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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2010 5 Comments
The malicious campaign run by the coalition of leftist academics, internationalists and Islamists against Israel continues unabated. We know that in the U.S. and elsewhere, speeches by current or former Israeli officials are disrupted, and there have been organized boycotts of Israeli academics. Now they...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2010 5 Comments
Barack Obama’s insistence that Israel cease all building in Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, calling such neighborhoods “settlements,” raises an interesting question. Who are the settlers in Jerusalem? A good example of the lack of clarity over Palestinian claims to Jerusalem is found in prominent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2010 12 Comments
Numerous companies already have announced enormous financial write-downs related to Obamacare’s cutback of subsidies for prescription drug benefit programs for retirees. These subsidies, while characterized by Democrats as “loopholes,” actually saved the government money because it cost less to subsidize private drug programs than for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2010 5 Comments
I told you this was coming. Increasingly, those who think Israel is to blame for the lack of peace in the Middle East, and who view pushing Israel back to barely defensible borders as the answer, have been pushing hard the meme that Israel is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2010 16 Comments
In my post yesterday regarding the health care mandate, I suggested that if the courts held that the health care mandate were constitutional, then the Congress would have the power to declare weekly Blue Light Mandates. Given the potentially sweeping Congressional power to impose mandates,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2010 27 Comments
The mandate is front and center in the constitutional challenges to Obamacare’s requirement that everyone purchase health insurance or suffer penalties. I’ve been posting about the mandate since last summer, since the mandate for the first time punishes and taxes the failure to engage in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2010 16 Comments
Some more thoughts on the worst piece of legislation “since the Great Depression,” in no particular order: Democrats won the messaging war. Democrats succeeded in portraying the bill as being about “giving” people “health care.” Even Republicans used the terminology. In fact, everyone has hospital...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2010 28 Comments
Anyone who has read this blog before knows that since last summer I have focused on the mandate as the core evil in the various incarnations of the Democratic restructuring of the health care system. So much else that is wrong in the current bill...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2010 4 Comments
I realize that the truth behind Obamacare’s numbers really doesn’t matter to Democrats, and anyone reading this probably is part of my choir, but I’ll continue my almost year-long preaching anyway. Barack Obama pitches the Senate health care bill as the greatest deficit reduction plan...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2010 7 Comments
“Deem and Pass” is dead. There will be an up or down vote on the Senate bill in the House. But not until the House passes amendments to the Senate bill before it passes the Senate bill: House leaders have decided to take a separate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2010 13 Comments
Back in November 2009, when the House passed its version of Obamacare, I wrote that Nancy Pelosi had obtained victory at the cost of planting an abortion land mine in the form of the Stupak Amendment. No Stupak Amendment, no House “Yes” vote in November....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2010 11 Comments
Barack Obama backed the decision of the Central Falls School District in Rhode Island to fire all teachers at its underperforming high school, much to the anger of teachers’ unions. Now a teacher at the school has hung Obama in effigy: Responding to a rumor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2010 5 Comments
Tom Coburn (R-Okla) has signaled that any Congressman who flips from a “No” to a “Yes” vote on Obamacare should not expect a federal appointment after he or she gets voted out of office: Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is putting wavering Democrats on advance notice:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2010 11 Comments
Dennis Kucinich at his press conference today announced he will vote “Yes” on health care legislation he detests and has criticized regularly for months. Kucinich is a pathetic shadow of his former self, a man whose will to fight has been beaten out of him...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2010 1 Comment
Nancy Pelosi, Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod claim it’s over, they have the votes. Just about everyone else, including some Democrats in the House, say it ain’t so yet. We cannot believe anything that comes from the mouths of Democratic leaders and consultants; it all...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2010 12 Comments
It’s hard to know if this really is the week when Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid finally get their way. Regardless of outcome, these have been some of our finest hours. From the Tea Parties which sprang to life last April, to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2010 3 Comments
Ronald Reagan’s words on the foundation of freedom, so timely now as we are on the verge of the subservience of the individual to the state on the most fundamental aspects of our lives: “Rejection of the arbitrary power of the state. The refusal to...
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