s endorsement of Democrat Owens...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2009 5 Comments
Scaaary Doug Hoffman is driving left-wing bloggers and columnists insane. Hoffman and his supporters now are the object of anti-Palin-like fury and mania from the left. The objective of the attacks is to marginalize and mock Hoffman and his supporters, much as the media tagged...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2009 2 Comments
Another day, another story in a British newspaper about the profound faults in the British National Health Service. This time, the government bureaucracy is silencing whistleblowers: NHS whistleblowers are routinely gagged in order to cover up dangerous and even dishonest practices that could attract bad...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2009 6 Comments
The crowning achievement of Barack Obama’s negotiation without precondition strategy on Iran was Iran’s alleged agreement to ship its uranium abroad for reprocessing. This supposed agreement — which was never as significant as it seemed — was touted as proof that Obama’s approach was correct....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2009 1 Comment
I’m watching Nancy Pelosi’s press conference announcing the final House Democratic health restructuring bill. It’s 1990 pages. We’ll see what the bill really says once we have time to analyze it, but here’s what we know from prior versions, news reports, and Pelosi’s talking points....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2009 2 Comments
The left-wing blogosphere practically went orgasmic when Alan Grayson (D-Fla) took to the floor of the House of Representatives and announced that the Republican health care plan was for sick people to “die quickly.” Hah hah. Money and fame flooded into Grayson’s coffers and ego,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 24, 2009 6 Comments
The pre-weekend information dump included an announcement by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department that the federal government proposes to extend its control over pay packages beyond financial institutions which received bailout funds. According to the press release, the government proposes to monitor and, if...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2009 9 Comments
Joe Klein is a concern troll. In purporting to criticize Obama’s attacks on Fox News, Klein devotes most of his latest post to attacking Fox News: Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2009 4 Comments
There are many stupid things said on the internet. Add to the list of top-ten contenders the claim that author Caroline Glick is not concerned with the survival of Israel. This claim is made in a post at the Lawyers, Guns & Money blog, a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2009 5 Comments
The Obama administration has put its hopes of stopping the Iranian nuclear weapons program on negotiations with Iran. At best, Iran has been an unwilling participant, seeking to buy time. I suspect Iran’s attitude is about to change for the worse. A suicide bombing took...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2009 2 Comments
I’m starting a new theme, the Saturday Night Card Game, to highlight the use of the race card as a political tool. Those on the left, lacking meritorious arguments, increasingly turn to false accusations of racism as a way of ending an argument they are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2009 12 Comments
Driving political rivals from office or appointed positions has a long tradition. Indeed, that is what politics is all about. Taking that fight into the private realm, whether someone’s private employment or private associations, however, is a tactic we are seeing with increasing frequency from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2009 21 Comments
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. For what? Peace in Afghanistan? Peace in Iraq? Peace in the Middle East? Nope. How about peace in Chicago, Honduras, Detroit, or somewhere? Nope. What a joke. Was Chris Matthews on the committee? What an embarrassment to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2009 16 Comments
The internet is alive with the sound of people analyzing the CBO’s “scoring” of the Max Baucus aka Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill. Before everyone gets too deeply into their thoughts, please keep in mind the following (get ready, all CAPS, bold, indented signifies...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2009 6 Comments
A slow awakening of our reality is sinking in on many fronts. One of those realities is that we have moved ever more drastically from a nation led by doers to a nation led by non-doers. Some formulate this as The Doers vs. The ‘Thinkers’...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2009 9 Comments
Consumer Reports has decided to weigh in on the health care debate in favor of the Democratic health care proposals, or what CR euphemistically calls “health care reform.” Having decided to take sides, I think it is fair to hold CR to the standards it...
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