Archive for 2018
October 13, 2018
HILLARY CLINTON’S SECURITY CLEARANCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED IN 2016: Good news that Hillary has finally lost her top secret security clearance. Loose lips do sink ships. Here’s essay from 2016 examining her criminal abuse of classified information.
The laws protecting national security are a fortification of sorts—a legal fortification that contributes to national security. Americans entrusted with security clearances and tasked with handling classified information must make every effort to avoid negligence. The laws help insure constant awareness. They promote self-discipline and institutional obedience.
Hillary Clinton’s criminal “negligence” followed by James Comey’s sellout of the rule of law is breaching the legal fortification.
Hillary ought to be serving time for her crimes.
MORE SUPPORT FOR THE MISMATCH THESIS: A recently-posted paper on the National Bureau of Economic Research web site contributes to the growing body of evidence that affirmative action preferences hurt, rather than help, their intended beneficiaries.
Interestingly, this study was of students’ experiences in primary school rather than in college or graduate school. But if competing with students that are much better prepared to do well can cause problems for primary school students, it’s hard to see why it is so unthinkable that it would do so for college students.
Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt write that their research “establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has long-run impacts that are independent from underlying ability.” To put it in more concrete terms: Suppose a primary school student has the experience of being toward the bottom of her class in math simply because her class happened to have a lot of high-ability students in it. After that experience, she is less likely feel confident of her math ability and less likely to study and do well in math in secondary school than a student who had the same demonstrated ability in primary school, but who ranked higher in the class because he happened to be competing with fewer high-ability students.
For more background on the problem of mismatch, read Want to be a Doctor? A Scientist? An Engineer? An Affirmative Action Leg up May Hurt Your Chances and A “Dubious Expediency”: How Race-Preferential Admissions Policies on Campus Hurt Minority to Students.
TO BE FAIR, MANY OF THEM WERE ALREADY CLOSE ENOUGH TO WALK: Politico: ‘Trump Anxiety Disorder’ Is Driving Liberals Crazy.
GIZMODO CAN’T EVEN: Trump Signs Actually Good Bill To Clean Up Ocean Garbage.
ALASKAN AGGRESSOR: An F-16 assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, takes off.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Funny. I cant find any editorials about how all women should vote for Marsha Blackburn to break a Tennessee ‘Glass ceiling’.” Sometimes it’s important to advance women, sometimes it’s important to vote for the old white guy. What’s the difference? It’s a mystery.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Tell If You Are Part of a Mob.
Related: The left: An unhinged mob.
ME, A WEEK AGO ON WHAT TO EXPECT POST-KAVANAUGH:
►Strange new respect for judicial minimalism. As Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeule remarked, “Law review editors: brace for a tidal wave of legal academic theories supporting judicial minimalism, Thayerianism, and strong — very strong — theories of precedent. Above all: the Court must do nothing without bipartisan agreement, otherwise it is illegitimate.” The past half-century’s enthusiasm for judicial activism will vanish, as legal academia turns on a dime to promote theories that will constrain the court until a left-leaning majority returns, at which point they’ll turn on a dime again.
►New disrespect for the court: . . . If the court shifts right as expected, you can also expect legal academia and the news media, both of which lean very heavily to the left, to shift quite rapidly from near worship of the court to nonstop denigration. Some on the left are already talking openly of packing the court with additional seats, as Roosevelt tried to, if they get back in power. Others are talking about impeaching Kavanaugh, because, well, of course.
Now: Vox: The Case For Abolishing The Supreme Court.
Plus: Slate: The Supreme Court is a historically regressive and presently expendable institution.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher who smiled for mugshot pleads guilty to sex with student.
DAVID FRENCH: The Black Men Who Identify with Brett Kavanaugh Understand the Stakes. “The bottom line is that opponents of Kavanaugh didn’t just want to stop Kavanaugh, they wanted to create a cultural moment that many black men are very wise to be wary of. ‘Believe survivors’ is a slogan that resonates far beyond one single judicial confirmation. It’s the slogan of campus ‘justice’ that all too often echoes the injustice of America’s racist past.”
I yelled at my husband last night. Not pick-up-your-socks yell. Not how-could-you-ignore-that-red-light yell. This was real yelling. This was 30 minutes of from-the-gut yelling. Triggered by a small, thoughtless, dismissive, annoyed, patronizing comment. Really small. A micro-wave that triggered a hurricane. I blew. Hard and fast. And it terrified me. I’m still terrified by what I felt and what I said. I am almost 70 years old. I am a grandmother. Yet in that roiling moment, screaming at my husband as if he represented every clueless male on the planet (and I every angry woman of 2018), I announced that I hate all men and wish all men were dead. If one of my grandchildren yelled something that ridiculous, I’d have to stifle a laugh.
A man behaving this way would be accused of domestic abuse. And John Sexton’s comment is on point: “Someone needs to say ‘get a grip’ and it might as well be me.”
Nobody makes the case for patriarchy as persuasively as the feminists.
Related (From Ed): “If somebody starts a Go Fund Me account to pay for Mr. Brown’s tab at his local bar, I’ll kick in,” Rod Dreher writes.
SHE WENT FULL EMMET TILL. NEVER GO FULL EMMET TILL. Woman dubbed #CornerstoreCaroline BUSTED by surveillance video that ‘completely vindicates the child’ accused of groping.
LIBERAL SUPPRESSION: Section 501(c)(3) And The Taxation of Speech.
October 12, 2018
IT TOOK 1,279 DAYS BUT HILLARY CLINTON FINALLY LOST HER SECURITY CLEARANCE: Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed Friday that Hillary asked that her security clearance be withdrawn, according to a September 21 letter from the Department of State.
And if you believe she voluntarily did this, I have some incredible ocean beachfront lots in Oklahoma that are available at prices you won’t believe … Go here for the rest of the story.
MY TAKE ON THE CURRENT SCENE:
