CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy Wants To Raise Gun Permit Fees by 2,000 Percent.
Democrats believe only the rich and powerful are entitled to defend themselves, but you knew that already.
Archive for 2019
April 25, 2019
HE CAN’T HELP HIMSELF: Romney The Pious. “He can’t help himself. He’s trying to fill the shoes of John McCain, while at the same time pandering to the Sister Bertha Better-Than-Yous of the nation.”
Plus:
Here we are after the Mueller report, full of the knowledge that the Democrats and their media sycophants have tried and failed to pull off a coup, and former losing presidential candidate Mitt Romney once again poked his head up, taking the Democrats’ side.
Perhaps Romney thinks since his personal life has been lived with high approval ratings on morality from the amen pews in America, he is the perfect foil for President Trump, with his widely publicized moral failings in his personal life.
But there’s a hell of a lot more to picking the right man for the job than counting divorces as a score.
Indeed.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Cory Booker Defends Ilhan Omar’s Anti-Semitism, Calls Criticism Of Her ‘Reprehensible.’
(Classical reference in headline.)
EVEN MORE BLUE ON BLUE: How the Intercept Is Fueling the Democratic Civil War. “The national security site has found fresh energy as a savvy, progressive attack dog in national politics. But is it undermining its own side?”
CAN’T HARDLY WAIT: Marvel President Says Movies Will Go ‘Inclusive,’ Adding ‘Gay’ and ‘Body Positive’ Heroes.
Disney seems determined to kill another valuable franchise, and I hope their shareholders sit up and take notice.
THEY’LL TURN US ALL INTO BEGGARS ‘CAUSE THEY’RE EASIER TO PLEASE: California Politicians Hiked Gas Tax, Now Demand Investigation Into State’s $4 Per Gallon Gas Prices.
IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK: Hillary Clinton dishes on her ‘weird personal history’ with impeachment.
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, however, was referring to her time as a staff attorney serving on the impeachment inquiry for former President Richard Nixon two decades earlier in 1974.
“I was one of the young lawyers who actually drafted the memo about what is a high crime and misdemeanor, and it was truly meant by our founders to describe actions that undermine the integrity of our government that placed the personal or political interest in a president over the interest of the nation,” she said. “So, I know what it looks like, and I know what is required to do it in a way that wins the trust and confidence, not only of the Congress but of the American people. But I certainly think that the roadmap, as some call it, of the Mueller report raises so many serious questions in part one about what the Russians did, which is beyond debate, and in part two about all of the evidence about obstruction.”
Clinton somehow neglected to mention the part Democrat Jerry Zeifman, counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee back then, wrote that she “engaged in a variety of self-serving unethical practices in violation of House rules.”
RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! Former Vice President Joe Biden Announces 2020 Presidential Run.
#WALKAWAY: I Used to Work for Google. I Am a Conscientious Objector.
Jack Poulson:
“We can forgive your politics and focus on your technical contributions as long as you don’t do something unforgivable, like speaking to the press.”
This was the parting advice given to me during my exit interview from Google after spending a month internally arguing, resignation letter in hand, for the company to clarify its ethical red lines around Project Dragonfly, the effort to modify Search to meet the censorship and surveillance demands of the Chinese Communist Party.
When a prototype circulated internally of a system that would ostensibly allow the Chinese government to surveil Chinese users’ queries by their phone numbers, Google executives argued that it was within existing norms. Governments, after all, make law enforcement demands of the company all the time. Where, they asked their employees, was the demonstrable harm?
But the time has passed when tech companies can simply build tools, write algorithms and amass data without regard to who uses the technology and for what purpose.
Complaints from a single rank-and-file engineer aren’t going to lead a company to act against its significant financial interests. But history shows that dissenters — aided by courts or the court of public opinion — can sometimes make a difference. Even if that difference is just alerting the public to what these companies are up to.
Read the whole thing.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT WORKING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Saudi prisoner ‘executed and crucified.’
ALL IT TAKES TO BE A “PROVOCATEUR” IS TO SAY WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND NOT BE A LEFTIST: MAD ABOUT BARI WEISS: THE NEW YORK TIMES PROVOCATEUR THE LEFT LOVES TO HATE.
JOEL KOTKIN: America needs more sex, not more immigrants.
With a historically low unemployment rate, America is running low on workers in everything from high-tech to construction, manufacturing and services as Donald Trump’s stronger immigration policies help raise wages for existing US workers, from the lowest paid to well-paid construction workers, for the first time in decades.
President Trump’s much criticized claim that America is “full” may have been taken out of context, since it referred to the immigration system, but it has also ignited interest in demographics. More immigration, and even higher salaries won’t solve our impending demographic crisis, and there are already many more jobs here than workers to fill them, and that gap is growing. There are over six million open positions, more than five times the annual supply of migrants, documented or otherwise. This could be addressed in part by opening the border—something only one in five Americans favor, although such calls have become popular on the political left, including over a third of all Democrats—or, more workably, by making immigration policy more responsive to our labor needs.
The most direct path to a potent economy doesn’t run through the border, however, but into the bedroom, with critical steps, particularly on housing, that could lift sagging domestic birthrates.
America expects every man, and woman, to do their duty.
IMAO.US NEEDS TO BE MORE LIKE THE BABYLON BEE, AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD, WHO REPORTS THIS ENTIRELY PLAUSIBLE DEVELOPMENT: In Controversial Conclusion To ‘Avengers’ Saga, Captain Marvel Slays Thanos With Incredibly Irritating Gender Inequality Lecture. Having moved in literary circles, which are Hollywood for ugly people, I can tell you that this is very, very likely. (No disparagement of IMAO implied or intended. They’re up there with the Babylon Bee, normally. I just doubt they really found a liberal who made it through an entire day un-offended.)
I DON’T KNOW. DID THEY CHECK SOURCES? THIS SEEMS HIGHLY UNLIKELY: Liberal Makes It Through Entire Day Without Being Offended.
THIS WILL END IN TEARS. AND BLOOD. AND TEARS: The Great Othering.
LET’S SEND HER BACK TO SOMALIA. A GOFUND SHOULD GET HER A TICKET AND SOME START-UP MONEY FOR THE OTHER SIDE, AND I’D GLADLY DONATE. IT WOULD BE ONE LESS ENEMY WITHIN, AND ENEMIES WITHOUT ARE FAR LESS TROUBLE: Ilhan Omar Blames US Soldiers For Something People Did During ‘Black Hawk Down’.
WHEN YOU STEP OUT OF THE CHOIR: Alan Dershowitz and the Mueller Report.
FROM THE “TOO STUPID TO LIVE” FILES: Putting garlic in your vagina won’t cure your yeast infection.
SO WHAT? LET’S RETURN TO SEX-SEGREGATED SCHOOLS? I UNDERSTAND THAT THOSE ARE BETTER FOR TEEN BOYS CONCENTRATING ANYWAY. I ACTUALLY DID BETTER IN A CLASS WITH A BOY WHO PERFORMED WELL AT MATH. I MADE HIM MY BOYFRIEND AND PROCEEDED TO COMPETE WITH HIM NECK AND NECK. BAH. YOU CAN’T MAKE GIRLS PERFORM WELL IF THE DON’T WISH TO. AND WHAT’ THE POINT. ALL STUDENTS SHOULD BE PERFORMING WELL. THAT’S YOUR JOB, SCHOOLS. YOU HAD ONE JOB: Girls do worse in math and science classes with ‘high-achieving’ boys: study.
HEADDESK HEADDESK HEADDESK: Palestinian Jesus? Please.