Archive for 2013

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. “While the US is focused on its own domestic dramas, Europe as the Economist puts it, ‘is bleeding out.’ Silently, exsanguinating below the fold, but bleeding all the same.”

21ST CENTURY PARENTING: Police say mom reported finding her own baby on Hawaii beach. “A day after a woman reported finding an abandoned newborn crying in the sand on a Hawaii beach, police arrested her and revealed she’s the baby’s mother. Keala Simeona, 21, of Honolulu, was arrested Tuesday for filing a false police report. Police don’t expect to pursue additional offenses at this time. She posted $250 bail and was released.” Well, at least it wasn’t one of those fake rape reports.

THE UNION-LEADER GOES AFTER GUN-CONTROL PROPONENTS’ “BULLYING” OF SEN. KELLY AYOTTE: “What is disgusting is deliberately mischaracterizing someone’s position for the purpose of portraying that person as a willing accomplice to murder. That has been the left’s strategy since Newtown. It is a testament to the Senate that a majority of its members, including Ayotte, did not cave to such bullying.” Hiding behind victims and the grieving is a sort of rhetorical “human shield” strategy, designed to block counterarguments with claims that disagreeing with the victims is mean.

Indeed. Related thoughts here.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Pay Attention: Colorado Democrats Use Election Process to Enshrine Power. “The Left cares about process so much they are pouring $100,000,000 into the ‘Democracy Initiative,’ a plot to permanently reshape American politics by altering election process laws. The conservative and GOP response? Next to nothing. It will include more money for door knocking the weekend before an election and more tweets. . . . When you control election process rules, your ideas need not appeal to a majority of people to obtain power.”

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: The Failure of Leftist Law Professors to Defend Progressive Causes (When It Would Affect Their Pocketbooks).

Plus, from Professor Bainbridge: Think Law School Tuition is too High? Blame Liberals. “I don’t lose much sleep about living the law prof life. But then I teach my students something useful, instead of teaching them about speaking truth to power (whatever the hell that means), so I actually earn my money.”

RON BAILEY ON PLAN B: “What’s especially ridiculous is that the folks in the Obama administration overruled the scientific determinations of the FDA and arbitrarily imposed age restrictions on the availability of Plan B out obvious electoral considerations. Since the president can’t run for office again, the only plausible reason that the Justice Department would oppose making Plan B available without a prescription to all women of reproductive age now is out of sheer embarassment at the fact the administration would be admitting its original decision was completely political.”