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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 18 Comments
I’m glad I spent most of yesterday traveling, so that I missed much of the blogospheric tsunami regarding Rand Paul’s libertarian views on the virtue of the federal government banning racial discrimination in private businesses. Where I come down on the issue is that the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2010 22 Comments
As far at I can tell, the date of the funeral for Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the others killed in the plane crash has not yet been set. Undoubtedly, this will be a monumental event with dignitaries from around the world, and millions of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2010 11 Comments
Barack Obama has given the go ahead for the “targeted killing” of al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki, who happens to be a U.S. citizen. I don’t have a problem with it. The fight with al-Qaeda is war. Al-Awlaki is trying to kill Americans, and if the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2010 4 Comments
Clark Hoyt, “The Public Editor” at The NY Times, apparently doesn’t know when he is being used. Or at least Hoyt didn’t know it when he reacted to a complaint from the Electronic Intifada website that Ethan Bronner, The Times’ Jerusalem bureau Chief (an American)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2010 15 Comments
The left-wing blogs have been so completely overrun in the Brown-Coakley campaign that they have resorted to making up a phony “birther” controversy in an attempt to gin up a controversy before Tuesday. Blue Mass Group has released a very tightly edited 15-second clip of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2010 4 Comments
Martha Coakley attended a lobbyist fundraiser in Washington, D.C. last night, at which she received bundled donations from dozens of health care lobbyists and Washington insiders. Coakley, when questioned about the fundraiser, said that it originally was planned as a unity event: “We planned an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2009 8 Comments
Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) commented soon after the attempted bombing of an airplane over Detroit that the Obama administration needed to do a better job at connecting the dots regarding terror threats from Yemen: “People have got to start connecting the dots here and maybe this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2009 12 Comments
So says Matthew Yglesias, in a post titled Not So Scary “Terror” (emphasis mine): Obviously, people shouldn’t be lighting anything on fire inside airplanes. That said, all the big Christmas airline incident really shows to me is how little punch our dread terrorist adversaries really...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2009 8 Comments
I thought we weren’t allowed to talk this way when dealing with foreigners: “It’s a battle — we’re going to win — take no prisoners,” the first lady said with a smile at a roundtable discussion with reporters in the White House State Dining Room....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2009 8 Comments
In his “historic” speech to the Muslim world, Barack Obama spoke up for the rights of women. The first example Obama used was the right of Muslim women in the West to wear hair covering (italics mine): The sixth issue that I want to address...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2009 11 Comments
Barack Obama is on his apology tour of Europe. There is hardly anyone to whom he hasn’t apologized for American arrogance and mistakes. One thing Obama hasn’t managed to do is ask the Europeans to apologize to us for: Two World Wars which resulted in...
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