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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2011 33 Comments
Barack Obama read a statement today, my paraphrases and quick transcription: Disputes downgrade. Quotes Warren Buffett that U.S. should have AAAA rating. Need “balanced long term approach” — needed “day I took office.” Blames “prolonged debate over debt ceiling” for downgrade, and string of economic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 34 Comments
You don’t need me.  You have $7 million plus in the bank, and as of now, you’re the most popular politician in Massachusetts. I’m just a small-time, part-time, squeeze-in-posts-between-real-life, blogger.  I supported you in early December 2009, when no one gave you a chance, and continued...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 25, 2011 5 Comments
Kathleen It’s not surprising that politicians plead to stop Standard & Poor’s credit warning, they cannot risk losing their pristine rating. After all, there is now a one-in-three chance that the S&P; will downgrade the US Government’s rating in the next two years. Considering S&P;...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2010 6 Comments
I’m trying really, really hard not to take the bait.  I promised you I would be better next time. At least I’ve recognized that I have a problem, which is the first step, right? You see, the thing is, I just enjoy it too much,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2010 5 Comments
In the rush to find “shovel ready” projects at which to throw stimulus money, the feds funded a sidewalk project in Warren, Rhode Island, one town over from where I live. I featured this project in my post in early July, Miles of Sidewalks, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2010 7 Comments
John McCain and John Cornyn Tom Coburn have just released a devastating report on the 100 most wasteful stimulus projects, titled Summertime Blues. Being someone who has taken an unnatural interest in Stimulus-funded sidewalks, I searched the report, and sure enough found this: 10. Town...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2010 6 Comments
Thanks to a reader from Rhode Island for sending photos of another multi-million dollar sidewalk project in our humble unit-of-measurement state. You will recall my now-classic post about the miles of sidewalks leading from Warren, Rhode Island, to the Massachusetts state line, Miles of Sidewalks,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2010 0 Comments
It really is frustrating to hear Obama administration officials tout 3 million jobs saved or created. How many of those jobs did several miles of sidewalks in Warren, Rhode Island, save or create? Now that the project is over, the jobs are gone. But you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2010 6 Comments
Warren, Rhode Island, has new sidewalks from the center of town down Rte 103 to the Massachusetts border, almost two miles away.  Thanks to the Stimulus Plan. I have driven that road hundreds of times, and also have cycled the route many times. I never noticed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 3 Comments
A Democratic state legislator in Rhode Island has filed a bill similar to the immigration law recently enacted in Arizona. As reported by The Providence Journal: State Rep. Peter Palumbo, D-District 16, Cranston, has filed a bill that largely copies a controversial Arizona law considered...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2010 13 Comments
State of the Union speeches regularly infuriate the opposing party, and to that extent Barack Obama met and exceeded expectations last night. One aspect of the speech deservedly is receiving most attention: The crude attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court in front of the Congress...

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 October 23, 2009 4 Comments
There are many stupid things said on the internet. Add to the list of top-ten contenders the claim that author Caroline Glick is not concerned with the survival of Israel. This claim is made in a post at the Lawyers, Guns & Money blog, a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2009 6 Comments
Controversy is swirling around the appointment of Yale Law School Professor and Dean Harold Koh to the position of State Department Legal Advisor, essentially the top lawyer at State. Koh is being portrayed as willing to apply Sharia law in some circumstances, as is happening...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2008 2 Comments
As previously reported, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) came under intense pressure to move its annual convention, scheduled to start January 6, 2009, away from the San Diego Grand Hyatt because the hotel is owned by a contributor to the pro-Proposition 8 campaign...
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