THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED, WE’D SEE RELIGIOUS TESTS FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Bernie Sanders’s Religious Test for Christians in Public Office: During a contentious confirmation hearing, the Vermont senator questioned the faith of the nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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June 9, 2017
FOR ME, IT’S MOSTLY THE PANTS THE WOMEN WEAR: How Yoga Makes Us Happy, According To Scientists.
HILLARY OR BERNIE BUMPER STICKERS ARE A GOOD INDICATOR: Deadly brain-eating amoeba symptoms are difficult to identify.
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EVERYTHING IS AWFUL: Chances Are, Your Soft Serve Ice Cream Is Filled With Funky Ingredients. Honestly, none of these ingredients are particularly funky. Your bigger risk, in my experience, is that the lame teenagers who work in these places (and this applies to frozen yogurt, too) don’t properly clean the machines so you get bacteria that can make you sick. But the bacteria are natural!
FINALLY, IT CAN BE TOLD: Stephen Miller’s Adventures at the Segregated ‘Wonder Woman’ Screening:
By the reaction upon arrival, it became apparent how Twitter outrage is not real life (surprise) and as I had predicted, that no one in the theater would care. This was a movie theater, not a college campus and everyone there was there for the same reason. It’s the most anti-climatic case of a man buying a movie ticket in recent history.
Still though, read the whole thing, which also includes a rather favorable review of the new movie itself. (Yes, amazingly enough, Hollywood still bothers to attach a movie to all of the social media outrage they now deem necessary for marketing purposes.)
And speaking of social media outrage, HA! Feminist FREAKS on [Miller] for saying women-only screening of Wonder Woman was great:
Bless her heart — and bake that cake.
MEN WITH CHESTS: Ben Shapiro Takes Aim at Myth of ‘Toxic Masculinity’
WELL, HONESTLY, HE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE ESPECIALLY BRIGHT, DOES HE? Comey was Before Congress to Indict Trump. Instead, He Might Have Indicted Himself.
Congress criminalizes lying to Congress under oath. The relevant statutes are 18 USC 1621 and 18 USC 1001. Section 1621 requires a person first, be making a statement under a sworn oath; second, that statement be “material” to the proceeding; third, the statement be false; and fourth, the statement be knowingly and willfully false. Section 1001 mirrors those elements, without the same tribunal prerequisites: it also requires the government prove a person willfully made a materially false statements. In either case, the primary focus is: first, a false statement; second, a false statement as material to the matter; third, the false statement be made knowingly and willfully. A statement is not false if it can be interpreted in a completely innocent manner. A statement is not material if it is not particularly relevant or pertain to the subject of the matter. Willfully remains a very high standard of proof in the criminal law, though less in perjury cases than in tax cases: it requires the person know they are lying.
Sadly, for Comey, Sessions has the smoking gun: Sessions’ own email sent and read by Comey, according to the Department of Justice statement, showing Comey in fact did know “the parameters of the Attorney General’s recusal” despite his repeated comments to the contrary to Senator Kamala Harris’ questions.
I blame the Russians.
TRADE WARS: Trump’s jobs plan could make your beer more expensive.
Tim Weiner, senior commodity risk manager at Molson Coors Brewing Co. and its MillerCoors LLC unit, believes this may very well happen after the commander-in-chief expedited an investigation into the price of all aluminum coming into the US earlier this year.
“If there are duties on aluminum coming to this country, it will obviously get passed on to us and the customer,” he explained at an industry conference in Chicago this week, according to Bloomberg.
“Our prices will go up,” he said.
Roughly 60 percent of the beer that’s produced by MillerCoors — the second-largest brewer behind Anheuser-Busch — is packaged in aluminum cans, Weiner said.
And makers of bottled beers would raise their prices to match, just because they could.
JOANNE JACOBS: Do college students learn to think? Many do not. Higher education keeps costing more and delivering less.
FADING FAST: Pelosi Questions Trump’s Mental Health, Then Shows Senility.
“Senile” might be too strong a word, but it does look at least like Pelosi should take her own advice about getting some sleep.
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RETAIL BLUES: List Of Retailers In Danger Of Bankruptcy Hits Record 22.
The list includes:
Boardriders SA – sporting subsidiary of Quiksilver
The Bon-Ton Stores – parent of department store chain
Fairway Group Holdings – food retailer
Tops Holding II – supermarket operator
99 Cents Only Stores – discount retailer
TOMS Shoes – footwear company
David’s Bridal – wedding dresses and formalwear seller
Evergreen AcqCo 1 LP – parent of thrift chain Savers
Charming Charlie – women’s jewelry and accessories
Vince LLC – clothing retailer
Calceus Acquisition – owner of Cole Haan footwear firm
Charlotte Russe – women’s clothing
Neiman Marcus Group – luxury department store
Sears Holdings – owner of Sears and Kmart.
Indra Holdings – holding company owner of Totes Isotoner
Velocity Pooling Vehicle – does business as MAG, Motorsport Aftermarket Group
Chinos Intermediate Holdings – parent of J. Crew Group
Everest Holdings – manages Eddie Bauer brand
Nine West Holdings – clothing, shoes and accessories
Claire’s Stores – accessories and jewelry
True Religion Apparel – men’s and women’s clothing
Gymboree – children’s apparel
I was surprised to see Neiman’s, given that it’s almost as much a place to be seen shopping as it is a place to shop.
BREAKING: CNN AXES REZA ASLAN FOR FIRING OFF DISGUSTING ANTI-TRUMP TWEETS. Of course, Aslan’s disgusting nature was revealed long before his infamous brain eating segment and anti-Trump meltdown:
That tweet was written just a year and a half after another CNN newsreader became vaporish when someone used the word “crosshairs” during the left’s brief new civility pose:
On Tuesday’s John King USA, CNN’s John King issued a prompt on-air apology minutes after a guest on his program used the term “crosshairs” during a segment: “We’re trying to get away from using that kind of language.”
Keep trying, fellas. Speaking of which, as Ben Domenech writes the Federalist, “CNN’s War On Trump Is Going Swimmingly.”
Earlier: Victor Davis Hanson on CNN’s meltdown over the past couple of weeks, the “Crude News Network:”
HAVE YOU HUGGED A FRACKER TODAY? Energy Superpower USA: American Oil Exports Double, Reshaping Global Energy Markets.
Hat tip to Rand Simberg, who tweeted, “Breaking the back of OPEC is one of the biggest unreported stories since the end of the Cold War.”
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YES, BUT IN SO DOING THEY JUST MAKE CLEAR THAT THEY’RE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FRONT GROUPS, NOT “CIVIL RIGHTS” GROUPS AT ALL: Can Charlotte Pride parade exclude Gays for Trump float?
ED MORRISSEY: Senate Inching Closer To ObamaCare-Repeal Compromise?
The pace of the Medicaid-expansion rollback is hardly a minor issue. That accounts for all of the net cost savings that qualified the House version of the AHCA for reconciliation in the Senate (presumably). The CBO’s latest score for the AHCA showed that the rollback under the 2020 deadline would save $665 billion over the next decade, with the overall bill coming in with a cost savings of just $119 billion. Rolling back the end date will have a big impact on whether the overall package results in enough savings to qualify under reconciliation, and there’s not a lot of room for error.
In order to make that work, the Senate may have to keep some tax components in place, which won’t sit well with conservatives. And those aren’t the only components that may remain, according to a less optimistic look from the Washington Post.
Or they could employ the Reid Option and, you know, fulfill their oft-stated promise to actually repeal ObamaCare.