THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED WE’D SEE OPEN RACISM ON CAMPUS. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! “A graduate student teaching assistant at the University of Pennsylvania admitted to intentionally calling on white men last, and only if she has to, during class discussions. UPenn announced that is will be investigating the matter, but flatly denied rumors that it has removed Stephanie McKellop from the program.”
Sounds like the sort of thing the Department of Education should be looking into.
THE INSTA-WIFE IS NOT IMPRESSED with “feminist” proposals to impose a curfew on men.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: White, male student under fire for defending diversity of thought: ‘punchable, drag him, expel him.’ “A white, male student at Chapman University has been maligned on social media after penning an op-ed for his school newspaper that argued campus diversity efforts, while seemingly offered with good intentions, actually breed radicalism and silence dissent.” Sounds like he’s got a point.
ANDREW MCCARTHY: It’s Not Just The Clintons: The Obama Administration’s Uranium One Scandal. “The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their ‘public service.’ The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests. The administration green-lighted the transfer of control over one-fifth of American uranium-mining capacity to Russia, a hostile regime — and specifically to Russia’s state-controlled nuclear-energy conglomerate, Rosatom. Worse, at the time the administration approved the transfer, it knew that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was engaged in a lucrative racketeering enterprise that had already committed felony, extortion, fraud, and money-laundering offenses.”
THE NEW YORKER does more marketing work for my paper on military coups.
But I thought all the woke lefties were hoping for a military coup. It’s hard to keep up.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: The Hill: Bill Clinton sought State’s permission to meet with Russian nuclear official during Obama uranium decision.
As he prepared to collect a $500,000 payday in Moscow in 2010, Bill Clinton sought clearance from the State Department to meet with a key board director of the Russian nuclear energy firm Rosatom — which at the time needed the Obama administration’s approval for a controversial uranium deal, government records show.
Arkady Dvorkovich, a top aide to then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and one of the highest-ranking government officials to serve on Rosatom’s board of supervisors, was listed on a May 14, 2010, email as one of 15 Russians the former president wanted to meet during a late June 2010 trip, the documents show.
“In the context of a possible trip to Russia at the end of June, WJC is being asked to see the business/government folks below. Would State have concerns about WJC seeing any of these folks,” Clinton Foundation foreign policy adviser Amitabh Desai wrote the State Department on May 14, 2010, using the former president’s initials and forwarding the list of names to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s team.
The email went to two of Hillary Clinton’s most senior advisers, Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills.
And it sounds like even they were dubious:
Current and former Clinton aides told The Hill that the list of proposed business executives the former president planned to meet raised some sensitivities after Bill Clinton’s speaker bureau got the invite for the lucrative speech.
Hillary Clinton had just returned from Moscow and there were concerns about the appearance of her husband meeting with officials so soon after.
In addition, two of the Russians on the former president’s list had pending business that would be intersecting with State.
On a related note, a reader emails:
You know…when Hillary “fell on stairs” and “broke her toe” and then cancelled all the remaining interviews, I DID wonder if she was going into hiding b/c a story was about to break. Seems the uranium deal story is it. Yet she’s still being protected. I’m actually surprised at that. Figured if the DNC was really tired of her, they’d let it rip.
Yeah, the press hasn’t stopped covering for her the way it stopped covering for Harvey Weinstein. But I think that’s mostly because covering for her on this is a necessary part of covering for Obama.
UPDATE: And on that last note, see this from Andrew McCarthy. “The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal. It is an Obama-administration scandal.”
TAKE OFF AND NUKE TWITTER FROM ORBIT. IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE. Russia-linked Twitter account helped Drexel professor’s ‘White Genocide’ tweet go viral, prompting university investigation.
IT’S DEJA DINKINS ALL OVER AGAIN:
Shot:
It wasn’t so long ago that things were completely crazy, when guests at cocktail parties chatted about strategies for dealing with muggers (it was widely believed that you should always carry what we called ”mugger money” so as not to anger your attackers). Those who were brave enough to park cars on city streets made sure to remove the stereos when they parked, then place “No radio, nothing valuable in car” signs on their dashboards.
—“NYC, July 1993,” Kyle Smith, the New York Post, July 21, 2013.
Chaser:
In San Francisco, where no automobile parked on the street is immune from glass-smashing thieves, some people have taken to posting signs on car windows announcing that there are no valuables inside.
The hope, of course, is that a thief will read the notice and decide: “Huh. No valuables in this one.I guess I’ll break into some other car.”
On Tuesday, a Reddit user posted a photo of such a sign and posed the question “Do you think it works?” to the Reddit community. A lively debate ensued.
— “Does placing a ‘no valuables inside’ sign in a car window deter break-ins? Car burglaries are at epidemic levels in San Francisco,” the San Francisco Chronicle, yesterday.
Why are Democrat-controlled cities such cesspits of theft and destruction?
FIGHT TO WIN, AND QUICKLY? What We Can Learn From World War II.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Law School Responses To Speech Protests, From Best (Georgetown), To Worst (Seattle, Thurgood Marshall).
HE SHOULD STEP DOWN OR BE FIRED: Mueller team criticized by fellow attorneys for history of questionable tactics. Also, he’s hopelessly compromised by his relationships with Comey, the Clintons, and the Uranium One scandal.
Related: Harvey Silverglate: How Robert Mueller Tried To Entrap Me.
MICHAEL BARONE: “Administration lawyers made complex, sophisticated arguments that Obama’s clearly illegal actions were actually legal. I’m a graduate of Yale Law School; I know how this is done. Many Americans suspect that condescending elite law school graduates are contemptuous of them and their naive belief that words mean what they say. My experience is that those suspicions are well-founded. “
AT AMAZON, Fall deals on Men’s Jackets and Coats, and on Men’s Sweaters.
SO WE’RE STILL RUNNING A HUGE DEFICIT. I don’t like that, but it’s because there’s no political constituency in either party sufficient to restrain spending. The Tea Party had a modest impact for a few years, but that was crushed by the bipartisan ruling party.
So what do we do? Well, if we’re going to overspend (which seems inevitable), it should be on stuff that would still be valuable after a financial collapse: Roads and other infrastructure. Maybe education, though that’s a pretty iffy area right now. Add your thoughts in the comments.
