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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 30, 2011 6 Comments
when the rule named after you isn’t what you want: Warren Buffett backs out of Obama’s Buffett Rule on CNBC. 

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2011 21 Comments
At a recent Obama campaign event masquerading as a town hall, an ex-Google executive begged Obama to raise his taxes, to which Obama responded with an Elizabeth Warren-like argument: It turns out the guy was a plant by a group called the Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2011 21 Comments
I was the guest of Kevin Whalen of Pundit Review on WRKO in Boston.  WRKO is one of the major Boston stations which covers almost all of New England, and the Pundit Review has had the Sunday night spot for several years. We covered Rick Perry,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2011 21 Comments
How sad.  Our president has been reduced to chasing demons. Obama’s recent phony jobs bill which raised $400 billion in taxes on everyone making over $200,000 (couples over $250,000) apparently did not whip the masses into a pitchfork and torch frenzy, because it targeted our doctors,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2011 16 Comments
I’ve been spitting into the wind on this issue since days before the 2008 election. Rather than strengthening social security as a pay-in retirement protection program, Obama consistently has sought to destroy social security as we know it by treating FICA payments as just another...

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...
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