GREAT MOUNTAIN CHART, KID — DON’T GET COCKY. Chart of shame: The S&P 500 vs. everyone who said the market was about to crash
Archive for 2018
September 1, 2018
ERICK ERICKSON: Clerical Cowards And Their Cover-Up.
I am not Catholic but have many Catholic friends, for whom I grieve. The church is exposed now to the devil, and regardless of your politics or faith, this is a scandal about which you should care deeply. It is exposing not just the church hierarchy but also the American media that once prided themselves on uncovering abuse within the church. Now, instead, our social betters in the press have taken the position that molesting children is bad but homophobia is worse.
And even worse is environmental decay: Pope calls plastics littering oceans an ‘emergency.’
Pedophilia in the Catholic church, apparently not so much.
HISTORY: Remembering Morse Code’s Vanquished Competitor: The Dial Telegraph. Morse was more efficient because it moved intelligence out of the machine and into the user.
ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: Two Americans Stabbed by Afghan Man at Amsterdam Train Station.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: A new way to remove ice buildup without power or chemicals.
WAIT, I THOUGHT CULTURAL APPROPRIATION WAS ONE OF TODAY’S WORST EVILS: The Language Police Want Y’all to Adopt the Gender-Neutral, Non-Sexist ‘Y’all.’
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard Business School professor: Half of American colleges will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years.
If only someone had warned them.
THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: BURNING MAN EDITION.
Related: The ‘Religion’ of Burning Man.
As the late Tom Wolfe wrote in his epochal 1976 article, “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening” “It is entirely possible that in the long run historians will regard the entire New Left experience as not so much a political as a religious episode wrapped in semi military gear and guerrilla talk.”
NO, HE WAS NOT DUTCH: An Astronaut Plugged the Leak on the Space Station With his Finger.
IT’S A PARODY, BUT IS IT REALLY? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Praises Venezuela For Making Everyone A Millionaire Through Hyperinflation.
NBC IGNORES OWN REPORTING ON BAD OBAMA POLICY TO TRASH TRUMP:
It hasn’t just been the Trump administration and Betsy DeVos calling for a correction to the Obama administration’s approach to combating college sexual assault. In October of 2016, less than two years ago, then-NBC News journalist Ronan Farrow appeared on the Today show to examine the Obama Education Department’s efforts to address the issue and found serious cases of injustice to both victims and those who were falsely accused.
No wonder NBC wanted Farrow gone — in retrospect, he appears to have been the only person there doing actual journalism.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Betsy DeVos is getting savaged for closing campus kangaroo courts.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Yale’s Sex Assault Report Is A Fabrication.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University demands professor sign away his free-speech rights if he wants his job back.
T-BIRD AT AN AIR SHOW: T-33 Shooting Star banks over the crowd at a Missouri air show. The T-33 is the trainer version of the F-80 Shooting Star, America’s first operational jet fighter (initially called the P-80).
CNN COMMENTATOR: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PERFORMING ‘HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF THE COURTS.’
As a legendary community organizer once warned an opponent, “Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.”
TO BE FAIR, YOU CAN’T BE A SOCIALIST CANDIDATE WITHOUT LYING: Dem Socialist Candidate’s Brother and Mother Say She’s Lied About Her Upbringing. Despite claims of being a poor Jewish immigrant, she was in fact neither poor, nor Jewish, nor an immigrant.
DEEP STATE UPDATE: Report: Top FEC Dem, staff behind anti-Trump jihad, fairness questioned.
The longest-serving Democratic member of the Federal Election Commission, expected to take over as chair in four months, and her top staffer are behind an anti-Trump and anti-GOP crusade, according to a new report from a critic.
In a series of blog posts, the Republican National Lawyers Association questioned the fairness of Commissioner Ellen Weintraub and her counsel, Tom Moore, and compared the attacks on Trump to the bias FBI officials showed to President Trump.
Weaponizing the bureaucracy against Republicans is what Democrats do. It’s not an aberration, it’s the norm.