DISPATCHES FROM GROUND ZERO OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Judge denies Oberlin College’s request to unseal Gibson Bakery store clerk’s Facebook records.
Archive for 2019
September 25, 2019
A BAD IDEA IN SO MANY WAYS: National Popular Vote frees candidates to ignore Colorado.
HMM: Cats bond with caregivers just like kids, dogs. “Cats bond to their people like babies do to parents.”
LAWRENCE PERSON: The Twitter Primary Revisited for September 2019. “Most amusing: Tom Steyer, who’s been throwing fistfuls of money into social media advertising, gained fewer followers than last place Wayne Messam.”
Who?
LEFTISTS VIEW THIS HEADLINE AS BAD NEWS: Thanks to Trump, seven million have quit food stamps.
Cloward And Piven hardest hit.
MICHAEL GOODWIN: Pelosi’s impeachment flip-flop changes everything.
In surrendering to the radicals and the noisy drumbeat of their media handmaidens, Pelosi established a formal investigative process involving the top legislative committees.
Yet she did something else, too, something far more monumental: She effectively committed House Dems to impeaching President Trump.
Because of what she said and did, if the House doesn’t go all the way, it will be a political disaster. Either failing to take a vote on articles of impeachment, or failing to get enough votes among her majority to pass any articles, would be seen as a political exoneration for Trump, likely leading to his re-election.
Don’t get cocky.
That aside, maybe the only thing to the Democrats’ kamikaze wing worse than not going ahead with an impeachment inquiry would be an unsuccessful one.
IT IS. China Wants the World to Stay Silent on Muslim Camps. It’s Succeeding. The threats and bribes help, but the truth is that the world doesn’t really care about this stuff unless it can be used to bash Israel or the United States. Of course, since it’s the NYT, we’re told both that the United States has been China’s most vocal critic, and that other nations aren’t doing more because the United States isn’t providing enough leadership.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Iowa Man Donates $1 Million to Children’s Hospital, Gets Cancelled for Bad Tweets.
“Routine background check.” For a story about a guy who gave a million bucks to sick kids? Bull$#!+.
And don’t let any of these scumbag journalists tell you that King’s old tweets “resurfaced.” The tweets didn’t just float up to the top of the Internet on their own. Somebody got paid to dig them up. Someone made the decision to publish them. It was a choice. The Des Moines Register chose this.
But here’s where it gets interesting. Some keen-eyed Internet sleuths decided to do their own routine background check on Aaron Calvin, the Des Moines Register reporter who wrote the story:
Read the whole thing. Curiously, the Des Moines Register’s editor is suddenly silent about her reporter’s efforts at leading the cancel culture mob, despite the skeletons in his own closet:
Not to mention the vile taint this story now gives a newspaper that previously had an innocuous national reputation.
UPDATE: “So Carson King was apparently citing Tosh quotes in his Tweets 8 years ago from when he was 16, and he genuinely apologized. Your turn, @AnheuserBusch. Does the same standard apply to you? How far does this go? Cowards,” Dana Loesch tweets.
ROGER SIMON: Why the Democrats Have Gone Insane.
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FAIL, BRITANNIA: British Church Leaders Want Government to Ban Pointy Knives. “Maybe there remain a few sturdy Britons who would say, ‘They can have my Messermeister carving knife when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.’ The problem is, you’re much more likely to end up dead trying to defend yourself with a kitchen tool, than you are with a firearm. Then again, the UK is already well along the road to comically complete disarmament, so I suppose the kitchen cutlery is destined to go next.”
Read the whole thing, if you don’t mind me saying so myself.
MAYBE THEY SHOULD STOP HIRING 27-YEAR-OLDS WHO LITERALLY KNOW NOTHING EXCEPT HOW TO BE ASSES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Newly-Hired NYT Reporter Accused Of Fabricating Accusation Against Another Reporter.
YEP: Ukraine controversy and impeachment inquiry potentially politically perilous for Biden: Experts.
(UPDATE: Link was broken, sorry.)
THREE CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE STONE AND VINSON COURTS: Wickard v. Filburn (1942), Korematsu v. U.S. (1944), and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952).
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DIPLOMATICALLY ATTACKING VENEZUELA’S SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP:
Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his regime wage what amounts to a slow war of oppression and starvation on their own people. Thanks to the regime’s catastrophic socialist economic policies, life for Venezuelans lacking regime connections is wretched.
So they flee.
Read the entire column.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Things Are Just Impeachy Now. “Of course, it’s Hallelujah! time over in Dem Land. They are now convinced that THIS IS THE ONE THING that will get rid of Bad Orange Man for them. For those keeping count at home, this is the 7,891st ONE THING since January, 2017.”
B-2 LEADER: Somewhere over the North Sea a B-2A Spirit bomber leads a delta formation consisting of two F-15C Eagles and two Royal Air Force F-35B Lightning IIs.
Pretty much anything you input into a third-party app can be sold to advertisers, and a third-party keyboard knows literally everything you type, but Apple says they have a patch coming to close this loophole.