I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD ABOUT GLENN REYNOLDS’ CARBON FOOTPRINT: Climate Alarmist Barbra Streisand Flies Her Dogs 10,000 Miles for Performance.
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July 13, 2019
DISPATCHES FROM THE PATRIOTIC, LAW-ABIDING LEFT: Anti-ICE Protesters Deface American Flag, Raise Mexican Flag over Colorado Processing Center.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Former ICE Director Tom Homan Leaves Ocasio-Cortez Speechless On Immigration.
Homan noted that, while he did not write the policy, he had made “numerous recommendations” to Homeland Security, including implementing a “zero tolerance” policy for illegal border crossers.
“Which includes family separation,” Ocasio-Cortez interrupted.
“The same as it is with every U.S. citizen,” Homan shot back. “Parent [who] gets arrested with a child.”
After a brief pause, a seemingly rattled Ocasio-Cortez said, “Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated the children from their parents.”
“If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in the car I’m gonna be separated,” Homan said. “When I was a police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from his family.”
“Mr. Homan, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime,” said the congresswoman.
But Homan was ready, with a specific U.S. code no less: “When you’re in this country illegally, it’s violation 8, United States Code 1325.”
Related: Fireworks: Everyone needs to watch this clip of Homan unloading on Dem Rep. García.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University investigates feminist grad student for saying men can’t become women.
Title IX has been stretched so far beyond its original meaning, we should probably just repeal it.
NASTY, HORRIBLY WRITTEN NEW REPUBLIC OP-ED ATTACKS MAYOR PETE AS THE GAY UNCLE TOM.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes’ short-lived tenure as owner of the New Republic appears to have done a serious number on the publication that was once the in-flight magazine of Air Force One.
Because it is publishing stuff today that no reputable outlet would touch.
On Friday, the New Republic published a meandering, nasty, and disturbingly personal op-ed by gay author Dale Peck, who attacks South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg as the “Uncle Tom” of the gay community. But instead of calling him “Uncle Tom,” Peck calls the 2020 Democratic candidate “Mary Pete.” Clever.
The article is every bit as reprehensible as it sounds, each paragraph worse than the last. However, there is one passage that stands out above all others for its sheer viciousness. That passage reads as follows — it is not safe for work, and I would keep it away from children, the easily offended, and the faint of heart:
It’s really vile stuff. As the Politico’s Adam Wren quipped on Twitter last night, “I just ran into Stephen Glass at a hipster coffee shop and he told me that the TNR piece on Buttigieg is an embarrassment to him.”
PREPARING TO LAUNCH IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN: On the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt sailors prepare to launch an F/A-18E Super Hornet.
HOW DID CHRIS CUOMO GET INTO YALE? FOX News Chanel’s Tucker Carlson wonders why it is so easy for the children of powerful families to get into elite colleges.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Pelosi’s House of Pain — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turns the 116th Congress into Thunderdome.
She’s something, Ocasio-Cortez. At 29 years old, she perfectly embodies her generation’s uniquely irritating combo of self-righteousness and cluelessness. Passionate and charming at first blush, her appeal quickly wears off. In a March Quinnipiac poll her favorability was underwater by 13 points.
What Ocasio-Cortez understands is that, in the culture of social media celebrity, the worst possible thing to do is back down. So, when Pelosi stated the obvious to Maureen Dowd—that for all the attention The Squad receives from the media it is, in the end, four votes—Ocasio-Cortez insinuated the speaker is a racist. And they say liberals oppose nuclear war.
If Pelosi’s racist, then America is in serious trouble. The absurdity of the claim was best expressed by Congressman Lacy-Clay, who is black. “You’re getting push back so you resort to using the race card?” he asked. “Unbelievable.”
Wait, you spelled “entirely predictable” wrong. Identity politics has driven the left for decades — including Pelosi herself:
Throughout her career, Pelosi has made it a point to bring her San Francisco, west-coast elitist politics to the mainstream, and it would be wrong to say that she hasn’t had something of a successful run of it. She’s always pushed the proverbial Overton window further and further to the left, making positions considered extreme seem perfectly acceptable to Democrats and Democrat voters.
Pelosi is the same person who once called illegal immigrants her “constituency” and applauded the idea of illegal immigrants bringing their children into the United States, and pushed hard for amnesty. She pushed for socialized healthcare with the media and activist groups cheering her on and successfully got Obamacare passed. She pushes for higher taxes and sensationalizes everything Republicans do to the point where any victory they have is a precursor to mass amounts of death.
The members of the Congressional Black Caucus (the name itself is another facet of the left’s identity politics) were happy to go along with Pelosi’s racialism when it involved attacking Republicans. They’re simply angry that like Pelosi before here, AOC is now attacking someone to her right — who happens to have a (D) after her name.
And it gets better: “Apparently, an unnamed senior Dem aide is texting around a photo of a Goomba puppet from the video game Mario Bros. to slam Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a ‘puppet’ of ‘elitist white liberals:’”
Not surprisingly, Trump has joined in the fun as well: “Trump: Pelosi’s not a racist and AOC is being ‘very disrespectful’ to her.” “Good luck to House Dems in trying to figure out whom they should side with now that the most hated Republican in the country has joined Team Nancy.”
THERE’S A REASON WHY SO MANY PEOPLE DISLIKE BICYCLISTS: NYC’s privileged bicyclists won’t even discuss best way to stop bike deaths.
AT AMAZON, Prime Deal of the Day, Dyson Ball Animal 2 Upright Vacuum.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Democratic Governors Association Publicly Praises Northam for First Time Since Yearbook Scandal.
Earlier: After calling for Northam to Resign in February, the Washington Post gives him a column to complain “I expected better of Virginia’s legislators.”
To be fair, I don’t think anyone else expected better of the Democrats when circling the wagons to protect one of their own.
REMINDER: Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture: Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness, and race isn’t either. Getting Democrats to double down on something that even most young and minority voters dislike is one of Trump’s superpowers.
JOE FRIDAY WAS RIGHT — POT REALLY IS A GATEWAY DRUG TO THE HARD STUFF: Mexican cartels pushing more heroin after U.S. states relax marijuana laws.
SO MUCH OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS JUST A SCAM TO FILL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES’ POCKETS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PUBLIC: Fines, jail and debt: Court policies punish the poor. And the “court costs” scam is the worst. It shouldn’t cost you money to defend yourself in court.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Arizona Gov. Ducey has change of heart for Nike following Betsy Ross flag controversy.
MARK PULLIAM DEBATES GEORGE WILL. “As a conservative, I must say that I find Will circa 1982 far more persuasive than the 2019 iteration.”
However, I don’t agree with Pulliam that the Declaration of Independence has no relevance to constitutional interpretation. It did not merely, as Pulliam says, announce secession. It also explicitly set forth a theory of governmental legitimacy, one that we can feel quite certain was shared by those who drafted and ratified the Constitution. In addition, early expositors of the Constitution certainly thought that the Declaration — and the Preamble, which most modern scholars also reject — was of legal importance. I wrote on this topic here.
WELL SAID:
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Scenes From a Starbucks.