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Posted by Anne Segal on March 19, 2013 27 Comments
By a vote of 36 against, 0 in favor, with 19 abstentions, Cyprus lawmakers today rejected a provision that would have made a proposed $8.7 billion bailout contingent upon taking 6.75 percent of the value of all bank deposits. European Member of Parliament Daniel Hannan gave...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2013 43 Comments
As part of a financial aid package from the European Union, Cyprus is being asked to confiscate up to 10 percent of bank deposits. Cyprus’ savers bear brunt of unprecedented bailout The euro zone agreed on Saturday to hand Cyprus a bailout worth 10 billion...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 16, 2013 18 Comments
The Obama Administration puts up a forest of shiny objects that can make important developments hard to see. While  Obama’s Press Secretary Jay Carney stresses over who-did-what on the cancellation of White House tours, conservative firebrand Tammy Bruce has been sounding the alarm on some...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 28, 2013 9 Comments
1) Water, water everywhere At the Times of Israel, editor David Horovitz writes about how Israel’s dealt with its water crisis. (h/t Yaacov Lozowick) “How did we beat the water shortage? Because we said we would. We decided we would,” says Kushnir, a big man...

Posted by Joel Engel on February 20, 2013 27 Comments
California made a move yesterday that makes about as much sense as throwing away your telescope to get back at that meteor for hitting Russia. And yet, in California, it’s strictly business as usual (via LA Times): The nation’s biggest public pension fund is taking a...

Posted by Joel Engel on February 10, 2013 19 Comments
On the syllabus of my Econ 101 class was Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb.  This being a year or two after the book’s publication, our class discussions weren’t debates about the veracity of the book’s thesis: In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines—hundreds of...

Posted by Joel Engel on January 28, 2013 28 Comments
Thomas Jefferson thought that the best insurance against future tyrannies was an educated populace.  Historical ignorance is a petri dish that grows a lot of strange and destructive ideas. To wit: Silvio Berlusconi. Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi triggered outrage from Italy’s political left on...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 16, 2012 63 Comments
Progressive gun control advocates were clamoring for more liberty-crushing legislation immediately after the slaughter of the young students and teachers at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. Meanwhile, others cry “white privilege” because most mass shooting suspects are white. Yet, one critically important aspect continues to get...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 6 Comments
From Gabriella Hoffman, the daughter of Soviet immigrants, two gems. If they could laugh in the face of Soviet Russia … This is hilarious! I can totally relate as a daughter of Soviet immigrants – Yakov Smirnoff ~ Very funny: youtu.be/5GK8ewRec7c via @youtube — Gabriella...

Posted by Joel Engel on December 03, 2012 10 Comments
Suffering through the top story in the arts section of yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, I thought of Andrew Breitbart, whom I knew a bit—enough to have had several conversations about how insidiously destructive the mainstream media are to American ideals. Breitbart’s passion and mission in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2012 22 Comments
I noted the other day that Obama’s “My First Time” video appeared to be a rip off of a similar ad for Vladimir Putin. The Aussies, however, are claiming that one of their candidates was the first to have a first time experience. From The...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 25, 2012 17 Comments
It’s a shame that Gloria Allred doesn’t represent herself in court. That way, she could work with both her favorite attorney and her favorite client. Actually, Allred does represent herself every time she calls a press conference with some aggrieved woman or another—whether it’s one...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2012 16 Comments
From Kevin Rennie’s Daily Ructions: Greenwich, Connecticut resident Thomas Peterffy takes to the airwaves today to speak of the blessings of freedom. He’s an authority. Peterffy was born, according to Forbes, in Hungary in 1944 “during a Russian bombing raid.” He made it to America...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2012 16 Comments
Obama attended an anti-Israel conference with Rashid Khalidi.  The L.A. Times will not release the video. Obama was caught on an open mic calling federal employees “slugs.”  CBS News will not release the tape. Obama was caught on an open mic promising the Russians to be more flexible if re-elected,...
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