LIKE MANY MODERN INSTITUTIONS, BANKS ARE BASED ON TRUST THAT WAS BUILT UP OVER GENERATIONS, BUT THAT CAN BE SQUANDERED IN AN EYEBLINK: Greeks Laugh As Bankers Beg Depositors To Return Money.
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July 22, 2015
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IS AROUND 30 the best age to marry?
NEW VIDEO HAS KIRSTEN POWERS unhappy with Planned Parenthood.
HILLARY CLINTON channels Dick Nixon.
HIS MOTIVATION: A MYSTERY! British charge Muslim man in plot against U.S. military, trying to join ISIS.
I THINK ONE OF MY GUESTBLOGGERS MENTIONED THIS WHILE I WAS ON VACATION, but here’s the latest: Judge dismisses lawsuit against Knoxville ammo company.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against a Knoxville ammunition company in connection with the 2012 Aurora, Colo., theater shooting and ordered plaintiffs to pay the company’s court costs.
Last week a jury convicted James Holmes of carrying out the attack.
Federal Judge Richard P. Matsch dismissed the case against Lucky Gunner LLC and other defendants and ordered that the plaintiffs pay Lucky Gunner legal costs of about $111,971.00. . . .
The suit, which was also supported by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, did not seek monetary damages, but demanded a change in some of the business practices of the defendant companies.
In his order to dismiss the case Matsch said the suit was filed for propaganda purposes.
“It is apparent that this case was filed to pursue the political purposes of the Brady Center and, given the failure to present any cognizable legal claim, bringing these defendants into the Colorado court where the prosecution of James Holmes was proceeding appears to be more of an opportunity to propagandize the public and stigmatize the defendants than to obtain a court order,” the judge’s order said.
The company has said it will donate the recovered legal fees to gun-rights organizations.
The company, LuckyGunner.com, was founded by a couple of my former law students. If you’re in the market for ammunition, you ought to give them a chance.
ROBBY SOAVE: Coastal Carolina University Thinks All Drunk Sex Is Rape: Requires Sobriety, Enthusiasm. “Colleges don’t understand consent.”
I hate the discrimination against Dionysexuals.
YES, RICH PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT need to put more money into pop culture, and less into the hands of political consultants.
SOMETIMES I HEAR PEOPLE SAY THE TEA PARTY LOST AND OBAMA WON. NOT EXACTLY.
After two presidential victories, Mr. Obama presides over a Democratic Party that has lost 13 seats in the U.S. Senate and 69 in the House during his tenure, a net loss unmatched by any modern U.S. president.
Democrats have also lost 11 governorships, four state attorneys general, 910 legislative seats, as well as the majorities in 30 state legislative chambers. In 23 states, Republicans control the governor’s office and the legislature; Democrats, only seven.
Such losses help shape the future: An ousted state lawmaker doesn’t run for Congress; a failed attorney general candidate loses a shot at the governor’s office. As a result, the flow of fresh political talent rising to statewide and national prominence in the years ahead won’t be as robust as Democrats hope.
The Tea Party plan was always to capture the GOP from within, and to expand at the lower levels first. That’s easier to do, especially because — and here’s a lesson for big GOP donors, who should be funding alternative media instead of political consultants — much of the Dems’ lead in national elections comes from media dominance.
WHY LONELY PEOPLE STAY LONELY: “Lonely people do understand social skills, and often outperform the non-lonely when asked to demonstrate that understanding. It’s just that when they’re in situations when they need those skills the most, they choke.”
FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: “I’m so old, I remember when ‘American hostages in Iran’ was considered such a journalistic priority that they invented an entire long running, critically acclaimed, class TV show to cover the story — and that in turn spawned a whole new broadcasting genre.”
Today’s MSM? Attack the fellow journalist who dares point out that there are still hostages in Iran.
RELATED: Iran: Of Course We’ll Continue to Support Terrorists!
JAZZ SHAW: How #BlackLivesMatter may wind up sinking the Democrats. “This is the perilous pitfall of allowing a single issue contingent to take control of the process with what can easily be perceived as a threatening, potentially destructive agenda. If you want to see how well this plays out in a general election, just keep feeding into stories where the New Black Panthers are showing up. The spectacle involving O’Malley and Sanders at Netroots Nation was a disaster to be sure, but not for the imaginary electoral hopes of those two third tier candidates. It’s a disaster in waiting for the entire progressive movement, and I’m not enough of a partisan to take any joy in the prospect of what that might portend out in the streets even if it means a conservative victory at the ballot box.”
MEGAN MCARDLE: Policing Reddit Could Kill Reddit.
ROGER SIMON ON TRUMP AS RORSCHACH TEST.
ROGER SIMON: Trump as Rorschach Test.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: All about vitamin expiration dates.
#GAMERGATE GETS THE LAST LAUGH AT GAWKER: “In war, your allies are whoever is fighting your enemies, and the motives of your allies matter far less than their skill in battle. Say what you will about #GamerGate, they are skilled and determined fighters,” Stacy McCain writes:
“Never underestimate your enemy,” is a maxim of military strategy. Before you decide to go to war on the Internet, first consider the fate of Max Read, who was riding high as editor of Gawker until he decided that insulting #GamerGate was a smart move. He chose poorly.
Read the whole thing.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: She Blew $90K Her Grandparents Gave Her for College–And Then Blamed Her Parents.
CBS’S CHARLIE ROSE PRETENDS TO BE SHOCKED WHEN LINDSEY GRAHAM COMPARES OBAMA TO NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN OVER IRAN DEAL: I’m not sure which is more “shocking:” that Rose needs a fainting couch after hearing Graham’s comparison. Or, that on the eve of the 2008 election, Rose was pretending “I don’t know what Barack Obama’s worldview is.” Or that such a comparison is actually insulting to Chamberlain. Yes, “The British Prime Minister got the biggest issue of the day wrong. But no one ever doubted that he loved his country,” as Mark Steyn wrote earlier this year:
So please don’t insult Neville Chamberlain by comparing him to Obama. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, because conspiracies are generally a comforting illusion: the real problem with Obama is that the citizens of the global superpower twice elected him to office. Yet one way to look at the current “leader of the free world” is this: If he were working for the other side, what exactly would he be doing differently?
Over to you, Charlie.
RELATED: And speaking of Graham, Donald Trump gave out his cell phone number on live TV. As Allahpundit quips, “Must be a new tactic he’s trying out. If he was intent on doxxing every famous person who’s called him a jackass, as Graham did last night on CNN, he would have started selling maps to Jon Stewart’s house years ago.”
And as Bill Hobbs adds on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/billhobbs/status/623571004502097920
Arguably, that wasn’t Trump’s worst gaffe today.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Let me just figure out what others are getting, and if this is in the ballpark, then it’s fine, if it’s still low, then we can bump it up. I want a Lamborghini.”
As Jim Geraghty writes, “A week after the Center for Medical Progress’s video charging Planned Parenthood with trafficking in the remains of aborted children, CMP is out with a new video — and it’s equally hard to stomach.”
WHAT HAPPENS when you talk about salaries at Google.
OBAMA FINALLY ORDERS FLAGS FLOWN AT HALF-STAFF FOR CHATTANOOGA VICTIMS: As Iowahawk tweets:
One week you're shaming people for not lowering a flag, the next you're being shamed into it yourself.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 21, 2015
RELATED:
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/623533663947517952