UNEXPECTEDLY: American Indians A-OK with Washington ‘Redskins’ Name.
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May 21, 2016
MATH IS HARD. Hillary Clinton mocked for misuse of Venn diagram.
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OUCH: Tucker Carlson: Glenn Beck ‘Acted Like He Was Auditioning To Be Mark Zuckerberg’s Manservant.’
Related: Glenn Beck: Facebook Employees ‘Liberal’ but ‘Not Progressives.’
Wanna bet? (Reminder: Beck was a huge promoter of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism in 2008-2010. Presumably he’s well aware of the etymology of those two words, including how the L-word itself is a stolen base by the left.)
HATING AMERICA AT GOOGLE: Yuri Kochiyama and the strange case of her being honored with a Google splash page on Thursday for her 95th birthday are explored by Jonathan S. Tobin at Commentary:
As the Washington Free Beacon notes, a sympathetic biography of Kochiyama, Heartbeat of Struggle by Diane Carol Fujino, reveals that she didn’t so much sympathize with American Muslims as support the 9/11 attackers. While all decent people should sympathize with her experience during World War Two, it turned her against this country in a way that caused her to embrace radical Marxism and to support anyone who attacked America, including bin Laden. She came to believe that “the main terrorist and the main enemy of the world’s people is the U.S. government.” She also said, “I consider Osama bin Laden as one of the people that I admire. To me, he is in the category of Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, all leaders that I admire.”
What is most curious about the decision to honor Kochiyama is that the Google page about her noted that she was honored during March — which is Women’s History Month — by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. So the Obama administration has as many questions to answer about this as Google.
At this late date, are there any questions left as to what Obama — and his allies at Google — think about the nation that naively entrusted them with so much power?
IT’S POTEMKIN JOURNALISM ALL THE WAY DOWN: Group that helped sell Iran nuke deal also funded media. “A group the White House recently identified as a key surrogate in selling the Iran nuclear deal gave National Public Radio $100,000 last year to help it report on the pact and related issues, according to the group’s annual report. It also funded reporters and partnerships with other news outlets.”
LAWLESS GOVERNMENT: Law profs slam Education Dept for end run on campus sexual assault guidelines.
A group of 21 law professors, including Elizabeth Bartholet and Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law, penned a letter to the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights objecting to its overreach under President Obama on the issue of campus sexual assault.
The professors criticized the way OCR is now compelling schools to ignore due process and punished the accused, all the while claiming the new regulations for schools are merely “guidance” and need not be adopted according to the steps outlined in the Administrative Procedure Act. The APA requires, among other things, a notice and comment period for new regulations.
OCR maintains they did not adopt any substantive changes in the documents, even though schools are suddenly being threatened with a loss of funding and an investigation if they don’t comply.
“OCR needs to clarify which directives it considers to be guidance documents vs. regulations,” the professors wrote. “Directives that are guidance documents need to be revised to eliminate provisions containing obligatory wording, unless these provisions are expressly supported by prior legislation or regulation. Directives that are deemed to be regulations need to be brought into compliance with requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act.”
They’ll never put these out for notice-and-comment because the comments they get will be overwhelmingly negative, and correct.
EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: World’s Largest Solar Plant Sets Itself on Fire.
An appropriate metaphor for the last seven years.
NPR IS PART OF BEN RHODES’ SELF-DESCRIBED “ECHO CHAMBER:” Group ID’d as One of Ben Rhodes’ “Force Multipliers” In Selling Iran Deal Also Gave $100,000 to NPR to “Help” It “Report” on the Deal.
LESE MAJESTE: Clinton Fury With Sanders Grows:
Fury against Bernie Sanders is growing in Clinton World.
In public, Hillary Clinton’s aides and allies have kept their anger checked, decrying the rowdy outbursts at Nevada’s state convention last weekend but saying they believe Sanders will ultimately do the right thing by helping to unite the Democratic Party.
Behind the scenes, however, they are seething that statements by the Vermont senator are just making matters worse by further alienating his supporters from Clinton, the front-runner for the party’s presidential nomination.
The continued combat on the left is also complicating Clinton’s efforts to fully turn her attention to presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, who is reveling in the Democratic feuding.
“This is the worst-case scenario and the one people feared the most,” said one Clinton ally and former Clinton aide.
“Unfortunately, he’s choosing the path of burning down the house,” the ally said. “He continues with character attacks against Hillary. He continues with calling the Democratic Party corrupt, and he not only risks damaging Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party but he’s currently doing it.”
Clinton allies say Sanders is only piling on by insisting that Clinton join him for a debate ahead of California’s primary on June 7. The debate would be aired on Fox News, a network Clinton supporters see as fanning the flames between Sanders supporters and the former secretary of State.
They’re treating Bernie and his followers with contempt. I think he should run as a third-party candidate to teach them a lesson.
WE’RE GOING TO TAKE THINGS AWAY FROM YOU ON BEHALF OF THE COMMON GOOD: Six Huge Problems With Hillary’s Gun Control Venn Diagram.
TO BE FAIR, IT WAS AFTER SHE INCREASED HER BODYWEIGHT BY ROUGHLY 50%: Former Miss Universe: Donald Trump called me ‘Miss Piggy.’
Ann Althouse wonders if a beauty queen who gets fat is in breach of contract: “What was Donald Trump supposed to do about that? He owned the business, and she had claimed — and beat out other women for — the job of acting as if she’s the most beautiful woman in the universe, and then she radically changed her appearance. . . . Wasn’t she obligated to control her weight according to the terms of employment? If you can’t do the job, don’t apply for it. No one has to enter a beauty pageant. I think it’s a foolish business, but if you participate in foolishness, you owe something to those who gave you that platform. It takes some psychological grit. If you’re sensitive about what people say about how you look, what are you doing there? This is another example of anti-Trump media purporting to champion women but in fact treating them as if they are weak, fragile, not responsible for their own choices, and in need of protection. It seems to me that Trump was treating her the way he’d treat a man — holding her to her obligations and razzing her for her foibles.”
It’s sexist to treat women the way you’d treat men because equality.
1990s NOSTALGIA: What Bill Clinton’s ‘Energizer mistress’ looks like today. Family friend seen for first time since revelation his foundation helped her firm. Though in the 1990s I don’t think the Clintons mixed financial with sexual impropriety.
GOOD FOR THEM. FIGHT THE POWER! Sanders Fans Plan Rallies Near Democratic Convention.
I’M SURE IT’S SOMEHOW RACIST TO EVEN POINT THIS OUT: #BlackLivesMatter Leader Charles Wade Arrested for Sex Trafficking.
CONGRATS TO THE WEEKLY STANDARD ON REACHING ISSUE #1000.
IT WON’T TAKE. SOCIALISTS ARE ALERGIC TO HISTORY: Bernie Sanders says “Cubans never rose against Castro”–here’s a quick history lesson.
NOT UNIQUE. EVERY SOCIALIST REGIME ENDS IN THIS. ONLY THE DETAILS DIFFER: Meltdown in Venezuela: the anatomy of a ‘monstrously unique’ economic basket case.
MORE INFORMATION: EgyptAir: ‘Smoke detected’ inside cabin before crash.
IT’S OKAY, IT WILL ALL BE FORGOTTEN AND DENIED WHEN THE GENERAL COMES
AROUND: In fact, between the easily manipulated systems of absentee vote and early vote, I think we don’t so much have a voting system, we have a fraud system with occasional unintentional glimmers of honesty. Kentucky is Just One Of Several States Investigating Voter Fraud.
THE REASON YOU CAN’T BRING MANUFACTURING JOBS BACK: Same reason you can’t bring publishing jobs back, or journalism jobs back. Making Micro Stuff In Micro Factories.
YOU COULD SAY IT’S YUGE: Epic Solar Power Fail Gets Even More Epic-er.
MAKING HUMANITY DEPENDENT ON MORE THAN THE MOTHER’S SAY SO SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME: Humanizing Aborted Fetuses Through Burial.