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Archive for 2015
October 16, 2015
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Draft Women? Why Not? In which I agree with President Obama on gender equality.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Another Anti-Gay Hate Crime Turns Out to Be a Giant Hoax.
“Commentator Michelle Malkin has dubbed the phenomenon ‘faking the hate,’ and has blogged about it for many years.“
TO BE FAIR, NEITHER CAN ANYONE ELSE: High school students can’t figure out ‘yes means yes’ sex consent policy.
High school students being taught the new “yes means yes” consent policies are asking better questions than the people who wrote the law.
The law, which requires students to view sex as a legal contract rather than a passionate or loving act, is so confusing and unworkable that high school students in San Francisco couldn’t figure out how to make it work.
“What does that mean – you have to say ‘yes’ every 10 minutes?” asked one student.
The woman responsible for teaching these students, Shafia Zaloom, responded: “Pretty much,” adding, “It’s not a timing thing, but whoever initiates things to another level has to ask.” . . .
“The yes-means-yes standard turns almost all of us into rapists,” the commenter wrote. “We have let the radicals hijack this issue, with disastrous results for innocent young people.”
Other commenters suggest “yes means yes” policies are not difficult, as people should be communicating through sex anyway. Talking during sex isn’t for everyone, and it shouldn’t be considered rape just because no one said a word. Nonverbal communication is just as valid as verbal, but because “yes means yes” policies consider it too ambiguous, it’s either outlawed or strongly discouraged.
In essence, “yes means yes” policies have been developed to regulate sexual encounters — the most intimate of all human experiences. If you don’t have sex the way the government tells you to, you’re a rapist. And the government-approved sex manual provides a very narrow set of instructions for what isn’t rape. Basically, everything is rape now.
Leave it to the government to take all the joy out of sex.
I think that this level of government interference is actually a violation of privacy rights under Lawrence v. Texas.
I THINK A REPUBLICAN WOULD GET FOUR PINOCCHIOS FOR A SIMILAR CLAIM ABOUT ABORTION: WaPo Fact Checker: Hillary’s Claim That 40% of Guns Are Sold At Gun Shows And Over The Internet Mostly False.
Hey WaPo, how about this one: Obama: Buying a Gun Easier Than Buying a Book.
UPDATE: Why Do Democrats Get Away With Lying About Guns?
When Carly Fiorina offered some imprecise words about videos that uncovered the harvesting of body parts, she was subjected to weeks of semantic, nitpicky fact-checking that allowed Democrats and the media to portray her accurate characterization of Planned Parenthood’s practices as an outright “lie.”
Now, it would be a waste of time to expect comparable scrutiny aimed at Democrats who make unequivocally false statements about guns—a topic that elicits similarly emotional responses. But, for credibility’s sake, it’d be nice if once in a while someone would call out the president, or leading Democratic Party candidates, or the countless others who lie about firearms.
President Obama, who not long ago made the ludicrous claim that in certain neighborhoods it was “easier for you to buy a handgun and clips than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable,” now says, “It’s not just mass shootings. It is the daily shootings that take place in cities across America. It is easier to buy a gun than buy a book.”
Does anyone in the media believe it’s easier to purchase a Glock than it is a carrot or a book? Probably. I mean, why isn’t there a slew of concerned CNN panels parsing this fantastical statement—or the many others Obama makes about guns?
Because the press likes those lies, and wants them to be believed.
BECAUSE THE MSM CONSISTS LARGELY OF DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: Why Do Democrats Get Away With Lying About Guns?
DEMS’ REVOLUTION IS ALREADY HERE: “Near the end of the debate, former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia said he has a great deal of admiration for Sanders — a self-described progressive, socialist and democratic socialist — but also said: ‘Bernie, I don’t think the revolution’s going to come. And I don’t think the Congress is going to pay for a lot of this stuff.’ Wrong. The revolution has come. And Congress won’t pay for it. Taxpayers will.”
Usually during election years when Democrats believe they have a serious shot at winning the White House, they cloak their socialism with something far more reasonable sounding. Jimmy Carter ran against the DC establishment as a post-Watergate reformer. Bill Clinton excoriated George H.W. Bush for raising taxes and ran to the right of Papa Bush on several other issues. Obama was given a bit of a pass because many assumed his socialist rhetoric was merely boob bait for the bobos (to mash up Pat Moynihan and David Brooks), and that once in office, he would govern following the relatively successful centrist model of Bill Clinton. (Won’t get fooled again.)
What does it say about the Democrats when they’re really letting their socialist freak flag so blatantly high this time around?
LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Leaked docs detail expansive drone campaign.
Among other conclusions, the documents appear to indicate that unintended casualties of drone strikes sometimes far outweigh those of the intended targets. In one five-month period, for instance, just one in 10 people killed in airstrikes was the declared target.
The Obama administration has often boasted about the minimal number of civilians killed during drone strikes, but it has tended to consider unidentified people near or associating with identified targets to be suspected terrorists.
People killed in targeted strikes who were not specifically targeted by the attacks are nonetheless labeled “enemies killed in action,” the documents show.
Additionally, the military has faced “critical shortfalls” in the technology and ability to find suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, the documents assert, showing limits to U.S. intelligence resources.
Good thing we got rid of that dumb cowboy Bush.
TO BE FAIR, WHY WOULD ANYBODY WANT TO WASTE TIME TALKING WITH HARRY REID? Harry Reid on Obama: ‘He Doesn’t Want to Talk a Lot.’
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Student Activist Resigns After Admitting Nonconsensual Sex.
A student activist at Oxford University is resigning from her political positions after admitting in a since-deleted Facebook post that she “failed to properly establish consent before every act” when having sex during a National Union of Students conference, The Guardian reported. The student activist, Annie Teriba, apologized “sincerely and profoundly” in the Facebook post for her actions, explaining that “the other party later informed me that the sex was not consensual.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Doctors Without Borders presses probe of hospital bombing.
Doctors Without Borders has launched a petition calling for the Obama administration to consent to an investigation by an international commission into a hospital bombing that killed 22 civilians.
“The preservation of health facilities as neutral, protected spaces depends on this,” the charity, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), wrote in the petition. “If not for the recognition of these principles, MSF and other humanitarian organizations could not work in conflict zones and other places rife with violence. We could not deliver the medical care so many people so desperately need.”
More than 3,000 people have signed, within a few hours of the petition’s launch.
The petition comes a day after the charity and the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission said the commission offered its services to the United States and Afghanistan.
The commission, set up under the Geneva Conventions in 1991 to investigate breaches of international humanitarian law, needs both countries to consent before it carries out an investigation.
Three investigations are underway by the Pentagon, NATO and Afghan officials. U.S. officials, including President Obama in a personal apology to Doctors Without Borders, have promised the investigations will be transparent.
But Doctors Without Borders remains unconvinced.
Boy, these days a Nobel Peace Prize doesn’t even get you the benefit of the doubt. It’s as if its value has really diminished, or something.
WELL, IT’S GOOD PRACTICE FOR WHEN SHE FINALLY DEBATES A REPUBLICAN: Watch: How many email-related lies and distortions can Hillary squeeze into a two-minute exchange?
To paraphrase Mary McCarthy critiquing an earlier distaff socialist, it’s usually the safest bet to assume that every word Hillary utters is a lie, including “and” and “the.”
BECAUSE DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM: “Is President Mush-for-Brains Mentally Unwell?”, asks Steve Green. “In the wake of Obama’s interview with Steve Kroft, on Monday I wondered in all seriousness if Obama was delusional. On Tuesday’s Trifecta segment, I even asked Bill Whittle if the president’s apparent disconnect from reality was grounds for invoking the 25th Amendment, which is probably more relevant to the current situation than impeachment is.”
SCIENCE: The strange star that has serious scientists talking about an alien megastructure. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”
RAW HEROISM: Or at least heroism in the raw. The naked gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944. (Fascinating history. Moderately NSFW.)
WHAT A ZOO: Zoo meerkat expert sentenced over assault on monkey handler. (Read the whole thing. It gets funnier.)
BUT THE COMMERCIALS SAID: McDonald’s all-day breakfast has been a disaster.
SCIENTIFIC TRUTHS DON’T NEED THIS KIND OF PROTECTION: France’s Top Weatherman Questions Climate Change, Is Promptly Suspended.
YES. NEXT QUESTION: Is the Army whitewashing Bowe Bergdahl’s desertion?
MEN OF LEARNING, MEN OF LIBERTY: Chemical lab designed by Thomas Jefferson discovered in University of Virginia Rotunda.
SEND IN THE CLOWNS: Don’t worry, they’re here. State Department Promotes Muslim Cleric Who Backed Fatwa on ‘Killing of U.S. Soldiers’.
IT’S LIKE HE’S DEMANDING COMPETENCE: Ted Cruz Demands Kerry Resign Over Israel Criticism.
SAME AS IT EVER WAS: Those (metaphorically) in bed with the political class always end up in the middle of dirty dealing. New Huma Abedin E-mail Address Discovered ahead of Benghazi Committee Appearance.