The temple of postmodern liberalism was rocked these last few weeks, as a number of supporting columns and buttresses simply crashed, leaving the entire edifice wobbling.

Victor Davis Hanson "In short, liberalism does not work, contrary as it is to human nature. I wish I could just say that about every thirty years or so, forgetful Americans take an allergy shot of it, suffer the reaction, and then get another three decades of Carter/Obama immunity. But instead statist redistribution and intrusion are an insidious process, no longer specific just to Democrats, but bound up in the growing affluence and leisure of the West—both serving its various needs of alleviating guilt to the masses, subsidizing half the nation, and providing much envied power and lucre to a highly educated and technocratic elite who have little talent for acquiring either in the private sector. 

That it is not sustainable does not mean that it will not cause havoc as it totters and collapses. Look at Russia and Eastern Europe circa 1989, or the present-day EU, or Greece proper, or California or Illinois today."

Thomas Lifson: Another terrible day for Elizabeth Warren  "Elizabeth Warren, the poster girl for phony liberals, is the gift that just keeps on giving, as far as I am concerned. She embodies  so many aspects of the foibles of the crowd that took over the Democratic Party, the media, and the academy that she stands as a virtual ideal-type of the ruling class hypocrite."


Legal Insurrection: Cruel irony in Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee saga  "In what may be the ultimate and cruelest irony, not only is it unlikely that Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee, it turns out that Warren’s great-great-great grandfather was a member of a militia unit which participated in the round-up of the Cherokees in the prelude to the Trail of Tears."


In what must be a badge of honor for Cornell Law Professor Jacobsen there comes this endorsement from the left:

 "Jacobson is doing only what other McCain supporters are starting to do, produce these worthless pieces from some narrow perch in order to cover up their own racist bigotry"

I love these intellectual battles of ideas, don't you?