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Archive for 2019
February 23, 2019
REVEALED: THAT TIME WHEN AMY KLOBUCHAR ATE A SALAD WITH A COMB AND MADE AN AIDE CLEAN IT.
This is nothing. A few years ago, there was a little-known socialist fringe candidate who once copped on tape to eating a dog.
A SIMILAR CALIBER OF LEADERS WITH A SIMILAR POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: 10 Scary Facts Indicating South Africa Is Becoming The Next Venezuela. “South Africa has squandered its opportunities and is on the path to becoming a failed state. Government profiteering, race tensions, and shortages are ruining the country.”
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Dianne Feinstein versus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Human Shields (Video).
Flashback: Michelle Malkin on ”Prop-a-palooza: The Use and Abuse of Kiddie Human Shields.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Firing bad federal government workers should not be difficult.
STEVE STIRLING SENT ME AN ADVANCE COPY of his next novel, Theater of Spies,
BRUCE BAWER: Donald Trump, Gay-Rights Hero.
SKIN GETTING THINNER: Ocasio-Cortez rips media for reporting on her new luxury high-rise.
THIS ALSO SEEMS LIKE A POOR 2020 ISSUE FOR THE DEMS: Sanctuary Laws Allowed Illegal Immigrant Who Tried To Kill A Cop Remain In The US, ICE Claims.
I REALLY DON’T THINK THIS WILL PLAY WELL EVEN WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO SEE THEMSELVES AS BASICALLY PRO-CHOICE: Sen. Kaine Hints at Opposition to Caring for Newborn Abortion Survivors.
KAMALA’S OPPO TEAM IS ON THE JOB: Klobuchar ate her salad with a comb, report says: The Minnesota Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate has faced multiple reports of her mistreating staff.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is facing additional allegations of abusing her staff after a report Friday said the presidential candidate berated an aide for forgetting to bring utensils — forcing the lawmaker to eat a salad with a comb.
The episode happened in 2008 while the lawmaker was traveling with aides to South Carolina and a staffer bought a salad for Klobuchar while carrying bags through the airport, The New York Times reported.
However, the aide forgot utensils and the flight had none on board, prompting Klobuchar to berate the aide and pull a comb from her bag to eat the salad, the paper reported citing four people familiar with the episode. Klobuchar then directed the aide to clean the comb after she had finished. . . .
Klobuchar has faced recent criticism for reports of mistreating her staff. Citing anonymous sources, HuffPost reported earlier this month that the alleged mistreatment scared off candidates to manage her presidential bid. BuzzFeed News also reported that Klobuchar “ran a workplace controlled by fear, anger, and shame … one that many employees found intolerably cruel.”
“Clean my comb” sounds like something . . . dirty.
MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Why Kamala Harris May Be Her Own Worst Enemy. The trouble with coming up in a one-party state is that one-party states make you stupid. Plus:
On February 11, Harris appeared on The Breakfast Club podcast. One of the hosts wanted to know if she was against legalizing marijuana. “That’s not true,” she said. “Look, I joke about it, I have joked about it. Half my family is from Jamaica, are you kidding me?” She’s smoked weed herself. “I have. And I inhaled. I did inhale. It was a long time ago, but yes. I just broke news.” She went on to explain that she smoked a joint, not a blunt. And that marijuana “gives people joy.” Her father felt no joy, however, at Harris’s answer.
In a statement released to the website Jamaica Global Online, Donald Harris, an economist, wrote: “My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to their family’s name, reputation, and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this controversy.” Father’s Day should be interesting.
What trips up Kamala Harris is an evident desire to please her audience. She wants no enemies to her left, no identity politics left untouched. She can’t run as a prosecutor—crime fighting is so 1990s—but she can run as brash, bold, and woke. Her verbal miscues are possible evidence that this latest political fashion doesn’t quite fit. She has made a habit of making unforced errors, and the game is only in its first month. Harris’s Democratic opponents may be too blinkered or bashful to exploit this weakness. That will not be a problem for her Republican opponent.
Nope. And California politics doesn’t prepare you for that.
February 22, 2019
I AGREE:
IT’S NOT THAT FUNNY: The Mueller Joke.
AT AMAZON, Gerber LST Ultralight Knife, Fine Edge.
OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes.
GOP STRATEGISTS JUMP ON SANDERS’ MEDIA FIRM WITH LINKS TO SAUDIS: The Vermont socialist regularly blasts the Saudi regime. But his 2016 campaign paid $80 million to a media firm whose principals also do business with a foreign agent with links to the regime. Republican comments are predictable. The absence of Democratic comments as well?
OH, GOODY: FDA official says ongoing blood pressure drug investigation will probably uncover more tainted pills. “Woodcock said the problem appeared to occur sometime after 2010, when a Chinese manufacturer made changes to its synthetic processes. Yet the FDA did not begin its recall of the drug until July 13, one week after 22 other nations had already pulled the plug on specific manufacturers of valsartan pills to safeguard patients.”
Without government, who would make sure our medicines are safe?
SO WAIT, DOES THIS MEAN ANOTHER CAMPAIGN PROMISE KEPT? The Trump Administration’s Latest Move Could Effectively Defund Planned Parenthood.
ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU HAVE TO OFFSET THE HEAD INJURIES FROM CRASHES: Electric bikes could improve brain function in older people.
