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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 24 Comments

I thought Obama's speech at the memorial for the Tucson shooting victims was a good speech, better in writing than in delivery, which is unusual for him.The pep rally atmosphere was strange, but I learned long ago that people grieve in their own ways.  And...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 25 Comments

Best headline of the day, via The Daily Mail in Britain:How America's elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah PalinThe substance of the article makes points you have heard before regarding the murderous rampage by Jared Loughner:Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s former chief of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 11 Comments

David Brooks is correct in his overall analysis of the media smear against Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement:All of this evidence, which is easily accessible on the Internet, points to the possibility that Loughner may be suffering from a mental illness like schizophrenia...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2011 14 Comments

This photo montage from National Review Online perfectly reflects what I have been writing about all weekend regarding the lie that Sarah Palin, the Tea Parties or right-wing "vitriol" caused Jared Loughner to shoot and kill dozens of people in Tucson:There really is no difference at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2011 72 Comments

The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of several people by gunman Jared Loughner in Arizona yesterday has revealed two sicknesses.The first and most serious is the sickness living in Loughner's head.  Evidence in the form of farewell videos, internet postings, and the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2010 8 Comments

The New York Times had an Op-Ed yesterday complaining about anonymous trolls on blogs who post inflammatory messages to get a reaction:Trolling, defined as the act of posting inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums, is a problem as old as the Internet itself, although its...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2010 17 Comments

Did you hear, all that talk about being fiscally conservative really is just a Cloward-Piven strategy in reverse.  Rather than overwhelming the system with debt, entitlements, welfare by another name, and dependence upon government, conservatives are seeking to underwhelm the system.With a usual flair for the dramatic, Steve...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 8 Comments

I haven't posted about Count Frankula in a while.  Frank Rich's latest column, How Fox Betrayed Petraeus, is stuffed full of Rich's usual "people who don't agree with me are crazy and dangerous" filling.Frank's point apparently is that opposition to the Cordoba mosque and Islamic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2010 10 Comments

Someone please tell me why I fall for it every time. Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Winner Extraordinaire™ (NPWE), writes a biased rant against anything that smacks of fiscal conservatism, and I get all worked up.The latest is Krugman's attack on how fiscal conservatives, who are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2010 20 Comments

Now that the left-wing blogosphere and Democratic media operatives Media Matters and Think Progress have found the Religion of Context when it comes to Shirley Sherrod ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2010 15 Comments

Paul Krugman reserved July 4 for what must be a deliberate deception, Punishing the Jobless, on the issue of extending unemployment benefits, which recently failed to pass the Senate.Krugman blames Republicans, whom he terms "heartless":By the heartless, I mean Republicans who have made the cynical...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2010 7 Comments

Hate Springs Eternal, by Paul Krugman (emphasis mine):"Racism, misogyny and character assassination are all ways of distracting voters from the issues, and people who care about the issues have a shared interest in making the politics of hatred unacceptable."Racism, misogyny, character assassination, and the politics...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 19 Comments

My my, how Paul Krugman worries that our President may come under criticism from the vast right-wing conspiracy for the Eight Days In April.The Eight Days In April during which our President twiddled his environmental clean-up and emergency response thumbs in the face of what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2010 8 Comments

Paul Krugman is completely clueless.I'm watching him now on Sunday Morning with Barbara Walters. Krugman bemoans the fact that in our democracy, unlike in western Europe, the House cap-and-trade and health care bills already would be law. Krugman blames it all on that messy thing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 5 Comments

Please, Mr. Krugman, stop all the name calling directed at our President and those who work for him, Cossack Rahm Works For The Czar:But don’t blame Rahm Emanuel; this is about the president. After Massachusetts, Democrats were looking for leadership; they didn’t get it. Ten...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2009 8 Comments

Paul Krugman has been a leader in the movement among NY Times columnists and left-wing bloggers to demean and isolate the conservative movement by claiming that harsh criticisms of Barack Obama's policies not only are racist, but also incite right-wing violence.In the aftermath of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2009 10 Comments

Paul Krugman proved, once again, why he has no credibility. In a column in today's New York Times, titled "The Big Hate," Krugman blames conservatives for the shooting at the Holocaust Museum because conservatives have had the audacity to harshly criticize the Obama administration.Krugman picks...

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