STEPHEN L. CARTER: Lying to Investigators Shouldn’t Be a Crime: Everyone from President Trump to a petty thief is at the same disadvantage when talking to prosecutors.
If you lie to the government it’s a crime. If they lie to you, it’s just business as usual.
ROGER SIMON: What Do We Do about the Biased and Incompetent FBI?
REPORTER BECKY GRIFFIN: FEWER MASS SHOOTINGS IF MORE BABIES WERE ABORTED.
You went full eugenicist; never go full eugenicist.
WHEN SECONDS COUNT, THE POLICE ARE ONLY MINUTES AWAY: 911 in the digital age: Seconds matter, as do emergency system upgrades.
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Fox Butterfield, is that you?
CORNELL PROFESSOR: The American Dream Is a ‘Hallucination.’
The cost of pursuing the American Dream at Cornell this academic year is $70,321 for non-residents.
WELL, TO BE FAIR, THAT MISSION SEEMS TO BE CENSORSHIP AND LEFTY POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION: DePaul University is refusing to allow a conservative student group to host commentator and comedian Steven Crowder, saying Crowder’s approach doesn’t “align” with the school’s mission.
Related: Is Depaul America’s Worst School for Free Speech? It’s become something of a joke.
Cost of attending DePaul University: $57,034 per year. So basically, something like a quarter million dollars for 4 years of these clowns.
“RONALD REAGAN, WE MISS YOU. WHAT’S HAPPENED TO YOUR STATE?” 10 tweets that explain why conservatives don’t want to be governed by a Californian.
As Kate of Canada’s Small Dead Animals blog titles her recurring posts on California craziness, “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas, Hear My Prayer.”
BLUE STATE BLUES: Wondering Which States Americans Hate to Live In? Ask U-Haul.
Here are some examples (all data is taken from the U-Haul website; prices are for March 1, 2018, for a favorite 20-foot van.)
Renting a truck from New York to Orlando costs $2,214 and back $1,557 (the difference is $657, a 42% surcharge.)
Renting a truck from New York to Dallas costs $2,442 and back $1,962 (the difference is $480, a 24% surcharge.)
Renting a truck from San Francisco to Orlando costs $3,308 and back $1,988 (the difference is $1,510, an 84% surcharge.)
Renting a truck from San Francisco to Dallas costs $3,206 and back $1,128 (the difference is $2,078, a 184% surcharge.)
For comparison, renting the same truck from New York to San Francisco costs $3,409, and back $3,058 (the difference is $351, a surcharge of 11%).
Money well spent, as I learned 25 years ago when I had to pay a hefty moving van rental fee to escape from San Francisco to Colorado Springs.
YEAH, MORE PEOPLE ARE SELLING THIS CRAP THAN WANT TO BUY IT: UCLA hosted campus talk on ‘toxic masculinity.’ 10 students showed up.
SO THIS IS BASICALLY AN ADMISSION OF CORRUPTION: AL Sheriffs & DAs: No Incentive to Enforce the Law if We Can’t Keep the Funds.
WHAT EUROPEANS CAN LEARN FROM DONALD TRUMP:
In particular, the European Union’s foreign policy posture and the continent’s domestic policies would benefit from a dose of ruthlessness in the pursuit of power and economic dynamism.
Whether Europeans admit it or not, the Western-dominated international order is at its end. The reasons are manifold, including the declining willingness of Americans to play the role of a global policeman, stepping in to fix all the world’s problems. And notwithstanding the signals provided by both Barack Obama’s and Trump’s presidencies, Europe, with its atrophied defense budgets, sluggish economies, and a lack of strategic focus, shows few signs of being able to take effective care of itself.
Instead of a laser-sharp focus on the pursuit of interests shared by Europe’s democracies, with all the tools that are necessary, the European Union’s engagement with its neighborhood has been reduced to lukewarm efforts to export its own rules. The Eastern Partnership agenda and Brussels’s work in the Western Balkans, for instance, revolve around the idea that European countries outside of the European Union are aspiring to become just like the West. If that is the case, then all that is needed for Brussels to do is to help them ingest a heavy dose of acquis communautaire.
Looking at the world as if it were aching to become like us adds up to a retro, 1990s-style foreign policy.
And it didn’t work very well in the 1990s.
THIS SEEMS FAIR TO ME:
THIS HAS BEEN OBVIOUS FOR A WHILE: Mueller Confirms: Russia Used Anti-Trump Resistance To Stoke Division.
NEW WOKE THOUGHT: Straight Women Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Use The Word “Girlfriend.”
From the comments: “So it’s wrong to assume someone’s gender or sexual preference, but we should change words we use to make it easier to do so.”
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ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT CURTIS LEMAY’S GHOST FOR COMMENT RESULTED IN THE OUIJA BOARD BURSTING INTO FLAMES: Air Force Academy Officer Apologizes For Sergeant’s Microaggressions.
WEIRD, LONDON HAD MALE CABBIES FOR A CENTURY WITH NO PROBLEMS. WHAT CHANGED? Call for women-only Uber Pools for London.
NOT UNLESS YOU’RE SUPPLEMENTING, OR LIVE IN FLORIDA: Do I Get Enough Vitamin D In The Winter?
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WITH EASE, IF NOT OUTRIGHT COOPERATION: How white nationalists fooled the media about Florida shooter: ABC, AP and others ran with false information on shooter’s ties to extremist groups.
They want it to be true so much that they don’t actually care if it’s true.
BIPARTISAN SENTIMENT: NO NEW GUN LAWS NEEDED. Democrat Conor Lamb says new gun laws not needed to prevent violence.
REPUBLICANS CAN WIN A LOT OF THINGS THIS WAY. AND YET . . . Analysis: Trump’s Hawks Won Senate Immigration Debate (By Not Losing).
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