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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2009 37 Comments

The beginning of a protest movement against Barack Obama's redistributive policies is underway. Though still small, every movement starts somewhere. While called the "Tea Party" after the Boston Tea Party, this movement is similar to movements throughout history where the producers of society refuse to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2009 0 Comments

This must be some sort of plot to undermine Republican opposition to Obama's stimulus plan. Online marketers of "free government money" get-rich-quick schemes now are targeting Republicans:Where did I find this? Through a Google Ad over at Finkelblog. Seems like Mark's audience must have been...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2009 3 Comments

The day before the presidential election, when Barack Obama's victory seemed all but certain, I predicted that I would be able to say "I told you so" about what lay ahead:When this bubble bursts, I will be able to say "I told you so." Unfortunately,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2009 2 Comments

Democratic Senator Predicts None of His Colleagues 'Will Have the Chance' to Read Final Stimulus Bill Before VoteEt tu, Senators Collins, Snowe and Specter?...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2009 1 Comment

We are witnessing the disrobing of the Obama aura in a spending-drenched feeding frenzy befitting hungry pigs at a wet, putrid trough. The fierce urgency of now has become the fierce urgency of sow.Camille Paglia sums up these first three weeks of the Obama era:Money...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2009 0 Comments

The Democratic "stimulus" plan is packed full of all sorts of goodies. Just today, everyone is finding out that someone slipped in a provision to anoint a national health czar. Senator Arlen Specter, one of just three Republicans to support the bill, expressed surprise upon...

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

At his press conference last night, Barack Obama singled out Elkhart, Indiana, as a place of special gloom and doom:I took a trip to Elkhart, Indiana, today. Elkhart is a place that has lost jobs faster than anywhere else in America. In one year, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2009 8 Comments

Barack Obama held his first press conference as President tonight. With the "stimulus" plans on the table at the House and Senate, the press had an opportunity to show that it no longer was slobbering over Obama. The press failed. Not a single reporter challenged...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2009 2 Comments

As an early teen, I was fascinated with Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book." The book, by the 60's radical Yippie, was a guide to using the capitalist system to destroy the capitalist system. Hoffman gave advice on how to cheat various institutions, such as the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2009 2 Comments

I tried sending an e-mail to Senator Susan Collins, but her e-mail box is overflowing. I received the following error message:Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:[email protected] The recipient's mailbox is full and can't accept messages now. Microsoft Exchange will not try to...

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

Tom Daschle, under a cloud of income tax evasion, has withdrawn from consideration for the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle could not stand the heat not only of his current tax problems, but also the exposure of his previous tax avoidance...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2009 0 Comments

In the current controversy regarding Tom Daschle's failure to report income (and thereby evade the taxes on that income), Daschle has portrayed himself as the most honest person in America, who always intended to pay all the taxes he owes, and who simply made an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2009 0 Comments

Barack Obama is about to propose a massive, trillion dollar stimulus package, the centerpiece of which is infrastructure projects. Large-scale infrastructure projects have a long history of cost-overruns, mob-influence through corrupt unions, and are not effective at long-term job creation.But that is not the worst...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2009 0 Comments

My home state of Rhode Island has been asleep at the wheel when it comes to grabing proposed federal instrastructure stimulus dollars. Although it has been known for weeks if not months that Barack Obama was ready to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2009 2 Comments

It appears that Barack Obama intends on following through with his campaign promise to issue refundable income tax credits so that people who pay no income taxes will get “refund” checks from the federal government. Obama justifies these payments as being a refund of payroll...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2008 0 Comments

Stifling taxes and a large government bureaucracy really work:The violent unrest that followed the shooting of a 15-year-old boy has driven Greece to the brink of a political crisis. The rioting marks an explosion of rage by the country's young people who have few prospects...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2008 3 Comments

In his weekly radio address today, Barack Obama repeated his intention to stimulate the economy and "create" jobs through a massive public infrastructure program. As we have noted before, "[o]f all the concepts to help build the economy, Barack Obama has seized on the one...

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