Shifra's BlogWire
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Shifra Presents==> Our “What, Me Worry?” POTUS
by Shifra on May 7, 2013**A Post From Shifra** While checking out the news online last week, I saw an article that made me almost fall off my chair. And not from laughing. Via Investors’ Business Daily: At his press conference this week, President Obama tried to reassure Americans about ObamaCare. Instead, he displayed either an incredible lack of understanding about his own law, or something far worse…. It all leads one to wonder: Is Obama just dangerously misinformed about ObamaCare? Or is he willfully misleading the country? Good question. This is something that I have been struggling with, lately. And it reminded me of a game we used to play in elementary school. It’s called: “He loves me… he loves me not.” Here’s how...
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The Coming ObamaCare Shock
by Shifra on May 2, 2013**A Post By Shifra** If you are wondering what “chutzpah” means, read the Dems’ sudden concern about Obamacare: via The Wall Street Journal: In recent weeks, there have been increasing expressions of concern from surprising quarters about the implementation of ObamaCare. Montana Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat, called it a “train wreck.” A Democratic colleague, West Virginia’s Sen. Jay Rockefeller, described the massive Affordable Care Act as “beyond comprehension.” Henry Chao, the government’s chief technical officer in charge of putting in place the insurance exchanges mandated by the law, was quoted in the Congressional Quarterly as saying “I’m pretty nervous . . . Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience.” These individuals are worried for good reason. The...
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Liberals and Moral Equivalence
by Shifra on April 28, 2013When I was a kid, I collected stamps. I also collected baseball cards. Well, I did, until a rather unfortunate incident that occurred at the end of one summer, upon my return home from sleep-away camp. My mother had thrown my entire collection in the trash. “WHAT!?” I shrieked in horror. “I HAD THE WHOLE FIRST SERIES, AND THE WHOLE SECOND SERIES, AND PART OF THE THIRD, AND A MICKEY MANTLE CARD IN MINT CONDITION, AND…” My mother was unimpressed, and, it seemed, she displayed not a shred of remorse. “The cards were collecting dust in your closet,” she informed me. And then she got to the heart of the matter. “Besides,” she said, “girls don’t collect baseball cards.” Ah,...
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How Congress Puts Itself Above the Law
by Shifra on April 22, 2013My suggested alternative titles for this post: 1) What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander 2) A Great Idea That Will Never See the Light of Day **A Post By Shifra** With all the horror of the events in Boston last week, this Wall Street Journal article almost escaped my notice: (The article in full can be read here.) For years, some have argued that we need a 28th Amendment to the Constitution providing that all members of Congress have to comply with all laws that other citizens have to obey. “Congress shall make no law,” the amendment might read, “that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the senators...
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Kathy Boudin: Terrorist Turned Professor
by Shifra on April 18, 2013**A Post By Shifra** Remember that “dull headache” I got after reading about Jada Pinkett Smith’s financing a movie celebrating “icon” Angela Davis? Well, now it’s a full blown “head explosion.” via The Weekly Standard: People have been outraged to learn that Kathy Boudin, imprisoned for her role in the 1981 Brinks armored car robbery and murders in New York and paroled a decade ago, now holds an adjunct professorship in the school of social work at Columbia University, where she has been lecturing since 2008….The daughter of a famous left-wing lawyer and the niece of the radical journalist I. F. Stone, she dropped out of Bryn Mawr to live and study in the Soviet Union, then joined the terrorists of the Weather Underground,...
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Angela Davis & Hollywood: Audacity of Hope and Celebrity Dope
by Shifra on April 15, 2013**A Post by Shifra** Usually, when deciding which articles to post on the NewsWire, I read them, assess whether the TAMS would find them interesting, and then, I move on. I mean, the news cycle changes so quickly that it seems as though we are constantly being barraged with new events/stories. But there was one article that “stayed” with me. And, not in a good way. More like a dull headache. It bothered me. A lot. From CNS News: Former Communist Party member and long-time radical left activist Angela Davis is the subject of a new documentary partly financed by Hollywood mogul Jada Pinkett Smith (wife of actor Will Smith), who praised the Lenin Peace Prize winner as a “figure...
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Liberals, Taxes, and Unintended Consequences
by Shifra on April 10, 2013**A Post By Shifra** There are many perplexing questions that have yet to be answered. For example: Hamlet: To be or not to be? Physicists: Does the Boson-Higgs particle really exist? Biologists: Why do lemmings commit mass suicide in the oceans? Me: How could Liberals be SO STUPID? How did this Dumb B@stard incompetent candidate become POTUS? I was thinking about these vexing questions after coming across this article in the WSJ: (The article in full can be read here.) Thanks to a ‘cabaret tax,’ millions of Americans said goodbye to Swing Music. A lot fewer said hello to bebop…. With millions of young men coming home from World War II—eager to trade their combat boots for dancing shoes—the postwar years should...
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Shifra’s Tips To Obama On His Upcoming Trip To Israel
by Shifra on March 19, 2013**A Post by Shifra** Honestly, I was not planning to do this. I mean, your wife, Mooch, has a staff of, what, 26 people? So, I figured you must have an entire army of people to help you out. But after that ridiculous interview you gave to Israel’s Channel 2 last week, I thought you could use a few pointers. First of all, you wished you could “wear a mustache in Tel Aviv” ? Seriously, who writes your material? Because two words come to mind: Fire Them! And, if you just made that up on the spot, I gotta tell you: You cannot do Stand Up. You cannot even do Sit Down. Please, take your teleprompter WITH you, and just...
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Sequester This: Obama Tries to Punish His Enemies
by Shifra on March 13, 2013**A Post By Shifra** Two years ago, when hearing a clip of Obama urging Latinos to “punish the enemy,” I violated one of my “rules,” namely, that “words have meaning.” “Nah,” I thought at the time, “Obama sure gets carried away with himself sometimes. Nothing much to see here.” Sadly, I was wrong. Via WSJ: In its bid to make the sequester as painful as possible, the White House announced Tuesday that it is canceling all visitor tours of the White House “during the popular Spring touring season.” This fits President Obama’s political strategy to punish the eighth graders visiting from Illinois instead of, say, the employees of the Agriculture Department who will attend a California conference sipping “exceptional local...
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The Senate Censors: Feinstein Ends Her Inquisition of Kathryn Bigelow and “Zero Dark Thirty”
by Shifra on March 4, 2013**A Post by Shifra** Well, now that Kathryn Bigelow has been “punished” by the Hollywood Liberals – no Oscar nominations for her or for her film Zero Dark Thirty, and only one award (shared) for “sound editing,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein has called off the Inquisition, er, the investigation into the film, one day after the Academy Awards. Via WSJ. If Hollywood ever makes a film about the “Zero Dark Thirty” affair, it may stretch the credulity of audiences with even the lowest expectations of Washington. As no one should forget, Senators Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain wrote letters to Sony Pictures and the CIA charging that “Zero Dark Thirty” was a “grossly inaccurate and misleading” portrayal of the...
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Shifra’s Reflections on Missing Andrew Breitbart
by Shifra on February 28, 2013**A Post by Shifra** [Friday, March 1st, is the year anniversary of Andrew's passing.] I suppose I should tell you, right off the bat, that I never actually met Andrew Breitbart. And, truth be told, for a long time, I did not pay much attention to him. But, one day, several years ago, I saw a short video of Andrew, confronting a hostile crowd. And then I realized, for the first time, how absolutely extraordinary he was. I want to tell you what I saw in Andrew. But to do so, I will first tell you an incident that happened twenty-seven years ago. That was the year of my clinical internship, at a NYC hospital, in an inpatient psychiatric unit....
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Quelle Horreur! Conservative Washington Free Beacon Attacks Liberals!
by Shifra on February 27, 2013**A post by Shifra** In a recent article, the NYT wrote a scathing review of Michael Goldfarb, editor of the Washington Free Beacon. Entitled, ‘A Conservative Provocateur, Using a Blowtorch as His Pen,’ the writer seems to have relied heavily on a thesaurus to maximize his use of negative depictions. For example, Goldfarb’s career did not “begin” at the Weekly Standard; rather, his career was “spawned.” His work is characterized as “weaponized journalism,” and his “signature political attack can best be described as gleeful evisceration.” And, faint praise from Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed.com: “There’s something to be said for stabbing people in the front in a town where everybody goes around all day stabbing each other in the back.”...
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On “Jobs” … That “Three-Letter Word”
by Shifra on February 19, 2013**A Post by Shifra** Remember this gem from our esteemed VP-Speller-Extraordinaire? And this, from our Joker-in-Chief: So, when I recently saw the following headline, I immediately tweeted: UPI Headline: Obama says he will focus on ‘job creation’ ...
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Our Straw Man-in-Chief Strikes Again!
by Shifra on February 13, 2013**A Contemplation and Slight Head Explosion by Shifra** Now that the State of the Union speech is over, and we got through it with a little help from MST3K, I began to reflect on how I, like millions of other Americans, did not watch the Obamination circus Inauguration. I had much more pressing matters to take care of. (Hey, *someone’s* gotta take out the trash and clean the lint out of the dryer!) It was enough to see some of the comments on twitter, and I gathered, from what I saw, that The Dumb Bastard the duly re-elected POTUS mocked and belittled celebrated our Constitution with a re-affirmation to bring our great nation to its knees to a new era...
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Star-Studded Moonbat Lecture Series on the Second Amendment
by Shifra on January 22, 2013**A Post By Shifra** We already had ample evidence that Liberals have no sense of humor (unless engaging in juvenile name-calling of Conservatives), they believe in free speech — for Muslims, but not for Christians — and they see themselves as champions of personal freedom, although they will eagerly try to destroy anyone who disagrees with their Lib views. But apparently, they are *all* Constitutional experts on the Second Amendment. Who knew? Audio: Opening remarks — Danny Glover, Professor Emeritus, Motion Picture Academy of the Arts and Sciences Topic: Origin of the Second Amendment and the Challenge of Global Warming to Our Planet Audio: Andrea Mitchell, Law Professor, NBC University Topic: Comparing and Contrasting First and Second Amendments The Honorable...
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