NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” IMPLIES MUSLIMS LACK FREE WILL: AOC says Palestinians ‘have no choice but to riot’ against Israel as she agrees with radio host that the country is ‘criminal.’
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July 31, 2019
NEWS YOU CAN USE? Drinking Game for the Second Dem Debate.
I’ll be back at my desk, with a full ice bucket on the beverage cart, in time for Debate 2, Round 2 at about 7:45pm Eastern.
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: There have been more than 1000 cases of measles in the US this year.
JOHN STOSSEL: Free Stuff! “While Trump’s $267 billion is bad, the Democrats’ plans are worse. We counted $297 billion proposed by Biden, $690 billion from Buttigieg, $3.8 trillion from Warren, $4 trillion from Sanders and $4.3 trillion from Harris. That would double what the entire federal government spends now.”
PLAY THE GAME WITH EV’RY FLOWER YOU BRING. DANDELION DON’T TELL NO LIES. DANDELION WILL MAKE YOU WISE: A night with nine people at a Marianne Williamson watch party — ten if you count the dog.
NEW YORK TIMES SHOCKED TO DISCOVER THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: When Lawmakers Try to Ban Assault Weapons, Gunmakers Adapt.
Here’s the lede: “Even though military-style weapons are used in few shootings, they have proven to be the deadliest, and the most visible targets for legislation.”
How are they the deadliest if they’re rarely used to kill?
MAYBE WE SHOULD BAN PRICE DISCRIMINATION: Hospitals Would Have to Reveal Discounted Prices They Give Insurers, Under Trump Rule.
MORE ON JOSH HARRIS: Here’s my two cents worth. Ed Driscoll linked to some important observations by others about the announcement of the “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” author that he is no longer a Christian. Harris also apologized to the LGBQT community.
It’s a significant turn of events for Instapundit readers, many of whom are on the evangelical side of the spectrum, and because many Instapundit readers are products of or proponents for the home-schooling movement of which Harris’ parents were early leaders.
UPDATE: Just to be clear, I have long been a homeschooling supporter and view it as one of the major reasons for hope that this country is going to make it.
Also, PJM’s Paula Bolyard made some of the same points as I did, plus several others I didn’t but wish I had. Interesting that two of the best analyses of Harris come from two women (Bolyard and Pullmann) who are Christians, conservatives and extremely talented writers and editors. If you aren’t following both of them, you should be.
UGH: Their case collapsed in court but 4 Navy prosecutors still netted NAMs.
More than nine months after he was charged with murder and a string of other war crimes allegedly committed in Iraq in 2017 — Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher strolled out of a Naval Base San Diego courtroom a free man, guilty only of appearing in an inappropriate photograph.
Despite the collapse of their case against him, four military attorneys netted Navy Achievement Medals eight days later for their roles in his prosecution, according to records released to Navy Times following a Freedom of Information Act request.
Presented at the Navy Region Southwest Legal Service Office in San Diego on July 10 by Capt. Gary E. Sharp — the chief of staff of Naval Legal Services Command in Washington — the decorations included NAMs for three lieutenants, George O. Hageman, Brian P. John and Scott I. McDonald, plus a female officer whose name and rank were redacted by the Navy.
That’s no way to run a Navy, or anything else.
SHARYL ATTKISSON: When polls shape opinion rather than measure it.
While looking into this phenomenon in 2016, I contacted a number of polling groups. I knew that they “weight” and adjust their samples to make them reflect certain demographics of the U.S. population. In simple terms, if their sample ends up with too many young people, they assign greater weight to responses from older people. The methods they use to do so vary and are arcane, to say the least. For example, ABC states that it “adopted iterative weighting, also known as raking or rim weighting, in which the sample is weighted sequentially to Census targets one variable at a time, continuing until the optimum distribution is achieved.”
But one of the most interesting things I learned had to do with one big factor for which they typically don’t “weight” or adjust. It’s one that I think is arguably among the most important when it comes to polls measuring political issues: political affiliation. In other words, the national pollsters I spoke with told me that if they end up interviewing significantly more Democrats than Republicans — which is often the case — they don’t necessarily adjust the results to try to make the sample reflective of the U.S. voting population.
“I wonder why that is?” he asked rhetorically.
NEXT, THE PLAGUE OF FROGS: A Hostile Grasshopper Takeover Has Begun in Las Vegas.
Though as long as you’ve got enough garlic and butter, I don’t see how a plague of frogs is to be feared.
BUT THAT’S WHAT I LIKE MOST ABOUT HER: Marianne Williamson: I am not a ‘wacky new-age nutcase.’
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Obama, Katy Perry, Other Celebs Take Jets and Yachts to Sicily for Google Climate Change Summit.
C’mon, they’re just getting all their fun in before (a) the world comes to an end in 14 months or (b) President Ocasio-Cortez bans commercial aviation in 2025 (assuming planet Earth somehow makes it that long.) But in the meantime, I still don’t want to hear another word about Glenn Reynolds’ carbon footprint.
MARK JUDGE WAS WAY AHEAD OF MARIANNE WILLIAMSON: The Donald, Chaos Magician.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Democrats just purged white party staffers, and it’s a bigger deal than anyone wants to admit.
There are two possible interpretations of this mass-purge at the DCCC [The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]. Either a few Democrats are making a racial issue out of a patronage question, once again knifing each other under the cover of intersectionality, or Democrats are genuinely angry that half the staff at the DCCC are white. As often happens with the Democratic Left, it is difficult to tell just where the insincerity ends and the fanaticism begins.
But either interpretation implies that this is not a party fit to govern.
Nobody wants to see whites take up identity politics or demand a certain quota of jobs anywhere. But that isn’t what this was about. This is about an organization that fires people from their current jobs because of their skin color. The insinuation that racist influences led Bustos to choose her staff and pass over better nonwhite candidates marks a continuation of what New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez started when she absurdly accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of racism and sexism.
This firing, and that’s what it is, not a free resignation, sends a message to everyone, and especially to young people of any race who are interested in politics. If an organization is actually willing to fire you from your job just because you’re white, do you really want to be involved with it?
Would you even want to vote for it?
Related: DCCC faces mass staff shakeup: ‘It’s the Monday Night Massacre.’
Among some, the committee’s day of meetings was a source of mockery, especially after a largely drama-free cycle internally under [Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.)], who ultimately helped win the majority for the party.
“The idea of all DCCC staff sitting around for hours on Friday and again today to talk about this internal shit enrages me,” the House Democrat said. “Shut the f— up about your feelings and just focus on winning.”
“You know how NRCC [National Republican Congressional Committee] spent their day Friday and today? Not sitting around talking about diversity and their feelings,” the lawmaker added.
It’s a bit too late for that, isn’t it? For at least a quarter of a century, the New York Times and its management have preached that diversity far outweighs the end results of any endeavor, ranging from the actual product that the Times itself puts out, or as the paper groused just this month, even America landing a man on the moon. That this identity politics-obsessed worldview should impact the Democratic Party on the eve of the 2020 elections isn’t at all surprising. Call it “woke racism,” as Victor Davis Hanson wrote earlier this month, as the mainstream left further mirrors the fringe alt-right.
