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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2009 4 Comments
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am not a fan of Media Matters. All too often, Media Matters spends way too much time staring at videos of the latest O’Reilly show or speech by a Republican politician, or listening to every syllable uttered...

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 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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2009 24 Comments
When I first started this blog just under a year ago, I was ignorant of who was who in the blogosphere. Believe it or not, Memeorandum is not the world. But I did know about Little Green Footballs. I’m not sure why. Over the months,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2009 8 Comments
Mary Robinson will get the United States Medal of Freedom today. Ms. Robinson presided over the 2001 “”World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance,” in Durban, South Africa. Durban was an anti-Semitic hate fest, a grotesque and macabre exercise in linguistic word...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2009 8 Comments
Will Newsweek ever stop trying to get attention by declaring things coming to an end? First it was the end of Christian America. Then the end of the recession. Now the end of monogamy as the basis for socially acceptable relationships, in a lead article...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2009 15 Comments
The global warming debate has entered the conspiracy-theory phase with this hysterical article at The Guardian: Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide. Contrary to what the global-warming alarmists claim, however, there is scientific dispute over ice measurements. What is not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 24, 2009 15 Comments
I hope the Cambridge Police Department releases the 911 call which reported a burglary in progress at the home of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gate, Jr., and the subsequent radio calls from Sgt. James Crowley. Add to that, all witness accounts, including by the two...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2009 29 Comments
Yes, the Senate should vote Yes on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to be the next Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The main reason I reach this conclusion is that there is no compelling reason to vote no. I watched about half of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2009 23 Comments
Sarah Palin’s announcement that she will resign as Governor of Alaska has kicked off a new round of attacks on Palin’s intelligence and integrity from pundits on both sides of the political spectrum. For most of the commentators, the resignation signals an end to Palin’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2009 2 Comments
Flynt and Hillary Leverett of the New America Foundation are two of the main proponents of the “Grand Bargain” approach to Iran which has been adopted by the Obama administration. The Grand Bargain approach seeks to have the current Iranian regime promise to cease nuclear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2009 4 Comments
Is the collapse of the Soviet Union a reasonable analogy for what may happen in Iran? There are certain parallels, including repressive regimes bent on imposing ideology to perpetuate their own rule. In each case, it is hard to imagine how the repression could end,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2009 2 Comments
There has been much dialogue, including on this blog, about the proper posture for the Obama administration to take with regard to the reform movement and protests in Iran. Many commenters argue that only Iranians can decide what is right for Iranians, and point to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2009 15 Comments
Barack Obama campaigned on the theme of a new era of transparency. Obama used that theme as a justification for the release of four highly classified internal Justice Department memos detailing strategies for interrogation of al–Qaeda detainees, over the objections of Obama’s own Director of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2009 0 Comments
Gateway Pundit has a good update on the murder of Ilan Halimi: Ilan was lured to his death by a woman he had met in his telephone store. They met up late on the night of January 20, 2006, in one of Paris’s southern suburbs,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2009 110 Comments
MSNBC, Obama’s favorite network, reported on Obama’s trip with Joe Biden to get a burger. Just two wild and crazy guys out for some red meat. Andrea Mitchell (does she have nothing else to do?) reported that Obama ordered a burger and mustard. Sounds like...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2009 13 Comments
Texas Governor Rick Perry said that he doesn’t think Texas should secede from the U.S. Here is Perry’s quote: We got a great Union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it, but if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know,...
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