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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

Further Proof Liberal Bloggers Need To Study History

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 10 Comments

Matthew Yglesias on the new tape released by Ayman al-Zawahri telling Muslims not to be fooled by Obama:Perhaps the best thing that ever happened to the relatively small group of people known as al-Qaeda was the rise to power of George W. Bush, whose brutality,...

Harman Tape Leak A Shot Across Israel’s Bow

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 3 Comments

CQ Politics reports, based on an anonymous source, that California Democratic Representative Jane Harman "was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs...

Do Not Repay This Loan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 22 Comments

The Financial Times reports that banks and other financial institutions which received TARP funds may not be allowed to repay the loans. Yes, that is correct:Strong banks will be allowed to repay bail-out funds they received from the US government but only if such a...

Evidence Obama Already Controls The Internet

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2009 3 Comments

Call me a paranoid wingnut, if you must, but look at this from CNNPolitics.com today:--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Obama Needs To Stop Hiding From The Presidency

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2009 9 Comments

Bloomberg news reports the following statement by Barack Obama in his speech at the Summit of the Americas, after Daniel Ortega had spent an hour ripping into the U.S. (emphasis mine):“You can’t blame the U.S. for every problem in this hemisphere,” Obama said. “I am...

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

Cornell Course on Gaza Becomes Center of Controversy

Jewish Faculty Members Targeted in 'Wanted' Posters at the University of Rochester

Professor Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit Returns to Twitter/X for the 'New Era'

Bill Ackman Declines to Write Yale Recommendation Letter for Friend's Daughter

Andrew Sullivan Still Silent On Obama-Chavez LoveFest

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2009 12 Comments

Andrew Sullivan complained that as of 7:27 p.m. on April 16, 2009 (approximately three hours after the interrogation memos were released by DOJ), none of DrudgeReport, Instapundit, Michelle Malkin or Pajamas Media had a post on the topic:No mention of the torture memos appears right...

Obama Throws Venezuelans Under The Bus

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2009 2 Comments

Obama's warm embrace of Hugo Chavez was worse than his bowing down to the King of Saudi Arabia. In the case of Saudi Arabia, there is no apparent movement for freedom, so all Obama threw under the bus was our country's dignity. As to Chavez,...

I’m Seething Over The NY Times Calling Me Seething

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2009 12 Comments

I long have criticized the bias of the NY Times, and mocked its business death spiral. My posts Nude Swiss Hikers Rescue NY Times and NY Times New Business Strategy: DEATH mocked the sensationalist trend on The Times' website. I was the first (as far...

No Prosecution Because No Crime

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2009 25 Comments

The Obama administration released today four memoranda detailing the legal analysis regarding interrogation techniques, most notably involving Abu Zubaydah. There is a lot of outrage regarding the interrogation techniques approved, but those are mostly non-legal issues. Some of the techniques approved, such as grabbing the...

Looking At Tea Parties Through Binoculars, Like On Safari

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2009 2 Comments

I attended the Tea Party in Corning, NY, yesterday. There was a good crowd in this relatively small town in western upstate NY (several hours from NY City), several hundred in total. Corning is home to Corning glass and Steuben glass. The entire region has...

When Bush Was President, Secession Talk Was Cool

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2009 13 Comments

Texas Governor Rick Perry said that he doesn't think Texas should secede from the U.S. Here is Perry's quote:We got a great Union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it, but if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who...

When Fascism Comes To America, It Will Look Like Tea Party Crashers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2009 40 Comments

Liberals love to quote Sinclair Lewis' line that "when fascism comes to America, it will be draped in the flag and carrying a cross." Lewis was wrong. We have had the flag and Christianity for over 200 years, but we have not had fascism.To the...

Speech Police Ban Courage And Confidence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2009 3 Comments

If you want to know what the future holds if speech becomes too regulated, take a look at an article in the Times of London, titled "Bottom line gets Dutch Courage advert banned."When I read the article, I had to check the date to make...

Palin AG Pick Defended Klan — Just Like The ACLU!

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

Did you hear the one about the person Sarah Palin picked for Attorney General of Alaska? He defended the right of the Ku Klux Klan to express its abhorrent speech. Over at Huffington Post, blogger Sam Stein is outraged, outraged I say:Sarah Palin's choice for...

The Constitution Is A Subversive Manifesto Per DHS

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

Update: Welcome NY Times readers. Do not be alarmed. You have not landed on the set of the movie Deliverance. I just happen to have a point of view you don't hear at The Times. See my related post, I'm...

Now They’re Afraid of “Joe the Sailors”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2009 0 Comments

Well, that didn't take long. The crew of the Maersk Alabama, including Captain Richard Phillips, are being warned not to give advice on attacking pirates, lest they become "Joe the Sailors." And we know what that means: Smears, caricatures, investigations, and abuse from the netroots.This...

The Somali Pirates Are Turning Into The Left’s Useful Idiots

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2009 5 Comments

If ever there were poster children for the term "useful idiots," the Somali pirates would be it. They just don't know it yet.For years, Somali pirates have run amok off the east coast of Africa, taking advantage of private shipping companies, and taking various non-U.S....