Archive for 2016
October 30, 2016
TURKEY DEVOLVES FURTHER: Slogan in Turkey During Erdogan’s Rally: ‘Armenian Bastards Cannot Deter Us.’
WAS IT EVER IN ANY DOUBT THAT THEY’D DO THIS IF THEY GET A SENATE MAJORITY? Kaine: Dems will use ‘nuclear option’ if GOP blocks court nominee.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: A President Clinton would be out of control. “‘Someone somewhere should have told her no.’ Those are the words of a Clinton ally quoted in a roundup of Democratic reactions to Hillary Clinton’s FBI news by congressional newspaper The Hill. And, despite the fact that they come from a Clinton supporter, albeit an angry and disappointed one, they may illustrate the best reason for choosing Donald Trump instead of Clinton.”
REMEMBER, SHE ALSO WANTS THE LAW CHANGED SO THAT PEOPLE WHO CRITICIZE HER CAN BE PUT IN JAIL: “So Hillary doesn’t think the American people should be informed that a candidate is under investigation by the FBI before they vote. Wow.” And it’s not so much “a candidate” as it is just her.
LOAD OF MANURE DUMPED AT DEMOCRAT OHIO HQ: Second time it’s happened. This time a camera caught the perp in the act. Good. Arrest him/her and prosecute him/her. And speaking of cameras, James O’Keefe caught a violent political thug on camera, too. The arrogant thug, thinking himself immune from media and law enforcement scrutiny, admitted to his crookedness. Heck, he was proud of it. See, he was damaging Republicans. Hah hah hah. It appears the Ohio manure crime is an in-state crime. O’Keefe’s videos indicate the big time Dem thug’s crimes were inter-state. The inter-state political thug is Democrat operative Robert Creamer. Creamer should also be investigated, arrested and prosecuted. By the FBI.
REALCLEARPOLITICS: Trump’s average in the four-way race now the highest it’s been all year. “He’s at 45 percent in Rasmussen, Gravis, and the ABC/WaPo tracker. Scroll down through the list of dozens upon dozens of surveys here and you’ll find that the total number of polls before this in which Trump had hit 45 is … one. One time. He did it in a CNN poll in the first week of September. That’s it. Suddenly he’s hitting that mark repeatedly, and nearly all of the data in the three polls I mentioned was collected before the FBI news on Friday.”
It will be very interesting to see what happens to polls in the next few days.
UPDATE: From the comments: “So, did anybody in the MSM bother to ask Hillary if she will accept the results of the election if she loses?”
ANDREW KLAVAN: Reform the Mainstream News Media:
Remember when Marco Rubio drank some water while giving the Republican response to the president’s 2013 State of the Union address? Remember how CNN ran a picture of the Florida Senator taking his sip with a chyron reading: “Career Ender”? “So can a drink of water make or break a political career?” Wolf Blitzer asked. Politico ran more than one column discussing Rubio’s “water thing.” Most other major (read Democrat) news venues covered it too.
So my question is this, if a drink of water threatens the career of a Republican, what happens when a former Democrat congressman makes sexual Twitter advances to a minor causing the FBI to seize the computer of his wife, the Democrat presidential candidate’s aide and a woman with ties to radical Islam, and the said computer is found to contain emails that potentially exposed classified information to our enemies so that said candidate could hide her likely influence peddling? Worse than a sip of water? Better? I’m asking for a friend.
Read the whole thing.
BOB TORRICELLI, TANNED, RESTED, AND READY: Whoa. Chicago Tribune writer: Democrats should tell Hillary to step aside.
As Michael Graham sagely cautioned in 2004 (the year Torricelli was swapped out and replaced by a fossilized Frank Lautenberg on the NJ ballot), “Don’t assume you know who’s on the Democratic ticket until Election Day.”
DAN MITCHELL: The 5 Worst Ballot Initiatives of 2016. “Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of ballot initiatives that would move policy in the right direction.”
IT’S 2016, SO THE SPACE ALIENS COULD APPEAR AT ANY MOMENT: Roger Kimball: The Election: What Happens Now?
SORRY, UNLESS IT USES ANTIGRAVITY OR REACTIONLESS THRUSTERS IT DOESN’T COUNT: Larry Page’s ‘flying car’ has been spotted in the wild, and it just looks like a tiny aeroplane.
Also, it should make that Jetsons bleebling sound.
FLASHBACK: Bill Clinton cheered 11th hour indictment that doomed Bush re-election. “24 years ago, as former President George H.W. Bush was surging back against challenger Bill Clinton, a special prosecutor raised new charges against Bush in the Iran-Contra probe, prompting Clinton to claim he was running against a ‘culture of corruption.’ Many Republicans claimed that the indictment made by special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh against former Reagan-era Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger the weekend before the 1992 election cost Bush a second term. The indictment, later thrown out, challenged Bush’s claim that he did not know about a controversial arms-for-hostages deal that dogged the Reagan-Bush administration. When it came, Clinton seized on it, saying for example, ‘Secretary Weinberger’s note clearly shows that President Bush has not been telling the truth when he says he was out of the loop.’ Clinton added, ‘It demonstrates that President Bush knew and approved of President Reagan’s secret deal to swap arms for hostages.'”
NOW OUT FROM JOHN BIRMINGHAM: Stalin’s Hammer: Paris: A Novel of the Axis of Time.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: A President Clinton would be out of control. “‘Someone somewhere should have told her no.’ Those are the words of a Clinton ally quoted in a roundup of Democratic reactions to Hillary Clinton’s FBI news by congressional newspaper The Hill. And, despite the fact that they come from a Clinton supporter, albeit an angry and disappointed one, they may illustrate the best reason for choosing Donald Trump instead of Clinton. . . . The truth is, neither one of our leading candidates for president is a paragon of virtue. But only one of them has already made a habit of flouting the law while in office, selling favors and escaping the consequences, and only one of them is likely to be able to pull it off from the White House.”
UPDATE: Chris Matthews seems to agree: “I’ll make a judgment. Every time I watch a politician engage in a certain pattern of behavior before they go to the White House, they continue to engage in that pattern afterwards. People don’t change because we swear them into the White House.”
THE INSTAWIFE: Not Part Of The 93%.
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Why the Next Denial of Service Attack Could Be Against Your Car.
ANALYSIS: TRUE! Hillary only has herself to blame for the mess she’s in. “The victim card is a Clinton family heirloom, but there are major problems playing it over Comey’s sudden reopening of the e-mail probe. Clinton created the mess with her incredibly stupid decision to use a private server as secretary of state. Virtually every major issue dogging her, including her reputation for chronic dishonesty, was started or exacerbated by that decision, including the current one.”
Love this cover.
WEINER COOPERATING WITH FBI: A Bret Baier tweet broke the story. Is Weiner using the emails to cop a plea? Seems logical. More here. Baier has two sources. According to the article, Weiner’s cooperation explains why the FBI didn’t need a warrant to access the computer.
IN THE MAIL: Double Down (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 11).
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FLOOD MYTHS, RISING SEAS, LOST CONTINENTS AND DROWNED WORLDS: A fun Sunday read, interweaving deluge myths, fantasy and science fiction with archeology. “In 1954, the American science fiction writer L Sprague de Camp said that the number of novels and stories about lost continents was ‘beyond count’.” Yup. But Doggerland did exist. So did Sundaland and Beringia. (The areas still exist, underwater. But they once had human inhabitants.)