DAVID FRENCH WRITES THAT HE BELIEVES HER: Another Woman Comes Forward To Accuse Trump Of Existing Against Her Wishes.
Archive for 2019
July 9, 2019
DID THE INFAMOUS D.B. COOPER JUST DIE A BLOCK OR SO FROM MY GENTLEMAN FRIEND’S HOME?: I don’t know. But it’s a good story. And even if Robert Rackstraw was not D.B. Cooper, he seems to have led an astonishingly crazy life.
APPARENTLY, LOW TESTOSTERONE IS BAD FOR COGNITION: Prostate cancer treatment linked to heightened Alzheimer’s risk. “Soon after a man is diagnosed with prostate cancer, drugs that lower levels of testosterone are often offered as treatment, since testosterone fuels the cancer’s growth. But a major new study suggests that this approach might have an unwanted side effect: Higher odds for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.”
Actually, the evidence that testosterone “fuels” prostate cancer is rather weak, and I have a friend with low-grade prostate cancer who has actually continued testosterone supplementation for several years with no problems. As I understand it, the thinking now is that it’s actually estrogen that’s the culprit. Lowering testosterone lowers estrogen in men, because men make their estrogen from testosterone, but it’s a drastic way compared to administering estrogen blockers.
THIS IS A WIDESPREAD PROBLEM OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIANISM: Canadian Humanitarian Sentenced to 9 Years for Raping 2 Nepali Boys.
AT AMAZON, summer deals in Car Care.
GEORGE KORDA ON CELLPHONE BANS AND SAFETY-TALK HYPOCRISY.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Amazon pullout continues, setting Seattle up for devastation.
WORST PUTIN PUPPET EVER: Green Berets train Polish, Latvian resistance units in West Virginia. “U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers completed the first irregular and unconventional warfare training iteration for members of the Polish Territorial Defense Forces and Latvian Zemmessardze as a part of the Ridge Runner program in West Virginia, according to service officials. . . . This summer, Latvia and Poland traveled to West Virginia for the program. Both nations have newly invigorated homeland defense forces capable of pushing back against an invading force and opposing a potential occupation. The units are trained to provide response during the early stages of a hybrid conflict. Their tasks could include slowing the advancing units of an aggressor nation by destroying key transportation infrastructure such as bridges, attacking enemy forces at choke points and potentially serving as forward observers for NATO aircraft responding with airstrikes.”
WHY LET THE FACTS GET IN THE WAY OF A USEFUL NARRATIVE? Seattle’s ‘Hate Crime Epidemic That Never Was.’
IT NEEDS A BETTER SEAL . . OH, WAIT: 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8’s Rear End Leaks.
OUT TODAY, Mollie Hemingway & Carrie Severino’s book about the Kavanaugh confirmation, Justice on Trial, debuts at #1 on Amazon.
DESPERATELY SEEKING MOOTNESS: New York City Asks Supreme Court to Drop Gun Case: Request comes after city loosens restrictions on transporting firearms. “Earlier this year, in what would be its first gun-rights case in about a decade, the high court said it would hear a lawsuit filed by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, a gun-rights group affiliated with the National Rifle Association. The gun-rights group sued New York City and its police department, saying city rules that block some gun-permit holders from transporting handguns to second homes or ranges outside the city are unconstitutional and violate the Second Amendment. . . . In a letter last week, New York City Assistant Corporation Counsel Richard Dearing told the Supreme Court’s clerk that there is no longer a ‘controversy because the new city regulation gives petitioners everything they have sought in this lawsuit.'”
They probably saw the amicus brief that I, Randy Barnett, et al., filed in the case and realized they were doomed. . . .
EUGENE VOLOKH WEIGHS IN ON THE TWITTER DECISION: Government-Run Fora on Private Platforms, in the @RealDonaldTrump User Blocking Controversy.
Twitter is a private entity, which isn’t bound by the First Amendment. (Whether Congress could constitutionally impose some sort of constraints on Twitter’s banning users is a separate matter; so far, Congress hasn’t.) President Trump is a government official, and his actions are potentially constrained by the First Amendment.
One can argue that he’s running the account in his individual capacity; but once the court concludes that he’s acting as an official, and not just as a politician, the First Amendment does apply to him. And if the blocking were done on a government entity’s account, such as an account run by a school board, a police department, or a city council, then the First Amendment would even more clearly apply.
Nor should it matter that President Trump is using private property for his speech. A city council, for instance, is barred by the First Amendment from kicking speakers out of an open comment period based on their viewpoints. (It has no constitutional obligation to set up such a period, but many city councils choose to.) And that remains so even if the city council decides to meet in a privately owned building that the owner has let it use for the occasion.
Lots to chew on here. Read the whole thing.
NO COST TOO GREAT: What Are You Willing to Give Up to Be #NeverTrump?
TOMORROW’S HEADLINES TODAY: Trump Giving Cancer to Migrants.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Stop an Attack Before It Starts.
BREAKING: Appeals Court Rules Trump Can’t Block Annoying Twitter Users. “A 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision essentially guts Twitter’s sometimes abusive Terms of Service, whether the court realizes that or not.”
UPDATE: If Trump Doesn’t Get to Block People on Twitter, Why Should AOC? Everyone knows that the rules are different for Trump in the Courts of Appeals.
NEW YORK TIMES HAS 6250 TON COOLING SYSTEM, TELLS PEOPLE IT’S NOBLE TO SUFFER W/O AIR CONDITIONERS.
Iowahawk has a simple solution to the author’s preference for warmer working conditions:
And James Lileks notes the recurring pattern, given that the DNC-MSM’s anti-A/C articles are a summer perennial:
Free-floating, petty gripes are a result of Miserabilism as a world view, the idea that viewing Western Civ as a hellish, gruesome burden destined to collapse of its sins and conceits is the only possible worldview for a Serious Person. Hence the more fault you find, the deeper you are. It comes from being grounded in nothing but the shallow soil of the present, with no sense of history except for a series of pre-approved narratives intended to culminate in an argument against the recent past, which was bad because it prevented the wonderful possible Tomorrow from happening Today. It’s a recipe for life-long alienation.
A sophomoric alienation that begins at the very top of the Times.
I BLAME THE DEMOCRATS’ CONSTANT HARPING ON A SOLID ECONOMY: Poll: Many feeling vulnerable despite economic gains.
COLONEL THAG, IN THE CAVE, WITH A CLUB: Study concludes 33,000-year-old skull shows signs of blunt-force trauma.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Pay Gap Between Men’s And Women’s Teams Reveals Shocking Truth That People Are Paid To Play Soccer.
Note to Snopes, it’s the Babylon Bee, so it’s satire — or is it?