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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 24, 2010 20 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Bet you thought I would write about When Andy Met Shirley. Sorry to disappoint. Tonight we delve into the world of diversity consultants. The diversity consultant industry is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 23, 2010 22 Comments
On February 18, 2010, I wrote a post titled Progressive Bloggers In The Wizard of Oz, about a trip by several “progressive” bloggers to meet at The White House with Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist to Vice President Joe Biden. The post carried a photo of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2010 7 Comments
Harry Reid has a failed record on Iraq for which he never has been held accountable. Reid voted for the war, then falsely claimed he was misled, then tried to defund the war, then declared the war lost, and then stubbornly refused to acknowledge the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2010 3 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: I was going to take tonight off, since tomorrow is Independence Day. But then I saw this column at Newsweek online, Your Dog Isn’t Racist, on the pressing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2010 8 Comments
Gen. Stanley McChrystal was relieved of command in Afghanistan after an article in Rolling Stone magazine. The article widely was described as evidencing McChrystal’s insubordination by criticizing the political leadership, but as I demonstrated, such explanation did not make a lot of sense. There were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2010 10 Comments
Rolling Stone magazine managed to bring down the commander of our forces in Afghanistan, disrupt the war effort, and embolden our enemies by disrupting the allied chain of command. For what? The article did not expose any facts whatsoever. There were no war crimes revealed,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2010 24 Comments
General Eric K. Shinseki was a hero to Democrats and the mainstream media because he publicly criticized the Bush administration on Iraq: In a contentious exchange over the costs of war with Iraq, the Pentagon’s second-ranking official today disparaged a top Army general’s assessment of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2010 9 Comments
I hope this is not true, but nothing would surprise me when it comes to Obama and the Middle East, Sources: Obama Administration to Support Anti-Israel Resolution at UN Next Week: THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that senior Obama administration officials have been telling foreign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2010 6 Comments
Greg Sargent of The Plum Line blog now blogs under the banner of The Washington Post, a recognition of his status as one of the premier, and normally more reasonable, left-wing bloggers. Yet it appears that Sargent, while far less vitriolic than many of his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2010 8 Comments
According to the most recent Gallup poll, support among Americans for Israel over the Palestinians is at a near all time high. 63% of Americans (more than voted for Barack Obama) support Israel, while only 15% support the Palestinians, with 23% choosing “both/neither/no opinion.” Despite...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2010 16 Comments
The Gail Collins, in an otherwise humorous column Alabama Goes Viral, plays a sleight of hand when quoting the now famous television advertisement by Dale Peterson, running for Alabama Agricultural Commissioner. Here is Collins’ description (emphasis mine): This is the start of Peterson’s campaign ad....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 11 Comments
The Atlantic Magazine thought it would be able to speak poetic historical justice, by splashing the headline that the original reviled one, Kenneth Starr of Monica and Bill and Blue Dress and Impeachment fame, had been arrested for running a Ponzi Scheme. Oh, the deep,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 6 Comments
Of course, that depends upon what the meaning of “crazy” is. News has leaked out through an article in Esquire Magazine that Eric Massa, the disgraced Democratic rock star (was he the tickler, or the tickle-ee?), claims that Dick Cheney conspired with Gen. David Petraeus...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2010 2 Comments
Steve Malanga wrote an excellent article for City Journal about how public sector unions have controlled, and ruined, California, The Beholden State: How public employees became members of the elite class in a declining California offers a cautionary tale to the rest of the country,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2010 8 Comments
Someone, somewhere is stoking the notion of Sheldon Whitehouse for the Supreme Court spot being vacated by John Paul Stevens. From the Providence Journal: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, the Rhode Island Democrat, has appeared on some early lists of prospects whom President Obama may consider –...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2010 2 Comments
Well, why not? Immigration is an issue on which the U.S. seems incapable of reaching a political consensus, instability on the Mexican border has led to hundreds of deaths and cross-border drug trafficking, and neither the U.S. nor Mexico seems willing to solve the problem....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2010 12 Comments
In 1940, the Soviet Union executed 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia. The mass grave was discovered in 1943 by invading German troops, but the Soviet propaganda machine create the mythology that the massacre was committed by the Nazis: In late...
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