Archive for 2016
May 19, 2016
NOPE. JUST A SMALL, LOUD GROUP OF (MOSTLY WHITE) SJW TYPES TO WHOM SOCIETY SHOULD GIVE THE BACK OF ITS HAND: New poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans aren’t offended by Redskins name.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Best scotch whiskeys under $35.
I can personally vouch for the Monkey Shoulder blended, which makes for a lovely Affinity.
DO NOT TRUST CONTENT FROM KRUGMAN AND DELONG: Bloggers behaving badly: Krugman and DeLong edition.
“‘PATERNALISTIC BABYSITTERS’ BEGONE! DARTMOUTH STUDENTS CALL FOR INTELLECTUAL INDEPENDENCE” – A petition from five student government leaders at Dartmouth College calls for students to have “true freedom to speak their minds.”
I’M PRETTY SURE THAT EVEN THINKING THIS IS A HATE CRIME NOW: It’s Not Wrong To Be White.
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And with all the Zika news, I’m guessing that the mosquito control stuff will be a big item this year.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: How the Air Force’s ‘space fence’ will keep American satellites safe.
IF THERE WERE A PILL THAT DID THIS MUCH FOR YOU, EVERYONE WOULD TAKE IT: Exercise Tied to Lower Risk for 13 Types of Cancer.
TO BE FAIR, SOCIALISM IS AN ANTIQUATED INDUSTRIAL-ERA PHILOSOPHY: “Boxer wants Sanders to look at pics from Sat. ‘I said just google it, we talked about how to google it, it was a very warm conversation.'”
So Hillary hasn’t driven a car in 20 years, and Sanders doesn’t know to use a Web browser. Tell me again why Silicon Valley is supporting these two Luddites?
Related: Safer’s most liberal moments.
YOU BELONG TO THE STATE: “I believe in forced labor.” Sotomayor Urges Mandatory Pro Bono for All Lawyers. On Facebook, David Bernstein asks: “Is there some judicial ethics code that would prevent Justice Sotomayor from, say, volunteering at a domestic violence clinic one afternoon a week? If not, why doesn’t she?”
If I were a member of Congress, I’d introduce a bill requiring Supreme Court Justices to spend one week a year at manual labor, to keep them in touch with the masses.
FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Female Security Guard Arrested For Removing Man From Women’s Bathroom.
READER BOOK PLUG: From Tom Fitch, Columbia Rising.
RIGHT ANGLE: Aye, aye… sir?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor Run Out of Classroom for Offending Students Will Lose Job: University of Kansas Communications Professor Andrea Quenette is a victim of political correctness in the classroom. Even though she was cleared of any wrongdoing, she still upset lefty students. Some sorry leadership from the KU Administration here. They should look next door to Mizzou to see where this sort of cowardice leads.
Related: Camille Paglia Says Universities Are an ‘Absolute Wreck.’
MY IDEA: COPYRIGHT TERMS SHOULD BE DRASTICALLY SHORTENED: A Dozen Bad Ideas That Were Raised At The Copyright Office’s DMCA Roundtables. And the scope of protection should be shrunk.
PREFERENCE CASCADE: Krauthammer: Cascade Of People Will Come Out And Support Trump, “Once It Starts, It’s Not Going To Stop.”
Well, yes. All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
SO WHY IS NOBODY PUBLISHING HER NAME? New evidence shows Rolling Stone rape hoaxer created her ‘rapist.’
We already knew that “Jackie,” the woman who told Rolling Stone she was gang-raped at the University of Virginia, likely fabricated the attack. But new evidence shows that she created an email address for her fake attacker after the alleged attack occurred.
Lawyers for U.Va. Dean Nicole Eramo, who is now suing Rolling Stone after being presented as callous toward Jackie, have presented evidence showing that an email account belonging to “Haven Monahan” was created on Oct. 2, 2012, and was connected to U.Va.’s computer network.
“Haven Monahan” was the name of the man Jackie told her friends she had a date with and who allegedly orchestrated the alleged gang rape she later described. Charlottesville police concluded that no one named Haven Monahan was currently attending or had ever attended U.Va., and photos of the man Jackie sent her friends turned out to be an old high school classmate who lived nowhere nearby and barely knew her.
The day after the email account was created, one of Jackie’s friends, Ryan Duffin, received an email from Monahan with a letter Jackie had written confessing her love for Duffin.
Hysterical girl creates rape hoax as part of effort to land guy. And the Obama White House, and pretty much all of the press and much of Congress, wanted to change policy nationwide because of this story.
Plus:
Eramo’s attorneys had asked Jackie and her lawyers to turn over all information relating to Monahan, and they claimed they had. Eramo’s recent court filing alleges, however, that someone from the Stein Mitchell law firm, which is now representing Jackie, accessed the Monahan email account on March 18, 2016. Eramo and her lawyers write in their latest court filings that this new information leads to “only one logical conclusion: Jackie is ‘Haven Monahan.'”
Four days after they accessed the Haven Monahan email address in March, Jackie’s lawyers sent Eramo another letter claiming “that Jackie was not in possession of these emails.” Thus, the new court filings also indicate that Jackie and her attorneys have not complied with a court order to turn over all relevant materials in her possession.
Serious attorney misconduct if true.
JACK DUNPHY: Fundamentally Transformed: City after City Seeing Rising Crime Rates:
Remember, the study was conducted before the uproar that followed the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, which was not a singular event marking a sea change in police work, but was rather a highly charged and highly publicized example of a trend that began years ago. Indeed, back in 2001 I concluded a column at National Review Online with a little prayer that summed up the police officer’s lot, then as now: “God, if I have to hurt someone today, please let it be a white guy.”
Read the whole thing.
SKYNET SMILES: The Little Tank Robot That Carries A Glock.
SOCIALISM: THEY’RE JUST DOING IT WRONG. AGAIN. Venezuelan apocalypse: Some updates on the epic failure of socialism in oil-rich Venezuela. “Despite having more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, and in fact more proven oil reserves than any country in the world (8 times more than the US), oil-rich Venezuela’s economy is imploding and collapsing under the burden of socialism, and economic conditions there have deteriorated so dramatically that they probably now qualify as the ‘economic apocalypse’ that some left-leaning economists were predicting just a few years ago would never happen in Venezuela.”
No country is so rich that a bad enough political class can’t ruin it. A lesson Americans should take to heart.
#WARONWOMEN UPDATE: “Actress Chloe Sevigny revealed Wednesday that several film directors came close to crossing the line into inappropriate conduct during movie shoots, but admitted at the same time that it can be hard to tell the difference between sexual harassment and everyday Hollywood behavior.”
Why are Democrat-run industries such cesspits of misogyny and sexual predation? And when will crusading Socialist Justice Warriors demand the Hollywood tax cuts be repealed?