THIS IS A SURE-FIRE STRATEGY: It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses. The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time. It’s not about the left vs. the right; it’s about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry.
Related: Anti-Intellectualism Remains In The Eye Of The Beholder. Want less anti-intellectualism? Get a better class of intellectuals. . .
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Survive A Snakebite.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: The Question of Campaign 2016: Where Have All the Fascists Gone? Look to the left—the American Left—and the authoritarian wing of the Democratic Party. Frequently enabled by Dem-unionized law enforcement.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: California Law School To Close Unless A Buyer Is Found.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: The Message of the UK’s Brexit Referendum and Fintan O’Toole’s Fantasy.
FEWER LAWYERS, MORE FREEDOM: “More law schools means more lawyers, and more lawyers means that lawyers have lesser social status and lesser wealth. Lesser status and wealth makes lawyers less powerful and therefore less threatening to dictatorial control.”
SIZE MATTERS: 2016 Lincoln Navigator L 4×4. “Ardent Lincoln Navigator owners note that the two steps up to the driver’s seat remind them of boarding their private jet. What they prize, and what very few crossovers really offer, is a three-dimensional view of the road. The vertical ecstasy comes from peering over lowly automobile roofs. Horizontal fulfillment comes from the joy of driving one of the largest land yachts money can buy. . . . Fold the Lincoln’s rear two rows and luggage space swells to 128 cubic feet, rivaling some tiny houses.”
KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON ON HAYEK IN THE HILL COUNTRY: a look at how Austin is doing to Airbnb what they did to Uber and Lyft.
Here’s Kevin talking with Dr. Helen Smith at last year’s Bullets & Bourbon near Dallas, Texas. Click here for details on how to sign up for this December’s event.
BETTER DEAD THAN RUDE — POLITICAL CORRECTNESS KILLS: “State Department officials on an emergency conference call during the Benghazi attack brought up concerns about whether Marines that might have been deployed should wear uniforms — something officials previously said could hurt diplomacy in the region, according to House Benghazi investigators…one commander told the committee that as they were readying themselves to deploy they kept having to change in and out of their uniforms four times.”
Hillary and the Obama administration really are a macabre version of a Monty Python sketch.
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JEREMY CORBYN AND THE LEFT’S LUNACY: “It wasn’t Corbyn’s conspiratorial thinking, his anti-Semitism, his flirtation with violent autarky, or his apologies for terrorists that robbed Labour of confidence in their eccentric leader,” Noah Rothman writes at Commentary. “It was his failure to campaign hard enough to preserve European subsidies that did him in. That fact alone exposes how truly deep the rot within the British left goes.”
It’s a transatlantic phenomenon.
WALLOWING IN VICTIMHOOD TENDS TO DO THAT TO YOU: Why are Modern Women Angry?
Or it could just be a wildly out-of-control epidemic of bitchy resting face.
(Or both! “Embrace the healing power of ‘and,’” as the kids say these days.)
RISE OF THE MACHINES: A.I. Downs Expert Human Fighter Pilot In Dogfights.
VIRGINIA POSTREL: California Hits the Brakes on High-Speed Rail Fiasco. “The total construction cost estimate has now more than doubled to $68 billion from the original $33 billion, despite trims in the routes planned. The first, easiest-to-build, segment of the system — the “train to nowhere” through a relatively empty stretch of the Central Valley — is running at least four years behind schedule and still hasn’t acquired all the needed land. Predicted ticket prices to travel from LA to the Bay have shot from $50 to more than $80. State funding is running short. Last month’s cap-and-trade auction for greenhouse gases, expected to provide $150 million for the train, yielded a mere $2.5 million. And no investors are lining up to fill the $43 billion construction-budget gap.”
JONAH GOLDBERG: BACK TO MENCKEN’S AMERICA.
But if only we could go back to a media that, as Mencken did, believes that “the prime function of a really first-rate newspaper to serve as a sort of permanent opposition in politics,” rather than as socialist cheerleaders.
AS MIKE ROWE WOULD SAY, THERE’S A LESSON HERE: The dying breed of craftsmen behind the tools that make scientific research possible.
CLINTON FOUNDATION’S CAPTIVE ACCOUNTING FIRM PROSECUTED BY SEC: And that’s not all. BKD, the small accounting firm Bill Clinton selected and kept for years to do his foundation’s books, was also prosecuted by the FDIC, according to Richard Pollock of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.
The SEC and FDIC prosecutions were “for ‘unprofessional conduct’ and ‘gross negligence,’ according to federal court documents. And the Public Company Oversight Accounting Board (PCOAB), the nation’s top federal oversight agency for American accounting firms, reported that BKD violated auditor independence rules over the years, which its inspectors reported as ‘significant deficiencies,’” according to Pollock.
The foundation switched to PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 2013 and restated its tax filings for 2010 through 2014. Pollock quotes Wall Street whistle blower Charles Ortel saying the restatements suggest there was a “a long pattern of gross negligence and willful malfeasance on the part of the trustees” who kept BKD for more than a decade.
Why did Clinton choose BKD and keep it around for so long? Pollock reports for the first time anywhere that the former president “chose the Little Rock, Arkansas office of BKD in 2001 during construction of his presidential library there. Even then there were signs of conflicts of interest as BKD was also the auditor for the construction company’s parent company. In addition, the parent company’s chief financial officer also served on BKD’s official management committee.”
Just another cozy, crooked Clinton deal.
THE NARRATIVE IS ALL: Even After Ben Rhodes Came Clean, New York Times STILL Reports His Iran Lies as Truth.
Just think of the media as Democrat operatives — heck, Rhodes’ operatives — and you won’t go far wrong.
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IT’S COME TO THIS: “Even al Qaeda is politically correct,” Betsy Newmark quips:
Lone wolf jihadists should target white Americans so no one mistakes their terror attacks for hate crimes unrelated to the cause of radical Islam, Al Qaeda writes in the latest edition of its online magazine.
In an article first reported by The Foreign Desk, Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) called for more self-directed Muslim terrorists to kill in America. But the article, titled “Inspire guide: Orlando operation,” tells terrorists to “avoid targeting places and crowds where minorities are generally found” because if gays or Latinos appear to be the targets, “the federal government will be the one taking full responsibility.”
Or being smeared with half the blame.
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