SO NOW THAT TRUMP HAS RELEASED HIS SUPREME COURT LIST, WHERE’S HILLARY’S? Will somebody ask her?
Archive for 2016
May 18, 2016
MARK PULLIAM: The Problem Of The Cities.
WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF MISOGYNY? Hillary Spokesman: More ugly women than attractive women in US.
Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell says Donald Trump’s past comments on women will likely come back to haunt him because Rendell says “there are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women.”
The Democrat was offering his thoughts to The Washington Post on the likely Republican nominee’s prospects for success in the Philadelphia suburbs when he made the comment. Rendell says Trump’s comments might gain him some working-class Democratic voters, but will cost him Republican women because he says “people take that stuff personally.”
Rendell didn’t immediately return requests for comment.
Heh.
SO IF YOU PLAY IT BACK, WILL HE SEE GOD AGAIN? Neuroscientists have recorded the brain activity of a man at the exact moment he ‘saw God.’
VICTORY FOR CAMPUS FREE SPEECH IN TEXAS: I’m pleased to share with you all that earlier this month, Blinn College agreed to settle a First Amendment lawsuit filed last year by a student who was told that she would need to jump through numerous bureaucratic hoops to express herself on campus, including “special permission” to display a gun rights sign.
Read more about this exciting victory for freedom of expression over at The Torch.
MEN IN BLACK: Donald Trump released his long-awaited list of possible Supreme Court nominees today. Roger Simon reviews the list and asks, Will Trump’s Supreme Court List Finish Off #NeverTrump?
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: You can now put a sunroof in your private jet.
A LINK BETWEEN POTATOES AND HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? “After controlling for body mass index, physical activity, smoking and other factors, they found that compared to eating potatoes only once a month, having one potato — baked, boiled or mashed — four to six times a week increased the risk for hypertension by 11 percent. Eating four or more four-ounce servings of French fries a week increased the risk by 17 percent. Adjusting for salt and saturated fat intake did not change the results, but the authors acknowledge that they could not control for all possible variables. The researchers suggest that potatoes cause a rapid rise in blood glucose levels, which is associated with blood vessel problems and inflammation. This may increase the risk for hypertension.”
This is impossible. The Government Experts told me that if I avoided fat everything would be fine.
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IF IT WEREN’T FOR FAKE HATE CRIMES, WOULD WE HAVE ANY HATE CRIMES AT ALL? University of Iowa student’s family recants claims of hate crime.
Marcus Owens, the black University of Iowa student whose family claimed he was the victim of a hate crime and racial slurs at the hands of three white men, has issued a public apology after an Iowa City police investigation showed him to be involved in three fights during the hours the assault was alleged to have occurred.
“Upon learning more details of the case, and while racial slurs served to fuel the violence, Marcus now knows that his account of events was inconsistent with police findings,” a statement from Owens and his family reads, “in part due to alcohol being involved, his embarrassment at his behavior, as well as injuries he sustained.” . . .
Owens originally reported to Iowa City police on May 2 that he had been assaulted by three white men in the alley way of the 200 block of Iowa Avenue on April 30. Owens told police the attack happened between 10 and 11 p.m. Owens suffered several injuries, including broken teeth, during the fight.
Iowa City police began their investigation into Owens’ allegations on May 2. Investigators were able to interview multiple witnesses and used video surveillance footage to piece together what took place. . . .
Multiple witnesses told police Owens was worried about how he would explain his injuries to his family.
Evergreen.
MORAL NARCISSISM AND THE LEAST-GREAT GENERATION: Roger Simon has an excerpt of his new book, titled I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already, in the new issue of Commentary:
Whatever the case, the popularity of narcissism as a descriptive term for the behavior of our society is not a new phenomenon. As far back as 1979, Christopher Lasch published a now famous book The Culture of Narcissism that described the American behavioral patterns as largely narcissistic. According to Lasch, our family structure had produced a personality type consistent with “pathological narcissism.” We were constantly seeking attention from the outside world, making us a nation of insecure weaklings forever in search of validation to tell us we were alive, to give us a raison d’être. Lasch saw the radicals of the ’60s, like the Weather Underground, as manifestations of this pathology. He also cited the “personal growth” movements of the seventies—est, Rolfing, Hare Krishna, various forms of Buddhism, organic food, vegetarianism, and so forth. These belief systems and quasi ideologies continued to gain adherents during the ’80s and ’90s and on into the current century with writers like David Brooks and Charles Murray documenting how what was once youthful rebellion became the norms of the contemporary bourgeoisie. The Generation of ’68 and its followers had gone mainstream, transmogrifying radical symbols into specific forms of conspicuous consumption. Everything was smeared. A trip to Whole Foods in a Tesla became the equivalent of striking a blow against world hunger.
The election of Barack Obama was the apotheosis of this melding of lifestyle with political worldview. That he celebrated his victory in front of Grecian columns was symbolic in more ways than one. Narcissus was in the house—both on stage and in the audience. The “me” generation had found its perfect leader. Hope and change were never specified, because we all knew what he meant. How could it be otherwise? He was speaking, as was said in an earlier era, to “our crowd.” But our crowd had become everyone who saw himself as politically correct, even if we weren’t sure what that meant or implied. It sounded good. Whatever it was had to be true. Obama was cool and his adversaries were not. He was our image in the reflecting pool, preening in front of those Greek columns, nose slightly elevated.
When something obtains that much popular acceptance, one is tempted to think it is nonsense, mere cant, or at least overstated. Not true.
Read the whole thing; Roger’s new book will be available at Amazon and your local bookstore on June 14th. And if you’d like to meet Roger in person, he’ll be at Bullets & Bourbon in December in Texas, discussing his book in detail.
METAPHOR ALERT: New York Considers a Ban on Declawing Cats.
Paul Kersey, call your office.
MOMMY BLOGGER JOSI DENISE CALLS MOST OF HER ARTICLES ‘FAKE NONSENSE:’
Josi Denise became a “mommy blogger” in 2013, building up her American Mama blog until it reached “tens of thousands” of monthly readers, generating the mother of three “thousands of dollars” in some months.
But the blog came to an abrupt end late last week, when Denise had a crisis of conscience and quit.
In a splenetic rant on her new namesake blog (which is worth reading in full), Denise said much of the content posted to her mommy blog — and countless like it online — was garbage. She has deleted many of those posts, she said, “Because, like 90% of the fake nonsense I used to share on the internet as a mommy blogger writing about my fake life and oh-so-happy marriage, they are pure b——t.”
I have no idea what Denise’s politics are, but as these examples from the last 15 years of the left illustrate, as a nation, we’re entering into dangerous territory when so many journalists (and political operatives such as Ben Rhodes and Jonathan Gruber) are gleefully admitting to the public that they lie through their teeth.
WHY WORRY? EACH OF US IS WEARING AN UNLICENSED ESTROGEN ACCELERATOR ON HER BACK: Did Hillary Clinton Just Doom the Ghostbusters Remake by Booking the Cast with Ellen DeGeneres?
“AUSTIN’S VERY UN-PROGRESSIVE EXAMPLE ON UBER AND LYFT:”
Austin is home to the University of Texas at Austin, countless startups, and the widely popular South by Southwest festival. But even though the city is commonly referred to as the tech capital of the South, as of May 9 Uber and Lyft no longer operate there.
Why can residents of an innovative city that was among the seven finalists for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s $50 million Smart City Challenge Grant no longer access the leading ridesharing services? The answer lies in regressive regulatory overreach that shows how even the country’s most progressive cities are often still hostile to innovation.
The above article in US & News World Report is written by Jared Meyer, a member of the conservative/libertarian Manhattan Institute, so I can only assume he’s being ironic and that he knows the true meaning of “Progressivism.” As John Daniel Davidson writes at the Federalist, “How Austin Drove Out Uber And Lyft — Uber and Lyft were driven out of Austin under the guise of ‘consumer safety,’ a textbook example of how government-backed cartels force out competition:”
It shouldn’t have to be spelled out, but of course Uber and Lyft drivers own their own vehicles, unlike cabbies, which means they already have to clear several regulatory hurdles like having a driver’s license, vehicle insurance, and current inspection and state registration. Creating a separate license for them would be redundant, just like most occupational licensing schemes are. If you’re street-legal, then you should be able to give anyone a ride, whether it’s a friend or someone who hailed you on an app. If there’s one thing we shouldn’t try to recreate for a new generation of app-based, on-demand companies like Uber and Lyft, it’s the archaic, collusive model of the taxi cab business—especially not under the pretense that doing so is in the best interests of the drivers, the riders, or the public.
When it comes to regulation, “Progressivism” invariably means more and more of it. Perhaps someday US News & World Report will explore the P-word’s real history and what it means in real-life practice.
HIRING HURDLE: Finding Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test.
RIGHT ANGLE: PJTV alums Bill Whittle, Scott Ott, and Steve Green take on the waste and corruption behind the latest Veteran’s Administration “fix.”
Full disclosure: I’m Green.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Bernie Sanders’s Wife Ran This Expensive Vermont College Into The Ground.
I’m sure Bernie can do the same for the entire country. Cloward-Piven or and bust!
SCOTT JOHNSON: “Minnesota Men” Go To Trial. The press really doesn’t want to call them Muslim immigrants, which is what they are.
MEET THE MAN WHO BROUGHT YOU THE MARCOBOAT: Reporter Behind New York Times Trump Attack Has a History of Failed Hatchet Jobs.
AND YET GUARDIAN READERS WILL KEEP VOTING FOR THE SAME POLICIES THAT CREATED IT:
So the endgame of nationalized healthcare, in other words.
MSNBC WITH BETTER VISUALS: New ESPN MNF Host Pokes Fun at Trump, Border Wall on NFL in Mexico.
Earlier: Recently fired ESPN host Curt Schilling Writes Detailed Blog Post Endorsing Trump.