THE WHOLE POINT WAS TO MAKE PEOPLE VIOLATE THEIR CONSCIENCE: Department of Justice Lawyers Still Suing Little Sisters of the Poor and Other Religiously-Oriented Organizations Over Obamacare Birth Control/Abortion Mandate.
Archive for 2017
July 26, 2017
UH-OH, BOSS, THEY HAVE THE ADDRESS OF INSTAPUNDIT HEADQUARTERS? North Korea Threatens To ‘Strike A Merciless Blow At The Heart Of The US’.
A GUEST POSTER ON MY BLOG EXPLAINS WHY ONLY THE FREE MARKET CAN PROTECT HUMAN LIFE: The Free Market versus Death Panels by Alpheus Madsen. Cogently.
AT LEAST ACCORDING TO SOME PARTS OF THE SHOW: Yes, Star Trek was a socialist society that worked. Or, as we call such “Imaginary. Which is what Star Trek actually was. Was ‘Star Trek’ Socialist?
I QUESTION THEIR METHODOLOGY: Buying time could be the secret to happiness.
STEPHEN GREEN IS ON HIS WAY TO FULL EIDETIC: Study finds drinking alcohol can improve your memory.
FASTER, PLEASE:The flu vaccine is about to get cheaper and more effective.
AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK! This Woman Is Fighting Rape By Allowing Strangers to Touch Her Vagina.
TAKE A BOW, DNC-MSM: Last night, the Boy Scouts became the Hitler Youth. Today, Sean T. Collins, a freelancer who has written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Wired, and the New York Observer among other publications, declares “The world would be a better place if McCain died in Vietnam,” in a since-deleted tweet, as he and other Democrat operatives with bylines attack McCain for wanting to “kill” people by repealing Obamacare, as NewsBusters notes.
Lest you think this is entirely a new attitude amongst the left, recall this New Yorker flashback to the Vietnam War era. “Punch” Sulzberger, who had published the Times from 1963 through 1992, and whose family has controlled the New York Times since the late 19th century, served with distinction as a Marine in the Pacific Theater in WWII and as an officer during the Korean War. His son on the other hand…
[Arthur Ochs “Pinch” Sulzberger Jr.] had been something of a political activist in high school—he had been suspended briefly from Browning for trying to organize a shutdown of the school following the National Guard’s shooting of students at Kent State—and at Tufts he eagerly embraced the antiwar movement. His first arrest for civil disobedience took place outside the Raytheon Company, a defense and space contractor: there, dressed in an old Marine jacket of Punch’s, he joined other demonstrators who were blocking the entrance to the company’s gates. He was soon arrested again, in an antiwar sit-in at the J.F.K. Federal Building in Boston.
Punch had showed little reaction after the first arrest, but when he got word of the second one he flew to Boston. Over dinner, he asked his son why he was involved in the protests and what kind of behavior the family might expect from him in the future. Arthur assured his father that he was not planning on a career of getting himself arrested. After dinner, as the two men walked in the Boston Common, Punch asked what his son later characterized as “the dumbest question I’ve ever heard in my life”: “If a young American soldier comes upon a young North Vietnamese soldier, which one do you want to see get shot?” Arthur answered, “I would want to see the American get shot. It’s the other guy’s country; we shouldn’t be there.” To the elder Sulzberger, this bordered on traitor’s talk. “How can you say that?” he yelled. Years later, Arthur said of the incident, “It’s the closest he’s ever come to hitting me.”
Pinch and the rest of the MSM haven’t exactly matured much since the Woodstock era. As Matthew Continetti of the Washington Free Beacon wrote of the Times in a 2014 piece titled “Fast Times at Eighth Avenue High,” “The next time our reporters and producers and anchors and bloggers affect an air of moral or social superiority, the next time they pretend to know the answers to every political and economic and cultural question, remember this: They are basically teenagers.”
And regarding their adolescent rage, and that of the non-media wing of the Democrat Party, as Glenn has written, “Trump, as I keep saying, is a symptom of how rottenly dysfunctional our sorry political class is. Take away Trump and they’re just as awful and destructive. He just brings their awfulness to the fore, where it’s no longer ignorable. Now they’re willing to play with fire, risking the future of the polity over little more than hurt feelings, in a way that would have been unthinkable not long ago.”
Related: “And now, in sports news, Deadspin preparing victory lap in event of Sen. John McCain’s death,” tweeting, “I don’t want to hear another [f***ing] word about John McCain unless he dies or does something useful for once.”
I’m so old, I can remember when the left pretended to condemn eliminationist rhetoric.
UPDATE: Liberals Stop Pretending to Care About John McCain After His Health Care Vote.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Female College Student Charged with Raping Teen Boy. “20-year-old North Carolina woman Taylor Ashton Moseley was arrested Monday for the statutory rape of a 14-year-old boy.”
NOT FROM THE ONION: Hip health freaks think smoking is cool again. “The act of smoking is like a meditation practice. You’re consciously breathing in and exhaling.”
Who are these people? Well, here’s one: “Thirty-two-year-old Ashley Arenson, who splits her time between Bushwick and Berlin.” There’s a photo, but let’s be honest: You already see her in your mind, and what you see looks just like the photo anyway.
UPDATE (from Ed): “It’s tobacco — it’s one of the healthiest things you can put into your body,” as the Sleeper diet inches ever closer:
GENERAL JACK D. RIPPER HAS THE LAST LAUGH: Sperm counts among western men have halved in last 40 years – study.
LEADERSHIP: Mattis: Get unnecessary training off warfighters’ backs.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has ordered a review of all the administrative and training requirements that prevent trigger pullers and pilots alike from focusing on warfighting.
In the memo obtained by Military Times, Mattis on Friday directed the services, the National Guard Bureau and the combatant commanders to determine what changes are needed to give each branch increased flexibility to organize, train and equip more ready and lethal forces.
Notably, Mattis has ordered a review of the “requirements for mandatory force training that does not directly support core tasks” – the many hours soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines spend prior to deployment meeting the Pentagon-required tasks that sometimes have little to do with the role they will actually fulfill when deployed.
Wait, no more transgender-sensitivity training for the Delta Force guys?
NONPARTISAN PROFESSIONALISM IS A MYTH. THERE’S ALWAYS AN “EXCEPTION” THAT FAVORS THE LEFT: “Psychiatry group tells members they can defy ‘Goldwater rule’ and comment on Trump’s mental health.”
Trump is dragging down virtually the entire establishment, simply by causing it to froth at the mouth and act foolishly and hypocritically, in ways that are plainly obvious to ordinary people.
ON THURSDAY, ADAM CAROLLA WILL BE TESTIFYING ABOUT FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS.
Here’s his documentary project, No Safe Spaces, and here’s his appearance on the subject on Jimmy Kimmel.
REPORT: HOUSE STAFFER IMRAN AWAN ARRESTED AT DULLES AND CHARGED WITH BANK FRAUD, Jim Lokay of Washington’s Fox5 tweets. “Awan & his relatives worked for Hse IT for more than decade, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars. He declared bankruptcy in ’12,” Chad Pergram of Fox News adds, noting that “Fox is told that Hse IT staffer Imran Awan is still on Hse payroll for moment under Wasserman Schultz,” and “Group of Hse Dems fired other Hse IT staffers probed by USCP. But Wasserman Schultz kept Awan on payroll. He was barred from Hse servers.”
If you missed it Sunday night, the Daily Caller reported that “FBI Seized Smashed Hard Drives From Debbie Wasserman Schultz IT Aide’s Home:” “Pakistani-born Imran Awan, long-time right-hand IT aide to the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman, has since desperately tried to get the hard drives back, the individual told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Who’s Avoiding Sex, And Why.
SO MANY SNOWFLAKES, ALL ALIKE: 3-in-4 White Democrats Find It ‘Stressful’ To Talk to Trump Supporters.
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THAT WOULD BE A GREAT TITLE FOR A CHILDREN’S BOOK: The Loneliest Ferrari.
