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Archive for 2019
February 3, 2019
WHY DOES CBS HATE AMERICA? CBS rejects pro-flag, anti-Kaepernick ‘Just Stand’ Super Bowl ad.
I HADN’T THOUGHT OF THIS, BUT IT SOUNDS RIGHT TO ME: Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax may be an unconstitutional direct tax.
BYRON YORK: Romney fundraiser not a hint at 2020 run, associates say. I don’t see how Mitt thinks he can run for President. Why, just a few years ago, all the best people were assuring me that he was practically Hitler.
THE DESIRE NAMED STREETCAR: Rail Transit Is a Dead End, but Social Planners Keep Pushing for More.
Have you noticed how Californians move up and down the state?
They take Southwest Airlines, which offers low-cost, quick flights serving the major airports. Yet former Gov. Jerry Brown had focused his attention on building a $100-billion high-speed rail system that, if it ever is completed, will have ticket prices higher than airfares and will take nearly twice as long as flying to get from the Bay Area to Southern California. What is the point? The answer echoes my earlier point: Politicians and planners use public money to change how we live in pursuit of grandiose goals, such as slowing global warming. Easing cross-state travel is important, but if that were the primary goal, our leaders would consider a variety of practical—but boring—ideas, such as improving air service in hard-to-reach places such as Bakersfield, the Central Coast or Redding.
I think of my attempts to take transit to go from my exurb to downtown Sacramento. It would involve driving to a station 20 minutes away, paying for parking, buying a ticket and waiting for a train. It would take longer and cost almost as much as just driving downtown directly and parking. That train might make sense in the urban core, but not in the outlying areas, yet officials love to lecture us about our supposedly unsustainable reliance on driving.
Because passenger trains (whether light rail or for longer runs) offer them much more opportunity for graft.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Estate Planning For Your Dog.
TO BE FAIR, RUSSIANS HAVE BEEN BOOSTING DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR LONGER THAN I’VE BEEN ALIVE: Russia’s propaganda machine discovers 2020 Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard: Experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of support for Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard.
February 2, 2019
OPEN THREAD: Where better to spend a Saturday night? Well, there was that time with the three stewardesses from Pan Am, but that was long ago, in a different country, and besides, the airline is dead.
TICK, TOCK: Virginia Democrats want Gov. Ralph Northam out by Monday after racist photos surface.
Related: “President Donald Trump is telling conservative allies he wants to incorporate firm anti-abortion language into his State of the Union address Tuesday, and potentially include an anti-abortion figure among his list of invitees, according to four sources familiar with his plans.”
17 YEARS AGO: Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl was beheaded by Islamic terrorists for the twin crimes of being Jewish and being an American. The next time a journalist whines about being the target of a mean tweet (#LearnToCode) tell them to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. If you think Jim Acosta is some kind of “brave hero” then there’s just no hope for you.
MORE SIGNS WE ARE DESCENDING INTO IDIOCRACY: Mary Poppins branded racist by US academic – for ‘blacking up’ in iconic sweeps’ rooftop scene.
STILL #1 ON SSRN: My piece (written with Peter W. Morgan), Crime Follies: Overcriminalization, Independent Prosecutors, and the Rule of Law.
EUGENE VOLOKH: The Northam Controversy, the Kavanaugh Controversy, and Long-Past Misbehavior. “I think highly of Justice Kavanaugh, and I do not think he was guilty of what he was accused of doing. But — contrary to some arguments I’ve been seeing — I don’t think that the demands that Gov. Northam resign because of his yearbook photo 35 years ago are particularly similar to the demands that Judge Kavanaugh not be confirmed because of what he allegedly did 35 years ago.”
MORE THINGS YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY ON CNN: CNN Panel Shuts Down GOP Guest for Bringing Up Extreme Abortion Bill.
The topic was delivered. The topic was kept comfortable. However, the topic was not resuscitated as that’s what the host and network desired.
SO NOW “BIGOTED” IS SPELLED “UNCOMPROMISING:”
Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota were hailed as symbols of diversity when they were sworn in last month as the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress, Ms. Tlaib in her mother’s hand-embroidered Palestinian thobe, Ms. Omar in a tradition-shattering hijab.
Four weeks later, their uncompromising views on Israel have made them perhaps the most embattled new members of the Democratic House majority. Almost daily, Republicans brashly accuse Ms. Tlaib and Ms. Omar of anti-Semitism and bigotry, hoping to make them the Democrats’ version of Representative Steve King as they try to tar the entire Democratic Party with their criticism of the Jewish state.
And while Democratic leaders publicly defend them, some Democratic colleagues are clearly uneasy.
Republicans pounce!
“I’M STILL HERE:” What the ‘10-Year Challenge’ Might Say About You, and Me. My simpler take: In middle age, people don’t change a lot over 10 years, and most people on Facebook are middle-aged.
QUESTION ASKED: How Far Left Will the Democrats Lurch in 2020?
Everyone’s favorite Michael Jackson impersonator gave us a strong clue on one of the left’s policy stances: “Democrats’ Inexorable Abortion Logic Has Finally Caught Up With Them. From unrestricted late-term abortions to infanticide, Democrats are now facing the consequences of a position that never had a limiting principle,” John Daniel Davidson writes at the Federalist.
IT’S COME TO THIS:
