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Archive for 2015
October 23, 2015
SOUTH PARK takes on Safe Spaces.
AT AMAZON, deals on Family Night Games.
Plus, Movie Favorites.
MAYBE HE JUST WANTED TO SEE IF ANYONE WAS LISTENING: Lincoln Chafee Makes Weird Statement About Women Withholding Sex At His Concession Speech.
Of course, since withholding sex is sexual violence, I suppose we need to chide Chafee for joking about sexual violence.
UPDATE: Chafee link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Studies Show Beer Could Make You Better In Bed. You don’t want to be anti-science, do you?
WHY ISN’T BERNIE SANDERS TALKING ABOUT repealing the Hollywood Tax Cuts? Because Hollywood gives him money.
NO, HILLARY CLINTON DID NOT ‘TRIUMPH’ AT THE BENGHAZI HEARING, Debra Heine writes at the PJ Tatler:
Clinton did appear to be composed and well prepared for everything the Republicans on the panel threw at her, but there were a couple of extremely weird moments in which she laughed inappropriately during serious questioning. Those moments could come back to haunt her.
And there was serious damage done to her credibility on a number of fronts.
One of the more astonishing revelations to come out of the hearing is the fact that approximately 600 pleas for more security by State Department personnel in Benghazi went unheeded as the security situation there deteriorated. Not five, not ten, but 600 pleas for help ignored! That is unexcusable and a disgrace.
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Clinton showed a stunning degree of insensitivity when she laughed and joked about Ambassador Stevens’ desperate attempt to buy security equipment for the compound from the British less than a year before his murder at the hands of terrorists.
It was established beyond a shadow of a doubt that Hillary Clinton knew on the night of September 11, 2012, that the attack in Benghazi was a preplanned terrorist attack that had nothing to do with a protest over a YouTube video. She told a different story to people in her inner circle than to the American people, whom she now expects to entrust her with the presidency.
As Moe Lane writes, “The point of this hearing was for her to talk, and talk, and talk some more, and get it all down in the transcript. Once that’s done, we will go through the testimony, look at her other testimony, note discrepancies, note peculiarities; and then eventually somebody will get charged with perjury. Because that’s how you get people: perjury. It’s how they got Scooter Libby and Martha Stewart, after all.”
But until – and if — that ever happens (see also: Lerner, Lois), what difference does it really make (to coin a phrase) when the narrative that low information voters received from the MSM was entirely pre-scripted?
Or to put it another way, “Meh.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Charleston Law School Files Counterclaims Against Two Fired Tenured Professors.
FBI CHIEF CONNECTS “BLACK LIVES MATTER”-STYLE CRITICISM OF POLICE with rise in violent crime.
WELL, THAT MAKES SENSE: China’s best Obama impersonator looks the part, but speaks ‘fake English.’
BACK TO THE BLOODY FUTURE: Steve Green looks at the mess that the Obama administration has made of the Middle East and responds, see I told you so.
Read the whole thing — though fair warning: I’m not sure if Steve has enough vodka to go around to assuage all of his readers’ likely anger once they’re done.
‘STAB A JEW’ VIOLENCE: FACEBOOK TO BE SUED MONDAY; IS TWITTER NEXT? One group is fighting back against a company it claims allows terrorists to use their outlets to spread hate and encourage violence against Israelis. Reports Algemeiner: ”10,000 Israelis had signed a petition, launched by Shurat HaDin-The Israel Law Center, indicating their desire to join a class-action suit against Facebook for acting as an accomplice to terror.”
As a legendary community organizer once advised his constituents, get in their faces and punch back twice as hard.
THE PERILS AND PLEASURES OF thinking about inequality.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Obama Justice Dept.: No criminal charges for ex-IRS official. “The department also announced that Lois Lerner, who headed the division that processes applications for tax-exempt status at the time, would not face any charges.”
AT AMAZON, shop the Holiday Toy List.
LYING POLITICIANS AND THE JOURNALISTS WHO ENABLE THEM: That which is A cannot be Non-A. But don’t tell that to the MSM.
MORE TRUDEAU FALLOUT: Canada likely to drop purchase of 65 F-35 jets and save C$56-126 billion.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Did Someone Call You a Bitch? Gloria Steinem Tells You How to Handle It.
LOT’S WIFE’S REVENGE: A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset.
TEXAS DECLARES WAR ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
In the 1970s, the left declared that “the personal is political.” Apparently, they didn’t realize that rule applies to both sides of the aisle.
IT MIGHT BE TIME TO START ASKING WHEN, NOT IF, JEB BUSH WILL DROP OUT OF THE 2016 RACE: “According to Politico, Jeb has decided to cut the salaries of all his campaign staff in an effort to save dwindling funds. Employees were informed that their salaries would be reduced during a conference call this morning,” the Federalist notes.
Related: National Review: ‘Jeb Bush Is Toast.’
READER STORY PLUG: From reader C. Blake Powers, a military SF story, Slaughterhouse, for 99 cents on Kindle.
BY ‘WARM UP,” HE MEANS BURN THROUGH MORE TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO FUND CRONY CORPORATISM: Martin O’Malley wants Americans to warm up to ‘business opportunity’ climate change presents.
Didn’t American tax payers already “warm up” a large enough bonfire of their dollars funding such busted flushes as Solyndra, Fisker Automobile, and A123 Battery and others even before Mr. Obama’s first term in office was complete?