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Are You Familiar with the 'Blue Bracelet' Movement?

Leftist Females Closing 'Wombs to Males' to Protest Trump's Win

Yale Psychiatrist Tells MSNBC's Joy Reid it's Acceptable to Cut Off Family Members Who Voted for Trump

Someone More Hated Than Sarah Palin

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 Palin...

Day of Embarrassment for U.S.

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 games...

Because Only The Far Right Says Mean Things

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...

The “I Will Not” Debate

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...

Now The Left Doesn’t Know Obama

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...

Stockton University Prof Claims Israel is Guilty of White 'Jewish Supremacy'

University of Rochester Struggles to Downplay Jewish 'Wanted' Posters Controversy

UVA Climate Activists Hold 'Walkout' to Protest After Trump Win

Iran-Based Academic Spells Out the Goals of the Anti-Israel Left

California Teacher Lashed Out at Student for Wearing Trump Hat on Election Day and Called for Security

Ohio Northern U. Prof Fired for DEI Criticism Can Continue Lawsuit, Court Rules

The Caricatures Of August

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2009 2 Comments

What is it about this August. It seems that every caricature of Democratic incompetence, intolerance, snobbery, tax-and-spendiness, and manipulation is coming true right before our very eyes:Matthew Yglesias: If Only We Had Some Means of Taking Rich People’s Money and Devoting it to Public Purposes.Greg...

President Protects Critic’s Right To Speak At Town Hall

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2009 7 Comments

Not this President, that one. The bad one who wanted to strip us of all our freedoms.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRyxOzlJK98]--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Our Leaders Versus the Un-Americans

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...

Cash for Clunkers Driving Up Prices

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...

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...

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...