Archive for 2018
June 22, 2018
WELL, OBAMA WAS A GREAT GUN SALESMAN… FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS. BUT YEAH: Make America BLAM BLAM BLAM Again.
PELOSI NEEDS TO KEEP HER WH*REMOUTH OFF REAGAN’S NAME: Pelosi Leans on ‘Great’ Reagan, Bush for Immigration Arguments. Also Reagan’s amnesty showed us what amnesties really do. Set up the expectation of future amnesties.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: NRA ‘For Women By Women’ Training Registration Open.
THIS MAN IS GOING TO BE A PAIN IN OUR COLLECTIVE NECK FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE: Obama uses ‘World Refugee Day’ to pipe up on border apprehensions.
THIS IS THE STUFF THEY’RE TRYING TO DISTRACT YOU FROM WITH THEIR STORIES ABOUT CHILDREN IN CAGES: Former FBI agent theorizes on Spygate, and other articles of note.
PEOPLE MAKING THIS COMPARISON SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES: Family separation and the Nazi comparison.
WHEN YOU HEAR THAT A PRESIDENT WENT SOFT ON RUSSIAN HOOLIGANISM, IT WASN’T TRUMP: ‘Stand Down’ On Russia Interference From Susan Rice.
IT’S NOT LACK OF COMPREHENSION, IT’S MALICE: Media Fail At Reading Comprehension.
THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT. THEY THINK THE PEOPLE WILL RISE UP AS ONE AND GIVE THEM POWER. THEY ARE DRUNK ON MARXIST CERTAINTY: If the Media Keeps This Up, They’re Going to Get Somebody Killed.
June 21, 2018
SAVE ON CROCS FOR MEN.
WHY NOT? I THOUGHT THAT THE PERSONAL WAS POLITICAL FOR THE LEFT. Nancy Pelosi in 2014: Let’s not politicize all of these children in detention facilities.
WHEN YOU’RE A DEM AND CNN IS CALLING OUT YOUR BULLSHIT: CNN To Dem Senator: Did You Object When Obama Kept Unaccompanied Illegal Kids In Cages?
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Singer Victoria Kimani Misses Having Sex.
LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF: Did The Supreme Court Potentially Bankrupt Tens Of Thousands Of Small Online Businesses?
Small business is supposed to be the engine of economic growth and the internet is now the engine of small business growth. Today’s Supreme Court’s decision is potentially the engine of small business death. This plus the looming global trade war may be more than enough to pull the plug on our economic recovery.
Yes, we’ve very badly needed to rationalize state-business taxation. But what was and is needed is a system in which a company can file one and only one unified state sales and income tax return, pay one and only one tax bill and then have the states divvy up the proceeds. This will no doubt require federal legislation. Absent such a solution, the little engine that could — small online business — may immediately become the little engine that can’t.
The Powers That Be seem ready to rein in the Internet, whether it’s free speech or free enterprise.
OPEN THREAD: You know what to do by now.
MCCAIN WAS NO FRIEND TO THE TEA PARTY: Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Revealing McCain’s Subcommittee Staff Director Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting.
The explosive exchange was contained in notes taken by IRS employees at an April 30, 2013, meeting between Kerner, Lerner, and other high-ranking IRS officials. Just ten days following the meeting, former IRS director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner admitted that the IRS had a policy of improperly and deliberately delaying applications for tax-exempt status from conservative non-profit groups.
Lerner and other IRS officials met with select top staffers from the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in a “marathon” meeting to discuss concerns raised by both Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that the IRS was not reining in political advocacy groups in response to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Senator McCain had been the chief sponsor of the McCain-Feingold Act and called the Citizens United decision, which overturned portions of the Act, one of the “worst decisions I have ever seen.”
In the full notes of an April 30 meeting, McCain’s high-ranking staffer Kerner recommends harassing non-profit groups until they are unable to continue operating. Kerner tells Lerner, Steve Miller, then chief of staff to IRS commissioner, Nikole Flax, and other IRS officials, “Maybe the solution is to audit so many that it is financially ruinous.” In response, Lerner responded that “it is her job to oversee it all.”
So it seems that, as suspected, the GOP establishment was on the same page as the Obama Administration here.
THE UNABRIDGED AUDIO: Embrace the Suck aloud — at Amazon.
ENDORSED: We Should Tax The Clintons And Other Former Senior Government Employees At A Higher Rate.
Sadly, this paper entirely fails to mention my revolving-door surtax proposal.
WE WILL ALL MISS CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: A personal tribute.
THINGS AIN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE: The Wall Street Journal reports what some have known for a long time, namely that the ACLU long ago abandoned their Constitutionalism in favor of becoming just another wing of the DNC.
The American Civil Liberties Union has explicitly endorsed the view that free speech can harm “marginalized” groups by undermining their civil rights. “Speech that denigrates such groups can inflict serious harms and is intended to and often will impede progress toward equality,” the ACLU declares in new guidelines governing case selection and “Conflicts Between Competing Values or Priorities.”
The WSJ is behind a paywall, but Reason has a pretty good summary here. A lot of us in the Free Speech practice space saw this coming a long time ago, when they stayed silent during the suppression of speech many consider “odious” but constitutionally protected. I have no doubt in my mind that Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, and others would not have their support today, and couldn’t work. For that matter, I suspect that if his writing did not support a particular multi-culti agenda creating a hierarchy of victimhood, Thomas Paine wouldn’t get their support either.
MELANIA TRUMP brings a “breath of fresh air.”