NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Congresswoman-Elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Top Seven Political Gaffes of 2018.
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Archive for 2018
December 29, 2018
DEAR PRESIDENT ROMNEY: A reminder that whoever the president is, if he has an (R) after his name, the left would still be just as crazy as they are over the Trump administration.
See also: prior lefty rage machine (with a brief and partial timeout after 9/11) from 2001 until early 2009.
THE INSTA-WIFE: Are Sex Workers the Only Safe People for Men to Talk With?
SECOND GREAT FIRE OF LONDON: The night of December 29, 1940 was the worst night of blitz. More than 100,000 incendiary bombs were dropped over London. Fires—1500 of them—burned all over town.
That night London lost 160 of its citizens, 31 of its guild halls, 19 of its churches, and much more. But, thanks to the heroic efforts of its fire fighters, it did not lose St. Paul’s Cathedral.
T-BONE TELLS ME HE’S RUNNING. Cory Booker on Tim Scott: ‘Please Don’t Vilify the Brother Just Because He’s a Republican.’
#JOURNALISM: “Let’s [talk] about a major source of media bias that often gets overlooked: Where reporters get their stories. Truth is that reporters often get their stories from activists. The problem is that many mainstream reporters mostly associate with and follow activists on the left. . . . That creates a major source of media bias that is almost impossible to evaluate or quantify. Left-wing activists regularly get their campaigns and preferred stories highlighted in the mainstream press, which gives them more credibility. Rarely happens the other way.”
UPDATE: From the comments: “Hayek’s ‘The Fatal Conceit,’ as narrated by Tommy Chong, man.”
AT AMAZON, fresh bargains in Year-End Deals.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Older adults fall less if they exercise, study says.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Top 50 Conservative Websites for 2018.
WITH AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: How Transformers Can Explode.
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Pelosi Forms Climate Crisis Committee to Address Threat to ‘the Whole of God’s Creation.’
(Classical reference in headline.)
AMERICA’S HALL MONITOR REBUKED: Air Force shoots down CNN claim troops violated regs by having Trump sign MAGA hats.
THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Happy Shutdown New Year Edition.
#METOO COLLECTS ANOTHER SCALP: Julian Niccolini Forced Out of New York’s Four Seasons Restaurant.
CHANGE: Beto O’Rourke’s anti-Wall ad reframes the question around upscale American interests. “It’s not about the longings of poverty-stricken outsiders anymore. Look!”
MY MILLENNIAL DAUGHTER CALLS 2018 THE WORST YEAR EVER. I NOMINATE 1968.
Wait until she discovers the Civil War, WWI, the Depression, and WWII.
SHUT UP, SHE EXPLAINED: High-profile feminist tried to get college to dump professor for criticizing her, he says. Well, given the absurdity of their views and behavior, it’s easy to figure why feminists are always trying to make any criticism out of bounds.
ROGER KIMBALL: The Prague delusion: The Central European city is the last stop for the resistance fantasy. “That fact that Michael Cohen has been shown not to have been in Prague is merely a fact. What is that against the ardent heart’s desire to Get Trump and cancel the effects of the 2016 election?”
One of the nice side benefits of the Trump presidency is that Roger is writing more. “Coven of dismal choristers.” Delightful!