Archive for 2019
October 27, 2019
WHY NOT? THE CONSTITUTION IS A LIVING DOCUMENT THAT SHOULD CHANGE AND GROW WITH THE TIMES . . . WSJ op-ed idea: A failed impeachment attempt should mean the president is eligible for a third term.
STACY MCCAIN ON THE SELF-DESTRUCTIVE ILLUSIONS OF ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE:’
A stunning finding about American Jews polled in the U.S. on the threat of antisemitism: more Jews believe that the “extreme political right” poses a bigger threat than Islamic “extremism,” according to an American Jewish Committee (AJC) poll… This despite the fact that Islamic antisemitism has had a huge impact, all the way up to Congress. Even a Washington Post article identified Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar as open antisemites. Their partnership with “vicious antisemites” who also aim to destroy Israel is well known.
Read the whole thing.
UT POLICE: “We will not apologize.”
SHE WENT OFF THE RESERVATION WHEN SHE CRITICIZED LIZ WARREN: How The Establishment Retaliated Against Tulsi Gabbard By Endorsing Her Opponent.
A SPECIAL FORCES RAID CONDUCTED WITH THE KURDS. HAS ANYONE CHECKED ON MITT ROMNEY? ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed in Syria.
Related: What would Pierre Delecto do?
HMM: Eco madness may be reason for disastrous Boeing 737 MAX safety issues. “No one has said it explicitly yet, but this relentless pressure to reduce emissions appears to have been a significant factor in the disastrous safety failures of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, which resulted in two fatal crashes in the past year, claiming 346 lives.”
WHY IS NBC SUCH A CESSPIT OF SEXUAL ABUSE? Batten Down The #MeToo Hatches: NBC waives non-disclosure agreements.
Earlier: It’s time to pluck some peacock and clean house at NBC News.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Warren Took Thousands From Teachers’ Unions Before Charter School Flip-Flop.
SMITHSONIAN’S SHAME: Celebrating ‘Extraordinary Life’ of ‘Soulful, Poetic’ Che Guevara.
You spelled murderous homophobic reactionary wrong.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: University seminar teaches faculty not to judge ‘quality’ of writing when grading.
Found via David Thompson, who writes, “Don’t Oppress My People With Your Comprehensible Sentences.”
WAIT, ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME HE BLEW IT: Trump Outsmarts Putin With Syria Retreat: Russia will soon find itself caught between Turkey and Syria.
If and when such a border fight develops, Putin will find himself between Assad and Erdogan. Whatever he does, he will wind up in that most vulnerable of Middle Eastern positions, the friend of somebody’s enemy.
As the big power in charge, Russia also will be expected to help its Syrian client rebuild the damage from the civil war. Physical reconstruction alone is expected to cost $400-500 billion. This is a bill Trump had no intention of paying — and one more reason he was glad to hand northern Syria to Putin.
Russia cannot afford a project of this magnitude. It’s possible that Putin expects EU countries to foot the bill — motivated either by humanitarian impulses or by the desire to forestall another wave of destitute immigrants. But this is wishful thinking. Faced with a potential influx of Syrian refugees, Europe is more likely to raise barriers on its southern and eastern borders than to invest in affordable housing in the ruins of Aleppo and Homs.
Erdogan’s loud threats to send refugees are likely to boost anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe.
October 26, 2019
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DEMOCRATS ROUTINELY SIDE WITH ANTI-SEMITIC ARABS THESE DAYS: McConnell Senate Challenger Attends Dinner Hosted by Hamas-Linked CAIR.
DON’T CALL US PARTISAN ACTIVISTS, WE’RE INDEPENDENT, NONPARTISAN JOURNALISTS! ‘Be in their faces’: CNN bigwig calls for hounding ‘delusional’ Senate Republicans at work, home.
OPEN THREAD: Just run with it.
HBO’S REAL TIME: ‘ALL-OUT DICTATOR’ TRUMP IS LIKE NAZI GOEBBELS.
Curiously, the segment was videotaped in a Los Angeles television studio*, and not, you know, smuggled out of a concentration camp.
But then, every Republican president or presidential candidate since Calvin Coolidge has been compared to a Nazi.
* To paraphrase Tom Wolfe, the dark knight of fascism is always descending upon America, and yet lands only in the studios of WarnerMedia.
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