BREAKING: Sessions Over.
Archive for 2018
November 7, 2018
JEFF SESSIONS HAS RESIGNED.
Democrat Rep. Jerrold Nadler is demanding an investigation, which is funny because just last year he was saying this:
The clown show begins!
YES, JOY BEHAR ACTUALLY SAID THIS: The Federalist’s Bre Payton has the sad details.
THIS DOESN’T SURPRISE ME: Ignoring Patient Input Tied to Diagnostic Error.
MICHIGAN VOTERS ADOPTED THE MICHIGAN CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE BY A WIDE MARGIN ON THIS DAY IN 2006: The Initiative was a clone of California’s Proposition 209. Like Proposition 209, it banned discrimination and preferential treatment based on race, color, sex, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education and public contracting.
Here’s the one of the most interesting aspects of it: In a party-line vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting en banc, held that such an initiative was unconstitutional. Michigan voters were not even allowed to require their state universities and agencies to refrain from discrimination intended to help minorities.
For an explanation of the arguments read The Parade of Horribles Lives: Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary.
Yes, the Supreme Court eventually reversed (over the dissent of two Justices).
Those who wonder why voters who don’t like Trump voted for him anyway should cogitate for while on the Sixth Circuit’s party-line vote in this case. (Note that one judge who was technically appointed by Bush was really a Clinton holdover appointee and voted with the other Democratic appointees.)
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Strange snafu misroutes domestic US Internet traffic through China Telecom. For two and a half years.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: I Got A $1,300 Vampire Facial Like Kim Kardashian — & It Was So Intense.
I DUNNO, KIDS GET SPANKED LESS THAN EVER, AND ARE ALSO MORE EMOTIONALLY FRAGILE THAN EVER: Spanking Is Still Really Common and Still Really Bad for Kids. I have real doubts about the conventional wisdom here, notwithstanding “a consensus of scholars and doctors.”
NEED A FLU SHOT? Get It Now.
ROGER KIMBALL: The midterms delivered a feeble rivulet, not a blue wave.
IRA STOLL: Takeaways From The 2018 Midterm Elections.
SCIENCE: Most tonsillectomies performed on children no benefit to health. On the one hand, I believe that, but on the other hand, my sister had to move heaven and earth to get my nephew a much-needed tonsillectomy that, once performed, resolved his problems. There’s too much one-size-fits-all medicine out there.
BEN, I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE TO YOU. JUST ONE WORD: PLASTICS. Analyzing Lego Porn, the Fetish That Will Ruin Your Childhood.
The 21st century is not turning out as I had hoped, to coin an Insta-phrase.
HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE: War and Ebola in eastern Congo.
SOME TRUTHS MUST NOT BE SPOKEN: Professor attacked for reporting that liberal administrators outnumber conservative ones.
HEADLINES FROM 1968: Officials: Ronald Reagan LSD probe bigger than you think, 14 nuke sailors snagged.
And/or Monty Python sketches from 1972:
I BET DEMOCRATS ARE WISHING that Obama Attorney General Eric Holder had not set a precedent that the AG may simply ignore subpoenas from the House of Representatives.
IT’S THE MORNING AFTER, SO I CAN’T BE ACCUSED OF VOTER SUPPRESSION: Elites, especially left-of-center elites, seem to care a whale of a lot more about the tiniest “interference” with what they regard as voting rights than they do about … well … any of our other rights. Granted, voting rights are important and vigilance is appropriate. But as I wrote a few weeks ago in my Statement in an Commission on Civil Rights report: “[I]f anything, elected officials may be accused of spending a disproportionate amount of time worrying about voting issues (and hence about their own re-election) to the detriment of issues that affect their constituents’ lives in more direct ways.” Ditto for denizens of governmental bureaucracies. (And it’s not that they hold self-governance in such high regard. If they did, they’d be concerned about the reach the bureaucratic state. But they like that leviathan. They think it’s a nice little anti-democratic monster.)
It would be nice if they were half as vigilant about economic liberties and free expression (which fewer and fewer seem to care about today).
DIVERSITY PROBLEM: 100 percent of UGA administrators, 67.9 percent of faculty donate to Dems.
