WHEN BILL NEEDED A WAR ON WOMEN AND HILLARY WAS HIS AIDE-DE-CAMP: The Clintons are in denial about Bill’s sex scandals
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January 6, 2016
HASN’T HARRY REID DONE ENOUGH FOR TO AMERICA: Harry Reid demands retirement ‘slush fund,’ FEC defers.
RAISE UP THE CHILD AS YOU INTEND HIM TO GO: Strangling the free mind.
TO QUOTE LARRY CORREIA: Things are about to get massively stupider. Meet the new gun control – same as the old gun control, but with more dumb.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO FIGHT THE NARRATIVE: How Stories Deceive.
MY SHOCKED FACE IS GETTING SHOP WORN:Progressives are actually the barrier to fighting homelessness.
January 5, 2016
THE GENERAL ELECTION in two photos. “Donald Trump in a packed 7,300-seat arena in Lowell, Massachusetts on Monday. Bill Clinton at a 720-seat gym in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Monday.”
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: North Korea Successfully Conducts Hydrogen Bomb Test.
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KEN WHITE: President Obama And The Rhetoric of Rights. “Today the President of the United States gave a speech about gun control measures. I don’t intend to critique those measures. Nor do I mean to critique his rhetoric about gun violence. I do intend to critique his language about rights, because how our leaders discuss rights can have a powerful impact on how Americans understand rights. . . . I think the right to have the government do things to other people for you is made up.”
But to Obamaites, using the government to do things to other people is the whole point.
TO BE FAIR, EVEN WHEN YOU DO GO TO PLANET FITNESS, YOU’RE NOT REALLY GOING TO THE GYM: “Half of the Planet Fitness members don’t ever go to their gyms, Planet Money says.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: What I learned not drinking for two years.
PUSHBACK: Missouri legislators to Mizzou: Fire professor who tried to “muscle” reporter. “Legit sanction for abuse of authority, or an infringement on academic freedom? Missouri state legislators want Melissa Click canned for her actions in a protest at the University of Missouri, in which she threatened a student journalist by calling for ‘some muscle’ when he insisted on covering the demonstration. The letter sent to Mizzou has the signatures of a majority in both chambers of the state’s assembly.”
I’m not sure how it will turn out, but it’s definitely sent a message, one that I suspect will be reinforced at budget time. As Ed Morrissey writes: “I suspect Mizzou’s going to feel a lot of adultism in the coming months, most of it directed at the supposed adults in charge. And they will deserve every bit of it.”
GERMAN ANTI-ISLAMIC GROUP PEGIDA expands to the UK.
MARCO RUBIO: Writes in today’s NRO, “Iran Thumbs Its Nose at America and Obama Does Nothing.”
Last week, the White House hailed Iran for shipping most of its low-enriched uranium stockpile to Russia. Secretary of State John Kerry called it “one of the most significant steps Iran has taken” under the nuclear deal signed this past summer. But the real news happened several days earlier: Even as the administration heaped praise on the mullahs in Tehran, Iranian Revolutionary Guard ships fired unguided rockets near a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz.
This provocation is just the latest in a series of dangerous acts committed by Iran that belie President Obama’s rosy promises of putting pressure on Iran for its aggressive actions. . . .
Iran has already stretched the terms of Obama’s deal. Iran is now trying to claim that a U.S. law aimed at protecting Americans from terrorists trying to come to the United States is an American violation of the agreement. This is a blatant attempt to pressure the Obama administration not to seek or enforce any new sanctions whatsoever, even those targeting human-rights abuses and support for terrorism, which are allowed under the deal. It has twice tested ballistic missiles — violating a U.N. Security Council resolution. On December 31 the supposed moderate Iranian president Hassan Rouhani even stated that Iran would be expanding its ballistic missile program. This comes just weeks after the Obama administration joined with its diplomatic partners to sweep Iran’s past illicit nuclear-weapons activities under the rug. . . .
That is why as president I will scrap this fundamentally flawed deal. Instead, I will reimpose the sanctions that President Obama waives and will impose crushing new measures targeting all of Iran’s illicit behavior.
It’s almost as if President Obama is an apologist for Iran. Rubio at least tried to insert a “poison pill” into Corker-Cardin (which effectively approved of the Iran deal as an ordinary statute rather than a treaty) to condition the deal on Iran’s explicit recognition of Israel.
But as Bruce Ackerman and David Golove recently argued in The Atlantic, liberals/progressive (ironically) assert that repudiation by a Republican President would violate Article II, section three’s command that the President “take care that laws be faithfully executed.”
This argument is specious, as Corker-Cardin was not an expression of approval of the Iran deal, but instead a decision by Congress not to approve of the Iran deal as a treaty (as it should, constitutionally, have been handled). Since Congress has never “approved” of the Iran deal by majority vote, a future President that chooses to repudiate the deal could hardly be characterized as failing to “faithfully execute” a law enacted by Congress.
MAYOR OF COLOGNE TELLS RAPE VICTIMS THEY HAD IT COMING: Mayor Henriette Reker “said today that women should adopt a ‘code of conduct’ to prevent future assault at a crisis meeting following the sexual attack of women by 1000 men on New Year’s eve,” the London Independent reports:
The crisis management team said prevention measures should include a code of conduct for young women and girls, and Mayor Reker said the existing code of conduct will be updated online.
The suggested code of conduct includes maintaining an arm’s length distance from strangers, to stick within your own group, to ask bystanders for help or to intervene as a witness, or to inform the police if you are the victim of such an assault.
Buried 11 paragraphs and three quoted tweets deep into the Independent’s article is this minor detail:
The attackers were described as North African and Arab appearance by the police. The Mayor has said that not all of the attackers were newly-arrived refugees and had already been known to the police, as reported by The Local.
Perhaps the Independent buried this detail not just because of the usual PC “better dead than rude” mindset, but with Rotherham also on their mind. And it may have been on Mayor Reker’s mind as well, as Allahpundit writes. “The possibility of a (failed) cover-up by authorities in the name of racial harmony recalls the infamous Rotherham sex abuse cover-up in the UK (which lasted years, it should be noted, not just one evening). The idea of sexual assaults happening out in the open in a mass gathering place recalls what Lara Logan went through when she was attacked in Tahrir Square in 2011.”
11 years ago, then-UN Secretary Kofi “Can I trust Saddam Hussein? I think I can do business with him” Annan said, “In many countries of Christian tradition, large Muslim communities are a relatively new phenomenon. Integration is a two-way street. Immigrants must adjust to their new societies — and societies must adjust, too.”
Europe can’t say it wasn’t warned that more than a little behavior modification would be in order to placate its large — and ever-expanding “Muslim communities.”
And they’re not alone — “Remember that viral video of Canadian children singing a Muslim ‘welcome’ song? Learn the sick TRUE STORY behind the music,” proffers Ezra Levant today.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Mother-of-three “takes 15-year-old boy and his friend to bed for threesome.”
WELL, THAT’S CERTAINLY TRUE IF YOU RELY ON PRESS ACCOUNTS: You Know Less Than You Think About Guns: The misleading uses, flagrant abuses, and shoddy statistics of social science about gun violence.
Social “science” on pretty much any contested public issue is generally result-oriented crap, peddled by dishonest shills.
IT’S THE SAME PHENOMENON THAT LEADS THE GOVERNMENT TO TARGET LEGITIMATE GUN OWNERS INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON CRIMINALS: Govt should be targeting problem drinkers, not moderate sippers.
The USDA bases its recommendations on the large volume of research showing moderate drinking can have health benefits. Studies published in the last year have linked low levels of alcohol consumption by some populations to lower heart disease risks, better control of diabetes, improved memory, and fewer instances of certain cancers.
The CDC considers drinking “excessive” if a woman consumes more than eight drinks per week or a man consumes more than 15. So while one drink per day is healthy, a woman who indulges in a second glass of wine some nights finds herself suddenly in the CDC’s “excessive” drinking category.
Government agencies contradicting one another isn’t a new phenomenon. And the CDC’s extremely conservative definition of binge drinking might not be so disconcerting if it weren’t being used by anti-alcohol activist groups to justify the elimination of alcohol advertising and raising alcohol taxes.. . .
Those who are addicted to alcohol — the ones who should be the focus of these large government agencies’ policies — are the least sensitive to price increases. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that alcohol tax increases did not affect the 5 percent of consumers who are the heaviest drinkers. Instead, higher prices encourage abusive drinkers to switch to cheaper brands.
In other words, government agencies and anti-alcohol activists pursue policies that would disproportionately affect regular social drinkers having a couple of beers at a barbecue, a couple of glasses of wine at dinner, or indulging a bit on New Year’s Eve.
It’s always the normals who get the shaft.
JOURNALISM: “In 2008, the mainstream press shilled for Obama. The infamous ‘Journ-o-list’ moderated what the talking points would be. Since then, the major legacy media organizations have established something of a Soviet-style interlocking directorate between themselves and the White House through marriage and family ties, and by shuttling back and forth between press and government positions.”
ISIL’S MINISTRY OF RAPE AND ENSLAVEMENT: “A special ISIL government ministry handles slaves and other ‘war spoils,’” Austin Bay writes. “Campus feminists, grievance industry magnates and jaded media elites take note: the enslavement and mass rape of Yazidi women after ISIL tool the Iraqi Yazidi city of Sinjar was no one-off war crime, it is ISIL policy, rooted in what its evil leaders regard as glorious history.”
I’m sure from Oberlin’s perspective, it’s all the West’s fault somehow, though. And don’t even get them started on the cultural appropriation of the sushi and General Tso’s chicken there — they have priorities, after all.
THE MACGUFFINIZATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS: Obama Gets Emotional Talking About His Gun Orders That Won’t Prevent a Single Gun Death.
But what else would make President Boehner cry?