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Harvard Gaslighting: Task Forces "sanitizing antisemitism under the guise of fighting 'Islamophobia'"

Molotov Cocktail Ex-Lawyer Urooj Rahman Spotted Spewing Hate at Anti-Israel, Anti-American Protest on July 4th

Biden’s Cognitive Collapse: Greatest Media Scandal We've Ever Seen

Was “Heil Hitler” Confrontation Staged?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2009 43 Comments

Think Progress, the Democratic policy and media-watch organization, broke the story that someone in the audience at a health care town hall in Las Vegas shouted "Heil Hitler" at an Israeli giving a talk about the Israeli system. Needless to say, the video is being...

Health Care Tax Insanity Chronicles, Part 3 (IRS To Decide Amount of Taxation)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2009 6 Comments

There is so much wrong with the House and Senate draft health care restructuring bills, that it is almost hard to know where to begin. I have already pointed out the new role of the Internal Revenue Service as enforcer of health care mandates, and...

Beck Boycott A Defining Battle In Racial Politics

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2009 4 Comments

The pressure put on advertisers to pull ads from the Glenn Beck show on Fox News has caused about a dozen major corporations to instruct their ad agencies to make sure their ads did not run on the show.These advertisers never directed their advertising to...

Taxing Your Mere Existence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 17, 2009 6 Comments

As set forth in my prior post, IRS The New Health Care Enforcer, the new tax provisions in the Senate and House draft health care bills tax people for failing to obtain acceptable health coverage. These taxes are crucial to implementing a health care mandate...

Fishy Flag Operation Down But Not Out

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 17, 2009 5 Comments

The White House appears to have taken down the [email protected] e-mail address used to have people report fishy comments by other people about health care. But, the bounce-back when you send an e-mail provides an alternative address, to the White House "reality check" web page:At...

Harvard Summer Reading List Recommends Book on How to Indoctrinate Students With CRT

Student Reportedly Deported from the United Arab Emirates After Shouting 'Free Palestine' at Graduation

Why is the Biden Administration Trying to Shut Down the David Horowitz Freedom Center?

Two Dartmouth College Students Found Dead in the Connecticut River in Two Months

Harvard Byzantine Empire Class to Study ‘Trans Monks’ and ‘Genderless Angels’

Jewish Prof Who Claimed Discrimination Wins Settlement Against University of Maryland, College Park

So Many Half-Truths, So Little Time

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 17, 2009 6 Comments

A fraud not only is stating something that is untrue, but also failing to state something that is necessary to avoid making a true statement misleading. A material omission as amounting to a fraud is a basic legal concept certainly familiar to this administration.So it...

So Is Maureen Dowd Hooking Up?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2009 7 Comments

NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd criticized Sarah Palin for using Facebook to write about Obama's health care plans:She took a forum, Facebook, more commonly used by kids hooking up and cyberstalking, and with one catchy phrase, several footnotes and a zesty disregard for facts, managed...

Is Obama’s Grandmother Now a Prop?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2009 15 Comments

Barack Obama has invoked his experience with his grandmother's death in support of his health care restructuring plans.Does this mean Obama used his grandmother as a "prop," and that this would justify mocking his grandmother? No.We each have personal experiences with the health care system,...

Bainbridge Takes Down Perlstein

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2009 0 Comments

And makes it look easy. Rick Perlstein's pathetic, almost psychotic, rant in The Washington Post, In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition, was was greeted by the nutroots as the best thing since Keith Olbermann's "you are a fascist""you are a fraud""how dare you" rants....

Jessica Olson for President

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2009 0 Comments

I mean, for the Everett, Washington, School Board Committee: Enough Already! Let's bring about the return of common sense, transparency and personal accountability to the Everett School Board.I think we need some of that in Washington, D.C., as well. Also, isn't this how Sarah Palin...

It’s Because AstroTurf Is Non-Flammable

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2009 6 Comments

The NY Times has discovered that the Health Debate Fails to Ignite Obama’s Grass Roots:But even among those who turned out for the meetings, many of whom had Obama buttons affixed to their shirts and spoke glowingly of the president, there was a sense of...

Ten Top Reasons I’m Happy About The Glenn Beck Boycott

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2009 36 Comments

A group called Color of Change is putting pressure on advertisers to stop running ads on the Glenn Beck show on Fox News because Glenn Beck said mean things about Barack Obama. Apparently several advertisers, including Geico, Sargento Cheese, and others, have succumbed to the...

British Health System Like Abu Ghraib?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2009 4 Comments

The Independent newspaper in Britain ran an article titled The Brutal Truth About America's healthcare, focusing on lack of health services in a poor section of Los Angeles. But at the same time, The Independent also ran a column by Christina Patterson in which Ms....

RI Can’t Find Stimulus Money

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2009 2 Comments

This is great. My home State of Rhode Island says it did not receive promised stimulus money for energy projects. The federal government says it sent the money weeks ago: The U.S. Department of Energy says it sent about $22 million in federal stimulus funds...

IRS The New Health Care Enforcer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2009 30 Comments

People often joke that government-run health care will have the efficiency of the motor vehicle department, and the compassion of the Internal Revenue Service. This joke will become reality if present Democratic health restructuring proposals are enacted.Under both the House and Senate Health, Education, Labor...

Palin Was Against “Death Panels” Before She Was Against “Death Panels”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 6 Comments

Think Progress, the Democratic policy and media-watch group, has come up with an amazing discovery. Sarah Palin was in favor of voluntary, private counseling so that people could put their end-of-life affairs in order, before she was against government bureaucrats getting involved in a mandatory...

It’s The Credibility, Stupid

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 12 Comments

The political world looked bleak on April 29, 2009, just after Arlen Specter had announced that he was switching to the Democratic Party. The Democrats, understandably crowing, seemed to be unstoppable. The Democratic agenda to control the most minute aspects of our lives through health...