“Soviet Union!” “Apartheid South Africa!” “Breathing While Undocumented!” The left-liberal marketing response to Arizona’s recently passed border security law is beginning to take shape — and predictably, it uses all of the tropes previously aimed at opponents of just about every single one of Obamalot’s designs to remake the country into a centralized progressive nanny state under the care and feeding of our betters: those 70% of Arizonans who support

Or, for regular readers, let’s call it the Nishi Gambit. From the Washington Examiner, “Obama’s election year pitch leaves out white males”: President Obama’s tricky, midterm election strategy relies on luring back the first-time voters who supported him in 2008 plus re-engaging women, blacks, young voters and Hispanics. In a video message emailed to more than 13 million supporters, Obama said Democrats need a 2008 repeat. “It will be up

      “Personally,” he shrugged, “I don’t see any problem with pointing out what a clever little people the Jews are. I mean, am I wrong? — or have they not done extremely well as capitalists by mastering the finer points of…well, let’s just call it supply and demand and interest…?”      I nodded. “True. Not to mention that some of your best friends are probably Jews.”       “Well, let’s not go

City Journal, “The Beholden State: How public-sector unions broke California”: The camera focuses on an official of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), California’s largest public-employee union, sitting in a legislative chamber and speaking into a microphone. “We helped to get you into office, and we got a good memory,” she says matter-of-factly to the elected officials outside the shot. “Come November, if you don’t back our program, we’ll get

From the Washington Examiner: Senate Republicans say they will likely have the votes to block the start of debate on a major financial reform bill, which would leave the legislation in limbo until a bipartisan deal can be achieved. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to hold a vote late Monday afternoon but so far appears to lack the 60 votes needed to achieve cloture and stop a Republican

From the Boston Herald: A Boston sports-radio host yesterday likened former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow’s NFL draft party to a “Nazi rally,” a remark one media observer called an “amazing double standard.” Fred “Toucher” Toettcher said yesterday on 98.5 The Sports Hub, “It looked like some kind of Nazi rally. . . . So lily-white is what I’m trying to say. Yeah, Stepford Wives.” Station spokesman Cha-Chi Loprete said

I’m working on some NFL draft stuff today, so I won’t be posting much. However, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to begin reading fiction regularly again — and I’ve decided to concentrate on sci-fi / cyberpunky stuff (if only to figure out what the hell Nishi is talking about half the time). I’ve read some Philip K. Dick — and the Stephenson stuff like Snow Crash and Diamond

Latest buzz has Washington taking Berry at 4 (I’m not sold), which would affect just about every mock I’ve read. There’s some talk that Cleveland or San Fran is interested in Clausen, but again, I’m not sold: Cleveland can land McCoy early in the second (and he’s a perfect fit for the west coast offense) and pick up somebody like Haden or Earl Thomas at 7. And San Fran would

Here is Patterico’s latest, which posits additional hypotheticals in an effort to show how intent is necessarily influenced by convention, the idea being that a knowledge of convention must perforce manifest itself in intent. Which, of course it can — but at the same time, it doesn’t necessarily have to, or else conventions would never change, given that very rarely would one ever find himself in a situation to intend

The argument that an increased federal involvement in the health care industry will over time lead to ever more intrusive regulations on our bodies “for our own good” is one I’ve been making for years now. For my troubles, I’ve been called “paranoid” and “foaming” — and been accused of backing the kind of dogmatic libertarianism that would allow businesses to poison customers while the market sorted things out. Of