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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2010 8 Comments
Another rich person is building a house bigger than mine, right on the beach in my hometown, unlike my humble abode a few blocks in. Terribly unfair. The owners obviously did not know that they had made enough money two blocks from the beach. Can’t...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 23 Comments
Joe Sestak says “I was offered a job” by someone senior in the Obama administration in exchange for getting out of the Democratic primary against Arlen Specter. “Joe heard what he wanted to hear,” said Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell on Greta last night (video below):...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2010 7 Comments
Admiral Joe Sestak’s political ship is sinking. Not from loose lips, but the opposite. Sestak has stated more than once that someone in the Obama administration offered him a job if he would drop out of the Democratic primary against Arlen Specter. But Sestak is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 17 Comments
“Unexpected” has become the term of choice for the mainstream media to excuse the Obama administration’s economic failures. Yesterday I read an article in The NY Times about something unexpected in Obamacare, and one term jumped out at me (emphasis mine): About one-third of employers...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 4 Comments
Why does Obama want us to be more like Europe, with its supposedly compassionate and fair welfare state? The welfare state is not compassionate; it is the height of selfishness and generational cruelty: Across Western Europe, the “lifestyle superpower,” the assumptions and gains of a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 3 Comments
From the day Barack Obama took office, the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress have been obsessed and possessed. Everything took a back seat to passing Obamacare. And other transformative legislation and regulations intended to turn us into the failing West European economic model. Because...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 4 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Joan Walsh at Salon.com sought to atone for her prior use of the race card, in this observation (h/t James Taranto) in this column, Asking the wrong question...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2010 7 Comments
and American Jews have not done a good job at forcing Israelis to create the Middle Eastern version of the Upper West Side, or something like that, from Peter Beinart and the usual suspects. You know what, they really don’t care what you think. And...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2010 10 Comments
The evidence mounts of bungled permitting, delays in response, and understating the impact: U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits – “Those approvals, federal records show, include one for the well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded on April 20, killing 11...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2010 11 Comments
The fiscal equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome: A term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein government officials express adulation and have positive feelings toward unsustainable union contracts that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk posed by such contracts to the government....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2010 8 Comments
And by “no one” I mean only the politicians who voted for Obamacare. Because they willingly ignored warnings that they were selling public policy based on phony numbers: Congressional Budget Office estimates released Tuesday predict the health care overhaul will likely cost about $115 billion...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2010 3 Comments
Prediction – The internet will not slow down after the November election: Sarah Palin’s book, ‘America By Heart,’ out Nov. 23. Because Palin’s new book will cause the entire internet to collapse long before the election: Sarah Palin’s New Book. Get the Dramamine. Since the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2010 9 Comments
The NY Times laments that liberals cannot manage to get a full-throttled liberal nominee on the Court to do battle with Antonin Scalia (emphasis mine): The selection of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the nation’s 112th justice extends a quarter-century pattern in which Republican...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2010 4 Comments
In a post early this morning, I noted that in written answers to questions in connection with her confirmation hearings for Solicitor General, Elena Kagan wrote: “There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.” In response to my post, Allahpundit (here and here), Ann...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2010 7 Comments
Gordon Brown is feeling the wrath of the little and not so little people in Britain, after he called Gillian Duffy a “bigot.” Now things seem to be spinning out of control, as even a Dean at Oxford University has heckled Brown for making the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 9 Comments
Intergenerational warfare is breaking out in Greece as youth blame their elders for the economic mess, resulting from decades of welfare-state policies, that has left Greece bankrupt. I wonder whether the questions being asked by the youth of Greece are the same questions our children...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2010 8 Comments
… if you want to be able to continue using terms like Nazi, Communist and Apartheid to describe the new Arizona immigration law. Or if, like President Obama, you want to claim that the law would allow people to be questioned merely for going out...
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