WE HAVE THE WORST POLITICAL CLASS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. When Al Franken body-slammed a demonstrator: “‘I got down low and took his legs out,’ said Franken afterwards…’I was a wrestler so I used a wrestling move.'”
Archive for 2017
May 27, 2017
THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED PRESIDENT, OPEN SEXISM WOULD RUN RAMPANT. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Man Buys Movie Ticket, Breaks Internet. “In other news, the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain has announced several women-only screenings of Wonder Woman. . . . A man bought a ticket to see a movie. The movie theater sold him that ticket. He says he plans to sit quietly in his seat and enjoy the film, just like everybody else who bought a ticket. Here’s a sample of the reaction so far to this completely commonplace occurrence.”
Bake me a cake, feminists.
JUDICIAL WATCH: Hundreds Vote Illegally in North Carolina after Court Bans Election Integrity Law. “Less than a year after a federal appellate court sided with the Obama administration to strike down North Carolina’s election integrity reforms, a state audit reveals that hundreds of votes were illegally cast by felons and non-citizens in just one election. Voter impersonation, double voting and irregularities in absentee ballots sent via mail also tainted the election, according to the investigation conducted by the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE). The probe analyzed records from the 2016 general election.”
The reputation of the judiciary is already sinking. If voters believe that it’s allowing voter fraud, it will sink much further.
UPDATE: Related: Paul Mirengoff: Trump resisters in robes: the Fourth Circuit’s travel ban decision.
IN THE MAIL: From Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: The Number Of Law School Graduates Has Fallen 28% Amidst Declining Demand For Legal Services.
YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG, BUT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS INTERESTED IN YOU: U.S. Soccer Silent on Whether Religious Players Can Opt Out of Wearing LGBT Jerseys.
“Celebrate diversity” morphed into “Conform, proles” so slowly, I hardly even noticed.
A lobbyist friend who visited Capitol Hill recently came away horrified. “I now am ready to believe that the partisanship is so unhinged that it’s a threat to the Republic,” she writes in an email.
This Washington hysteria comes at a time of full employment, booming stocks, relative peace and technological marvels like an electronic robot named Alexa who fetches and plays for you songs of your choice. What’s the fuss about?
We all know the answer: Donald Trump. The Washington body politic has been invaded by an alien presence and, true to the laws of nature, that body is feverishly trying to expel it. These particular laws of nature demand rejection of anything that threatens the livelihoods and prestige of the permanent governing class.
The “threat” that has Washington quaking is the first serious effort in a long time to curb federal regulatory power, wasteful spending, and a propensity to run up mountainous budget deficits and debt. That’s presumably what the voters wanted when they elected Donald Trump. Democrats—accurately regarded as the party of government—seem to fear that Mr. Trump might actually, against all odds, pull it off.
The Washington Post, the New York Times and other apostles of the Democratic Party have apparently set out to prove that despite their shaky business models they can still ignite an anti-Trump bonfire.
So far, what they’ve gotten is people cheering when journalists are shoved to the floor. Plus:
The Washington community knows how to fight back when it feels threatened. Leakers are having a ball, even if it has taken a lot of journalistic imagination to turn the most notorious leaks into “scandals.” Almost everyone in town has a stake in fending off the Trump threat: government workers and the businesses that serve them, public unions, lobbyists and their clients, owners of posh hotels and restaurants that cater to well-heeled visitors seeking government favors, journalists whose prestige derives from the power center they cover, academics who show politicians how to mismanage the economy, real-estate agents feeding on the boom—to name a few. It’s a good living, and few take kindly to a brash outsider who proclaims it is his mission to drain the swamp.
Mr. Trump is on the attack and Washington is fighting back. Is the Republic in danger? Another question is how much danger will it be in if Mr. Trump loses?
I don’t know why these people think that Trump voters will just stay home and sigh if the Establishment wins. It’s likely to be something much uglier. That the Establishment can’t even conceive of other people besides itself deciding to ditch the rules is just one more reason that it’s unfit to govern.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: This is what it’s like to be struck by lightning.
REMEMBERING A PRESIDENT THE PRESS WORSHIPPED — AND COVERED FOR: JFK’s last birthday: Gifts, champagne and wandering hands on the presidential yacht.
KNIFE RIGHTS UPDATE: Texas: A HUGE 2nd Amendment Victory: No More Illegal Knives.
ALL AMERICAN WEEK BLAST: The 82nd Airborne Division’s annual celebration. This year is special — it’s the division’s 100th birthday. The division was formed in 1917 as an infantry division. In 1942 it became an airborne division.
TURKEY ISSUES ARREST WARRANT FOR BASKETBALL STAR: The Turkish government says Oklahoma City Thunder Enes Kanter is a terrorist. He belongs to the Gulen Movement.
Kanter was detained last week in Romania after the Turkish government revoked his passport. In a video about it, Kanter said Erdogan is the “Hitler of this century.”
Kanter returned to the United States, via London, on Monday using his green card. Kanter, who claims he routinely gets death threats, said in interviews following the incident he was woken up by his manager in the middle of the night in Indonesia a few nights before and told the Indonesian “secret service and army” were looking for him because he is a “dangerous man.”
Kanter told reporters he plans on becoming a United States citizen.
The Turkish government believes Gulenists were behind the 2016 coup.
FROM MAURICE STUCKE AND ARIEL EZRACHI: Looking Up in the Data-Driven Economy.
SHE-WOMEN MAN-HATERS CLUB: Salon’s Misandrist Assault On Critics Of Women-Only ‘Wonder Woman’ Premiere.
FLASHBACK:
ILLEGAL DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE: How Team Obama tried to hack the election.
New revelations have surfaced that the Obama administration abused intelligence during the election by launching a massive domestic-spy campaign that included snooping on Trump officials.
The irony is mind-boggling: Targeting political opposition is long a technique of police states like Russia, which Team Obama has loudly condemned for allegedly using its own intelligence agencies to hack into our election.
The revelations, as well as testimony this week from former Obama intel officials, show the extent to which the Obama administration politicized and weaponized intelligence against Americans.
President Trump needs to launch a major investigation, and fire a lot of people. And maybe prosecute some folks from the Obama Administration. This is much worse than Watergate, which only involved bugging a single office. Obama basically bugged America.
TO BE FAIR, A LOT OF PEOPLE CONSIDER THE SURGE IN POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED LEAKS FROM THE CIA TO BE SEDITION: Ex-(Acting) CIA Director: CIA would consider Kushner actions ‘espionage.’
UPDATE: From the comments: “Seems to me that if anyone is doing Russia’s bidding, it’s jackasses like this guy and Brennan and Comey and the Democrat Party.” Well, if you assume the Russians’ goal is to divide and weaken the United States, whose actions since the election have contributed more to that?
HISTORY: Why Did U.S. Postmasters Once Have So Much Political Cachet?
Honestly, the partisanship and corruption of our current “nonpartisan” civil service are making me rethink the Spoils System.
YALE IS A DISGRACE, AND PRESIDENT PETER SALOVEY MADE THINGS WORSE: Yale Cements Its Line in the Academic Sand by Awarding the Student ‘Truthtellers’ Who Bullied Faculty: In 2015, an email over Halloween costume propriety prompted a public debate over free speech and race. Its conclusion is telling.
OUR FRIENDS THE TURKS: Turkey seeks arrest of NBA star Kanter.
Turkey issued an arrest warrant on Friday for Turkish NBA star Enes Kanter, accusing him of being a member of a “terror group”, a pro-government newspaper reported.
A judge issued the arrest warrant after an Istanbul prosecutor opened an investigation into Kanter’s alleged “membership of an armed terrorist organisation”, Sabah daily reported.
Kanter, 25, a centre for Oklahoma City Thunder, previously backed Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen in Twitter postings after an attempted putsch last July aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey accuses US-based Gulen of ordering the failed coup and refers to the movement as the “Fethullah Terrorist Organisation” (FETO). Gulen denies the claims.
We’ll see if Erdogan’s new powers stretch as far as Oklahoma City.
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