THEN MAYBE HE SHOULD BOMB FEWER CITIZENS OF OTHER MUSLIM NATIONS: Iran’s Khamenei urges Muslim nations to unite against U.S.
Archive for 2018
April 26, 2018
I BLAME RUSSIAN HACKERS: Joy Reid Blog Mocked ‘Chubbed-Out Shrew’ Rosie O’Donnell, Backed ‘Kick-Ass Funny’ Donald Trump.
TENNESSEE’S NEW STRENGTH COACH sounds like he’s read his Rippetoe. We’ve had strength and conditioning weaknesses, so this looks like a good hire.
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: New Low: Katie Couric Chats Up Sex Robots Who Want to ‘Make Love’ to Her ‘Hot Body.’
JEFFREY TOOBIN: The D.N.C.’s Lawsuit Against Russia and the Trump Campaign Isn’t a Bad Idea.
Narrator: “It was a bad idea.”
THE ETERNAL TRUTHS OF FUNDRAISING, in poetic form.
ROGER SIMON: Kanye Exposes Liberals and Progressives as the New Reactionaries.
Read the whole thing.
DRIP, DRIP, DRIP: Joy Reid’s Hacking Story Filled With Holes.
“I don’t think in terms of targeting [Reid] the juice doesn’t seem worth the squeeze. Why would you go through such a thing?” said McNew.
Proving Reid’s case, McNew argued, would requiring digging up up over decade-old data and proving tampering took place — something neither Reid or her hired expert have done.
“Her claims are incredulous to say the least. Proving what she’s saying with any certainly would be extremely difficult,” McNew said. “People’s viewpoints have changed a lot [in the last 25 years].”
Further undercutting Reid’s claim is that on social media she repeatedly exhibited the same behavior — such as accusing her political opponents of being closet homosexuals — that she blamed on hackers.
Reid repeatedly claimed right-wing author Ann Coulter is secretly a man and derided her as a “drag queen.” In a July 23, 2010 tweet, Reid corrected a CNN reporter who referred to Coulter as “her.”
It’s time for Reid to man up — not that there’s anything wrong with that.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, DELIBERATE MARGINALIZATION EDITION: University requires viewpoint diversity group’s events to pass ‘health and safety’ review. “No other clubs are subject to this policy.”
Related:
HEY, BIG SAVER: Ford Plans $11.5 Billion in Extra Cuts, Kills Slow-Selling Cars.
Ford said it won’t invest in new generations of sedans for the North American market, eventually reducing its car lineup to the Mustang and an all-new Focus Active crossover coming out next year. By 2020, almost 90 percent of its portfolio in the region will be pickups, SUVs and commercial vehicles, the company said.
That means the end of the road for slow-selling sedans such as the Taurus, Fusion and Fiesta in the U.S. The automaker conspicuously left the Lincoln Continental and MKZ sedans off its hit list, but since those models share mechanical foundations with Ford siblings, their futures also are in doubt.
It’s been sad watching the not-so-slow death of the Great American Sedan, but customer tastes have shifted to light trucks and crossovers in a big way.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Delaware woman who killed husband’s mistress previously went on app looking for marriage help.
NOW GOOGLE HAS CREATED THE BUREAUCRAT’S ULTIMATE COVER-UP TOOL: It’s called “Expiring Email” and it has many on the Left and Right sides of the transparency community worried that government coverups just got supercharged.
REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Unpacking the Other Clinton-Linked Russia Dossier. Sid Blumenthal is involved, so you know it’s extra-shady.
MAYBE THEY SHOULD JUST LEAVE “ANTI” OFF OF THEIR NAME: Defamation by the Anti-Defamation League:
The ADL’s national office tweeted, “thank you to @umich student leaders for exposing Canary Mission’s Islamophobic & racist rhetoric as ‘antithetical and destructive to supporting Israel and eliminating anti-Semitism on campus.'”
I googled ADL and Canary Mission, and could not find any ADL report analyzing or condemning Canary Mission. So I emailed ADL’s media folks yesterday morning, and asked if they could “please point me to the underlying evidence that ADL has relied on in support of it accusation of racism and Islamaphobia?” I sent a follow up email six hours later, and received this response: “Our research team is pulling together examples for you, so please stand by.”
It’s now the next morning, and still nothing. One would think that the ADL, an organization whose reputation depends on correctly identifying anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, wouldn’t accuse a fellow Jewish organization, or anyone for that matter, of racism without having the research on hand to support it. It shouldn’t take a post hoc research effort, much less one that hasn’t borne fruit more than twenty-four hours after an initial inquiry.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, COMMIE PROPAGANDA EDITION: Prof says individual rights fuel ‘capitalist violence.’ He’s from the increasingly-pathetic Marquette.
RONNY JACKSON withdraws from VA Nomination. Weird how everyone from both parties loved him and praised him until Trump nominated him.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Rapper and cultural icon Kanye West cause quite a stir when he tweeted what appeared to be support for President Trump. And by support, I mean not HATE.”
Clearly, the thought criminal must be made an unperson.
LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY: Congressmen Call for Disclosure of U.S. Aid to Palestinian Terrorists.
Reps. David McKinley (R., W.V.) and John Ratcliffe (R., Texas) are circulating a letter to Republican offices urging them to join an effort to compel the State Department to detail the amount of taxpayer money that has been used by the Palestinian government to pay terrorists under a longstanding policy known as “pay to slay.”
Following passage of the Taylor Force Act, which requires the Palestinian government to stop these payments or face a full cutoff in aid, the lawmakers are seeking to immediately freeze U.S. aid to the Palestinians until the State Department explains to lawmakers how it plans to enforce the new law.
The letter follows a recent Free Beacon report disclosing that the Palestinian Authority continues to spend U.S. aid dollars on terrorists. Palestinian officials have also made clear that they have no intention of following the new law and will continue to provide terrorists and their familiar with compensation.
“We urge you to immediately suspend all aid payments to the Palestinian Authority,” the lawmakers write, according to a copy of the letter viewed by the Free Beacon. “Further, we urge you to make the cessation of this abhorrent practice that incentivizes terrorism a pre-condition for any U.S.-brokered peace talks between the sovereign state of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.”
Indeed. But that would do nothing to solve the root problem, which is that Congress has effectively surrendered its power of the purse to the Executive Branch.
THE LAWSUIT AGAINST HARVARD FOR DISCRIMINATING AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS IN ADMISSIONS IS PROCEEDING: Harvard has now appointed an Asian-American attorney to defend its diversity policy. And the U.S. Department of Justice has taken an interest in the case.
The thing that always gets me about race-preferential admissions policies that disadvantage Asian American and white applicants is that, when all is said and done, those policies disadvantage their so-called beneficiaries too. A “Dubious Expediency”: How Race-Preferential Admissions Policies on Campus Hurt Minority Students discusses the evidence.
But the beat goes on. Nobody likes to admit that a policy they’ve been following for 50 years isn’t working.
MICHAEL BARONE: Trump’s Saudi policy gamble.
Seventy-three years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on his trip back from his Yalta conference with U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, held his last meeting with foreign leaders aboard the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal’s Great Bitter Lake. One was with the desert warrior king, Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud, who sailed in with seven live sheep and a tent to sleep in on deck.
The United States had provided almost all of its allies with all the oil they used during World War II. But there were (unfounded) fears that American wells were tapped out, while American geologists produced (well-founded) estimates of giant untapped pools in the Saudi desert. Roosevelt wanted American, not British, firms controlling it
The meeting marked the beginning of a long U.S.-Saudi relationship — or perhaps entanglement is a better word. It lasted beyond Roosevelt’s death two months later and ibn Saud’s in 1953, through the 13 presidents who succeeded FDR and the six sons of ibn Saud, who was born in 1875, who succeeded him as king.
As I’ve remarked in the past, our policy for decades was to keep the strait of Hormuz open. Now that we’re a major oil exporter, we only have to be able to close them.
HMM: How America’s Mistakes In The Middle East Are Benefiting China. “The paralyzing and costly zigzags of American policy over the last couple of decades have opened doors for rivals to benefit at its expense.”
China — without firing a shot, committing troops to active military intervention in the Middle East’s myriad proxy conflicts, and doing little more in international diplomacy than raising their hands against the occasional contentious resolution at the United Nations Security Council — became the world’s largest investor in the Arab Middle East two years ago, with commitments of almost $30 billion and a close to 32 percent share of all foreign direct investment. Beijing seeks to integrate the Middle East’s largest economies into its One Belt One Road development initiative while avoiding imperial overstretch, recognizing the crucial role of economic development, human capital, and strategic investment to future global power.
In line with its cynically independent foreign policy — which seeks little to no input from secondary powers about its interests — China has methodically reaped the rewards of America’s mistakes.
Read the whole thing.