WHITTLE, OTT, GREEN, AND CLARENCE THOMAS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Texas vs the Supreme Court.
Full disclosure: I’m Green.
Archive for 2016
June 30, 2016
GREENPEACE’S BLOODY HANDS: 41 winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine say group’s anti-scientific activism kills children.
WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING FECES, URINE: Man Violently Shoves Feces-Filled Bag Down Woman’s Pants on Upper East Side: NYPD.
Not surprisingly, as Twitchy adds, “Media report on suspect wanted in NYC feces attack leaves out crucial detail.”
Elsewhere in Bill de Blasio’s “fundamentally transformed” New York, naked man takes over Times Square, screams “Donald Trump where the f*** are you?”
Related: “Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new social media director has quit — saying in a scathing Facebook post that he had to do it to save his own ‘health and sanity’ from an office full of ‘political hacks plus a boss who just couldn’t get it.’”
Give former Chicago Tribune columnist Scott Kleinberg credit — he’s one up on Ben Rhodes, Josh Earnest, and the rest of the political hacks who enable their boss who doesn’t get it at the other end of the Northeast Corridor.
NEWS IN PUBIC HAIR: Most Women Prefer to Go Bare, Citing Hygiene (and Baffling Doctors). A man likes a clean, uncluttered workspace.
MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION EVER: Bill Clinton Up to No Good Visiting Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Christian Adams writes, adding, “The AG doesn’t typically meet with family of an open investigation target. Why did she?”
Related: “The fix was in from the beginning. Why should the optics matter?”, Allahpundit tweets.
FIFTY SHADES OF DESERT ONE: Failure at every level for US ships captured by Iran.
SOMETIMES PRICE MATTERS: Watch What Happens When a Pro Mountain Biker Rides a Walmart Bike.
SKYNET SMILES: Terrorists ‘actively seeking’ to build deadly army of intelligent killer robots, UN warns.
What’s to stop us from building a deadly army of intelligent killer robots first?
OF COURSE THEY ARE: Obamacare Insurers Are Looking for a Taxpayer Bailout.
WHIT STILLMAN DROPS BY THE RICOCHET PODCAST, with James Lileks, Rob Long, and Peter Robinson. Click here to listen.
THE MEDIA SPINS BENGHAZI REPORT: If Hillary has any credibility left, she must apologize and be upfront with the American people, Ron Radosh writes.
SO I MENTIONED A WHILE BACK THAT I WAS WORKING ON A PAPER ON MILITARY COUPS AND THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION: I now have a draft online. I got a nice email from Charles Dunlap on it last night, which was fast!.
Download it early and often! And this is a draft. Any comments welcome. (Bumped).
HMM: Clinton reshuffles the swing state deck.
By announcing Wednesday that the rescheduled event will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, rather than Green Bay, Wisconsin — the original plan several weeks ago — the presumptive Democratic nominee’s campaign telegraphed that it sees newfound promise in a battleground state that narrowly rejected Obama in 2012.
Earlier this month, the major pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action signaled the same, announcing it would expand its swing state ad barrage beyond its original list to North Carolina.
North Carolina and Indiana are the only two states Barack Obama won in 2008, but then lost in 2012.
On the flip side, Rasmussen says Trump has surged this week and now leads Clinton nationally 43%-39%.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR’S NERVOUS BREAKDOWN OVER #BREXIT CONTINUES: British MEP Daniel Hannan Spent Nine Minutes Smacking Down CNN Journalist.
Earlier: “John Oliver calls Boris Johnson a ‘shaved orangutan’ and David Cameron a ‘pig-f***er’ in nine-minute anti-Brexit rant” on his HBO show.
Related: CNN’s Zakaria: Journalists ‘Better Educated’, ‘More Comfortable With Diversity’ Than Ordinary People.
As self-described “liberal” Damon Linker writes at The Week, “Brexit shattered progressives’ dearest illusions,” apparently nowhere more so than the offices of Time-Warner-CNN-HBO.
IN THE MAIL: The United States of Beer: A Freewheeling History of the All-American Drink.
Plus, today only at Amazon: Save On Philips Sonicare.
And, also today only: “Two And A Half Men,” The Complete Series on DVD, 63% off.
Plus: Save Big On Men’s and Women’s Wedding Rings.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Happy Asteroid Day!
REDDIT’S ‘LITTLE NAPOLEON’ PROBLEM: Who Mods the Mods?
If “academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small,” as Henry Kissinger* has been credited as saying, just imagine how vicious nihilistic Internet moderators can be.
*Along with lots of other people.
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1148.
BREAKING: Active Shooter Reported During Active-Shooter Drill at Andrews AFB.
The base is no longer in lockdown.
MSNBC STILL ASKING THE TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT TERRORIST ATTACKS INVOLVING [OMITTED]:
—Headline, MSNBC, yesterday.
—Headline, NewsBusters, yesterday.
WHY DO DEMOCRATS HATE AMERICA? The Zika Bill Outrage. “Funding for Zika was defeated in the Senate on Tuesday when Democrats voted it down.”
IS THERE A RIGHT ONE? Minneapolis Is the Wrong Place to Try a $15 Wage.
Organizers in Minneapolis are pushing for a referendum that would raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour, joining the growing movement across the country to raise local minimum wages far above current or historic levels.
I haven’t been a fan of this idea in cities like Los Angeles, where the rationale at least is obvious: The price of low-wage labor has fallen, even as the local cost of living is rising because of various structural and regulatory barriers to real estate development. But as economists will tell you, the price of labor is generally set by the intersection of demand and supply. As price falls, people want to consume more but suppliers want to supply less. The market price is normally set by those forces meeting, otherwise known as the “market-clearing price,” because it’s the price at which no one who wants to supply labor at that price is left without a job, and no one who wants to buy it at that price is left without an employee.
What happens when you artificially impose a price higher than the market-clearing level? Well, presumably more people would want to supply labor, because it would look better than alternatives such as retirement or staying home with kids. However, employers now want to buy less labor. Maybe demand for their now-more-expensive goods and services falls, so they cut back on staff; maybe they go out of business; or maybe the owners start working more hours themselves, or look to invest in labor-saving technology. However you slice it, you’re looking at higher unemployment, as the supply of workers exceeds demand.
Yes.
PROTEST: A wall will be built for Donald Trump in Colorado, and liberals will pay for it.
I’m unconvinced that the result won’t be the opposite of what the protestors intend.
PANTS ON FIRE; POLITIFACT MISSES THE STORY OF THE YEAR, Jack Dunphy writes.
