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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2011 9 Comments

Nate Silver at the NY Times, addressing the inevitable question as to how the success of the bin Laden operation helps Obama's electoral chances, does not see a long term electoral advantage arising from the killing of Osama bin Laden:Yes, this is going to help...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2011 28 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling (Alito dissenting), ruled in favor of the right under the First Amendment for protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church to picket near the funerals of soldiers.Here is a key piece of the Opinion, written by Chief Justice...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2010 3 Comments

Again, not here.  In Afghanistan.  By the Taliban.As reported by Bill Roggio:The Taliban have murdered the head of Kunduz province, along with 14 other people, in a bombing today at a mosque in the neighboring province of Tahkar. The governor had been outspoken in his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2010 10 Comments

Don't get distracted by all the distractions the Dems are throwing up (pun intended).Keep on message:  The Dems are ruining the economy, suffocating business, stealing from our grandchildren, and trying to control every aspect of our lives.Let the blithering idiots and hacks with degrees whine...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2010 10 Comments

It has been a while since I've posted about the saddest joke in the Democratic Party (and that's saying a lot), the class clown who said Republicans want patients to die and who called a senior female aide to Ben Bernanke a whore. As I pointed out in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2010 9 Comments

One elementary school instituted a Taliban-like ban on singing "Happy Birthday" for fear of upsetting students who were not participating in the celebration (or something like that):A ban on singing “Happy Birthday” lasted all of four days at Chesterfield Elementary School in Missouri after angry parents bombarded...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2010 0 Comments

The Democratic National Committee issued the following statement regarding Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's comments that Afghanistan was a war of Obama's "choosing" and that history shows that land wars cannot be won in Afghanistan (emphasis mine):Here goes Michael Steele setting policy for the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2010 10 Comments

The Rolling Stone article, The Runaway General, is generating extreme buzz and indignation based on descriptions in the mainstream media that in the article Gen. Stanley McChrystal harshly criticized Obama and others in the administration.Indeed, I relied on these reports for my post, Shinseki Hero,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2010 15 Comments

Retired General James Jones, who is a senior national security advisor to the Obama administration, told a joke at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, regarding a Jew in the desert of Afghanistan who outwitted a member of the Taliban. The joke plays upon...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2010 6 Comments

Iran is killing American and coalition soldiers in Afghanistan.And not because Israel issued a building permit for more homes in an already Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem.As reported by the Times of London, Iranians train Taliban to use roadside bombs:TALIBAN commanders have revealed that hundreds of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2010 13 Comments

Adam Gadahn has been captured, reportedly.Good. Period.This is a fight on which we all should be on the same side.But wait for it: This proves Obama's anti-terrorism strategy is better than Bush's -What, you mean working with your allies as opposed to trying to run...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2010 18 Comments

Good news. The NY Times is reporting that the second in command of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Baradar, has been captured in Pakistan.The capture was undertaken by the Pakistanis with help from the CIA:Details of the raid remain murky, but officials said that it had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2010 9 Comments

Almost as if on cue, DailyKos, Steve Benen, Andrew Sullivan, Sam Stein and others are pushing hard on the meme that Republicans are "crazy" and Taliban-like in their ways.The "crazy" findings are based on a poll commissioned by DailyKos using the same pollster which found,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2009 5 Comments

How long before arrest warrants are issued by politically motivated judges in Europe for high level U.S. politicians and military officials because drone strikes in Pakistan kill civilians?Don't think it could happen? How about this story from Britain, Israel fury over British war crimes warrant...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2009 3 Comments

Not by me. A comparison between Barack Obama and former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is suggested by a blogger at Crooks and Liars, using this graphic to attack Obama's decision to increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan.The Soviets invaded Afghanistan to help prop up a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 8 Comments

The Nation magazine has an extensive article detailing a classified operation in Pakistan by Blackwater, acting expressly under U.S. authority and coordination, to fight al-Qaeda:At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 16, 2009 4 Comments

"The fierce urgency of now." One of Barack Obama's favorite lines. But used only when convenient.As in, "we need to pass the stimulus bill immediately, or there will be a financial disaster. Forget reading the bill, just pass it so I can sign it immediately...

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