Archive for 2016
July 28, 2016
AT THE BOSTON GLOBE, worries that Jill Stein might cost Hillary votes. So they chose a really unattractive photo of Stein, who’s actually a pretty handsome woman, to illustrate it.
FASTER, PLEASE: 5G Wireless Is Coming, and It’s Going to Blow You Away.
SEE, THIS JUST SUPPORTS MY ARGUMENT FOR BANNING AIR CONDITIONING IN FEDERAL BUILDINGS: Fed Workers Told to Work From Home Due to Summer Heat.
THIS ISN’T THE 21st CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Vegans Rip Doughnut Shop for Expecting Employees to Be Able to Eat Doughnuts. “It’s funny that the vegans and vegetarians are in a hissy over this, though. The paleo crowd — who are also not likely to eat doughnuts for pretty much any reason — has been silent. Then again, maybe the paleo diet eaters aren’t the kind of folks who expect the world to conform to them?”
WILL BAUDE: Constitutional Officers: A Very Close Reading.
“POLITICAL CORRECTNESS KIND OF CUTS US OFF AT THE KNEES AND DOESN’T ALLOW US TO BE OUR AUTHENTIC SELVES,” says Rain Pryor, daughter of Richard Pryor, in a brand new FIRE exclusive interview with the daughters of comedy godfathers Pryor, George Carlin and Lenny Bruce. Check out the podcast here or the video below.
And don’t forget that if you are in New York City or Los Angeles between this Friday, July 29 and August 4, you can see the new movie about comedy and free speech, Can We Take a Joke?, on the big screen. You can also see it with a beer at Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse just outside of Washington, D.C. This is before it will be released all over the country on August 2 via iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and virtually every cable company in the U.S. and Canada.
THE SEVEN STAGES OF BERNIE’S SUCKERS: “You poor saps. You went to bed with Bernie, and woke up with Hillary.”
IN THE MAIL: From John R. Lott, Jr., The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies.
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MY PIECE, Of Coups And The Constitution, is still at #1 on SSRN, with over 4400 downloads.
MY BIG FAT AMERICAVERSARY: “Every July, my family celebrates our ‘Americaversary.’ It marks the dates my family arrived in the United States from the Soviet Union. I arrived on July 20, 1978 with my mom, when I was just 1-year old. My father had arrived a year earlier, on July 7.”
Read the whole thing.
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1176.
TAIL GUNNER HILLARY AND THE PUTIN HACK. (Bumped).
MIKE LOTUS EMAILS ABOUT MY PAPER BALLOTS PIECE that it ties in well with this scary electoral scenario from John Robb.
See, when your infrastructure is vulnerable — and that includes politico-social infrastructure — there are all kinds of ways things can go wrong. And while most of them never wind up happening, sooner or later, some do.
USA TODAY EDITORAL BOARD TO HILLARY: Shut Down The Clinton Foundation.
WHEN YOU HAVE A PLATFORM THAT CAN SWING AN ELECTION, YOU TEND TO THINK OF YOURSELF AS ABOVE THE LAW: Facebook Ignores Seven Summonses From The IRS Demanding Documents On Its Offshore Tax Strategies.
MIGRANT CRISIS: It’s Time for “Farewell Culture,” German Politicians Say after Terror Attacks.
The refugee who blew himself up outside a music festival in Ansbach, Germany after declaring his loyalty to ISIS on a cell phone video was supposed to have been deported twice. . . .
The Ansbach attack followed on the heels of an ax attack on a train in Würzburg by a 17 year old Afghan refugee that left five wounded and the assailant dead. There was also the refugee/migrant who killed a pregnant woman with a machete on Sunday in Reutlingen, and the killing of nine people by a second-generation Iranian immigrant in Munich. So far, neither of these appear to be terrorism in the same sense as the Würzburg or Ansbach attacks—the first appears to be personal and the latter appears not to have professed any loyalties—but that may not matter in the mind of the public, which at a minimum will likely connect them with what leftists in other situations now call “a culture of violence.” . . .
The position of the refugees/migrants in German society is more precarious than many liberal admirers of the “welcome culture” often realize. This is the age of the hybrid refugee-migrant: people like the Ansbach attacker are refugees insofar as they’re fleeing war zones in places like Syria, but migrants insofar as they’re then traveling from safe countries like Bulgaria (or Turkey or Greece) to other safe countries in search of better economic opportunities. They have been allowed to stay only because Angela Merkel essentially abrogated the Dublin Agreement and allowed them to—which in turn has been upheld only because public opinion at first embraced it, and then hasn’t changed so much against it as to oust the chancellor or force her hand.
But that may now be shifting. If more attacks do come, it will likely shift even more. And when or if the Germans want to change their approach to the refugees, there will be at least arguable legal grounds on which to do it.The result: as attacks go up, there are likely to be, as the Open Europe report suggests, more deportations—perhaps many more. And there will be less hand-wringing stories about it—or perhaps more, but fewer will care.
Indeed.
WORLD’S DEEPEST BLUE HOLE: Is in the South China Sea — one of the world’s most dangerous geo-political flashpoints. No, Chinese contractors didn’t dig it to mine dirt and rocks for their man-made islands. The hole is natural. But Xinhua is touting it and claims the hole is mentioned in a novel written during the Ming dynasty.
ROGER SIMON: Who Is Putin’s Real Ally? As Roger writes, “There’s money in them thar reset buttons!”
I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS THE RNC THAT WAS GOING TO BE MARKED BY VIOLENCE AND UNREST: As Obama speaks, chaos and arrests outside DNC.
LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: America’s Economy is Cartelized, Corrupt, and Anti-Competitive.
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