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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 6 Comments
Camille Paglia, a supporter of Barack Obama, gets it (emphasis mine): As a libertarian and refugee from the authoritarian Roman Catholic church of my youth, I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism. This is in fact what Sarah...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2009 8 Comments
Mary Robinson will get the United States Medal of Freedom today. Ms. Robinson presided over the 2001 “”World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance,” in Durban, South Africa. Durban was an anti-Semitic hate fest, a grotesque and macabre exercise in linguistic word...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2009 3 Comments
FreedomWorks, which had the temerity and meanness of spirit to encourage people to attend town hall meetings, was subjected to an organized attempt to jam its phone lines, much like happened to the Republican National Committee. FreedomWorks has published the audio files of some of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2009 7 Comments
The notion of August being a time to debate the specifics of the Democratic and Obama health care restructuring plan is something of a misnomer, since there is no single plan. The illusion is being created of a true debate, but in fact we are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2009 8 Comments
“We don’t know who Obama really is,” or words to that effect, has been a standard theme of people opposed to Obama’s election and governance. What I called the “Door No. 2” effect in the very first post I did on this blog, back on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2009 13 Comments
So this is what it comes to. After eight years of protesters hanging George Bush in effigy, calling him a Nazi, disrupting conservative speeches on campuses by taking over stages or throwing pies, creating websites and movies that wished for Bush’s death, and a myriad...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2009 4 Comments
The much ballyhooed Cash for Clunkers program has had the unintended consequences of driving up the cost of new and used vehicles and used auto parts, according to independent studies of the auto markets. The Cash for Clunkers program demonstrates the danger of government trying...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2009 4 Comments
An article in the NY Times, Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security, deserves a special place in the annals of journalism in the service of liberal politics. The thrust of the article is that global climate change “could” cause massive geopolitical disruption in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2009 89 Comments
Sarah Palin has kicked off (another) firestorm of criticism because of the statement she released on her Facebook page: The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2009 3 Comments
One of the benefits of the current turmoil over health care restructuring is finding hypocrisy in the hyperbole being used against opponents of health care restructuring. From John Marshall of Talking Points Memo, August 7, 2009: Most significant here is not the right-wing liars and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2009 2 Comments
New low. The firefighter care is played, as in, people who do not support unsustainable public union contracts which are sinking state and municipal budgets, or who do not support health care restructuring which will sink the federal budget, must hate firefighters: As I’m watching...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2009 1 Comment
The big economic news of the day is that the unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of one percent. The Obama administration is hailing this as the start of a turnaround and a sign that the stimulus spending is working, something of the end of the beginning...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2009 9 Comments
“It’s War.” So screams left-wing blogger Zandar feeding off of the frenzied writings of Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein, who declared health care protesters “political terrorists.” To make sure we didn’t miss the point, Zandar put the words in bold type. The blog is Zandar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2009 5 Comments
Washington Post business hysteria-generating columnist Steven Pearlstein has declared that opponents of Democratic health care restructuring are “political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.” Oh, okay, next time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2009 5 Comments
Snooze. Phillip Kennicott at The Washington Post engages in detailed analysis and comparison of Joker posters picturing Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Barack Obama. The analysis is contrived in the extreme and worthy of the worst Kremlinologists, who extrapolated the Soviet power structure by watching...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2009 0 Comments
Much has been written about the Cash-for-Clunkers program, where people are given money by the federal government to trade up their older cars for newer models. The initial $1 billion likely will be increased by another $2 billion. The press reports reflect hundreds of thousands...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2009 7 Comments
The health care protesters are thugs and a mob and astroturf and terrorists and Birthers and harassers and manufactured and frightening and vicious and “Karl Rove’s wet dream.” Did I mention a mob, terrorists and astroturf? UPDATE: Now we know who operates the Victrola (h/t...
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