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Archive for 2016
January 8, 2016
I HEAR THAT 13 HOURS IS GOOD: Hillary Clinton’s nightmare: Hollywood tale brings Benghazi back to life.
Related: Ironic Twist For Hillary Clinton.
WHY RED WINE IS PROBABLY BETTER FOR YOU THAN GRAPE JUICE.
TWITTER: WE WILL UNVERIFY YOU FOR THOUGHTCRIME:
Just pathetic.
Related: We’re All Trapped In The Twitter Cave.
UPDATE: Fans begin #JeSuisMilo solidarity movement after Twitter unverifies @Nero.
(Headline via Twitter user “Clarence Whorley”)
CHARLES HILL: The End Of Modernity. “The era called ‘modern’ inexorably began to come to its end when, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, a concatenation of foretold events unraveled the so-called modern world order. As always, the foreordained collapse was generated from internal weakness. We need to look no further than Europe to understand why.”
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ACTUALLY, I THINK THEY ASPIRE TO BE THE OPPRESSOR: Annika Hernroth-Rothstein: Feminists Must Identify Their True Oppressor.
Just before winter break, my two sons, 8 and 13, started sitting down to pee. This happened out of nowhere, a sudden absurdity, and when I asked them why, their reply was that their school had told them that this was a matter of respect for themselves and their surroundings.
I assumed this was another one of those childhood misunderstandings, so at drop-off the next day I took a few minutes to speak to the teachers and straighten the whole thing out, forgetting for a minute that in this day and age reality is far stranger than fiction. . . .
Sweden has gotten a reputation for being a feminist state, a progressive haven of sorts where gender is fought as if it were an enemy battalion. This is supposed to lead to equality, but the feminist hegemony seems to practice willful forgetfulness when it comes to the plight of actual women in actual peril at the end of the subway line where they dare not go.
In the past years the demography in this country has changed dramatically, and it has brought with it a society within the society, with its own rules and laws, enforced by young Muslim men who have taken it upon themselves to police the banlieues and control the women who live there. These women have raised their voices at great personal risk, asking for help from the liberal society and the feminists whose chants are usually so proud and so loud. But there is no aid for the aching, for the feminists know that actual patriarchy comes with actual danger and they are unwilling to pay that price.
I’m sure that raising a generation of sitzpinklers is the solution.
ROAD AND TRACK: Why a CVT Is Basically the Perfect Transmission: A dual-clutch gearbox is an automatic, and it isn’t even the best one. I actually really like the CVT on my Lexus and Toyota hybrids.
TODAY’S BEEN A VERY BAD DAY FOR THE LEFT’S PREFERRED NARRATIVES.
● Shot: “For the faithful, it was not a good day. The left’s preferred narratives about voters, about gun violence, about radical Islam, and about Hillary Clinton’s culpability in potentially indictable offenses were all shaken to their very foundations. But that’s the thing about faith: it’s remarkably resilient. They probably didn’t even notice.”
● Chaser: Kerry Marks Terrorism Anniversary Without Mentioning Terrorism.
EL CHAPO CAUGHT*
GOP DEBATES ON CNN CRUSH OBAMA’S TOWN HALL RATINGS: “The President’s two hour-long appearance with Anderson Cooper on Thursday managed 2.4 million viewers. In comparison, a staggering 23.1 million people tuned in for CNN’s GOP debate in September.”
YOUR MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORS: With so little going on in the world today, the New York Times amuses itself by obsessing over Marco Rubio’s boots.
CHECK OUT THE NEW BOOK Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge about threats to free speech on campus in the UK and beyond. And for a behind the scenes look at it, here is my interview with the author, Joanna Williams:
LIFE IN THE OBAMA ERA: US student visa program’s ‘many vulnerabilities’ raise spying, terror fears.
In an earlier, more confident era, we assumed that to know us was to love us, so that exposure of foreign students to America could only help. This was never actually true, but now, alas, we’ve had our noses rubbed in that.
A BOY AND HIS GUN: “Over Christmas break I took Number One Son shooting and learned something wonderful about him,” Steve Green writes.
Read the whole thing.
TERROR ARRESTS IN SACRAMENTO AND HOUSTON NAB TWO WHO ENTERED US AS IRAQI REFUGEES:
U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced in a statement Thursday that Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, of Sacramento, a Palestinian born in Iraq, was arrested on charges that he allegedly traveled to Syria in 2013 to fight with various terrorist organizations, including Ansar al-Islam. He returned to the United States in 2014.
Naturally, the MSM is downplaying the Syrian connection, Ace writes. “It couldn’t have anything to do with Obama’s political demand that we allow in 10,000 fabulously vetted Syrian refugees, could it?”
Meanwhile, the Atlantic goes with the “Republicans pounced” angle to downplay the news.
FROM THE HOME OFFICE IN AL-RAQQAH, SYRIA: Cologne Rapefest: The Top Five Best Liberal Excuses.
A POTEMKIN PRESIDENCY: How The Washington Post contributed to mythology of Obama greatness.
PHILLY TERROR SUSPECT PLED DOWN AN ILLEGAL GUN CHARGE IN 2012 AND DID NO TIME. “After last night’s absurd Obama townhall, this should be the top story in America today.” Plus this: “The shooter in the attack is seen wearing Muslim-style garb – a long white robe over dark pants – on surveillance video, according to police sources, but officials have not said if they believe religion was a factor,” despite suspect saying he did shooting in the name of Islam and pledging to ISIS.
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TO SAVE EUROPE, STOP ALL ‘MIGRANTS,’ SAYS HUNGARY’S PRIME MINISTER.
Related: Report: Syrian ‘Refugees’ Among New Year’s Eve Sexual Assaulters in Cologne.
And as Glenn noted yesterday, “HOW FAR HAS TRUMP MOVED THE OVERTON WINDOW? THIS FAR: Tom Friedman calls for ‘controlling low-skilled immigration.’”
Of course, it’s too late for Europe, but as Peggy Noonan writes today, “Trump touched an important nerve in opposing the political correctness that has angered the American people for a quarter century. He changed the debate when he asked for a pause in Muslim immigration until America ‘can figure out what’s going on.’ In the age of terror, that looked suspiciously like common sense. Americans do not want America to become what Europe is becoming.”
As Milton Friedman once said, “It’s nice to elect the right people, but that’s not the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things.”
U.S. SHIPS HELLFIRE MISSILE TO CUBA:
- a Hellfire missile
- shipped via commercial carrier to Europe
- in early 2014
- goes missing
- and months later, in June, “Lockheed Martin officials realized the missile was missing”
- but is likely in Cuba
- while the Obama administration is finalizing its easement of relations with the Communist dictatorship
- and the White House carried on with the negotiations.
Read the whole thing.
BREAKING: Philadelphia Police Officer Ambushed By Terrorist Who Says He Did it For Islam, Pledged to ISIS.
Related: “Mayor Jim Kenney wasted no time in declaring that ‘there are too many guns on the streets,’ but he might want to take that up with law enforcement. It turns out that the gun used in the shooting was, er …’In a press conference, Commissioner Ross said the gun used in the attack was a stolen police firearm.'”
More: Obama’s streak of perfect timing rolls on:
NEW EMAIL SHOWS HILLARY EVADED NATIONAL SECURITY MEASURES: Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller has a story today revealing that while Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton instructed her top advisor to send potentially sensitive national security information to her via a nonsecure method:
On June 16, 2011, Hillary Clinton’s top foreign policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, was having trouble sending his boss a list of talking points that contained sensitive — and possibly classified — information. Sullivan told Clinton there were issues “sending secure fax,” an email released by the State Department early Friday shows.
So Clinton offered a shocking solution: remove the markings identifying the information as sensitive and send it by regular fax.
“Turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure,” Clinton instructed Sullivan. . . .
It is possible that the talking points Sullivan intended to send Clinton did not contain classified information. A document being sent via a secure method does not necessarily indicate that information contained in it is classified. But Clinton hadn’t seen the talking points at that point, and likely would not have known whether they contained classified information.
By instructing Sullivan to remove markings noting the sensitive nature of the talking points, Clinton appears to have invited her aide to violate the the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual, and possibly, federal law.
The legality of Clinton’s command would likely depend on whether Sullivan followed through with his boss’ instruction. A State Department official told The Daily Caller that there is no indication that the stripped talking points were emailed to Clinton.
The official also declined to “speculate” on whether the talking points contained classified information. . . .
[T]he email is troubling because it is the first to show Clinton displaying her willingness to skirt State Department protocol — and federal law, potentially — regarding the handling of sensitive information on her personal email account.
Drip, drip, drip.
Is this the kind of person you’d trust as Commander-in-Chief? During her tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton’s cavalier disregard for simple measures designed to protect our country’s national security is breathtaking. If she were a Republican, the mainstream media would have (appropriately) disgraced and branded her as a traitor by now.