WELL, IT IS NO ATLANTIS! ‘Lost continent’ found under Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
Archive for 2017
February 5, 2017
THE DYSTOPIC IS LOOKING FOR EXAMPLES: More Examples of Weaponized Empathy.
NOT ERRORS, DISTORTIONS: Errors From The Press Are Piling Up In The Opening Weeks Of The Trump Administration.
I WAS CRITICIZING THE ARGENTINIAN SOCIALIST BEFORE IT WAS FASHIONABLE: Conservative criticism intensifies against Pope Francis.
THAT’S CRAZY TALK RIGHT THERE: Forget Milo. Why Not Have Real Debates on College Campuses?
IN THE EMAIL FROM KATY HUTH JONES: Treachery and Truth.
AH, GOOD OLD RUSSIA: Russia: Everything Old is New Again… Again.
THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF THE LIBERAL ANTIFADA: Burning down Berkeley’s love of free speech.
Yes, the guest was Milo Yiannopoulos — a performance artist who specializes in shocking the liberal academic bourgeoisie. And he planned to provoke — to denounce the school’s “sanctuary” policies and call for the prosecution of school officials who supposedly endanger other students with those policies. But if the only “threat” was a speech, no one had to attend.
The city’s mayor, Jesse Arreguin, promoted the censorship drive, tweeting that afternoon: “Using speech to silence marginalized communities and promote bigotry is unacceptable. Hate speech isn’t welcome in our community.” That all but invited the area’s notorious “black bloc” radicals to join in and make it a riot — complete with assaults on suspected Trump or Milo supporters.
Which left Arreguin pleading, “Destruction and violence are contrary to progressive values and have no place in our community.”
DUH. HAVING FAILED TO MAKE US DISARM IN THE FACE OF AN AGGRESSIVE USSR, THEY CONTINUE THEIR WAR AGAINST AMERICA: The Doomsday Clock is a Measure of Liberal Hysteria, not Armageddon.
SICKLY FANTASIES OF ETERNAL, SELF DRAMATIZING ADOLESCENTS: Resistance Is Facile.
SPEAK UP FOR SILENCE: Be Like Library Man.
VILE PROGS ALWAYS PROJECT: Progressive Sexism.
February 4, 2017
CHANGE: Argentina’s Trump-Like Immigration Order Rattles South America. “Argentina is so used to celebrating immigration as a cornerstone of society that a 19th-century saying — to govern is to populate — remains in use to this day. But in an abrupt shift coinciding with the immigration restrictions put in place by the Trump administration, President Mauricio Macri has issued a decree curbing immigration to Argentina, with his government declaring that newcomers from poorer countries in Latin America bring crime. The measures announced by Mr. Macri in recent days made it much easier to deport immigrants and restrict their entry, prompting irate comparisons to President Trump and igniting a fierce debate over immigration. . . . But opinion polls in Argentina showed widespread support for limiting immigration, and some say the new decree does not go far enough.”
LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS AND EDITORS: NBC links to story headlined “Holocaust Victims’ Violins Restored and Teaching Younger Generation of Musicians,” with tweet that reads, “Holocaust victims’ violins restored to teach younger generation of Muslims.”
As Michael Walsh quips in response, “Looking forward to young Muslims performing Mendelssohn, Copland, Bernstein, Bloch, Gershwin, et al.”
Heh, indeed.™
ANNALS OF PEARL-CLUTCHING: Eric Posner condemns Trump for mocking judge; forgets Lincoln went way further.
Well, and I remember when Obama attacked the Supreme Court to its face during a State Of The Union Address, over Citizens United. But that was different because shut up.
WELL, TO BE FAIR, NEITHER CAN ANYONE ELSE: CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill Can’t Name One Example of Right-Wing Rioters on Campuses.
WELL, TO BE FAIR, NANCY PELOSI AND GUN CONTROL GROUPS LIE A LOT: Nancy Pelosi and gun control groups claim that Neil Gorsuch sides with ‘felons over gun safety.’ “PolitiFact explains why this is unfounded, and I think that’s absolutely right.”
AND NOBODY HAD TO RESIGN THIS TIME: Justice Dept. appeals federal judge’s ruling halting immigration order.