I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT THIS: Lefty receives death threats, oh the humanity…
I MEAN, I COULD SAY THIS:
Archive for 2018
December 5, 2018
IF IT IS A REVOLT THAT WILL MAKE WHAT’S HAPPENING IN FRANCE LOOK LIKE A DAY AT THE BEACH IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER: Ballot harvesting, the wave of the future?
I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED SHOCKED. WITNESS MY SHOCKED FACE: Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Spent $300k on Private Plane Travel in October.
HEY, APPARENTLY NEVADA GOVERNOR ELECT IS NOT PLANNING ON SECOND TERM: Nevada Governor-Elect Plans Push For Gun Control.
I’M NOT WRITING THIS, BECAUSE I’M ALREADY DEAD. AND SO ARE THE MAJORITY OF YOU. AKA, THE WISDOM OF TOM ARNOLD: Tom Arnold: 80 Percent Of Gun Owners Shoot Themselves Or Family Member.
THIS IS MY OBSERVATION, TOO: What Socialists Really Want,
DON’T QUIT NOW, YELLOW JACKETS. RIDE RIGHT THROUGH THEM, THEY’RE DEMORALIZED AS H*LL: France Blinks: Will Defer Global Warming Fuel Tax For Six Months.
THEY’RE VEGETABLES. ALL OF THEM ARE COLORED: VeggieTales Cartoons Are Racist Because Veggie Villains Are Colored!
TO BE FAIR, ONLY A GENIUS COULD UNITE FRANCE THE WAY HE HAS (WINK): The Betrayal of Macron.
December 4, 2018
IS THERE NOTHING IT CAN’T DO? Can the GOP Attract Young Voters? Try Beer, suggests J. Christian Adams:
If the Republicans want to attract young voters, then lead the charge to repeal the federal 21 year old drinking age mandate that Democrats in Congress passed in 1984.
Loudly repeal the mandate and allow states to lower their drinking age to 18 without federal penalty.
Appeal to young voters with beer and bourbon.
The National Minimum Drinking Age Act forced states to change their state laws or else forfeit federal highway money. The 21 year old federal drinking age mandate was chiefly sponsored by Senator Frank Lautenberg, Democrat from New Jersey.
As far as I am concerned, if you are old enough to fight and die for America, you are old enough to drink a beer.
Endorsed. But read the whole thing.
SO I FINISHED KURT SCHLICHTER’S WILDFIRE LAST NIGHT and it was a very enjoyable read. If you liked the first two, you’ll like this one even more.
UPDATE: In the comments, someone asks how I found the time. Well for one thing, I quit Twitter! But also, I make a habit of stopping work around 9:30 or 10 at night and reading a book for an hour or two before bed. I’ll skip that if I have something really urgent to finish, but I find that if I quit reading for pleasure for very long, I actually wind up getting less done. It’s part of keeping the mental machinery regulated, I think.
HE’S RIGHT: We Over-Honor Our Presidents. “Irrespective of whether he was a great man or a poor one, George H. W. Bush was a public employee. He was not a king. He was not a pope. He did not found or save or design the republic. To shut down our civil society for a day in order to mark his peaceful passing is to invert the appropriate relationship between the citizen and the state, and to take yet another step toward the fetishization of an executive branch whose role is supposed to be more bureaucratic than spiritual, but that has come of late to resemble Caesar more than to resemble Coolidge.”
FIGHT THE POWER: Stand Up To Harvard.
OPEN THREAD: This is your chance to shine.
TO BE FAIR, BRIAN STELTER ISN’T A “MEDIA REPORTER.” HE’S A WRANGLER IN THE MEDIA’S SELF-HERDING OPERATION. YOU DON’T HAVE TO KNOW MUCH TO DO THAT JOB. ‘You have to be clueless’: Brian Stelter’s reliable sources don’t know much about the Washington Examiner.
UPDATE: Had the wrong link before. Fixed now. Sorry!
JIM TREACHER IS SETTLING THE MOST DIVISIVE ISSUES: Die Hard Is a Christmas Movie, and Here’s Why.
LIVING THE SMUG LIFE: Dem. Sen. Mazie Hirono: Dems Have Trouble Connecting To Voters Because They ‘Tell Everyone How Smart We Are.’
Hirono gained notoriety during the Brett Kavanaugh saga for saying that men should simply shut up when it comes to allegations of sexual misconduct.
“I’ve been saying it at all of our Senate Democratic retreats, that we need to speak to the heart not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody’s fears and resentments but truly to speak to the hearts so that people know that we’re actually on their side,” she continued. “But we have a really hard time doing that and one of the reasons it was told to me at one of our retreats was that we Democrats know so much, that is true. And we have kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain.”
She’s right — Democratic candidates in all 57 states have made that mistake.
Related: Michelle Obama Tells a Secret: “I have been at probably every powerful table that you can think of, I have worked at nonprofits, I have been at foundations, I have worked in corporations, served on corporate boards, I have been at G-summits, I have sat in at the U.N.: They are not that smart.”
What a way to trash your husband, his administration, its transnational enablers at the UN, and its corporate and media boosters. But then, speaking of the latter, as Ben Rhodes confirmed, “They literally know nothing.”
WEEKLY STANDARD EMPLOYEES BRACE FOR THE WORST AS RUMORS SWIRL SURROUNDING MAG’S IMMINENT DEMISE.
Related: “‘They’re either closing or they’re folding into a page of the Washington Examiner,’ said the former Examiner employee. Yet a current editor at The Weekly Standard disputed that possibility. ‘I don’t think ‘folded’ is the right word. It sounds more like get rid of us entirely,’ the editor said.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): More here. The basic problem is that NeverTrumpism is a niche market even within the political class.
HE’S PROBABLY BEEN SHIPPED OFF TO A SECRET LAB SOMEWHERE DESIGNING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SUPERSOLDIERS: Chinese CRISPR Scientist Who Allegedly Edited Infants’ Genes Is Reportedly Missing.
IT WAS A SUBSIDY TO THE CHATTERING CLASSES, AT THE EXPENSE OF SOCIETY AS A WHOLE: The New York Times looks back on New York Times v. Sullivan. And trust in the news media began declining almost immediately. I mean, as a blogger I’m happy to benefit, but it’s not so clear that society does. I wrote about this in The Judiciary’s Class War.
Related (From Ed): New York Times v. Sullivan: Fifty Years of a Press Free from Responsibility.
