Copyright 2010 Steven M. Cohen Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:40:02 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Steven M. Cohen :: Writings http://www.buyselljump.com smcohen88@hotmail.com (Steven M. Cohen) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.buyselljump.com/6714/night-of-the-living-dems Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST Like lumbering undead creatures in a horror flick, Democrats keep lurching towards a health "reform" bill, regardless of content, as the objective of passing any sort of grab-bag legislation has apparently become an end in itself. Staring blankly into... http://www.buyselljump.com/6496/obama-gang-tyranny-by-a-thousand-cuts Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST As Americans continue their dalliance with redistribution and collectivism—policies now being reversed or even shunned in other parts of the world—the process takes on the aura of a car wreck, an out-of-body experience seemingly taking place in slow... http://www.buyselljump.com/6191/obama-and-the-cult-of-personality Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST While historians continue to be divided among the factual and the apocryphal, at the conclusion of the American Revolution, so the legend goes, George Washington was confronted by a movement within the Continental Army to declare him king. According to... http://www.buyselljump.com/6068/obama-down-economy-up Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:00:00 EST The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal have a common ownership and share a nearly identical conservative philosophy, but the similarities stop there. The Journal has, over time, expanded beyond its financial news coverage franchise into more... http://www.buyselljump.com/5852/community-organizer-in-chief Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:00:00 EST Voters in last November's election never really got a clear sense of just what candidate Barack Obama did during his years as a "community organizer." The phrase carries with it some vague suggestion of volunteers working selflessly to represent the... http://www.buyselljump.com/5792/less-than-a-week Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:00:00 EST Feckless politicians, if you will pardon the redundancy, have often self-destructed almost instantly in spectacular fashion. Names like Eliot Spitzer, Gary Hart, James McGreevey, Wilbur Mills, David Vitter, Larry Craig and Bill Clinton are but a few on a... http://www.buyselljump.com/5733/government-motors Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EST The Supreme Court has sealed the fate of Chrysler's secured bondholders practically without comment, consigning them to the equivalent of 29 cents on the dollar under the administration's prepackaged bankruptcy plan. Thus, the Obama administration has... http://www.buyselljump.com/5667/inflation-begins Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EST Think of it as the early rumblings of thunder preceding the storms that will eventually explode into a tornado. The more lyrically-minded might see visions of a single butterfly flapping its wings somewhere off Bora Bora, creating the tiniest of ripples... http://www.buyselljump.com/5594/a-different-kind-of-bully-pulpit Mon, 18 May 2009 09:00:00 EST With the country's jubilation over the historic moment of electing its first black president, Mr. Obama's political origins were largely (perhaps by design) ignored by most of the mainstream media. Nevertheless, his conduct over the early months of his... http://www.buyselljump.com/5574/obama-spending-blueprint Wed, 13 May 2009 09:00:00 EST George H.W. Bush, a "compassionate" conservative, was swept out of office for violating his "read my lips: no new taxes" pledge. In a form of political road-rage, an angry electorate turned to an obscure former governor of Arkansas who eventually... http://www.buyselljump.com/5510/obama-above-the-law Mon, 4 May 2009 09:00:00 EST "But seeing they that make the laws in commonwealths are but men, the main question seems to be how a commonwealth comes to be an empire of laws and not of men. . . ." — James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana, 1656. John Adams took Harrington's... http://www.buyselljump.com/5404/silent-republicans Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EST The worshipful, fawning depiction by the general news media of the first hundred days of the Obama administration should surprise no one, and conservatives ought to get over it and move on. It's more interesting to note the near-silence—passivity... http://www.buyselljump.com/5369/chavez-best-salesman Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EST There is an unwritten rule that Americans, while abroad, should not criticize their president. It is unfortunate that the current president does not have the same consideration for his countrymen when representing them in his travels overseas. How else,... http://www.buyselljump.com/5359/economy-at-the-crossroads Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EST With the market on a decided upswing against a competing chorus of true believers versus bear-market-rally enthusiasts, it's worth stepping back and looking at where things stand since stocks revisited their lows in early March. An increase of 25% in... http://www.buyselljump.com/2009/04/a-president-bows-a-stock-market-unbowed Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:59:00 EST No doubt it was jarring to see the President of the United States offering that stiff bow to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, and unfortunately, indeed inescapably, the word "obsequious" comes to mind. A White House spokesperson sought to dismiss it as the...