RANDY BARNETT ON FLIGHT 93: “Saved by the Militia.”
Archive for 2019
September 11, 2019
VAPING: A MORAL PANIC. The hysteria must end.
I WAS EXPECTING A TITAN-SHATTERING KABOOM: Methane-filled lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan are explosion craters.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: San Francisco man may close store after being bitten by homeless person twice in four months.
Trump really needs to shoot campaign commercials in Los Angeles and San Francisco, describe them as Detroit and Baltimore with palm trees, and warn that such conditions are inevitable whenever Democrats are in power.
LAW: SCOTUS Allows Trump Admin’s Asylum Ban to Go Into Effect Nationwide. Kagan and Breyer voted with the majority, leaving only Ginsburg and Sotomayor in dissent.
PTEROSAURS WITH 33-FOOT WINGSPANS, who could fly across oceans.
AT AMAZON, save on Office Supplies.
Plus, save on Software.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: NYT: ‘Airplanes Took Aim’ on 9/11.
Yes, terrorists did it. Islamic terrorists. That’s what happened. Saying so doesn’t make you a racist, and avoiding it won’t keep Islamic terrorists from striking again.
I’ll never understand the mindset. They know Islamic terrorists did it. Yet their first impulse was to say that the “airplanes took aim.” As if nobody would notice. They had to be publicly shamed into grudgingly admitting even a partial truth about what really happened.
And they still think they’re better than us.
Read the whole thing.
THIS IS CNN: America’s 9/11 Amnesia: Right-Wingers Are America’s Deadliest Terrorists.
CNN’s Brian Stelter tweeted a segment by his colleague John Avlon, with the chyron reading, “America’s 9/11 Amnesia.”
Avlon attacked President Trump, before pivoting to what he calls, “another form of violent extremism: white nationalist terrorism.”
“Here’s a startling statistic,” he drones on. “Since 9/11 right wing terrorists have killed more people in the United States than jihadist terror. That’s according to New America.”
‘New America’ is one of your classic D.C. think tanks packed to the gunwales with establishment foreign policy impresarios, including — though not disclosed — Avlon’s CNN colleague Fareed Zakaria.
Amongst New America’s donors are the same old names: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, the Omidyar Network, and of course George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
But New America didn’t publish such a report, it simply aggregated an article written by the far-left Slate magazine. The author — Daniel Byman — has written about “right wing” terrorism almost every other month this year for Slate, with headlines ranging from Right-Wing Terrorism Could Get Even Worse After Trump” to “Trump’s Rhetoric Is Raising the Risk of Right-Wing Terrorism.” Breadth, perhaps, is not Byman’s strong suit.
On Aug. 5, 2019, he published what CNN laundered as a think-tank article by New America, titled: “Right-Wingers Are America’s Deadliest Terrorists.”
Byman’s article in turn leans on research conducted for New America, by author Peter Bergen, another CNN employee. You see how the D.C. merry-go-round works?
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE: “Pretty f***ing bold to use the chyron ‘America’s 9/11 Amnesia’ while showing articles claiming ‘Right-Wingers Are America’s Deadliest Terrorists’ which memory hole the fact that, um, al-Qaeda’s attacks on 9/11 killing 3,000 people were by far the deadliest in American history,” Jerry Dunleavy of the Washington Examiner tweets in response.
MARK STEYN ON 9/11 AND THE LANGUAGE OF LOSING.
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Toxic strain of strep causing scarlet fever in Britain.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: When My Life Is on the Line, I Want the Most Competent Doctors, Not the Ones Approved by the SJW Mob.
In 2018, Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital joined the in-crowd, declaring their state of wokeness to the world by removing all traces of old white guys from its hallowed halls. These white guys (and one Chinese guy) were retired department chairs and contributors to the hospital’s long history. Their gold-framed portraits on the walls served as a reminder to the students of color that they are not properly represented, or something.
“[The portraits] mirror the other images around the school and other universities. I almost expected to see that,” said Titilayo Afolabi, a first-year student, adding that “it’s easy to remove people from the wall. It’s more difficult putting people of color in power.”
“It’s easy to remove people from the wall.” Winston Smith couldn’t have said it better.
GUN SALES SEE SPIKE DESPITE DEMOCRAT EFFORTS TO SLOW IT DOWN.
“Despite?” Hey, when did Fox Butterfield start writing for Red State?
PORTLAND OVERTAKES MOS EISLEY AS MOST WRETCHED HIVE OF SCUM AND VILLAINY.
Fortunately, a solution may soon be at hand: John Bolton Hired As National Security Advisor Of The Galactic Empire.
Note to Snopes — both links go to the Babylon Bee, which is satire…or is it?
COLLUSION: Dems Secretly Trained Thousands of Activists to Manipulate Media, Clinton Library Docs Show.
The Democratic party developed an elaborate, multi-year operation in the 1990s that deployed thousands of activists to covertly mold public opinion using talk radio, according to documents from the Clinton Presidential Library.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC), with the blessing of the Clinton White House, launched the Talk Radio Initiative (TRI) ahead of the 1996 campaign. The program trained thousands of operatives to call in to radio shows, conduct surveillance of their contents, and secretly disseminate Democratic talking points while posing as ordinary listeners.
“Volunteers must be able to keep the project confidential so as not to create the image of a ‘Democratic conspiracy’ to infiltrate Detroit area talk radio shows,” a 1995 TRI guide prepared by Michigan Democrats said. “Democratic performance in the 1996 elections will no doubt be affected by the success or failure of this initiative.”
Radio show hosts long suspected that someone was training so-called “seminar callers” to inundate their shows with sympathetic callers. Lars Larson, a host in the Pacific Northwest since the mid-1990s, recalled being on the receiving end of many such calls, but was not aware that many may have been trained by the DNC.
“You would get calls, an hour apart, from different people with different voices and different names, but they would talk the same lines. So close that you knew that this was not a coincidence,” Larson said. “It was the same language on the same subject and the same arguments.”
If the GOP were doing this, it would be a dangerous conspiracy. Since it’s the Democrats, it’ll get the “politics ain’t beanbag” treatment.
APPROPRIATELY UNSPARING: 9/11 Victim’s Son Blasts Ilhan Omar During Ground Zero Memorial Ceremony.
Related: On the Anniversary of 9/11, We Must Counter the Enemy Within.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Woke Chelsea Handler Ignores Her Actual Privilege. “Handler emerged from her newly woke persona missing her bona fide privilege. She’s a Hollywood liberal, and boy can they get away with plenty.”
UNEXPECTEDLY: AlienStock/Storm Area 51 Has Officially Been Cancelled.
BERNIE SANDERS JUMPS TO THE LEAD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: “Former Vice President Joe Biden has lost his lead in New Hampshire with U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders jumping ahead in what is now clearly a three-person race for the Democratic primary, a new Franklin Pierce University-Boston Herald poll shows.”
TODAY’S EASIEST TAKE: Reason will take a backseat in Thursday’s Democratic debate.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Napping is good for heart health, study finds.
HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Canadian Cancer Society Claims Men Without Cervixes Can Get Cervical Cancer.