LAURENCE HARVEY, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Dianne Feinstein had a Chinese spy connection she didn’t know about — her driver.
As Sean Davis of the Federalist tweets, “Imagine the Democrat reaction if it turned out Trump’s personal driver and consigliere for 20 years was a Russian spy. Now ask yourself why they’re not reacting the same way to news that the former head of the Senate Intelligence Committee was infiltrated.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
“MUSICAL AUTEURS OF SORTS, BUT MADE FINISHING A RECORD NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE:” How Steely Dan Went Through Seven Guitarists and Dozens of Hours of Tape to Get the Perfect Guitar Solo on “Peg.”
TODAY’S SATIRE. TOMORROW’S NEWS? Texas Constructs Border Wall To Keep Out Unwanted Refugees From California.
It’s like a Kurt Schlichter novel or something.
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I THINK IT WOULD BE RACIST TO SUPPORT HIS RICH-WHITE-GUY OPPONENT. THAT’S HOW THIS WORKS, RIGHT? John James, Black and Republican, Thinks He Can Crack the ‘Blue Wall’ in Michigan.
WHAT, NO ALL-FEMALE REBOOT? Patrick Stewart To Star In New ‘Star Trek’ Series As Jean-Luc Picard On CBS All Access.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: The Obamas are worth 30 times more than when they entered the White House in 2008.
Yet another argument for my revolving-door surtax.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Socialism Can’t Flourish Without Ignorance.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Read the News Like a Pro.
From fellow Insta-co-blogger Steve Green, at the PJ mothership.
MICHAEL BARONE: Liberals against freedom of conscience.
Read the whole thing.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): A Bronx high school teacher charged with performing oral sex on a 14-year-old student will get a jail-free sentence after pleading guilty to criminal sex act. She keeps her teaching certificate, too. Now imagine if the genders were reversed.
THAT WAS FAST:
● Old and Busted: Journalistic Institutions Shouldn’t Cave to Outrage Mobs*.
● The New Hotness? Newseum caves to outraged mob of news reporters, removes “Fake News” T-shirts from gift shop.
As “Comfortably Smug” tweets, “Tricking them into cutting off the journo museum’s only source of revenue to own the libs.”
Meanwhile, Stephen Miller wonders if CNN has “doxxed the creator of that T-Shirt yet?”
* Offer still valid whenever conservative journalists are hired, of course.
UPDATE: “Liberal defenders of the press were angrier about a dumb t-shirt being sold at Newseum than a racist being hired by the nation’s preeminent newspaper. And we wonder why public trust in journalism is at an all time low,” conservative radiologist/journalist Pradheep J. Shanker tweets.
ZOMBIE BOY* KILLS HIMSELF: The meaning of a man who tattooed his head to resemble a skeleton’s.
Ayn Rand didn’t intend for The Return of the Primitive to be a how-to guide for life.
* No relation, I believe, to the veteran Bay Area blogger.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Whoopi Slams Jake Tapper for Mocking Obama’s DNC Damage Toll.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Law Professor Amicus Brief Filed in Support of NY Assisted Opener Case.
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ANDREA RICH, RIP: The longtime operator of Laissez Faire Books was one of America’s most tireless and effective promoters of libertarian thought.
WAIT, I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL “ON US:” Kirsten Gillibrand Pays The Price For Speaking Out Against Al Franken.
Gillibrand wasn’t the only senator to publicly call on Franken to step down, but she was the first (but only by minutes) in a wave of female senators ― who were eventually joined by many of their male colleagues on the same day, Dec. 6 ― to do so. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), however, reportedly told Franken in private that he needed to go beforehand.
But Gillibrand has received the brunt of the blame for what happened, with many of her detractors saying the reason she came out against Franken was that she’s an “opportunist” who was positioning herself for a presidential run in 2020. Some Democratic Party donors have been reconsidering whether they would support her in a primary.
Most prominently, Gillibrand has attracted the ire of billionaire George Soros, who has long funded Democratic candidates and causes. Soros recently said he wasn’t sure whom he was supporting for 2020, but that it absolutely wouldn’t be Gillibrand. He accused her of going after Franken, “whom I admire,” to “improve her chances” for president.
Flashback to 2014: President Obama Launches the “It’s On Us” Campaign to End Sexual Assault on Campus. But apparently not Capitol Hill or Hollywood.
MY STRATEGY IS TO NOT GET OUT OF BED: How the elderly can prevent potentially deadly falls. “Vitamin D, gained through sun exposure, can be protective – but aged care residents often don’t get outside enough.” Plus, the value of exercise, though I’d go a bit more Rippetoe if it were up to me.
MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, CITIZEN: Reports: Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Personal Driver For 20 Years Was A Chinese Spy.
I WAS EXPECTING MOONBASES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. INSTEAD: New bikini wax trend set to shake things up down there – everything you need to know about the Dirty Martini.
