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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2010 7 Comments
Another “emergency” and pending “catastrophe” is being used to justify more federal government spending to support unsustainable teachers’ union contracts: Education Secretary Arne Duncan says President Obama “absolutely supports” a congressional proposal for $23 billion in emergency education spending in order to stave off teacher...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2010 21 Comments
This attitude has upset some people: (via HotAir via Ace) Christie must be doing something right if people already are trying to boycott him (via TaxProf): Gov. Chris Christie will remain the speaker at Seton Hall University School of Law’s graduation ceremony later this month...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2010 10 Comments
Not Tea Partiers, gun nuts, wingnuts, NASCAR dads and moms, or bitter clingers. Not loony-lefties, nutroots, socialist revolutionaries, or Kos-sacks. No, there is a gathering crowd with a thirst for revenge, who will not be satisfied unless and until we get on the Supreme Court…....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2010 3 Comments
Phew: We’d heard the former governor actually dated Kagan when they were students at Harvard, but a spokeswoman for Spitzer denied any love connection. “They have been good friends since 1977 — when they were college freshmen. They never dated,” said Spitzer’s rep. Not that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2010 3 Comments
In the company of Obama supporters, it’s called “inventing” oneself: Look at how much Barack Obama had to figure out. I mean, he’s born who he is, he can look in the mirror; but it must have been extraordinarily confusing to have this father who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2010 1 Comment
The NY Times ran an article yesterday about the growth of unpaid internships, Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say: With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2010 5 Comments
Barack Obama’s insistence that Israel cease all building in Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, calling such neighborhoods “settlements,” raises an interesting question. Who are the settlers in Jerusalem? A good example of the lack of clarity over Palestinian claims to Jerusalem is found in prominent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2010 10 Comments
Three students have committed suicide on the Cornell campus recently, including two last week, by jumping from bridges over the numerous gorges which run through campus. The mood is somber. We need to do a better job helping students keep life in perspective. We place...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2010 9 Comments
The transparency President is now the President who feels your pain. According to the NY Times, in the State of the Union address Obama will unveil some highly targeted tax credits aimed at families, and some caps on student loan repayments: By focusing on what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2009 6 Comments
This will be my last post of the year, barring some high-profile conservative taking ill and being rushed to the hospital in which Barack Obama was not born just before he was born in that other hospital in the state where Rush Limbaugh is resting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2009 11 Comments
My home state of Rhode Island is quirky place. We still celebrate Victory Over Japan Day in August, although the name was changed to VJ Day and then to Victory Day, in a nod to political correctness. Now there is a move afoot to change...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2009 3 Comments
I cannot comment on this diagnosis of clinical narcissism, since I only took Intro to Psychology in college, although I have commented on certain non-clinical aspects of the Won’s persona. But the author of the diagnosis in question poses a further question, so I’ll raise...

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 September 11, 2009 5 Comments
With the politics which seems to dominate all our lives, it is easy to lose sight of what matters most. This afternoon the Cornell University community lost one of our undergraduate students to swine flu. As the father of three college-age students, my heart goes...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2009 3 Comments
The media and left-wing blogosphere are in a tizzy because Virginia Republican candidate for Governor Robert F. McDonnell took negative positions on gay-rights and other topics in a university thesis 20 years ago. McDonnell now disavows those views, saying his views have changed over time,...
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