Archive for 2018

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Teach Someone To Drive A Stick. I taught my daughter to drive a stick — on the Mazda RX-8, whose lack of low-end grunt made it a bit tricky — but I wonder if she’ll ever use it again.

DALLAS MORNING NEWS: Facebook’s conservative problem is something Big Tech must answer for. “We don’t really know what motivates their decisions about what is and isn’t acceptable speech both inside their organizations and, more important, on their platforms. All we know is that they are the ever-more-powerful arbiters of who gets to say what to the massive audiences within social media’s reach. Conservatives have good reason to be suspicious about how all internet giants, but particularly Facebook and Twitter, control and monitor what is said on their platforms.”

THE MASK SLIPS: Democrats’ top issues are socialized medicine, repealing the 2nd Amendment.

A 2020 primary survey conducted by TargetPoint Consulting revealed voter fatigue among Democrats with the two-time failed presidential candidate. The poll is the first to include Clinton among 2020 hopefuls, just as her former aides suggest she is gearing up for another presidential campaign.

The survey also reveals the top two most important issues to Democratic voters—securing single-payer health care and repeal of the Second Amendment.

After the Second comes the First.

Plus: “Former vice president Joe Biden leads the field, but with just 29 percent of the vote. Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders is the only other candidate to crack 20 percent, while Clinton shares a distant fourth place with just 8 percent of likely voters saying they would support her in 2020.”

MORE: Fox News backs CNN in lawsuit against Trump, wants Acosta reinstated.

In its complaint filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, CNN argued that the revocation of Acosta’s access was “the culmination of years of hostility by President Trump against CNN and Acosta” based on its reporting and “an unabashed attempt to censor the press and exclude reporters from the White House who challenge and dispute the President’s point of view.”

In response, the Justice Department argued in a court filing that Trump has “broad discretion to regulate access to the White House for journalists.”

Wallace said Fox News intended to file an amicus brief in support of CNN with the court ahead of an afternoon hearing.

Fox News is alienating its core audience in support of a deeply flawed lawsuit.

Dumb.