I DOUBT IT, BUT DON’T TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THESE PUTZES FOR A MINUTE: Gun-Control Supporters Say Momentum Quietly Building to Get a Bill Through.
Chuck, if you want to get guns “off the streets,” the proper approach isn’t background checks, but stop-and-frisk.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “Male friendships, we’re taught, are about finding or fleeing women; they are not valuable in themselves.”
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THAT’S MORE THAN OBAMA DID AT BENGHAZI: Josh Romney Saves Four American Lives.
LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE:
Ellen Richardson went to Pearson airport on Monday full of joy about flying to New York City and from there going on a 10-day Caribbean cruise for which she’d paid about $6,000.
But a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent with the Department of Homeland Security killed that dream when he denied her entry.
“I was turned away, I was told, because I had a hospitalization in the summer of 2012 for clinical depression,’’ said Richardson, who is a paraplegic and set up her cruise in collaboration with a March of Dimes group of about 12 others.
The Weston woman was told by the U.S. agent she would have to get “medical clearance’’ and be examined by one of only three doctors in Toronto whose assessments are accepted by Homeland Security. She was given their names and told a call to her psychiatrist “would not suffice.’’
At the time, Richardson said, she was so shocked and devastated by what was going on, she wasn’t thinking about how U.S. authorities could access her supposedly private medical information.
Sad.
AND WITH GOOD REASON: 78% Fear ObamaCare Site Security, Could Deter Signups.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Replacing the Western Canon with Gender Studies.
FIRE ‘EM ALL AND PRIVATIZE: Crime Rate in Camden, NJ Going Down After Unionized Police Force Sacked.
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And, of course, there’s always a Trebuchet. With maybe a copy of Backyard Ballistics thrown in.
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21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “A drunk woman can’t make correct decisions, but apparently, drunk men turn into Einstein.”
ACADEMIC POLITICS: UNC-CH faculty complain after conservative group seeks liberal professor’s email. The funniest comment I saw about this, on Facebook, was the suggestion that some conservative law faculty members at UNC could just talk to the conservative group and explain why this is a bad idea. Yet another argument for more diversity in academia!
SCIENCE FRAUD: “Are more people doing wrong or are more people speaking up? Retractions of scientific papers have increased about tenfold during the past decade, with many studies crumbling in cases of high-profile research misconduct that ranges from plagiarism to image manipulation to outright data fabrication.”
FALLEN ANGELS WAS JUST A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, RIGHT? RIGHT? As temperatures drop, talk of ‘global cooling’ heats up.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Sexual Desire Forges Lasting Relationships. “People often think of love and lust as polar opposites—love exalted as the binder of two souls, lust the transient devil on our shoulders, disturbing and disruptive. Now neuroscientists are discovering that lust and love work together more closely than we think. Indeed, the strongest relationships have elements of both.” Is this really such a surprise? Some InstaPundit readers have known this for years.
I MAKE A UNIQUE DOUBLE-DECKER BURGER WITH A SAUCE MADE FROM THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING AND MUSTARD. I CALL MY CREATION “THE BIG MAC.” The Hill: Kentucky Dem Senate Candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes appears to copy ‘family recipes’ from others.
Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes’s family recipes, posted on her website on Wednesday for the Thanksgiving holiday, appear to be lifted from other websites.
One, for cranberry-pineapple salad, is a near-exact copy of a Kraft recipe for “Festive Cranberry-Pineapple Salad,” as posted to the Motley Recipe Book blog in 2006. . . .
Another, for sweet potato casserole, also tracks closely with the measurements and directions for a sweet potato casserole posted on the website of the Hartzler Family Dairy in Wooster, Ohio.
Well, her policy prescriptions are half-baked, so it evens out.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How Much Weight Can You Gain From Thanksgiving Dinner?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 7 Tips to Survive Cold-Weather Camping. My tip is to stay home, in front of a nice fire, with a glass of Remy. But I guess that would be #8.
IN THE MAIL: From Sarah Hoyt, Darkship Renegades.
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 204.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: America’s Coastal Royalty: The real national divide isn’t between red and blue states.
The road to riches and influence, we are told, lies in being branded with a degree from a coastal-elite campus like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, or Berkeley. How well a Yale professor teaches an 18-year-old in a class on American history does not matter as much as the fact that the professor helps to stamp the student with the Ivy League logo. That mark is the lifelong golden key that is supposed to unlock the door to coastal privilege.
Fly over or drive across the United States, and the spatial absurdity of this rather narrow coastal monopoly is immediately apparent to the naked eye. Outside of these power corridors, our vast country appears pretty empty. The nation’s muscles that produce our oil, gas, food, lumber, minerals, and manufactured goods work unnoticed in this sparsely settled fly-over expanse.
People rise each morning in San Francisco and New York and count on plentiful food, fuel, and power. They expect service in elevators and limos that are mostly made elsewhere by people of the sort they seldom see and don’t really know — other than to influence through a cable-news show, a new rap song, the next federal health-care mandate, or more phone apps.
Read the whole thing.
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