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'Resistance' Lawfare Abusers Must Be Held Accountable

Leftist Women Absolutely Lose It After Donald Trump's Election Victory

Scarborough, Sharpton Claim Black and Hispanic Men are Sexist and Racist

Maybe The Van Jones Vetters Didn’t See These Problems As A Problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2009 9 Comments

A lot of people are asking "who vetted Van Jones?" or wondering how the Obama administration could have missed the problems. These are valid questions, but they miss the point.Van Jones is a mainstream member of the left-wing of the Democratic Party. Like over half...

Van Jones Sends Thrill Up MSNBC’s Leg

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2009 7 Comments

MSNBC just cannot stop covering and cheering for the Obama administration. Either they don't understand their own news biases, or they don't care, or both. This blog post by several of MSNBC's news staff, including reporter Chuck Todd, says it all:*** Remind us again how...

Van Jones Not A Truther, He Just Played One In Real Life

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2009 5 Comments

The "I'm not a doctor, I just play one on TV" analogy moved into the political sphere long ago, most recently when a faux doctor appeared at a town hall run by Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.Now we have something of a reverse analogy, someone...

Throwing Darts at HR3200 – Day 6 (No Mulligans)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2009 0 Comments

This is the sixth in a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in HR3200, the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. The hope is that through random selection of pages from the House Bill, using the dartboard method, some light will be shed on...

Beating Up Honduras

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2009 6 Comments

The Obama administration is taking its bad August out on Honduras, announcing today the imposition of economic sanctions: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, responding to calls to increase pressure on the de facto Honduras government, announced the termination on Thursday of about $22 million...

Columbia University Students Holding 'Anti-Veterans Day' Protest

After Denouncing Jews, Cornell Prof Claims “Violence is All Zionism Can Offer the World”

Colleges Across the Country Are Cancelling Classes Over Trump's Win

AAUP President Calls Trump Election Victory 'Disappointing'

Washington U. in St. Louis Offers Drop-in Counseling for People Feeling Anxious Over Election

The Anti-Semitic Attacks in Amsterdam Are a Warning of What's to Come

Van Jones and Truthers Are Mainstream Democrats

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2009 6 Comments

The internet is abuzz today with news that Glenn Beck foe and Obama administration Green Czar Van Jones is a 9/11 Truther, meaning he thinks the Bush administration either planned or at least knew of the 9/11 attacks in advance.Jones will end up resigning, and...

Life Is Not Fair, And Neither Is Drudge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2009 11 Comments

Life in the blogosphere is not fair. For weeks I have been beating the drum about the IRS being involved in our health care under Democratic proposals: IRS The New Health Care Enforcer (August 14, 2009).I greatly appreciated the links from InstaPundit, American Thinker, and...

Another Snowe Job

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2009 5 Comments

The hot topic at this precise moment in time is the concept of a public option "trigger" being proposed by Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe.Snowe was one of only three Republicans to vote for the February 2009 stimulus plan; without those three Republicans (one of...

Throwing Darts at HR3200 – Day 5 (Cutting Hospital Readmissions)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2009 2 Comments

This is the fifth in a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in HR3200, the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. The hope is that through random selection of pages from the House Bill, using the dartboard method, some light will be shed on...

Brits May Eliminate Tonsillectomies

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2009 4 Comments

The British papers have been on a tear recently exposing the fundamental flaws in their socialized health care system.Today The Times of London exposes the out-of-control cost of the British system. Rather than controlling costs, as is promised by American supporters of a "one-plan, one...

Glenn Beck’s Revenge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2009 22 Comments

I told you this was coming. Two weeks ago I predicted that when Glenn Beck returned from vacation, he would go on the offensive against Van Jones and the others behind the boycott of Beck's Fox News show.This was the only available strategy, since the...

Throwing Darts at HR3200 – Day 4 (Birth of a New Entitlement)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2009 7 Comments

This is the fourth in a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in HR3200, the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. The hope is that through random selection of pages from the House Bill, using the dartboard method, some light will be shed on...

Media Not Doing What Is Asked Of It

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2009 2 Comments

Greg Sargent at The Plum Line blog notes that the Obama campaign apparatus, Organizing for America, has upped its attacks on the media:This has to be the Obama camp’s most direct and premeditated shot at the media yet: His outside political operation just blasted an...

Ask Not What Your President Can Do For You

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2009 9 Comments

The federal Department of Education has released a script for pre-K through 6th grade teachers to use in conjunction with Barack Obama's "historic" nationwide speech to elementary school students on September 8.The script instructs teachers to use the following questions with the students after the...

Liberty Torch Passed From Zelaya to Ortega

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2009 3 Comments

The Liberty Torch "is a symbol of Central America’s independence from Spain in 1821, and is normally passed across the countries of Central America this time of year. The passing of the torch this year, however, will skip the inclusion of Honduras."Guess who is going...

Pass John Kerry’s Cap-and-Tax Bill or Your Puppy Will Die

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2009 3 Comments

John Kerry has a column at Huffington Post, beating the "global warming is a threat to national security" dead horse.Been there, done that.Kerry can't make the economic or environmental case for cap-and-tax regulations, so he resorts to fear-mongering based on speculative worst-case scenarios:Climate change injects...

Throwing Darts at HR3200 – Day 3 (Cost Sharing Limits Gone Wild)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2009 2 Comments

This is the third in a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in HR3200, the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. The hope is that through random selection of pages from the House Bill, using the dartboard method, some light will be shed on...