Tag Archives: liberals

Obama Is Not A Centrist

Posted on February 19, 2013 by alsanblog

Liberals love to misuse language to obscure their policies and plans for America. Government spending is characterized as “investment,” gun control is renamed gun “safety,” price controls are “cost containment” measures, and proposed legislation that would eliminate the secret ballot in union elections is called … Continue reading →

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Liberals And Redskins

Posted on February 16, 2013 by alsanblog

Well, about once a year, various liberals at the Washington Post pull out and dust off their old columns in which they claim the nickname of Washington D.C.’s professional football team is offensive, racist, etc., and demand that the team change its … Continue reading →

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Hillary In 2016 – Really?

Posted on February 4, 2013 by alsanblog

An NBC News online article about Hillary Clinton highlights “15 moments that define her public life,” and remarkably, there isn’t a single moment on the list that could fairly be characterized as an accomplishment. Indeed, three of the moments are nothing more … Continue reading →

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Counterfactual Thinking

Posted on February 1, 2013 by alsanblog

A recent Washington Post interview with economist Alan Blinder about his new book nicely illustrates liberal condescension. While discussing the effects of TARP and the stimulus bill, the Post’s reporter and Blinder questioned the reasoning ability of those who think that TARP and … Continue reading →

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Giving Up The Constitution

Posted on January 5, 2013 by alsanblog

Writing in the NY Times, Louis Seidman, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University, suggests that we give up on the Constitution, because according to him, our “insistence on obedience to the Constitution” is the cause of our “broken” government. Seidman … Continue reading →

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Liberals Still At It

Posted on January 2, 2013 by alsanblog

Boy, a person might think that liberals would take a break, at least during the holidays, from their muddled thinking, hypocrisy, and outright nastiness, but no such luck. For starters, the state of Colorado is busy drafting rules to require dog daycare and boarding facilities … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy, People, Politics | Tagged adoption, big government, current events, dogs, gun violence, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood, liberal mind, liberals, Michael Moore | Leave a comment

Misrepresenting Medicare

Posted on December 12, 2012 by alsanblog

Liberals seem to be reading from the same broken script with respect to Medicare costs. First, Ruth Marcus and Ezra Klein claim that Medicare costs are “lower than those of private insur-ers” (here and here) and now Matthew Yglesias claims that every dollar the federal govern-ment … Continue reading →

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Taxing Dividends

Posted on December 3, 2012 by alsanblog

The Costco board of directors will borrow $3.5 billion so that the company can pay a significant dividend to shareholders in December, rather than next year, before the looming tax increase on dividend income. This isn’t unusual in itself because corporations need to … Continue reading →

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Klein Whine

Posted on December 1, 2012 by alsanblog

Among the liberal propagandists who write for publications such as the Washington Post, Slate, and others, Ezra Klein has a soft spot in his heart for an Orwellian approach to language (i.e., distorting the meaning of words). And he’s not above … Continue reading →

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Kiss Mammograms Good-Bye

Posted on November 28, 2012 by alsanblog

Well, now that the election is over, the authoritarians (a/k/a liberals) can turn their full attention back to healthcare and resume the task of placing 315 million Americans under the thumb of the central government. Liberals are often seen as wanting to turn America into Europe, … Continue reading →

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