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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2012 19 Comments
The City of Providence, in my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is in dire financial trouble, as I have posted here many times before. The City, with its large tax-exempt university base and decades-long history of lush public sector benefits, has struggled...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2012 25 Comments
I posted earlier in the week about the Super Bowl commercial run by Pete Hoekstra, who is running for Senate from Michigan against Debbie Stabenow. The commercial was part of a DebbieSpendItNow.com campaign highlighting the loss of jobs in Michigan to countries like China. The url now redirects...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 7 Comments
From Walter Russell Mead referencing cancellation of his own speech, and taking it all in good humor: I was scheduled to give a talk at the Hannah Arendt conference here at Bard this evening on the problems of the green movement in dealing with the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2011 18 Comments
Oprah’s worth $1.5 billion.  Think how many struggling artists that could feed. Shakina Nayfack, featured in The Daily News complaining about his student debt, made the following comment in response to my post Another Occupy Wall Street poster child who is not: …. Occupy Wall Street...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 16, 2011 24 Comments
From The Corner: she is almost entirely a creature of liberals who want to use her as a prop to discredit and attack conservatives. I gather Meghan thinks she is some kind of youth recruiter for a hipper form of conservatism or Republicanism or something....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2010 33 Comments
12-24-2010:  Welcome Matthew Yglesias readers.  I address Yglesias’ defense of why he called Haley Barbour racist, and his attack on me, in an update below.  And I see that Ta-Nehisi Coates is defending Yglesias, so I’ll address that too. —————————————————– 1947 was the year in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2010 14 Comments
I have posted previously about the plight of the Jews of Malmö, Sweden, who have been under siege by the Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition, what I called Malmö Syndrome. Islamists across Europe have used anti-Israel agitation to justify acts of anti-Semitic violence, and anti-Israel leftists have either encouraged or...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 09, 2010 5 Comments
My friend Alec Jacobs is interning at the Daily Caller. They recently sent him on a field trip to the White House to take a tour in order to cover a story on the decorations. As a bonus, they got a funny anecdote: “The tour...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2010 0 Comments
The Democratic National Committee issued the following statement regarding Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comments that Afghanistan was a war of Obama’s “choosing” and that history shows that land wars cannot be won in Afghanistan (emphasis mine): Here goes Michael Steele setting policy for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2009 4 Comments
The much ballyhooed Cash for Clunkers program has had the unintended consequences of driving up the cost of new and used vehicles and used auto parts, according to independent studies of the auto markets. The Cash for Clunkers program demonstrates the danger of government trying...
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