Archive for 2018
August 21, 2018
HMM: Vitamin B is potential way to treat acute kidney injury.
Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston found that levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, which are the end result of vitamin B3 after ingestion, declines in acute kidney injury cases. They published their findings Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.
“These findings are very early, but the results suggest that we could one day have a non-invasive test for NAD+ status and perhaps even treat acute kidney injury by boosting NAD+ levels,” principal investigator Dr. Samir M. Parikh, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said in a press release.
I take Niagen, which is supposed to increase NAD+ levels, so maybe that will help me out if I ever suffer an acute kidney injury. Which I hope is never.
DENNIS PRAGER: Andrew Cuomo Dropped the Mask.
The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, did Americans a favor last week. He provided that which is most indispensable to understanding anything: clarity.
“America … was never that great,” he announced.
In one sentence, the governor revealed the left’s true view of America.
This is rare — because leftists are masters at hiding what they really believe.
Read the whole thing.
WARREN HENRY: Democrats Are Fielding Even More Anti-Semitic Candidates For Congress. “Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib is representative of the Democratic Party’s march beyond the embrace of candidates who criticize Israeli policy or its current government to a much uglier place.”
Another odd endorsement story occurred in Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District. Democratic nominee Scott Wallace came under criticism after it emerged that his charitable foundation has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups that promote the BDS campaign.
Wallace disclaimed responsibility for the donations and denied supporting BDS. Democratic Jewish Outreach of Pennsylvania initially declined to endorse Wallace, but ultimately reversed its decision under pressure from the Democratic Party in a toss-up contest.
Last week, Democrats nominated Ilhan Omar as their candidate in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Omar has claimed that Israel “hypnotized the world” and said she hoped Allah would awaken people to “the evil doings of Israel.” She recently defended those comments by referring to “the apartheid Israeli regime.”
Lastly, there is Leslie Cockburn, the Democratic nominee in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. The Virginia GOP has accused her of being a “virulent anti-Semite,” based on her-coauthorship of “Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship,” a book that “advocated for the inherently anti-Semitic belief that Israel controls America’s foreign policy.”
The Virginia GOP quoted from The New York Times review of the book: “Its first message is that, win or lose, smart or dumb, right or wrong, suave or boorish, Israelis are a menace. The second is that the Israeli-American connection is somewhere behind just about everything that ails us.”
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
OF COURSE IT IS, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE BATSHIT CRAZY: Study: U.S. political climate frightening for teens.
Related: The Full List Of Anti-Trump Attacks And Harassment This Year Is Stunning.
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Latin American Conservative Blogger: Facebook Suspended and Doxed Me. “I fear for my safety. Facebook is very irresponsible.”
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Visits Restaurant Closed by Her Policies.
YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG, BUT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS INTERESTED IN YOU: Wells Fargo Closes Florida Politician’s Account Due To Marijuana Donations.
It’s well known that many banks are reluctant to open accounts for marijuana businesses out of fear of running afoul of the U.S’s government’s continued criminalization of the drug.
But one major institution just took the financial services industry’s cannabis cash paranoia a step further, saying—in what appears to be a first—that it won’t do business with a political candidate because she has received donations from cannabis industry interests.
Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest bank in the U.S., fired Florida agriculture commissioner candidate Nikki Fried as a client this month because her campaign has received donations from “lobbyists from the medical marijuana industry,” according to copies of emails her campaign made public on Monday.
Banks policing who candidates may or may not receive donations from is not a road we want to go down.
STEIN’S LAW, REAL ESTATE EDITION: Luxury Apartment Sales Plummet In New York As Sellers ‘Capitulate.’ “Sales of luxury apartments that cost $5 million or more in New York City have plummeted more than 31% over the first six months of this year, and sellers are trying to make up for the drop in sales by slashing prices to meet buying demand. A market report by Stribling & Associates, a New York-based brokerage, noted the fact that sales in this luxury category have fallen drastically year-over-year. It found that the drop in sales was concentrated in newer condominiums, where supply has been overwhelming, according to a follow up on the report by WSJ.”
“THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF SCARIEST URBAN PLACES IN AMERICA:” Looking back at the hell that was Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, Public Housing’s Most Notorious Failure.
BECAUSE TRUMP IS A NAZI OR SOMETHING: Under Trump, ICE Finally Deports Nazi War Criminal Who Was Living on Welfare.
IN THE MAIL: From F. A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice.
Plus, Today’s Gold Box and Lightning Deals.
THIS PROBABLY MAKES US HEARTLESS COLONIALISTS OR SOMETHING: Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort Will Deploy to Colombia to Care for Venezuelan Refugees.
Colombian President Ivan Duque offered specific suggestions on what he hoped a Comfort mission would accomplish, Mattis told reporters while returning from Colombia, according to a transcript of the media availability released by the Pentagon. Colombia was the the final stop of Mattis’ week-long, four-country South American tour visiting military and civilian leaders.
“It is an absolutely a humanitarian mission. We’re not sending soldiers; we’re sending doctors. And it’s an effort to deal with the human cost of Maduro, and his increasingly isolated regime,” Mattis said, referring to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to the transcript.
Details of a Comfort mission are still being worked out, but one thing Mattis made clear, according to the transcript, is Comfort will not enter Venezuelan waters.
There’s no telling what the desperate Maduro regime might try.
HAVE YOU NO DECENCY? Broward Teachers Union Mocks Young Man Who Lost Sister in Parkland Shooting.
JON GABRIEL: If Democrats embrace socialism to get away from Donald Trump, they can kiss the midterms goodbye.
Well, if you really buy the Russian-collusion theory, then isn’t it plausible that the Russians are using their longstanding influence over the American far-left to push the Democrats that way . . . so as to keep Trump in power? The truth is out there!
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, ADMINISTRATIVE BLOAT EDITION: At UCLA, 20 paid diversity advocates isn’t enough.
FLIPPING THE SCRIPT: Donald Trump should sue John Brennan to bring civility back to our politics.
ONE MAN RULE MEANS JUST THAT: China is conducting fewer local policy experiments under Xi Jinping.
The freedom to tinker has never been unlimited, and various autocratic habits have undermined some experiments. One is secrecy. State media are often ordered to keep quiet about pilot projects in case they go wrong. Results can often be published only in classified journals; leakers face years in jail. If China’s experiments with a less draconian family-planning policy had been debated more openly after their launch in the 1980s, more heed might have been paid to their findings: that it was pointless (as well as cruel) to punish parents for having more than one child. Most wanted small families anyway.
Nonetheless, as in any country, let alone one as vast and varied as China, a suck-it-and-see approach yields better results than deciding everything centrally. Alas, under President Xi Jinping, experimentation of any kind has become harder. In 2010—two years before Mr Xi took over—around 500 policy-related pilot projects were being carried out at the provincial level, reckons Sebastian Heilmann of the University of Trier in Germany. By 2016 the number had dropped to about 70.
One reason is fear.
Xi seems almost determined to kill China’s golden goose.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DID WITHDRAW THE TRANSGENDER BATHROOM/LOCKER ROOM/SHOWER GUIDANCE, YOU KNOW: Politico doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge the Trump Administration’s position. The Administration’s view is that Title IX does not speak to the issue of how bathrooms, locker rooms and showers should be assigned. It is up to the individual school. Politico nevertheless seems to think that it’s news that the Trump Administration isn’t forcing schools to organize their facilities according to “gender identity” rather than anatomical sex.
This friend-of-the-court brief in Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., submitted by Peter Kirsanow and me, tries to explain the law as we see it (and as the Trump Administration now sees it). I think our argument is pretty strong. After the brief was written, the Obama-Era guidance was withdrawn. That made the case for our position even stronger, since the argument that courts should defer to the Obama-Era Department of Education’s view disappeared when the “Dear Colleague Letter” on the subject was withdrawn.
It’s entirely possible this issue will reach the Supreme Court again sometime in the future. It was remanded back down after the Dear Colleague Letter was withdrawn. If the case does wind up there, it will be interesting.
WORST RACIST PRESIDENT EVER: SURVEY FINDS BLACK BUSINESS OWNERSHIP IN THE U.S. JUMPED 400% IN ONE YEAR.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Did Admiral Yamamoto Want to Lose WWII?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Tenured Faculty Purge Is A Good Move By Vermont Law School.