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

Defenders of WikiLeaks have portrayed Bradley Manning and Julian Assange as heroes who only want transparency, and who did no real harm.In fact, WikiLeaks has put lives at risk and damaged international attempts to rid Zimbabwe of the Mugabe regime.  And beyond that, Wikileaks has damaged...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2010 7 Comments

Heroes of the American Left, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, have destroyed the best hope for ridding Zimbabwe of madman Robert Mugabe by releasing U.S. State Department cables of communications  between Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, the leading opponent of Mugabe, and U.S. and E.U. officials,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2010 11 Comments

Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) was right to insist on greater financial accountability and fraud prevention in the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (history of text changes here).The Zadroga Act had all the hallmarks of the type of government spending which, without vigilance, gave rise to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2010 0 Comments

The lame duck session has seen Harry Reid at his best or worst, depending upon your perspective.Reid held back a slew of substantial legislation to the last two weeks in order to try to ram through measures which, in a rational world, would have had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2010 6 Comments

This is rich.  Julian Assange's lawyers are complaining that details of Assange's alleged sexual assault have been leaked:Incriminating police files were published in the British newspaper that has used him as its source for hundreds of leaked US embassy cables.In a move that surprised many...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2010 14 Comments

I have posted previously about the plight of the Jews of Malmö, Sweden, who have been under siege by the Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition, what I called Malmö Syndrome.Islamists across Europe have used anti-Israel agitation to justify acts of anti-Semitic violence, and anti-Israel leftists have either encouraged or excused...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2010 7 Comments

From the "How do they think this stuff up?" files comes the absolutely worst argument ever against TSA screening procedures at airports:All things considered, though, I’d still rather just put less emphasis on airport security. Actually preventing terrorist attacks is a valuable thing to do,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 39 Comments

Via ABC News:The website and personal credit card information of former Gov. Sarah Palin were cyber-attacked today by Wikileaks supporters, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate tells ABC News in an email.Hackers in London apparently affiliated with “Operation Payback” – a group of supporters of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2010 17 Comments

If there were any doubt that WikiLeaks is not about open government, but giving aid and comfort to enemies of the U.S., then the latest release of a State Department document listing facilities vital to U.S. security ends any doubt.  The document is described by the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2010 12 Comments

A traditional method of sending a powerful message to those who seek to harm you is to use their own weapons against them.The Israelis did this to great effect during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, in which the Israelis captured an almost unimaginable quantity of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2010 12 Comments

That's what Caroline Glick says of the WikiLeaks document dumps:Make no mistake about it, the ongoing WikiLeaks operation against the US is an act of war. It is not merely a criminal offense to publish hundreds of thousands of classified US government documents with malice...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2010 17 Comments

I would not want to be Lebanon's Defense Minister Elias Murr right now.As reported by The L.A. Times, a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut revealed by WikiLeaks alleges that Murr assisted the U.S. and Israel in the targeting of Hezbollah:Lebanon's Defense Minister Elias...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 29, 2010 16 Comments

Nasty demand letters aren't working.  Tributes to "responsible, accountable, and open government" aren't working.How do we stop these Wikileaks folks short of dropping a house on their heads?Six ways to make people like youBecome genuinely interested in other people. Smile. Remember that a person's name...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2010 62 Comments

The U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran on November 4, 1979, was the start of 444 days which came to define Jimmy Carter.  The U.S. government was revealed to be powerless and the President weak.  Those among us who were alive and conscious during those days have embedded...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2010 16 Comments

I have written many times before about the risks of organizing a boycott, and I have detailed the many boycotts which have failed in the last two years.The "National Opt-Out Day" protest, in which air travelers were to opt out of the full body scan...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2010 1 Comment

The Washington Post reports on the U.N. investigation into the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Harriri, which appears headed towards a year-end indictment of several Hezbollah senior members.The article, based on documents obtained by the Canadian Broadcasting Company, notes how cell phone records...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2010 18 Comments

The person who blogs for TSA to help explain supposed public misconceptions about various screening incidents, goes by the name "Blogger Bob."Don't worry, Blogger Bob tells, us, all is well.  Nothing to see here, move along.  Here is Blogger Bob's explanation for the video of...

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