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Archive for 2018
November 2, 2018
NPR EDITOR SAYS SHE WAS RAPED: Good reminder that journalists — even accomplished ones — are not our moral superiors. (Can you hear me, Charlie Rose, Jeff Fager, Glenn Thrush, Matt Lauer, Bill O’Reilly, Mark Halperin?)
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Pelosi suggests Democrats should win the House so nobody gets hurt. “Nice country ya got there. Be a real shame if anything happened to it.”
RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Canada Upholds Allah/Muhammad’s Ban on Adoption. “Yet another Western capitulation to Sharia.”
IT’S ALIENS, ISN’T IT? The Dawn spacecraft exploring the asteroid belt has gone dark.
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she thought about hitting Antonin Scalia with baseball bat.
To paraphrase a question recently asked about Brett Kavanaugh, does Sotomayor have the temperament to calmly and impartially serve on the Supreme Court?
SNOWBALL? Brazil’s President-Elect Vows To Move Israeli Embassy To Jerusalem.
There can never be peace until the Palestinians are disabused of their belief that all of Israel is theirs.
JOE PAPPALARDO: SpaceX Has Quietly Restarted Its Texas Spaceport.
HMM: Andrew Gillum and the Mystery of 311 East Jennings Street.
It starts with money. In the first three months after Gillum announced his bid for mayor in April 2013, the decade-serving city commissioner received $8,000 from a host of companies using that address. And businesses there have received a number of financial favors from the city and the mayor, who, as a member of the Community Redevelopment Agency Board, voted for the subsidies.
Those dealings are receiving heightened scrutiny since the FBI last year issued subpoenas to 38 individuals and companies, more than a dozen of which are connected to the Jennings Street address. Among the names on the subpoenas is Adam Corey, Gillum’s former campaign treasurer. Corey is a local lobbyist, developer and Gillum’s friend since college. Gillum, as part of the redevelopment agency, voted in 2013 to give a Corey-affiliated group $1.3 million in taxpayer money to develop a restaurant.
The ultimate aim of the investigation – and any direct connection to Gillum – remains unclear, as does its connection to a separate, ongoing state ethics probe into Gillum’s relationship with donors. The latter includes an allegation Gillum accepted from an undercover agent a ticket to see “Hamilton” on Broadway.
Read the whole thing.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Matt Walsh’s Five Bible-Based Arguments Against Young-Earth Creationism.
And one very strong argument in favor of the concept:
“From their open border policies to their calls to abolish ICE, the caravan is yet another reminder to voters that Democrats have put the sovereignty of our country in jeopardy with their extreme immigration views. Meanwhile, Republicans are protecting America by working to legally control our borders and keep dangerous criminals from entering our country,” RNC spokesman Steve Guest told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement.
Mark Krikorian, the executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies, told TheDCNF the caravan “is a godsend for Republican candidates,” saying regardless of people’s views of President Donald Trump, it can be made clear where he stands on the issue of defending America and taking care of U.S. citizens. Krikorian also mentioned he did not believe big-name Democrats, like billionaire donor George Soros, were behind the funding or organizing of the caravan because even they know it would hurt their party.
“The caravan is a godsend for Republican candidates. You know the idea that Soros or Chuck Schumer dreamed this up is nuts. Why would they do that? I mean they’re not idiots. Because even middle of the road people even people who aren’t particularly hawkish on immigration don’t think it’s right that thousands of people should be swarming across our borders,” Krikorian said.
We’ll see.
No wonder the LA Times has sat on the tapes of Obama meeting with Rashid Khalidi — apparently, at some point in recent years, the late Yasser Arafat acquired the newspaper.
BLUE WAVE? Cook Political Report outlook: Democrats gain 30-40 seats in House, up from 25-35. “Wasserman added that this prediction could change before the Nov. 6 midterm elections.”
That’s just a few days from now and early voting is breaking records, so I’m taking that last line as an indicator that they don’t really know.
TO BE FAIR, W.C. FIELDS HAS ACCURATELY INFORMED ME THAT FISH DO UNSPEAKABLE THINGS IN THE STUFF. Meet the Hydro-Haters: The People Who Refuse to Drink Water, No Matter What.
OH: O’Rourke Campaign Caught Discussing Illegally Using Campaign Funds to Help Caravan Migrants. “For me, I can just ignore the rules and I’m like f**k it.”
NIKKI HALEY: Cuba Vote Just ‘One More Time’ UN Members ‘Feel They Can Poke U.S. in the Eye.’ “U.S. embargo condemned 189-2 as Bolton declares the ‘Troika of Tyranny in this hemisphere — Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua — has finally met its match’.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Cornell adds diversity and inclusion courses to graduation requirements.
CHANGE: Trump slaps ‘tough’ sanctions on Venezuela, targets gold sector.
The White House imposed “tough” new sanctions against Venezuela on Thursday, denouncing Caracas as being part of a “troika of tyranny” that includes Cuba and Nicaragua.
National Security Advisor John Bolton told an audience at Miami Dade College that the sanctions would particularly target Venezuela’s gold sector, which “has been used as a bastion to finance illicit activities, to fill its coffers and to support criminal groups.”
Bolton, a longtime foreign policy hawk, said the elections of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and conservative Ivan Duque in Colombia were “positive signs for the future of the region” that demonstrate a regional commitment to free markets and “accountable governance.”
“The troika of tyranny in this hemisphere will not endure forever,” Bolton said in prepared remarks, referring to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
“Like all oppressive regimes and ideologies, it too will meet its demise.”
I’m not convinced of the wisdom of sanctioning a failing regime and creating potential scapegoats, but Bolton isn’t wrong about the “troika of tyranny.”
NO SUCH THING AS VOTER FRAUD? THINK AGAIN: Jason Snead, writing on The Daily Signal, demolishes the Left’s familiar claim that voting fraud is a myth in America. Reports Snead: “Simply put, the full scope of fraud in U.S. elections is unknown, and many states do not have in place the policies and procedures to detect and deter voter fraud.”
Enough is known, however, for Heritage to maintain a database on voter fraud, which you can view here. And trust me, considering how intensely the Left pours vituperation on any effort to expose and eradicate voter fraud, that tells you how serious the problem must actually be.
THE REAL REASON GOOGLE WORKERS WALKED OUT: The Failure Of Our Universities.
