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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2010 19 Comments
This past week has seen the coming together of the growing Islamist-Leftist Coalition in the war against Israel. Leftists who, among other things, claim to believe in freedom of speech, women’s rights and equality for gays, are in political bed with people who would cut...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 6 Comments
You can run, but it’s too late to hide anymore: President Barack Obama is trying to ride the wave of anti-incumbency by taking on an unpopular politician steeped in the partisan ways of Washington. It doesn’t matter that George W. Bush left office 16 months...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2010 8 Comments
The bullying by Congressional committees of various unpopular industries has taken on warp speed. But in a very disturbing new tactic, Congressional Democrats specifically are targeting a sponsor of conservative media shows, particularly the Glenn Beck Show, on a flimsy pretext: Forget Goldman. New York...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2010 5 Comments
Apparently, it constitutes race baiting to mention Al Sharpton when criticizing the boycott of Arizona, according to Kevin Johnson, at ImmigrationProf Blog: The Securetheborder.org website mentioned in Palin’s message includes the following “defense” of Arizona: “instead of taking action to help, the state has come...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 11 Comments
I was waiting for this ruling, because I could not stand living in a world where it was illegal to wear baggy pants so low that your ass showed. From Britain, our window into the future where underpants get to see the light of day...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2010 8 Comments
… if you want to be able to continue using terms like Nazi, Communist and Apartheid to describe the new Arizona immigration law. Or if, like President Obama, you want to claim that the law would allow people to be questioned merely for going out...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2010 5 Comments
The malicious campaign run by the coalition of leftist academics, internationalists and Islamists against Israel continues unabated. We know that in the U.S. and elsewhere, speeches by current or former Israeli officials are disrupted, and there have been organized boycotts of Israeli academics. Now they...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2010 11 Comments
Can’t say I didn’t warn you. The pressure tactics the Obama administration applied to Honduras — such as the refusal to meet with high government officials — now are being applied to Israel: [I]n Jerusalem, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu called his inner cabinet into its...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2010 4 Comments
I’m not going to wade into the minutiae of Leon Wieseltier’s article at The New Republic as to whether Andrew Sullivan is anti-Semitic because of Sullivan’s anti-Israel tirades. I agree with James Joyner that the terms “anti-Semitic” along with “racist” and “homophobe” are so overused...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2010 6 Comments
Gallup has come out with another of its surveys showing how different groups self-identify in terms of liberal-conservative-moderate. The headline of the Gallup release focused on the liberal leanings of Asian-Americans, but the survey also showed that “non-Hispanic blacks” self-identified slightly more conservative (29%) than...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2010 5 Comments
In early November 2008, when gay activists were mounting a fundraising boycott of the Democratic National Committee, Barney Frank announced that a provision repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy would be attached to the defense appropriations bill to be voted on in the spring...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2009 18 Comments
One idea being floated on the internet is a “National Strike” on January 20, 2010, to protest Obama’s State of the Union address in light of the irresponsible health care legislation and out-of-control spending. I completely sympathize with the emotion behind the idea. But the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2009 13 Comments
Forget the junior Congressman from Alabama who is defecting to the Republicans. The big defection of the day was the decision by Jane Hamsher, proprietor of the left-wing Firedoglake group blog and organizer of the Hadassah Lieberman boycott, to appear on Fox News to call...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2009 18 Comments
Not by me. By an über liberal feminist blogger at HuffPo, Two Black Role Models Done In By Hubris: In the past few weeks, the two most famous and arguably most successful black men in America have taken a huge fall. It has become clear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2009 11 Comments
Good for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which leads the way in supporting breast cancer awareness and research. In a statement just released, the Komen Foundation refuses to cave in to the despicable attempt by Jane Hamsher and some of her followers to force the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 5 Comments
The other day, when the news of “hacked” e-mails from a British climate institute hit the internet, I wrote Why The “Hacked E-Mails” Don’t Interest Me, Yet. In the post, I noted that I did not have the time to devote to the hacked e-mails...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 13, 2009 8 Comments
I really wish I had more time to devote to this today, but I don’t, so I’ll be quick. The hysteria, pushed by HuffPo Blogger Alison Kilkenny, over the “threat” by the Catholic Archdiocese charities to terminate services to the poor in D.C., is a...
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