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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2011 4 Comments
Andrew Sullivan loves to accuse conservatives and Republicans of blowing various racial and other dog whistles: The Bald Racism Of Rush Limbaugh (“Is any American more adept at exploiting racial dog whistles?”) “Media Is Everything” (“Breitbart, like Drudge, gets the web. He understands its subversive and rhetorical...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 02, 2011 6 Comments
K. McCaffrey — Last week, Britain’s chief central banker, Mervyn King, painted a grim picture of the years to come in the UK. – “In 2011, real wages are likely to be no higher than they were in 2005… One has to go back to...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 19, 2011 11 Comments
(K McCaffrey) — I’ve read two really fascinating articles in the past twenty-four hours. In Politico, Roger Simon delved into some interesting territory by discussing coverage of the Arizona shooter, Jared Loughner. In “Is Jared Loughner insane or just evil?” Simon looks at our modern...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 09, 2011 11 Comments
There was a recent article in the WSJ by Amy Chua detailing the superiority of Chinese mothers. “[The author was] using the term “Chinese mother” loosely. [As s]ome Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish and Ghanaian parents qualify too.” Basically, being a Chinese mother entails never letting...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 12, 2010 8 Comments
My favorite Congressman, Paul Ryan, is really on the ball this Sunday. Today, he was on Fox discussing the end of looming tax hikes. He also had an op-ed published in one of his hometown newspapers. “The deficit debate is not merely an exercise in...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 17, 2010 8 Comments
This weekend, I found myself in San Francisco International Airport for a long weekend in the Bay Area. After a pleasant weekend, and then a wait in an egregiously long line, I found myself in one of the famed full body scanners, the subject of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2010 14 Comments
David Brock, the founder of Media Matters, has a really important demand which requires everyone’s immediate attention: Media Matters’ Brock challenges Palin to release tapes “Sarah Palin has made serious accusations of journalistic malfeasance. Either Palin accurately described the tapes, or she did not. America’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2010 8 Comments
I think a lot of conservatives are afraid to put bumper stickers on their cars for fear of vandalism.  Call it the “driving while conservative” phenomenon; or maybe “parking while conservative.” Vandalism of McCain signs, and houses/car bearing those signs, was widespread during the 2008...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2010 2 Comments
The day after Obamacare passed, I wrote Pep Talk.  Seems pertinent today as well: Last night was bad. The law passed by the Senate and House really is that horrible. But it’s the morning after, and your mourning should be over. The mainstream media and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 23, 2010 42 Comments
I wasn’t going to post on this, because I figured there had been enough publicity for him already.  But now that I see (via Instapundit and TaxProf) that the controversy has made its way into Forbes and many major websites, I’ll weigh in on the case of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2010 9 Comments
Mao Zedong caused the death of 45 million people according to a scholar who was given unprecedented access to Chinese Communist Party archives.  As reported by The Independent in Britain: Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2010 5 Comments
Tipping point approaching.  From The NY Times, Fewer Young Voters See Themselves as Democrats The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2010 8 Comments
I previously posted about how Jews were being driven out of Malmö, Sweden, by violence from Muslim immigrants tolerated by anti-Israel leftists, Malmö Syndrome. As I made clear in that post, Malmö Syndrome was just one of many examples of how anti-Semitism inevitably rises from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2010 1 Comment
I said it: Oh, please. Obama’s multi-trillion dollar spending spree is a lobbyist’s wet dream. More money will be made by more lobbyists divvying up this pork than in the collective history of the United States. And they dreamed it: I can’t believe I put...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2010 15 Comments
Big news over the wires. The threatened Doorman Strike in New York City has been averted, Deal Reached That Averts a Walkout by Doormen: The owners of more than 3,200 apartment buildings in New York City reached an agreement on a new labor contract with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2010 3 Comments
In the company of Obama supporters, it’s called “inventing” oneself: Look at how much Barack Obama had to figure out. I mean, he’s born who he is, he can look in the mirror; but it must have been extraordinarily confusing to have this father who...
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