Archive for 2014
October 31, 2014
WAR ON WOMEN: GOP Video Highlights Dems’ Sexist Comments. “The video, titled ‘Democrats degrade women,’ features clips — many of which are from just the past week — of Democratic men making sexist comments toward Republican women.”
Like Ed Morrissey says, the whole “war on women” thing has played out.
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 540. Amusing to see people who participated in this scandal worried about their privacy. Shoulda thought of that before you started abusing your power against ordinary Americans.
ED MORRISSEY: Democrats Just Lost the Phony War on Women.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO FRAME BOYS! Woman sentenced to 3 years in TDCJ for planting gun in child’s backpack, reporting him to school.
A 28-year-old woman was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for planting a pistol in a child’s backpack and anonymously reporting him to the school.
Heather Hodges, who pleaded guilty to unlawful carrying of a weapon on restricted premises in exchange for the dismissal of two lesser charges, was the live-in girlfriend of the boy’s father but they had struggled as a blended family.
Hodges wanted to teach 13-year-old James Bailey McKeegan a lesson for what she considered to be the mistreatment of her own children, ages seven and four.
So she took her boyfriend’s 9-millimeter Smith and Wesson handgun, replaced the child’s cologne and deodorant in his backpack, and then called Magnolia Junior High School from a nearby payphone to report him by name.
District Court Judge Kelly Case echoed lead prosecutor Vince Santini’s statement that Hodges was “evil,” and said he thought it was ironic how Hodges’ motivation was wanting to protect her children.
Claimed motivation.
NOTHING SAYS “OUR POLICY IS SCIENCE-DRIVEN” LIKE SCRUBBING YOUR WEBSITE OF POLITICALLY INCONVENIENT FACTS: CDC Removed Info On Coughing And Sneezing From Ebola Q&A.
Related: Foreign Policy: Pentagon Request Shows Scant Science Supports White House’s Ebola Assurances.
HOW PETTY AND IMAGE-OBSESSED IS THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE? THIS PETTY AND IMAGE-OBSESSED: Attkisson exposes C-SPAN-White House dispute. Congratulations to C-SPAN for not allowing itself to be bullied. I suspect most news organizations would have shown less backbone.
“PEACE” ACTIVISTS: Pennsylvania Peace Activists Charged in Vicious Attack. ” Two ‘Stop the Violence’ organizers allegedly beat one of their colleagues so severely that he vomited blood and was left unconscious in critical condition. Nikole Ardeno and Emanuel Velez, both 30, accused their former roommate of stealing their property, and allegedly punched and kicked him in the street until he had seizures.”
That “all property is theft” stuff? That’s for other people’s property.
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VIRGINIA POSTREL: How Candy Conquered Halloween.
MICHAEL BARONE: Democratic Dogs That Aren’t Barking.
The stimulus package, for example, is not mentioned much. Nor are proposals by serious Democrats like Clinton administration veteran William Galston for a national infrastructure bank. These dogs aren’t barking.
The reasons are obvious. The stimulus didn’t stimulate the economy the way the Reagan tax cuts did in the 1980s. As for infrastructure, as Obama sheepishly admitted, there is no such thing — given environmental reviews and bureaucratic torpor—as a shovel-ready project.
Nor have Democrats been talking much, except when questioned at debates, about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. This is by far the most consequential legislative achievement of the Obama Democrats. But the consequences, most voters continue to believe, are mostly negative.
One hears even less, from either side, about Democrats’ success at imposing higher tax rates on high earners. You might expect Republicans to avoid the subject, as they do. But so do Democrats. Soaking the rich evidently doesn’t win votes.
All of this matters because the Obama Democrats expected their policies to be popular. They thought voters would appreciate being showered with what Mitt Romney infelicitously called “free stuff.” The New Deal historians assured us that in times of economic distress voters would have a hearty appetite for big government.
Liberal bloggers have been claiming that opinion on Obamcare is turning around and that Republicans are shunning the issue. But there has been no turnaround since the law was passed in March 2010. Republicans in the most recent week have run 12,000 ads on Obamacare — more than on any other issue, according to the 2017 Project’s Jeffrey Anderson.
As Holmes might deduce, the solution to the clue of the non-barking Democratic dogs is that most voters lack faith in government to solve problems, to make their lives better or even to perform with minimal competence.
And with reason.
NEWS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE: Yes, “Aspergery” Is A Slur.
Despite the fact that it is incredibly offensive to people on the autism spectrum and the disability community to use the word “Aspergery,” no one on the right or left has criticized the Obama administration for reportedly using the term. While pundits scramble to analyze international implications, no one seems especially perturbed that the highest executive office allegedly throws around a “disability diagnosis as a pejorative,” as Ari Ne’eman, president of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, puts it.
No major figure from either party has mustered such seemingly obvious denouncement. Ne’eman is not surprised by the relative radio silence on both sides of the aisle, nor does he specifically blame Obama or the Democrats.
Well, of course not.
ROLL CALL: The Attack Ads Harry Reid Didn’t Want You To See.
Harry Reid’s strategy of blocking amendments all year was intended with one clear objective in mind — protecting his majority.
Republicans have complained vociferously about the Senate majority leader shutting down amendments — but behind the scenes, the Nevada Democrat’s senators asked him to do so for a very simple reason: Nobody wants to give an opponent fodder for 30-second ads in a tough election year. . . .
Here are some of the subjects — and TV attack lines — Reid’s strategy sought to avoid.
We’ll see how that works out for him. It’s not a strategy born of confidence in the rightness of his positions. . . .
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. BUT I WISH MY GENERATOR WAS ALREADY INSTALLED. There’s a giant spot on the sun, and it’s acting weird.
EUGENE KONTOROVICH: Paying People For Quarantines. “Aside from being fair – spreading the costs across taxpayers rather than letting them fall entirely on innocent individuals – compensation offers several practical advantages. First, it reduces avoidance and hiding from quarantines. Given that those needing to be quarantined have the best knowledge of whether they fit the profile, promoting voluntary compliance is a major, life-saving benefit. Second, decreasing the hardship of quarantine should reduce the political reluctance to impose such measures at the appropriate time – early, before things have gotten out of hand.”
THE HILL: Nurses to hold Ebola protests in 13 states. “The largest U.S. nurses union is planning a day of action in mid-November to protest the lack of federally enforced safety precautions against Ebola.”
So now the nurses’ union is racist and anti-science?
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans?
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE: Texas woman broke into husband’s friend’s home, sexually assaulted him: police. “Megan Davis Hoelting, 31, allegedly snuck into the sleeping man’s bedroom in only a nightgown and began to perform fellatio, according to a felony criminal complaint. Her arrest Monday was her fourth this month.”
“MANY EMPTY SEATS” AT Hillary Clinton rally in Maryland.
October 30, 2014
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STACY MCCAIN: Racism, Classism and Catcalling (or, #Feminism Is for Rich White Lesbians).
Outside the hyper-politicized precincts where feminist orthodoxy exercises hegemonic control, however, there are still males who have not yet been properly indoctrinated. They dropped out of high school or they couldn’t afford to go college. Maybe they joined the Army or got a muscle-and-sweat job where Doing the Work mattered more than Having the Correct Attitude. Or maybe, as seems to be the case of the lower-class New York City men featured in the viral video, they just accepted their liberal-endorsed status as Authentic Victims and haven’t bothered to wonder if there is anything wrong with their way of life.
One way or another, these men are not invested in the bureaucratic system within which feminist orthodoxy is uncontested. So when they see a good-looking woman, they react.
They are not repressed. They are not ashamed to be male. Their basic animal sexuality doesn’t cause them any psychic conflict.
They must be destroyed.
NICE NUMBERS, KID. DON’T GET COCKY. Colorado Early Voting Swamps Udall.
DESPITE DEMOCRATS’ FONDEST HOPES, Texas Isn’t Turning Purple. “There’s a perception that Wendy Davis is pro-abortion, and that’s hard to overcome with us Latinos.”
UPDATE: Republicans Are Turning West Virginia Red. Here’s How The Dems Lost Control.