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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 24, 2011 2 Comments

Today in London:  Conservative rebels pushing for an in-or-out referendum on Europe are riding the tide of public opinion, according to a Guardian/ICM poll. Some 70% of voters want a vote on Britain's EU membership, and by a substantial nine-point margin respondents say they would use it to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 24, 2011 15 Comments

Because the Sun may not rise in the East tomorrow, I'll be posting random updates of interest, but feel free to help out in the comments particularly in those hours known on the East Coast as sleepy time. Harry Reid just (8:40 p.m. Eastern) issued a statement...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2011 5 Comments

TaxProf has the details on a campaign to prevent a conservative scholar from becoming Dean of Case Western Reserve Law School: And now a public controversy has erupted over one of its dean search finalists:  Bradley A. Smith, Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2011 16 Comments

The 400 wealthiest people control more wealth than that controlled by bottom economic half the population. Michael Moore said it, and PolitiFact checked it, so it must be true.So what?There is no limit to wealth in a free-market, capitalist society, unlike a socialist society where government...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 04, 2011 9 Comments

Bono made a bit of a stir in late January with an Op Ed in Le Monde, a French newspaper. As he wrote:Africa is rich in natural resources yet it is rarely Africans (save some corrupt officials) who get rich off their extraction. Meanwhile the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2011 15 Comments

George Soros made his fortune by breaking the British pound and other manipulative currency trading, and became known as "The man who broke the Bank of England."  Yet this currency speculator who destroys for the sake of money is a hero of the left-wing because...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 24, 2011 3 Comments

when you can pay people to make them up for you? George Soros, the only acceptable billionaire by liberal standards, is opening up a hedge fund in this measly economy. How? Why? George Soros ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2010 26 Comments

Media Matters, which just received a large cash infusion from George Soros, has been trying to get Juan Williams for years, and now it accomplished its goal of getting Williams off NPR.But Media Matters' thirst for absolute uniformity of opinion at NPR is not quenched.  It wants...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2010 25 Comments

Why does Juan Williams negatively stereotype oppressed minorities?  Here's what he said about crime in the inner city:There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2010 5 Comments

What we always suspected to be true about the function of Media Matters for America and the bloggers who suckle at its informational teet, we now know to be true:Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war against Fox News Channel and others...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 24, 2010 7 Comments

J-Street is the supposed liberal alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  J-Street has been accused -- including by me -- of being nothing more than a front group meant to undermine U.S. support for Israel by playing the "balance" card pushed by groups...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2009 2 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:The Southern Poverty Law Center once served a vital role in shutting down Klan groups and dangerous white supremacist groups. Morris Dees endured death threats and was a heroic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 26, 2009 3 Comments

It's slipping away from the protectors of the Obama image. Increasingly, the mainstream media is using the term "Nixonian" in the same sentence as Obama. And all because of an unnecessary fight Obama picked with Fox News.The term Nixonian has taken on a meaning far...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2009 12 Comments

The new topic of the week is the ugly campaign by CNN's Rick Sanchez, the head of the NFL players union, a variety of loony left-wing blogs, Al Sharpton, and the George Soros crowd, to prevent Rush Limbaugh from being part of a group purchasing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2009 2 Comments

What is it about this August. It seems that every caricature of Democratic incompetence, intolerance, snobbery, tax-and-spendiness, and manipulation is coming true right before our very eyes:Matthew Yglesias: If Only We Had Some Means of Taking Rich People’s Money and Devoting it to Public Purposes.Greg...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2009 25 Comments

Liberal bloggers and media groups can't get the Tea Party phenomenon out of their heads. It wasn't supposed to be this way, to them. Ordinary people getting together to protest against the liberal establishment. There is a cognitive disconnect. There must be a plot; the...

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