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March 17, 2019
BUFF FROM ABOVE: A B-52 refuels off the English coast – March 14, 2019. The KC-135 Stratotanker that refueled the bomber is based at RAF Mildenhall, England.
WE SHOULD CANCEL SLS NOW AND PUT THE MONEY INTO CONTRACTS WITH PRIVATE LAUNCH COMPANIES: If SLS Won’t Launch NASA’s Moon Mission, What Will?
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Army of Geeks: Ohio Seeks to Create a Civilian Cyber Militia to Protect Elections.
ACTUAL INNOCENCE: Man exonerated after 43 years for Reston rape he didn’t commit. “Last week, the Virginia Supreme Court granted a writ of actual innocence in the case of Winston Scott, fully exonerating him for a crime he served time for from 1976 to 1981. In 1975, then-19-year-old Scott was arrested and charged with the rape of a 24-year-old woman. He was convicted largely off of a composite sketch and a blood-type test. According to court documents, the blood type test was not a match on the first try, but unexplainably matched on the second. Court documents also show the victim didn’t work with detectives on the composite sketch until a month or so following the incident.”
I REMEMBER 2004 WHEN MICHAEL J. FOX DELIVERED A MEAN-SPIRITED AD THAT SAID REPUBLICANS WANTED PEOPLE TO DIE BECAUSE THEY OPPOSED EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH: Adult Stem Cells Now the ‘Gold Standard.’ Related: MIT Technology Review: Will Embryonic Stem Cells Ever Cure Anything? “In fact, no field of biotechnology has promised more and delivered less in the way of treatments than embryonic stem cells.”
In 2004, of course, we couldn’t know how the science would turn out. But that didn’t stop Fox from making a mean-spirited ad for the Democrats. And how bad must he feel, to have flushed (at least) half his fan base for John Kerry?
I LINKED THIS PIECE THE OTHER DAY, BUT THIS PASSAGE IS WORTH REPEATING:
If Trump’s election really is a Hitlerian-scale catastrophe for the West, then civic friendship between Trump America and non-Trump America is impossible. And indeed, that is a premise shared by the #Resistance and the most hysterical of the Never Trumpers, Boot chief among them. They speak of “defending democracy,” as Boot does throughout his memoir, but what they really mean is defending the technocratic liberal consensus, even if that means undoing the popular will as it was expressed at the ballot box.
We should decline to go along.
When they talk about defending democracy, what they really mean is defending a privileged class from democracy.
REUTERS WILL REPORT NO STORY BEFORE ITS TIME: Reuters Admits They Sat On Bombshell Beto O’Rourke Story For 2 Years:
Reuters reported late on Friday night that their reporter who broke the story about Democrat Beto O’Rourke belonging to a hacker group had the story for two years and agreed to sit on it until after O’Rourke’s Senate race against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Just think of the media as Democratic operatives, and it all makes sense.
COLLUSION, HIGHER-ED FOREIGN AGENT EDITION: Two in three colleges with Confucius Institutes violated the law by not reporting Chinese funding.
MICHIGAN IS TAKING “THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE” FAR TOO LITERALLY: “Popping balloons reportedly triggered an active shooter warning on University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus Saturday.”
I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED, THAT LINDA SARSOUR IS A TOTAL HYPOCRITE: But that’s different because Jews.
JOHN HINDERAKER: Connecticut Supreme Court Makes War On Civil Rights. “The Connecticut Supreme Court’s decision is not a good faith exercise of judicial judgment. The four-judge majority engaged in political activism by issuing an anti-gun ruling that is obviously wrong under the Constitution and federal law. It will be reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court. But there is a lesson here: liberals love to talk about the rule of law, but what they mean is rule by lawyers.”
UPDATE: Here’s my piece on the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
NEBRASKA: Rescue efforts, evacuations continue as floodwaters breach levees in Midwest. “Evacuation efforts in eastern Nebraska and some spots in western Iowa on Saturday were hampered by reports of levee breaches and washouts of bridges and roads, including part of Nebraska Highway 92, leading in and out of southwest Omaha. Authorities confirmed that a bridge on that highway that crosses the Elkhorn River had been washed out Saturday. In Fremont, west of Omaha, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office issued a mandatory evacuation for some residents after floodwaters broke through a levee along the Platte River. And in Mills County, Iowa, authorities ordered people in some rural areas to evacuate after the Missouri River overtopped levees.”
Related: We Walk The Levee.
REMEMBER, THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS, THEY JUST HATE ISRAEL: There have been street protests against Hamas in Gaza for the last several days. How many “pro-Palestinian” activists are out there protesting on behalf of those fed up with with Hamas’s disastrous, dictatorial rule? “None” is a reasonable approximation.
