FASTER, PLEASE: Betsy DeVos has cut 600 staff positions at the Department of Education. “I have long advocated for the notion that it would be great to work myself out of a job,” she said.
Archive for 2019
December 3, 2019
MAYBE DEMOCRATS LIKE BUDGET DEADLOCKS: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) took to the Senate floor to lay out the many ways Democrats’ broken promises and their impeachment mania are pushing Congress toward a virtually complete inability to get anything done. But what if Democrats consider that a feature, not a bug?
WHY AREN’T REPORTERS HARASSING JOHN DURHAM ON HIS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION? Great question posed by Sundance earlier today: “You know what it looks like, you’ve seen it a thousand times on television … The U.S. attorney is walking into the office from his car and a half dozen cameras and reporters are rushing alongside and asking questions. Have you seen that customary media effort even once since U.S. Attorney Durham was announced as investigating the origins of the Trump campaign surveillance? No, why not?”
Perhaps the answer to that question is that journalists who detest Trump don’t want to know the answers that Durham is uncovering about why the FBI launched its original investigation of allegations of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. The legitimacy of the investigation rests on this narrative, courtesy of the Washington Post’s Phillip Bump:
“The FBI had been informed by the Australian government that a Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos, had months earlier informed one of their diplomats, Alexander Downer, that he had heard Russia possessed emails incriminating Hillary Clinton, Trump’s 2016 opponent. Papadopoulos came by that knowledge in April, having been informed by a professor named Joseph Mifsud about the emails.”
Odds are Durham is confirming facts related to what I reported in 2018 concerning Downer’s long-standing connections to U.S., British and Chinese intelligence. Downer’s “tip” to the FBI was NOT the origin of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
5 MYTHS about the home defense shotgun. I want a variation of the old blunderbuss, with a bell mouth and a bunch of 1″ balls. Sure, the home repair bill is pricey, but . . .
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: Kamala Harris drops out of 2020 presidential race.
Related: Kamala Harris, the Juggernaut That Flopped.
Though not without accumulating valuable social media research data:
REMEMBER, THIS IS JUST WEATHER, NOT CLIMATE: America braces for possible french fry shortage after poor potato harvest.
Potato processors are rushing to buy supplies and ship them across North America in order to keep French fries on the menu after cold, wet weather damaged crops in key producers in the U.S. and Canada.
Cool conditions started to hit growing regions in October, lashing potatoes with frost. Farmers in Alberta and Idaho were able to dig up some damaged crops for storage. But growers in Manitoba, North Dakota and Minnesota received snow and rain, forcing them to abandon some supplies in fields.
I hope there’s not a killer flu outbreak next. I don’t want to live in a John Ringo novel.
ANDY NGO RESPONDS: TWITTER PUNISHES YOU FOR TELLING THE TRUTH. “I’m now back on Twitter, but only because I was forced to accept that on this platform, a journalist will be punished for telling the truth.”
Somebody should write a book about how social media tips the scale.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: LRW Professor’s Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination In Non-Renewal Of Contract After Teaching At Wake Forest Law School For 19 Years.
PREDICTIONS ARE HARD, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE FUTURE: Predicting The Order Democrats Exit the Clown Car.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: ‘She Looks Astoundingly Good’ — WashPost Slobbers Over Valerie Plame for Congress, Ignores Anti-Semitism. “Guess what wasn’t in the puff piece? Any mention of Plame’s anti-Semitic tweet controversy. As Post editorialist Molly Roberts wrote in 2017: On the first full day of Rosh Hashanah, unmasked CIA officer Valerie Plame tweeted out an article entitled, ‘America’s Jews are driving America’s wars.’ As if the headline weren’t bad enough, the essay appeared on a website featuring such pieces as ‘It’s time to re-think David Duke.’”
AT AMAZON, Holiday Gift Guides for Every Interest.
UGH: Measles outbreak spurred by anti-vaxxers shuts down Samoan government. “Of the 53 dead, 48 are children aged 4 and younger.”
RACISM AND/OR SEXISM, STRAIGHT UP: Kamala Harris is dropping out of the presidential election today, I’m told reliably. She’s informing staff now.
LET PEOPLE SLEEP: ‘I feel like I’m in jail’: Hospital alarms torment patients. “Nearly every machine in a hospital is now outfitted with an alarm―infusion pumps, ventilators, bedside monitors tracking blood pressure, heart activity and a drop in oxygen in the blood. Even beds are alarmed to detect movement that might portend a fall. The glut of noise means that the medical staff is less likely to respond.”
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: ‘Incapable of being gracious:’ De Blasio fumes over Bloomberg bid. After failing in his own 2020 campaign, the New York City mayor aims to sink his predecessor.
As the man said in the umpteenth remake of Godzilla, “Let them fight.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Progressives like Liz Warren want to abolish the Electoral College because they want to get rid of our constitutional system entirely. They’re against anything — law, custom, the Constitution — that might limit their power. Because that’s how totalitarians are, and most modern leftists are totalitarians at heart.
Related: Elizabeth Warren Has A Plan For Your Health Care, Whether You Like It Or Not.
WHEN HE’S RIGHT, HE’S RIGHT: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says the social network should not be ‘censoring politicians.’
WEIRD HOW THEY SAY PEOPLE BROKE THEIR RULES, BUT NEVER GIVE ANY DETAILS AS TO HOW: Google And YouTube Take Down Trump Campaign Ads (But Can’t Explain Why).