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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,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2009 12 Comments
Posted April 8, 2009 Newsweek magazine’s cover proclaims The Decline and Fall of Christian America, while the article inside the cover proclaims The End of Christian America. The substance of the article doesn’t really prove the headline, but the goal of whichever editor wrote the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2009 1 Comment
George Bisharat is a law professor at the University of California*, Hastings College of Law. His is the son of a Palestinian father who immigrated to the U.S. several years before the creation of Israel, and an American mother. I first learned of George Bisharat...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2009 0 Comments
“J Street” is a new web-based group which promises to promote “peace” in the Middle East. J Street has garnered much attention, and a Memeorandum thread, based on an article in Jewish Week which asks “What is [it] about J Street, the pro-peace process lobby...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2009 0 Comments
Conservative Republican Congressman Michele Bachmann has come under fire for stating that voters should be “armed and dangerous” over the administration’s engery tax plans. While the leftwing media tried to twist this statement into a literal call to arms, in fact Bachmann was using a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2009 9 Comments
I am pleased to introduce The Official Guide To Obama Kitsch. Kitsch is a word of Germanic origin which denotes something that is in poor taste, tacky, pretentious, cheap or trashy. In order to qualify, the product must (1) feature the name or likeness of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2009 8 Comments
Barack Obama held his first press conference as President tonight. With the “stimulus” plans on the table at the House and Senate, the press had an opportunity to show that it no longer was slobbering over Obama. The press failed. Not a single reporter challenged...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2009 9 Comments
Every now and then, someone writes something that says exactly what I wanted to say had I said it. An article by Yuval Levin in Commentary Magazine, titled “The Meaning of Sarah Palin” so well expresses my disgust at the treatment of Sarah Palin, that...
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