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Kamala Picking Walz: "This is doubling down on leftism and doubling down on anti-Israelism"

Van Jones: Harris Appeases 'Anti-Jewish' Democrats by Picking Walz

Race- and Ethnicity-Based Scholarships At Fordham University Challenged By Equal Protection Project

The Manufactured “Climate Change As Security Threat” Meme

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...

Government Must Control Everything or Nothing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2009 7 Comments

Barack Obama's penchant for creating strawman arguments is trickling down, way down. The argument now is that since government delivers water to our faucets, maintains roads, and regulates the electric grid, anyone who opposes a government take over of our health system hates modern life:I...

Saturday Night Card Game

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2009 4 Comments

Oliver Willis: Steve Benen tries to understand just why wingnuts are so angry about health care reform. He doesn’t make bad points, but its so much simpler than that. We on the left think that rage has to be somewhat rational, for instance we raged...

An Inconvenient Truth About The “Death Panel”

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 health...

Remember When Bush Helped Bin Laden Get Away?

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 demagogues making...

Kamala Harris Running Mate Tim Walz Supports Free College for Illegal Aliens

Harvard Student Who Glitter-Bombed School President Faces Felony Charges

Penn State Student Facing Federal Charges Over Alleged Ties to ISIS

Conservative Students Score Legal Victory at Clovis Community College

Anti-Israel Student Protesters Preparing to Start Again in the Fall

Penn State Trustee Suing School to Gain Access to $5 Billion Endowment Records

The Firefighter Card Is Played

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 a...

Loss of Hope Is Good News?

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...

The Inevitable Declaration of War

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 Versus...

We’re All Political Terrorists Now

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...

Free Kian Tajbakhsh

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2009 0 Comments

Iranian/American dual citizen Kian Tajbakhsh has a Ph.D in Urban Planning from Columbia University. Tajbakhsh was arrested in Iran in early July as part of a crackdown by the Iranian regime on moderates and leaders of the protest movement.Last week, Tajbakhsh and approximately 100 other...

Joker-ology

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...

We Are All Car Buyers Now

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 of...

AstroOutrage

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2009 6 Comments

While protests against Democractic plans to restructure the health care system are growing by the day, the campaign to malign such protesters has not caught on at all at the grassroots.The campaign to create a sense of outrage against the protesters is not working, despite...

All As One Now

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 American Power)--------------------------------------------Related...

Don’t Forget Honduras

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2009 8 Comments

Tiny Honduras is holding out against Manuel Zelaya, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Barack Obama, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations.The economic and military sanctions imposed by the U.S. and international organizations with U.S. support are taking a toll on the Honduran economy....

Toomey Says “Yes to Sotomayor”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2009 9 Comments

Like I said, with regard to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, in my prior post Yes To Sotomayor. Here's an excerpt from reliably conservative Pat Toomey's Op-Ed today:When John Roberts and Samuel Alito were nominated to the Supreme Court, Republicans argued that they should be...

Obligatorily Snarky Obama Joker Poster Post

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2009 1 Comment

This is my official Obligatorily Snarky Obama Joker Poster Post. No poster. Find it on your own by driving in L.A. or opening almost any other blog. Just this:"What goes around comes around."Do check out my prior post, Because Only The Far Right Incites Violence,...