WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Boeing’s self-flying taxi completes its first flight.
Archive for 2019
January 23, 2019
TRUMP RECOGNIZES JUAN GUAIDO AS THE INTERIM LEADER OF VENEZUELA, JUST MINUTES AFTER THE OPPOSITION LEADER DECLARED HIMSELF THE HEAD OF STATE. It’s the U.S.’s most provocative move yet against Nicolas Maduro, Bloomberg News tweets.
DITTO FOR WAXING AND CRABS: HPV vaccine benefits women who don’t get it, study says. “A new study of HPV prevalence and vaccination suggests that incidence of HPV is declining even for unvaccinated women because the risk of contracting it is going down.”
STRANGE NEW RESPECT: After Displaying His Collaboration Credentials, Mitt Romney Is Urged by Liberals to Run for President.
The last time the Left got this excited about Mitt Romney, it was because he was giving cancer to dogs while strapping binders full of women to the top of his station wagon in the fancy car elevator.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Graham to Investigate Obama and Hillary Scandals.
I quickly grew to like Lindsey 2.0, and these 2.1 upgrades look even more promising.
ARE YOU SURE IT WASN’T DR. DOOLITLE IGNITING THE EXPLOSIVE WOOD? A Meteorite Crashed Into the Moon During the Lunar Eclipse.
CALL IN THE SPACE FORCE: Pentagon: Chinese Military Units Training With ASAT missiles. “China, Russia militarizing space to challenge U.S.“
SO WHO ACTUALLY WANTS THE “INTERNET OF THINGS” BESIDES THE COMPANIES SELLING IT? ‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism.
HMM: “A Tectonic Shift In China’s Economy Has Largely Gone Unnoticed By Investors.”
Now it is the Wall Street’s Journal’s turn to bring attention to this topic, calling it a “tectonic shift” in China’s economy, which has largely gone unnoticed by investors, and which is “quietly beginning to upend the global financial system.”
A key driver behind China’s declining current account is that after having long been the world’s heavyweight saver and a huge buyer of foreign assets like Treasurys, the world’s most populous nation is now a big spender, and in early 2018, China got more of its growth from consumption than the U.S., the global king of consumer spending where some 70% of economic growth is due to consumer spending. And as China’s increasingly wealthy population spends more at home and abroad, its total trade surplus with the rest of the world has shriveled to a fraction of its former size.
In other words, China is rapidly becoming the next US.
If they’re us, who’s going to finance Washington’s spending addiction?
UGH: The US Army says Iran is the only victor of the Iraq War.
Well, Bush failed to close Iraq’s door on Iran in 2004-05, and Obama handed them the keys to the whole place in 2011.
SOHRAB AMARI: Dear Covington boys: Everyone failed you.
I wish I could offer a word of reassurance amid your troubles. But all I can say is that everyone failed you. The elite media failed its duty to truth and fairness. Your school failed you. Your diocese failed you. Your Church failed you, with some of the nation’s most visible Catholics, lay and clerical, rushing to join the pile-on. America failed you.
Start with the media. If you have taken a high-school journalism class, you have heard that reporters are exacting with facts. That they are supposed to seek comment from people they criticise. “Even if your mother tells you she loves you, check it out,” runs an old journalistic maxim. These standards are especially pertinent when stories involve children.
Well, I’m sorry to say that many “real”, adult journalists don’t follow these professional rules anymore, including and especially at the prestigious outlets that went after you.
Read the whole thing. But not everyone failed them.
IT’S TIME TO OVERRULE, OR AT LEAST LIMIT, NEW YORK TIMES V. SULLIVAN: Lawyer for Covington Catholic Families Gives Media 48 Hours to ‘Retract and Correct’ Smears.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Economist Claims Paying for Green New Deal Isn’t a Problem — We’ll Just Print Money! “Scholars respond: ‘The whole thing is a scam’.”
Well, it is.
TAMARA KEEL IS REPORTING FROM THE SHOT SHOW: Now PTR has a 9mm!
IT WAS NECESSARY TO DESTROY THE CLIMATE IN ORDER TO SAVE IT: Record private jet flights into Davos as leaders arrive for climate talk.
Wait until the establishment left discovers telecommuting. In the meantime, as Glenn likes to say, I’d be more inclined to take global warming seriously, when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves.
IF IT WASN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NONE AT ALL: You know the stereotypical British leftie: All refugees must be accepted because borders are racist. And we have some sort of historical Original Sin to pay for, so somehow it’s our moral responsibility to ship cubic money elsewhere. Not to mention that taking pride in your nation’s history is racist, of course.
But when UK-based consumer electronics manufacturer Dyson announced it was moving its HQ to Singapore, the UK left has gone into melt-down mode, decrying the loss of prestige that Britain will face:
“Before Dyson, so the story went, we were terrific at inventing bright ideas but rubbish at turning those ideas into profitable businesses. Brits would have the lightbulb moment, but when it came to manufacturing the actual bulbs, that work – and profit – would be shipped far away. Then along came James Dyson, hailed by successive governments, who proved it didn’t have to be that way. A British idea produced a British business.”
Waitaminnit, what? Suddenly “business” and “profitability” and “national pride” are good things?
Who knew?
THIS IS A REASON FOR PESSIMISM: It’s one thing to have a small number of people around the country who are totally out of their minds with hatred. It was ever thus. It’s another thing when they get elected to Congress, and the media write puff pieces about them.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: More Covington fallout…
Tyler O’Neil is filling in for Liz today, even though he might be a bit distracted by some big personal news.
THEY HATE US. THEY REALLY HATE US: “Well, the truth is out there and there’s nothing we can do to stop it now. All the verified blue checks on Twitter have discovered our deep dark secret. Everyone who owns a MAGA hat is a terrorist.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: If Libs Will Lie About the Covington Catholic Kids, Who Won’t They Lie About?
Let’s ask the co-founder of young-adult site* Vox.com:
TO BE FAIR, HE GETS A PASS FOR EVERYTHING: Media give Obama a pass for anti-black result of his Title IX policies.
When the Trump administration said it plans to roll back its predecessor’s guidance on school discipline and disparate impact, the Obama administration’s education secretaries publicly denounced it for ignoring “our most vulnerable and underserved students.”
Those would be students of color and those with disabilities, who are “disproportionately affected by harsh and often unnecessary exclusionary discipline practices,” wrote Arne Duncan and John B. King.
They have been suspiciously silent about the disparate impact on black men from another Obama policy, one that the Trump administration is also rolling back: sexual misconduct rules.
Erika Sanzi, senior visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, writes in RealClearEducation that “Obama loyalists are trying to have it both ways” by criticizing both rollbacks.
“And truth be told, it’s easy for them to do that that when almost no one in the media, including reporters, forces them to explain the inconsistency and yes, blatant hypocrisy, of their position,” Sanzi writes.
Well, you know how it works:
