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Archive for 2016
April 20, 2016
MEANWHILE, IN TODAY’S FAKE HATE CRIME HYSTERIA NEWS: “At Austin Peay University in Tennessee, the campus erupted in outrage when rainbow nooses were discovered hanging from a tree. Social media exploded and every social justice warrior on campus felt the need to express their displeasure. But later, it was discovered that the nooses were an art project by a student looking to draw attention to the high number of suicides in the LGBT community.”
Considering we live in an era in which as the Daily Caller reported earlier this month, students at Indiana University “experienced a case of KKK hysteria Monday, as students mistook a robed Catholic priest for a member of the now-defunct white supremacist group,” what on earth did this poor student think would happen?
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“IT’S ONLY A MODEL:” DARPA’s Bonkers 24-Prop Plane Takes Flight.
UKRAINE’S NEW PRIME MINISTER IS JEWISH: Neo-Neocon writes that she finds Volodymyr Groysman’s election as prime minister “an encouraging sign that anti-Semitism has probably declined in that country recently. In much of Europe—and the world—it seems to be doing quite the opposite.”
Read the whole thing.
BOB ZUBRIN: Hey, Where Are All Those “Drowned Cities” We Were Promised?
I dunno, but I say tax the Blue Zones just in case!
MATT YGLESIAS IS RIGHT: Upset about the high cost of housing in coastal cities? Reduce regulation.
NO “SAFE SPACES” FOR TARGETS OF THE LEFT: Internal Emails Show Safety Fears Were Rampant During Missouri Protests. “News coverage at the time focused on black students’ claims of pervasive racism, pointing to several troublesome incidents as evidence of a bigoted culture on campus. But a look at the email correspondence of the university’s administrators and faculty members during the crisis reveals another side of the unrest: how protesters’ belligerence left many students, faculty and parents fearful of violence and concerned for their safety.”
Yep, and now Missouri enrollment has plummeted, because the administration appeased the noisy few instead of doing its job for the benefit of all students.
GUN-TOTING REPUBLICAN WOMAN TO BE FEATURED ON TWENTY-DOLLAR BILL: Hamilton to say on $10, Jackson getting replaced by Tubman.
UPDATE: Endorsed:
FROM MY COLLEAGUE MICHAEL HIGDON: Beyond the Metatheoretical: Implicit Bias in Law Review Article Selection.
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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1077.
CHANGE: ‘Deep And Disturbing’ Decline Found In World Media Freedom.
The United States was ranked 41st, up from 49th last year, while Russia’s placement rose from 152nd in 2015 to 148th this year.
Incidents of governments physically impeding access to media outlets increased by 16 percent between 2013 and 2016, according to the group’s “infrastructure” indicator. That includes governments blocking Internet access and destroying broadcast equipment and printing presses.
Other tools increasingly being used by governments to impede independent reporting include laws forbidding, for example, “insulting the president” or “supporting terrorism,” the group said.
“Growing self-censorship is the knock-on effect of this alarming situation,” it said.
How does a country with “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press” baked into its Constitution end up ranked down in the 40s?
Or maybe the question is old news, even to members of our White House Press Corps.
A MAN’S GOT TO KNOW HIS LIMITATIONS: The day I tried to match Churchill drink for drink.
By my age (40), Churchill had already fought in the Boer War, escaped from a prison camp, written 11 books and served as Home Secretary. Alongside this appetite for work and adventure, he had also acquired a seemingly gargantuan capacity for food and drink, which he kept until his final days.
He died 50 years ago this month – the anniversary of his funeral will be marked later this week — at the ripe age of 90. A miracle, considering he had drunk an estimated 42,000 bottles of Pol Roger champagne through his life; he thought nothing of starting the morning with cold game and a glass of hock and ending it at 3am with the best part of a bottle of cognac.
To get a flavour of his extraordinary lifestyle, one formed during the Edwardian era, I set myself the challenge of spending the day drinking what he drank in a typical 24-hour period.
This may sound like one of the less arduous journalistic tasks, but I can assure you that it was surprisingly difficult. . . . My attempt to emulate Churchill ended in ignominious failure.
Like I said. But to paraphrase another great wartime leader, find out what he was drinking and give it to our current bunch.
VA POOBAH LEARNS THE HARD WAY TO NEVER LIE TO CONGRESS: Department of Veterans Affairs Undersecretary David Shulkin assured the House Veterans Affairs Committee Tuesday that an agency employee who participated in an armed robbery during her off-duty hours had been fired. Committee Chairman Rep. Jeff Miller wasn’t buying it.
The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Luke Rosiak reports what happened next: “But in the final seconds of Tuesday’s hearing, Miller, a Florida Republican, returned from outside the hearing room and announced that ‘I just confirmed with the Caribbean Healthcare System that the individual we were discussing is still on the payroll.’”
As N.Z. Bear once said: “That kind of carelessness might have cut it a few years ago, when somnolent Big Media hacks were satisfied to define reporting as getting quotes from both party’s spokesmen. But times have changed, friends: there isn’t just one new sheriff in town, there’s thousands of us.
“We will fact-check your ass, and we will do it thoroughly and properly, with links and primary sources that let our readers decide where the truth lies. So straighten up and fly right, because we are watching —- and we do this crap for fun.” Apparently, they didn’t get the memo at VA.
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THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: UnitedHealth Group to exit Obamacare exchanges in all but a ‘handful’ of states.
“We will be down to a handful of states that we will be actively participating in the exchanges,” Stephen J. Hemsley, chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group said in an earnings call, noting that the small market size and greater expense of patients insured through the marketplaces led the insurer to make the decision.
UnitedHealth plans to withdraw from health insurance marketplaces in Arkansas, Michigan, Connecticut and parts of Georgia. The decision is a sequel to an announcement by executives late last year that the insurer had suffered financial losses and might leave the health exchanges altogether in 2017. UnitedHealth reported that it expects to lose $650 million in the exchanges in 2016.
UnitedHealth is only a minor player on the exchanges, yet the company still expects to lose most of a billion dollars just this year.
But UnitedHealth is hardly alone. Even the pro-ObamaCare Kaiser Family Foundation said that “Something has to give” on the exchanges, and that “Either insurers will drop out or insurers will raise premiums.”
HILLARY CLINTON: FIREBRAND ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT REBEL! MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Hillary Has Run for Decades Against the Media’s ‘Very Negative’ Coverage.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? San Francisco Tries to Square Progressivism with Housing Progress:
A policy designed to make it harder for newcomers, and for oldtimers who can’t afford rising rents and aren’t under untouchable rent control, has become part of the definition of being a “progressive” there.
But of course. As Fred Siegel wrote in 2014 history of the American left, The Revolt Against the Masses, “The best short credo of liberalism came from the pen of the once canonical left-wing literary historian Vernon Parrington in the late 1920s.‘Rid society of the dictatorship of the middle class,’” which has been the (mostly) unspoken credo of San Francisco leftists for at least the last quarter century or so.