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June 11, 2017
A SOLUTION TO TRAFFIC: SureFly, a New Air Taxi That Runs On Electricity—and Gasoline. It’s not exactly a flying car, but . . . .
IN THE MAIL: America in the Age of Trump: Opportunities and Oppositions in an Unsettled World.
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, AT WAR WITH THE STATE LEGISLATURE EDITION: UNC Law School Alums Rally Against Proposed ‘Catastrophic’ 30% Budget Cut As Payback To Liberal Faculty (Especially Gene Nichol). “The school ranks 38th currently in U.S. News & World Report’s ratings. In 2000, it ranked 22nd.”
UPDATE: Eugene Volokh emails: “Might it be useful to note that the budget cut would actually be only about 13% of the school’s budget ($4M out of $31M)? The 30% is the fraction of the school’s state appropriation that would be cut.” Good point. Still a major cut, but not as bad as it sounds.
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN THE “DEEP STATE” WAS SUPPOSED TO JUST BE A FIGMENT OF PARANOID RIGHTISTS’ IMAGINATION: Leading liberals develop blueprint to expand ‘deep state’ and undercut Trump.
Forlorn liberals took refuge at the American Constitution Society’s national convention in Washington this week, discussing whether to encourage the growth of the “deep state” resistance inside the government or fight President Trump from outside.
“The election of Donald Trump was an assault on the federal bureaucracy,” William Yeomans said to a room full of students and civil servants, including those recently displaced by Trump’s administration. “His values are simply not consistent with the values of people who are committed to public service and who believe deeply in the importance of public service.”
Yeomans, an American University law professor with more than 25 years of experience at the Justice Department, was holed up inside the Capital Hilton hotel downtown on a sunny Friday afternoon leading a panel of bureaucrats and scholars divided about how best to fight Trump.
UCLA law professor Jon Michaels said he favors filling the Trump administration with liberals opposed to Trump’s agenda.
“We hear a lot of language about draining the swamp and this idea about a deep state that somehow was going to thwart the intentions or the political mandate of the president,” Michaels said. “I kind of embrace this notion of the ‘deep state.'”
Michaels listed his ideas for how to ensure the success of the “deep state.” Act as a group — a department, across agency lines, as a community — rather than as an individual when pushing back against Trump from the inside, he said. Once such a coalition is formed, he suggested “rogue tweeting” or “leaking to the media” as options for fighting the president.
Just remember, you’re setting the stage for a similar campaign of massive resistance to the next Democrat in the White House. And it may not be limited to the bureaucracy. I mean if this sort of thing is okay, why not refusal to pay taxes, or a Tea Party mob occupying the White House? And that’s just at the top of the slippery slope of “resistance.” At the bottom? Bureaucrats and politicians hanging from lampposts while their families try to evade the mobs. Is this really where you want to go, lefties?
And if you think this is “special” because you think Trump is unfit for office, what about the majority of Americans who think the federal government operates without the consent of the governed? If bureaucrats are free to ignore the law, why should they listen to bureaucrats? Do you really want to live in a Kurt Schlichter novel?
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: New bill would make gun owners protected class under state human rights act. “Pennsylvania is considering making gun owners a protected class of citizens with proposed changes to the Pennsylvania Human Rights Act (PHRA). The new bill, which was introduced by two dozen Republican representatives and one Democrat, would prevent employers from discriminating against employees who own or carry firearms.”
WHERE WAS SHE WHEN THEY WERE ATTACKING SARAH PALIN? J.K. Rowling Calls Out ‘Liberal Cool Guys’ For ‘Crude and Humiliating’ Behavior.
JOHN YOO AND DAVID MARSTON: No case for obstruction from hyper-hyped Comey hearing.
Related: Dershowitz: Comey confirms that I’m right – and all the Democratic commentators are wrong.
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FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHAEL MUKASEY: Lynch ‘Betrayal’ Made DOJ ‘An Arm Of The Clinton Campaign.’
SO IT’S A SHIP WITH NO GUNS? US Navy commissions USS Gabrielle Giffords.
JOHN HINDERAKER: Proof That James Comey Misled the Senate Intelligence Committee.
James Comey says there is a pattern to his dealings with presidents: he is an honest man who only needed to create memos to document his conversations with Donald Trump, because Trump is untruthful. But that isn’t the real pattern. The real pattern is that Comey is a snake in the grass who creates tendentious, self-serving memos that can later be used to cover his own rear end or to discredit presidents, but only if they are Republicans.
He’s a political manipulator, but not an especially bright one.
Related: Comey’s testimony proves he’s the biggest loser.
If you want a visible symbol of all that’s wrong with Washington these days, look no further than the 6-foot-8-inch frame of James B. Comey Jr., whose DC circus act finally closed on Thursday with an unctuous performance before the Senate intelligence committee. Seeking to take down the president of the United States for unceremoniously firing him, the former FBI director succeeded primarily in embarrassing himself and the bureau.
Call him the Biggest Loser.
But Comey’s not alone. During his much-hyped testimony — treated by the media as the second coming of Joe Valachi ratting out the Mafia — Comey did manage to smear president Trump’s character (a “liar”). He also succeeded in wounding his former boss, Loretta Lynch, embarrassing The New York Times and hurting the feelings of the anonymous-quoting media by likening them to “feeding seagulls at the beach.”
For a White House press corps praying for Watergate Redux, Comey even outed himself as this year’s model of Deep Throat, freely admitting he leaked his own memo regarding his unease with Trump via a buddy at Columbia Law School. He admitted he did it to provoke the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the alleged Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election.
Comey’s self-detonation took down others as well. He described in detail how former Attorney General Lynch insisted that he characterize his probe into Hillary Clinton’s egregious mishandling of classified materials as simply a “matter” rather than an “investigation.”
Troubled by Lynch’s prejudicial meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac in Phoenix while his wife was under Justice Department scrutiny, he therefore took the matter into his own hands by injecting the FBI directly into the campaign, not once but twice — something he had no right to do.
Another casualty of his testimony was his description of a “blockbuster” Times story in February that alleged “repeated contacts” between Team Trump and Russian intelligence officials as “almost completely wrong.” That story, like most of the anti-Trump reporting lately in the Times and The Washington Post, was based on anonymous “current and former American officials.” The president has been madly tweeting about “fake news” for months, and here was a classic example of it.
Even Comey’s friends haven’t escaped unscathed. The man who supposedly read Comey’s still-unseen private memo to a reporter, identified as professor Dan Richman, has gone to ground after Trump’s personal attorney, Marc Kasowitz, issued a statement suggesting legal action for “unauthorized disclosure of privileged information.”
Like I said.
ANN ALTHOUSE STANDS UP AGAINST KESHA’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF JERRY SEINFELD: “No means no. Jerry gives Kesha a no and she doesn’t accept the no. She pressures him before finally giving up. Men get to say no too. Kesha displays the classic double standard, that the male no doesn’t matter, that the much-reviled ‘no means yes’ idea lives on.”
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THE UNQUIET GHOSTS OF BENGHAZI: A Ranger Raises Questions.
WHAT HAS THE SWAMP THING EVER DONE TO YOU? Loretta Lynch, Swamp Thing.
IN THE EMAIL FROM TOM ROGNEBY: Coming Home (The Minivandians Book 5).
BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY: Musicians rally to “hug” convicted leaker, Manning.
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE: Movie theater sued for women-only ‘Wonder Woman’ screenings.
WHAT IF WE SAY THE MAGIC WORD? Can Hillary Clinton Please Go Quietly into the Night?
PARTICULARLY BREAST REDUCTIONS? Why more and more dads are getting plastic surgery.