Author Archives: alsanblog

Competition Deniers Strike Again

Posted on May 27, 2014 by alsanblog

The recent agreement in principle between Partners Healthcare (a hospital system in the Boston area) and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is a good example of how liberals view competition and go about enforcing the antitrust laws, which is to say they don’t enforce them at … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics | Tagged antitrust, central planning, health policy, healthcare consolidation, healthcare costs, liberal mind, Martha Coakley, Partners Healthcare | Leave a comment

Getting Excited About Elizabeth Warren

Posted on May 21, 2014 by alsanblog

E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post seems to have a thing for Elizabeth Warren, the wannabe Native American junior senator from Massachusetts. Dionne never tires of praising or defending Warren, even if it means setting up and knocking down a straw man, … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy, Politics | Tagged big government, E.J. Dionne, economic infrastructure, Elizabeth Warren, infrastructure, liberal mind, liberals | 12 Comments

Teacher Diversity In America

Posted on May 10, 2014 by alsanblog

The Center for American Regress Progress (CAP), a left-wing think tank, is sounding the alarm about teacher diversity or rather the lack of it (see here). According to CAP, the findings of studies about teacher diversity are stark: minority students make up 48 percent of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Center for American Progress, discrimination, disparate impact, minority students, minority teachers, race, teacher diversity | Leave a comment

Punishing Bad Thoughts – Part 2

Posted on May 5, 2014 by alsanblog

So liberal folks have had a week to mull over the punishment of Donald Sterling, owner of the L.A. Clippers basketball team, due to statements he made in the course of a private conversation with one other person, which is to say because of his … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Sports | Tagged Donald Sterling, liberal mind, Mike Wise, NBA, police state, racism, thought control, thought police | Leave a comment

Punishing Bad Thoughts

Posted on May 1, 2014 by alsanblog

Liberals continue to attack anyone whose thinking doesn’t conform to their ideology, and their efforts seem to be picking up steam. Lately, liberals have sought to punish Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty and Donald Sterling, owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, for certain statements relating to homosexuality and … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Sports | Tagged Donald Sterling, liberal mind, police state, racism, Sally Jenkins, thought control, thought police | 2 Comments

Attacking Federal Worker Compensation

Posted on April 27, 2014 by alsanblog

Conservatives think they have scored again in their ongoing attack on federal workers. Writing in the Wall Street Journal (see here for a reprint at AEI), Paul Kupiec points out that federal bank regulators earn higher compensation – gasp! – than employees of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged budget deficit, federal employees, Federal Salary Council, government salaries, government spending, Paul Kupiec | Leave a comment

Higher Taxes

Posted on April 20, 2014 by alsanblog

The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn is positively giddy about tax day (see here). Echoing the first George Bush, Cohn wants everybody to “read his lips.” Except unlike Bush, Cohn is demanding more new taxes rather than no new taxes. Ah yes, what … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy, Politics | Tagged big government, competition, Jonathan Cohn, liberal mind, taxes, welfare, welfare state | Leave a comment

The Very Courageous Lena Dunham

Posted on March 11, 2014 by alsanblog

So now Lena Dunham joins the crowd of courageous Hollywood liberals who mock the Bible. On this past weekend’s Saturday Night Live (see here), Dunham shed her clothes in a spoof of the Garden of Eden story. Actually we didn’t really see her … Continue reading →

Posted in People, Politics | Tagged Christianity, Hollywood liberals, Lena Dunham, misogyny, Saturday Night Live | Leave a comment

Obama’s Consistency

Posted on March 5, 2014 by alsanblog

In his latest column (see here), Dana Milbank thinks he’s caught Republicans in an inconsistency. He argues that Republicans are incoherent when they call President Obama a tyrant as he overreaches on domestic issues while at the same time calling him weak and indecisive on foreign policy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy, Politics | Tagged Dana Milbank, liberal mind, President Obama | Leave a comment

Defending Authority

Posted on January 23, 2014 by alsanblog

So again, a writer at the Washington Post characterizes Republicans as jihadists. This time, it’s columnist David Ignatius who mocks Republicans (see here) because they – gasp! – dared question the administration’s actions in the wake of the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi on … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy, Politics | Tagged Benghazi, Benghazi attacks, David Ignatius, liberal mind, Senate intelligence committee | Leave a comment