Archive for 2017
December 3, 2017
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AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING: New York’s Metropolitan Opera “suspended James Levine, its revered conductor and former music director, on Sunday after three men came forward with accusations that Mr. Levine sexually abused them decades ago, when the men were teenagers.”
A DISCOURAGED ASSESSMENT IN THE ATLANTIC: The Odds of Impeachment Are Dropping: Despite Robert Mueller’s damaging disclosures, Republican voters offer Trump unwavering support.
I WISH I COULD HAVE MADE THIS CONFERENCE: Foresight Visions – Reaching Longevity Escape Velocity.
THIS IS NEWS: Claim: National Concealed Carry Will Be Linked With Feinstein-Schumer Bill. Maybe that’s a fair trade for reciprocity, maybe not.
AS I KEEP SAYING, TAKE CARE OF YOUR GUMS: Study ties gum disease bacteria to esophageal cancer.
TOO MANY LAWYERS: USNI: Can’t Kill Enough to Win? Think Again.
When is the United States going to do the killing necessary to beat its terrorist enemies or eliminate them entirely?
Those given the awful task of combat must be able to act with the necessary savagery and purposefulness to destroy those acting as, or in direct support of, Islamic terrorists worldwide. In 2008, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Admiral Michael Mullen said, “We can’t kill our way to victory.” Ever since, many have parroted his words. But what if Admiral Mullen was wrong? The United States has been at war with radical Islamists four times longer than it was with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II. And those previous enemies were far more competent and aggressive than the terrorists. It is time to kill a lot more of them.
Too many commanders and their “operational law” judge advocates have neutered U.S. military forces with far too restrictive rules of engagement and investigations. 1 One Army infantry battalion commander reported that during a 15-month command tour in Iraq, he had to endure 600 AR 15-6 investigations (equivalent to a Navy JAG manual investigation), most of which examined the use of force by his troops. When asked when he had time to command, he answered, “Exactly.”
Human behavior has not changed much in recorded history. Neither have the basic tenets of war. It takes killing with speed and sustained effect to win wars. The notions that the U.S. military can win with “precision strikes” or “winning hearts and minds” are fantasy. Even the great victory in Operation Desert Storm was a bloody killing field. Just ask the remnants of the Tawakalna Division of the Iraqi Army.
Read the whole thing.
MICHAEL WALSH: GIMME SHELTER, PART II. “Like South Carolina in 1860, California is spiraling out of control; unlike South Carolina then, California is now the most populous and among the most important states in the Union. Will the American people allow the Golden State to continue to reject federal immigration laws, as a kind of renegade Bear Republic? Will the Trump administration, which has sworn to uphold and protect the Constitution, let them get away with it?”
THINGS ABOUT LIFE AS A MAN, that women don’t know.
POLITICO: [Chelsea] Clinton Should Run for [Tom] Cotton’s Senate Seat.
Chelsea will get a similarly rude welcome into any race. But by entering the Arkansas contest, she would at least start her politician life with exceedingly low expectations.
But perhaps not low enough.
LEFTIES TO GARRISON KEILLOR: You’re old and should go away.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: The Left Is Slowly Waking Up to the Inequality Caused by Zoning.
IN A WEEKEND FILLED WITH LEFTWING HOT TAKES, ROSIE O’DONNELL APPEARS MOST AFFECTED.
Rosie’s use of pen and crayon is remarkably freaky-deaky, even for her. She’s morphed into Kevin Spacey’s Seven character so slowly, I hardly even noticed.
AFTER THE BEARDED GOD KILLERS OF THE 19th CENTURY, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. Spengler: ‘The West Must Restore a Sense of the Sacred.’
(Classical reference in headline.)
A LOOK AT THE 2018 Jeep Wrangler.
THE JOYS OF UNSTRUCTURED TIME. Or is it non-structured time?
NOT JUST A BIG BANG THEORY PLOTLINE: The unlucky man who accidentally threw away bitcoin worth $100 million.
KIND OF A BUMMER, MAN: What It’s Like to Be Allergic to Your Own Orgasms.
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-DOMINATED INDUSTRIES SUCH CESSPITS OF PREDATION? New York’s TV industry riddled by harassment accusations.
As Jonah Goldberg wrote on Wednesday, “The stories of sexual harassment at Fox were entirely newsworthy and legitimate on the merits. But not because Fox is ‘right wing.’ Yet it seems fairly obvious to me that the press enjoyed the Ailes and O’Reilly stories precisely because they involved toppling someone else’s icons. Where there was barely constrained glee in the voices of many pundits and reporters when it came to exposing the sins of Ailes and O’Reilly, there’s equally obvious remorse when it comes to Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, NPR’s David Sweeney, and, obviously, Bill Clinton. It speaks well of the media that it’s reporting these things anyway. But it would be a good thing for the press to meditate on what that remorse (and glee) says about its own tribalism.”
BUT OF COURSE: Ampicillin resistance likely started years before use with humans: Study. “Resistance was likely triggered by overuse of penicillin in livestock in North America and Europe in the 1950s, according to researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Ampicillin was released on the market for humans in 1961.”
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