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? 

Gay Creeps, Black Thugs, and Horrible Women: The Left’s Idea of Tolerance

Andrew Klavan  "When homosexual bully Dan Savage unleashed a foul-mouthed tirade against the religious beliefs of a group of teenagers at the National High School Journalism Convention in Seattle last month, he exposed the lie behind the Left’s idea of tolerance. Savage used obscenities to describe passages in the Bible he disliked and displayed either ignorance or dishonesty in talking about the role of Christianity in advancing the cause of freedom."


Severe language advisory in this video along with lots of laughter and applause on the Bill Maher show, though you really don't need to play it to appreciate the wisdom of Mr. Klavan's article. But you will see the unvarnished left as they are and be highly thankful for people like Andrew Klavan.TD

...."The Left tells me it’s wrong to be suspicious when a black punk wearing a hood and loose pants slouches into my neighborhood? The Left tells me to listen with respect to the destructive deceptions of con-men like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? The Left tells me not to fight back when some shrill, man-hating feminist virago goes on the rampage? They tell me not to be judgmental when I witness a young woman getting herself drunk enough to accept being used like a piece of meat by any young man without the virility to escort her safely home? And now the Left tells me I should not look askance at some gay weasel who abuses the privilege of speaking to young people by unleashing a foul-mouthed display of hatred, prejudice and rage?

"Well, thanks, but no."....

OBAMA TEAMS WITH ANTI-CHRISTIAN BULLY SAVAGE "So why would so many members of the Obama administration and their Democratic allies in the House go out of their way to endorse an anti-bullying project run by Savage, rather than the dozens of other anti-bullying projects throughout the United States? They knew all this about Savage when they decided to endorse his project."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keshet/5912792696/sizes/m/in/photostream/

• President Obama;
• Vice President Joe Biden (who can be seen grinning with Savage and Terry Miller here);
• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton;
• House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi;
• Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius;
• Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack;
• Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis;
• The Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice;
• The White House Staff; and more.

MSM turns Savage into a hero  "The hypocrisy here is insane. The same media that says that Rush Limbaugh is a bully for calling out Sandra Fluke – a woman who put herself in the public spotlight – says that Dan Savage is a hero for attacking Christian students who did nothing to earn his ire, save acting with dignity." 

Filibuster Cartoons

Dan Savage: bully  "They used to arrest middle-aged perverts who get their jollies from talking dirty to children. Today, they get a television show, a nationally syndicated column, a lecture circuit and multiple visits to the Obama White House."

Dan Savage Kinda, Sorta, um..Apologizes for Bullying During Anti-Bullying Speech

The failure of Communism

Photo Gallery: East Germany's Transformation  During and after communism; life under the Communists contrasted with life after them. Perhaps only the Pete Seegers and Barack Obamas can explain why life under free enterprise and capitalism is so appealing to them


Reunification Renovations  Though it seems the author is disappointed that the buildings were not restored to their historic look. However in the upcoming communist plans, those not going to rot were to be torn down completely.

"One-time stables in Zittau in 1990. The wall shows the building's history. The light patches in the stone work mark the original 16th-century roof profile. Above that the darker stone shows the mansar roof added during the Baroque period."

"Zittau in 2001. All traces of the past have been plastered and painted over. After the renovation project the building was converted into shopping mall."

Obama, Gay Marriage and Evolution

Left Coast Rebel  "White House press secretary Jay Carney, when questioned if Biden's remarks signaled a change in Obama's position, repeatedly told the press that Obama's views were "evolving". When pressed if "evolving" meant "changing his position", Carney mustered his best double speak, twisted himself into a pretzel worthy of the name, and mumbled something about evolving "not necessarily" meaning change. Come again? 
Let me quote three of the first four words Wikipedia uses to describe evolution: "Evolution is...change...". The Random House Dictionary lists "change" as one of the synonyms for evolution. Some speculate that Obama wants to signal his liberal friends that he will be "more flexible" after the election in pursuing a more left leaning position, but that he cannot afford to offend any of his more conservative, churchgoing base. 

Is Obama’s Vetting Finally Beginning?

Alana Goodman "As trivial as the Obama-eats-dogs and composite-girlfriend memes might seem, they actually speak to a deeper issue. At the Telegraph, Tim Stanley argues:

What stands out from the composite story isn’t that Obama amalgamated characters, it’s that the press hadn’t noticed until now. As with the dog story, this confirms the suspicion that the mainstream media gave Obama a free pass in 2008 and declined to check too deeply into his background. Even The Atlantic’s [David] Graham admits that he’s never read Dreams From My Father, and neither, it would seem, has anyone else in the press corps. They have the excuse that the book is incredibly narcissistic and boring, but otherwise isn’t this exactly the sort of character assessment/assassination that should have happened four years ago? …

  Emphasis added.


 Neal Boortz: Obama official cites .. Karl Marx. No, really.

Karl Marx

"If there was a widespread awareness that Obama is more communist than capitalist he would have no chance for reelection.  So it would be wise for administration officials to try to keep the communist rhetoric as subdued as possible. 

"Someone needs to get this message to a senior Obama administration official by the name of Rick Bookstaber currently serves on the Financial Stability Oversight Council.  This is the body of unelected bureaucrats created by the Dodd-Frank fiasco, charged with the task of ensuring financial stability in our financial system." 

France's election

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Mr. Terrell's brain should be preserved at all costs and studied after he is gone.

Morning Bell: Socialism Rises Again  "Last weekend, the people of France took a sharp turn to the left, and the rest of Europe may be on the brink of rebuking its recent tack toward fiscal responsibility. With Sunday’s election of French Socialist leader Francois Hollande, France has leapt backward toward the policies that have helped sink the continent in a sovereign debt crisis. Disturbingly, the big government platform Hollande campaigned on is all too familiar to the American people, and if the United States is not careful, it could suffer the same fate as its European allies." "
...."Though Europe is an ocean away, the policies that are sinking the continent could have the same impact in the United States if replicated here. Endless spending has dire consequences, and if America is not careful, it could follow Europe’s path to economic ruin."

Life in ObamaWorld

Nealz Nuze "These articles are for the “But he got bin Laden!” crowd: Top General Says Obama Knew About OBL’s Hideout Since Summer of 2010 – Refused to Act Until May and Former AG Michael Mukasey Says Obama Officials Drafted Memo to Blame Military If OBL Mission Failed.

George Will: “If you struck from Barack Obama’s vocabulary the first-person singular pronoun, he would fall silent”

"Look, self-absorption’s part of the occupational hazard of politics and it’s also part of the job description of being president. All that said, try to imagine Dwight Eisenhower talking about D Day, saying, “I did this, I decided this, I did this, and then I did that” — it’s inconceivable. If you struck from Barack Obama’s vocabulary the first-person singular pronoun he would fall silent, which would be a mercy to us and a service to him actually, because he has been so incontinent in his speechmaking for the last three years that you wind up with, as you said, an Ohio State University, empty seats."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/05/04/98923

Victor Davis Hanson: Secretaries Gone Wild; The Obama cabinet lacks experience and follows its own rules.  "Chu also once warned that California’s Central Valley agriculture might disappear owing to global warming. True, it could decline, but that would more likely be due to the Obama administration’s decision to divert irrigation water in hopes of helping out the three-inch San Francisco Delta smelt. Chu should realize that private-sector California farmers create thousands of jobs, while his own cabinet’s Solyndra-like projects have done precisely the opposite."  Page 2:
"The common theme with these cabinet secretaries is loud, uninformed rhetoric; a lack of practical experience; a certain utopian zealotry — and an expectation that there are rules for government grandees and quite different ones for the rest of us."