Archive for 2019
October 23, 2019
FIGHT THE POWER: In-N-Out Burger Tosses Out Crazy Climate Change Protester.
NO MORE LAW BY “DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER”: The National Association commends (and in doing so explains) the Trump Administration’s recent executive orders curbing “rule by bureaucracy.”
THE APPARAT TAKES CARE OF ITS OWN: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize.
THE BALLS BACK IN HIS COURT: Trans Provocateur Loses Legal Battle to Force Women to Wax His Genitals.
Related (From Ed): “Jessica” Yaniv loses lawsuits against female estheticians who refused to wax his genitals. New video from Canada’s Rebel TV.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Intimidation Game: Bullying and Retaliation at the University of Tulsa.
WILL MARK ZUCKERBERG BE ASKED WHY FACEBOOK KILLED DENEEN BORELLI’S VOICE? Don’t hold your breath, but Facebook’s silencing of a black conservative woman should be front and center in today’s hearing.
SHOW ME THE MAN AND I’LL FIND YOU A CRIME, MAYBE, SOMEDAY: Democrats Want to Impeach Trump. They Haven’t Decided Why.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Fliers single out Asian-American conservative activist at University of Michigan as ‘white supremacist’.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Google Confirms Achieving Quantum Supremacy. “This morning, Google scientists confirmed in a blog post that their quantum computer had needed just 200 seconds to solve a problem that they claim would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to complete.” Your secure encryption just became much less so.
WORST. NAZI. PRESIDENT. EVER. First Ever Sukkah at the White House.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is It Time For America To Begin Decoupling From Communist China?
There is a case to be made that since President Richard Nixon’s historic 1972 visit to China, the United States has become more like China than China has become like us. We may have been sowing the seeds of our own destruction.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is just one of many prominent Western industries as diverse as automobiles, fashion, and lodging that have cowed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) line, and engaged in self-censorship out of a desire for the almighty dollar. While the NBA is a particularly deserving target of ire, given the fact its social justice warriors have shown themselves to be hypocritical sellouts, one would be hard-pressed to find any entity with substantial profits or funding tied to China willing to permit the voicing of views that might rankle the CCP.
“Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elites Slept,” a new book by U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding (Ret.), confirms this assessment. Spalding served as the chief China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as senior U.S. Defense official and defense attaché to China in Beijing, and later in the Trump National Security Council (NSC), where he was the chief architect of the NSS’s framework for national competition.
According to Spalding, even organizations that would seem to have a vested interest in exposing China’s malign behavior remain mum.
I believe it was Lenin who wrote, “Money talks, BS walks.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UConn students ARRESTED for ‘ridiculing’ speech in viral video. That’s ridiculous.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Gabbard: Clinton’s Foreign Policy ‘Proven to be Incredibly Destructive.’
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Thanks to Obama’s policies — and Hillary Clinton’s — black people are sold as slaves in Libya. That’s what establishment “expertise” gets you.
THAT’S DIFFERENT, BECAUSE SHUT UP: Apparently Every Democrat In Existence Used the Term “Lynching” To Defend The Clintons.
LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Venezuelans buy gas with cigarettes to battle inflation. “Motorists in socialist Venezuela have long enjoyed the world’s cheapest gasoline, with fuel so heavily subsidized that a full tank these days costs a tiny fraction of a U.S. penny. But the economy is in such shambles that drivers are now paying for fill-ups with a little food, a candy bar or just a cigarette.”
Weird how currencies always seem to end up worthless when the government dictates prices.
REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Giuliani-Style ‘Shadow’ Diplomacy: Par for the Course of U.S. History. “In fact, presidents since George Washington have turned to individuals without formal government positions to pursue foreign policy interests and objectives. Private citizens, often acting as special envoys, have helped negotiate issues ranging from trade to war. While critics deride such efforts as ‘back-door,’ ‘secret,’ or ‘shadow’ undertakings, many presidents have found it useful to dispatch people they trust, who can think and operate outside the constraints of official channels in handling delicate matters.”
Reporters might know this, if they weren’t 27 year olds who literally know nothing. And if they cared about the truth.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Byron York: Facebook shouldn’t be political speech police.
“We don’t fact-check political ads,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent speech. “We don’t do this to help politicians, but because we think people should be able to see for themselves what politicians are saying.”
That might be simple common sense to many Americans, but to some Democrats these days, and particularly the Joe Biden campaign, it’s a dangerous point of view.
Biden recently complained when Facebook declined to censor an ad from the Trump reelection campaign that said, “Joe Biden promised Ukraine $1 billion if they fired the prosecutor investigating his son’s company.” Even though that is an entirely defensible assertion — “Everything in the ad is factually accurate,” Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told me, adding that the spot was reviewed by lawyers prior to its release — and even though it is certainly in line with the political debate that dominates today’s news, the Biden campaign demanded Facebook ban the ad.
“Whether it originates from the Kremlin or Trump Tower, these lies and conspiracy theories threaten to undermine the integrity of our elections in America,” a Biden spokesman said. “It is unacceptable for any social media company to knowingly allow deliberately misleading material to corrupt its platform.”
A Facebook spokesman replied that the company made its decision out of respect for free expression and faith that a controversial ad will receive intense scrutiny in today’s media world. “In mature democracies with a free press, political speech is already arguably the most scrutinized speech there is,” the spokesman said.
The left wants to silence its opponents. The right wants the left to just keep on talking.
EVERYTHING TO DATE ABOUT WEWORK HAS BEEN CRAZY: Tech and finance experts are shocked by SoftBank’s ‘stone-cold crazy’ $1.7 billion golden parachute for ousted WeWork CEO Adam Neumann.
PROBABLY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO TOLD HARRY REID THAT MITT ROMNEY DIDN’T PAY ANY TAXES: John Kerry Implies To Amy Schumer Republicans Are Privately Telling Him Trump’s ‘Off Balance.’ Or maybe it’s just Mitt Romney, which would be strangely fitting.