MAKE FRANCE GREAT AGAIN: In France, le Pen Opposes Public Education for Illegal Immigrant Kids.
Archive for 2016
December 8, 2016
THIS IS STUPID, BUT ALSO IRRESISTIBLE SINCE IT OFFERS BOTH A FACE-SAVING EXCUSE FOR HILLARY’S LOSS AND A BASIS FOR TRYING TO SILENCE POLITICAL OPPONENTS: In The Rush To Blame Facebook, Come The Calls To Suppress Ideas People Disagree With.
Of course, to the people pushing this — who include a lot of members of the press — suppressing ideas isn’t a bug, but a feature.
CHANGE: US Steel wants to accelerate investments, bring back jobs, CEO says.
United States Steel would like to accelerate its investments and hire back laid-off employees now that Donald Trump will be occupying the Oval Office, CEO Mario Longhi told CNBC on Wednesday.
“We already structured to do some things, but when you see in the near future improvement to the tax laws, improvements to regulation, those two things by themselves may be a significant driver to what we’re going to do,” he said in an interview with CNBC’s “Power Lunch.”
In addition, the belief that the U.S. economy can grow at least 3.5 percent also adds to what the company can do, Longhi noted.
Huh.
JUST NBC THE HACKWORK! Brian Williams, who fabricated stories, says fake news swayed the election.
Will Williams ever return to his old gig anchoring the nightly news at NBC after slumming it in network’s bargain basement cable spinoff channel? Just ask him!
#BOYCOTTTHEBOYCOTTERS: Kellogg isn’t the only one to call you “fascist.”
Related: Star Wars Writers Get Political: Will Anti-Trump Tweets Hurt Rogue One?
MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN: The Top Ten Reasons Andy Puzder Is a Great Pick for Labor Secretary.
From the home office in the third booth in the Ardmore, Oklahoma Carl’s Jr.
MAKING MEN OBSOLETE: AWESOME!
Making women obsolete: Problematic.
FORGET DRAINING THE SWAMP. MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Make D.C. a swamp again: Trump is scaring progressive hipsters away, he should send federal workers after them. “I propose that over the next several years, we transfer a lot of federal employees out of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, to parts of the country that aren’t doing so well economically. This would provide a boost to places like Buffalo, New York, or Quincy, Illinois, or Fresno, California, while getting federal bureaucrats out of the D.C. bubble.”
CRYING WOLF’S LAIR: TINA FEY CAN SEE THE REICHSTAG FROM HER HOUSE.
Shot: Tina Fey Warns: Prepare for Nazi America Under a Donald Trump Presidency.
— Kristine Marsh, NewsBusters, yesterday.
Chaser: No, This Isn’t Weimar or the 1930s.
— Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary, yesterday.
By the way, Kellogg’s recently made some very public virtue signaling of eliminating Breitbart.com from the group of Websites on which they run Internet advertising, “on the grounds that Breitbart does not reflect the company’s ‘values,’” as Mark Steyn wrote last week. In December of 2010, Geico dropped Lee Ermey as a spokesman, after the star of Full Metal Jacket said Obama’s administration “was trying to ‘impose socialism’ on the American people and was “destroying the country,’” as TMZ reported. Will American Express continue to employ Fey as a pitch woman after her Godwinizing of Trump? Or do only conservatives receive pink slips when they publicly commit crimethink?
HILLARY BLASTS ‘EPIDEMIC’ OF FAKE NEWS.
Related: Hillary Clinton, dead broke after leaving the White House, rejected by the Marines, and by NASA, and named after Sir Edmund Hillary, despite his climbing Mount Everest six years after she was born, living on Tuzla time:
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Valparaiso Law School Faces Two Bleak Choices — ‘Admit More Unprepared Students Or Face Reality And Close.’
FIRST CAME KANGAROO-PUNCHING, NOW THIS: French Farmers Strike Sultry Poses with Their Animals in This 2017 Calendar.
CHANGE: From Victims to Victimizers: The Left’s Long Journey.
Some of the shock of Trump’s victory is surely due to the bubble that exists in Hollywood and New York, the Pauline Kael–esque sense that nobody could have voted for Trump. But some of it also derives from celebrities’ self-assured belief that they have an outsized impact in the world of politics.
Clearly that view infused the Clinton campaign: Hillary trotted out Lena Dunham of Girls fame, she of the false rape accusations and gleeful admissions of sexually abusing her sister, on the campaign trail all year long; Clinton advocates such as Elizabeth Banks took time off from producing bad a cappella sequels to film ads; singers and actors all joined to make a difference by producing a glossy version of Rachel Platten’s maddening “Fight Song.”
And not only didn’t those things matter, they actually helped drive voters away from Clinton. They exacerbated the image of Clinton as an out-of-touch elitist who spent her free time hanging out with Katy Perry, even as Donald Trump, at a stadium in rural Ohio, took yet another boisterous swipe at elitism. But it wasn’t just because these celebrities were rich and out of touch that Americans were put off by them.
It’s because those celebrities were the people most likely to judge red-state Americans as rubes — nasties intent on targeting Muslims and gays and blacks and women. The unearned moral superiority of America’s celebrity class rests in their open condemnation of flyover Americans as brutish louts, and their self-parodying belief that they are civil-rights heroes.
We are patronized by our inferiors.
PROMISES, PROMISES: If You Like Your Longevity, You Can Keep Your Longevity.
WELL, THIS IS SAD: Mazda has no plans for an RX-9, despite ongoing rotary development.
THE TOP TEN SPORTS GRINCHES OF 2016.
In case you’re wondering, Kaepernick is merely number two.
2016, MAN: Boy claims he was fat-shamed by Santa Claus.
FORGET DRAINING THE SWAMP. MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Make D.C. a swamp again: Trump is scaring progressive hipsters away, he should send federal workers after them. “I propose that over the next several years, we transfer a lot of federal employees out of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, to parts of the country that aren’t doing so well economically. This would provide a boost to places like Buffalo, New York, or Quincy, Illinois, or Fresno, California, while getting federal bureaucrats out of the D.C. bubble.”
I PLAN TO SAY “I WISH I’D WORKED MORE HOURS,” so that from then on, when people say “nobody ever wishes on their deathbed that they’d worked more hours,” they’ll have to add, “well, except for Glenn Reynolds, actually.”
CHINESE INTERNET CENSORSHIP SOFTWARE: Jim Dunnigan examines Beijing’s capabilities.