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July 28, 2016
JEFFREY SINGER: Medicaid For None, Not All.
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IRANIAN CLERIC IN KOSOVO ARRESTED FOR FINANCING TERRORISM: Kosovo has an Islamist radicalization problem and Obama’s Iran deal gives the ayatollahs the bomb.
DEMOCRATS FALL FOR TRUMP’S RUSSIAN-HACK TROLLING: Sorry, Hillary: Friday’s Headlines Will Be About Trump.
One of Trump’s great skills is his ability to lure people into making complete fools of themselves. Like Larry Tribe, here: Former Obama mentor: Trump’s Russian hack ‘jokes’ could ‘constitute treason.’
But after all the wolf-crying, smears, and nastiness aimed at inoffensive GOP candidates, they deserve Trump.
UPDATE: Trump The DNC:
Donald Trump owned the news media on Day Three of Hillary’s Coronation. He even topped President Obama, who gave a wonderful speech that rallied Democrats behind Her Royal Clintoness. Nevertheless, Trump owned the news cycle.
He did so by holding a press conference. The press conference is now his favorite format. He is sharp, funny, spontaneous, and quick on the uptake. As is usually the case, at the press conference he fielded more hostile questions from the media in one hour than Hillary has in her entire pampered, Ivy League, first lady life.
Think about that for a moment. Has any journalist ever confronted her about all those real scandals? The Whitewater swampland real estate deals. Her covering up rapes and sexual harassment by her husband. Her stealing White House furniture. Not once has anyone in the press pressed her for an answer.
Meanwhile, Trump has to explain why two lines in his wife’s 20-minute speech were similar to a speech Michelle Obama gave eight years ago.
Throughout her life, the press gave Hillary a pass. Now she pays for that lifelong free ride by being unprepared for this campaign.
Don Surber wrote the book on this stuff.
THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD:
Shot: Eric Metaxas: LGBT Activist Government Effectively Establishes a Religion.
—PJ Media, today.
Chaser: “Supposedly we don’t have a state religion. Such a thing is forbidden by the Constitution. But increasingly, we do have a de facto state religion — Islam.”
—Ace of Spades, 2007.
As with Orlando, and as Europe is discovering seemingly every day this month (and again), this divergent mix of polar opposite worldviews isn’t likely to end well.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO MAKE EXCUSES FOR RAPE: It’s the school’s fault I had sex with teen, teacher says.
When you listen to Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech tonight — seriously, America, why? — expect to hear a lot of compassionate talk aimed at working Americans. Specifically, about the Democratic Party’s plans to raise the national minimum wage to $12/hour, force companies to offer paid parental leave, double-down on ObamaCare, expand Medicaid, and push for greater education subsidies.
Then, ask yourself: Are these policies going to make life less or more expensive for Americans?
As I wrote at the beginning of 2009 after watching DNC operatives with bylines infected with a serious case of what Virginia Postrel dubbed “Depression Lust,” and Tom Brokaw begging Obama for higher gas prices, you and I have a rendezvous with scarcity.
Or as Hillary warned us over a decade ago, “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
And she has a very good chance of making her will a reality next year.
IN NEW YORK, SCRAPPY LOCAL NEWSPAPER STRUGGLES FOR SURVIVAL.
(Classical reference in headline.)
KURT SCHLICHTER: DEMOCRATS GET MAD AT THE RUSSIANS; IN OTHER NEWS, A DOG MARRIES A CAT.
To paraphrase Austin Bay in the New York Observer, Hillary Clinton turned into Joseph McCarthy so slowly, I hardly even noticed. But behind her campaign’s “have you no shame, sir?” faux-outrage at Trump, as Roger Simon asks, Who Is Putin’s Real Ally?
BETTER THAN A BREATHALYZER: Temporary Tattoo Keeps Tabs On Alcohol Intake.
MORE JOURNALISTS DETAINED IN TURKEY: It sure looks like Erdogan’s going too far.
THIS ISN’T THE 21st CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Gay “oil sands ambassador” under fire — for posting PRO gay meme on Facebook.
And for purely expository reasons, here’s a reminder of the “controversial” ad in question:
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND: A reminder for press and pundits.
THE MEDIA WASN’T PREPARED TO HANDLE SARCASM FROM A CANDIDATE:
Trump is sarcastic. He’s easily exercised. And when he starts in on a subject and the room temperature rises, you get more of that. The media loves to act offended and point to this as a reason why he must not be qualified to lead America. But the fact is that sarcasm and the occasional expletive are part and parcel of how much of the nation actually speaks. This has left the media completely flummoxed, leading to the headlines about how Trump is going to sell out our national security to Russia.
Do you honestly believe he’s that daft? If so, then you’re ready to believe anything about him. Trump’s not a politician and he doesn’t talk like a politician. Sooner or later cable news is going to have to come to terms with that.
In an outrage culture, it pays to be outrageous. Even if it invites the death glare from CNN. Especially if it invites the death glare from CNN.
BOY, WITH THE ELECTION LOOKING CLOSE AND AMID FEARS THAT SHE MIGHT SIPHON OFF VOTES FROM HILLARY, Jill Stein is really getting hammered by the Democratic Media Complex.
JERRY POURNELLE on free trade.
MILO ON CNN: I WILL CONTINUE TO BE AS OFFENSIVE AS POSSIBLE:
[CNN’s Alison Kosik] presented Yiannopoulos with a log of his tweets about the Ghostbusters remake and its cast.
“Yeah, I said the women in it were fat and ugly and ugly and fat, and they are, and I’ll tell you why I find this problematic,” he declared.
“We’ve started to marginalize traditional beauty standards,” he explained. “Now what we’re expected to do is celebrate body positivity, and that it’s okay to abuse your bodies, and run the risk of horrible diseases, and awful chronic conditions, and to die sooner. That’s horrible. What I’m trying to do is draw attention to a critique of what’s happening in mainstream beauty culture, and that comes from compassion, about the messages we’re sending to young girls”.
While Milo’s answers are his usual “in an outrage culture it pays to be outrageous” responses, what I found fascinating about the interview wasn’t what Milo was saying, but instead, the contemptuous death glaze stare he was receiving from CNN’s Alison Kosik whenever they cut away from him.
Kosik has been with CNN for nearly a decade; so presumably, she’s well marinated in its corporate culture. The network’s founders and former executives have admitted to being in bed with some of the worst, murderous dictators on the planet, including Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro. In more recent years, the network’s commentators have filed glowing reports on North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il.
But when faced with a gay British conservative whose weapons of mass destruction are strictly rhetorical, the death glare:
This is CNN. And this is the media culture they helped birth. As James S. Robbins wrote earlier this week in USA Today, America isn’t literally Weimar, but our culture and theirs have far too much in common.
UPDATE: Took me a while, but now I remember where I’ve seen that expression before!
(Artwork by Jon Gabriel of Ricochet.)
THE EGO HAS LANDED: Montage of Obama Mentioning Himself 119 Times During Speech About Hillary.
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