THE CONSTITUTION PROTECTS HUMAN RIGHTS, IT DOESN’T PROVIDE HUMAN RIGHTS: Impeachment, the Bill of Rights, and Human Rights.
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WHAT’S UP WITH WITTES AND PAGE? Lisa Page has only secondarily been in the news of late, but she certainly needs no introduction to those who have been following Spygate for the past nearly three years. Public release of her text messages with Peter Strzok was a huge turning point in the scandal.
So why is Benjamin Wittes — lawfareblog editor-in-chief/Brookings Institution senior fellow/MSNBC analyst — posting this “introduction” to Page on Twitter? Has Page flipped? Or is about to be indicted? Or what. You can’t get more Liberal Establishment than Wittes, so he must know something.
FRONTIERS IN JUSTICE: A Prisoner Who Briefly Died Argues That He’s Served His Life Sentence. “The prisoner, Benjamin Schreiber, made that argument to an appeals court in Iowa, saying that when he briefly died in 2015, before being revived at a hospital, he completed his obligation to the state. He asked the three-judge panel to let him get on with his life.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Their colleges closed — but their student loans didn’t disappear. Then, they sued.
If only there had been some sort of warning.
“A LITTLE TASTE OF JANUARY IN NOVEMBER:” Next week’s Arctic blast will be so cold, forecasters expect it to break 170 records across US. I don’t even like January in January.
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Fresno brewery prints ‘Epstein didn’t kill himself’ on the bottom of cans.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, CRAZY YEARS EDITION: Iowa State professor reported to administration for allowing students to say only women have abortions.
MEGYN KELLY INTERVIEWS CBS PRODUCER FIRED FOR HAVING ACCESS TO AMY ROBACH WEINSTEIN TAPE AT ABC: “Even after Jeffrey Epstein ‘killed himself,’ women are still the ones paying the price for his crimes. As for ‘journalists’ like CNN’s Brian Stelter? They’ll get around to it eventually. They’ve got more important stories to chase.”
THE MESSAGE CHANGES ACCORDING TO THE PARTY’S POLITICAL NEEDS OF THE MOMENT: Democrats’ Deep-State Denial Morphs Into Deep-State Salute.
AS JEFFERSON AND HEINLEIN SAID: Impeachment, the Mandarinate, and the Praetorian Press
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LEFTIST CULTURE OF HATE: VIDEO: Vandal deems conservative group’s speech ‘hateful,’ destroys their property.
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Delusional Democrats Looking for the ‘Secret’ of Trump Campaign’s Digital Success.
CONRAD BLACK: Mr. Machiavelli Headed For Big Win in Britain.
The main reason a majority of Britons want to leave the EU is the micro-management of British public life and British courts and legislators by a regime in Brussels that is not answerable or accountable either to the European Parliament or to the governments of the major constituent states. The second reason is immigration: the famous Polish plumbers are welcome (and much needed), but masses of penniless and unskilled migrants from the Middle East and Africa coming to Britain via Europe are another matter.
Britain will not replace the institutions it has developed over centuries with newly invented institutions run by foreigners, or revert to the level of government accountability that followed the Magna Carta in 1215. The main argument to remain has always been the economic scare: according to the same people who predicted a worldwide economic crash for the day after Donald Trump’s election, British incomes will decline on average by 6% over a few years because of a huge exodus of the financial industry from London to Frankfurt (completely implausible).
Unless the British voters plumb a new depth in perversity, Mr. Johnson should win a sizable majority, little of the London financial industry will depart, and there will be a thunderous in-rush of capital investment to celebrate Britain’s increasing proximity to the United States and reconfirmation as a low-tax country, especially the rejection of the Labor Party’s outright advocacy of widespread nationalization of industry, sharply higher taxes in upper personal income brackets, increased powers to organized labour, and wild fiscal incontinence.
The entertaining Boris Machiavelli will crush the born-again Marxist Labor Party and its advocacy of what President Emmanuel Macron of France has called “Cuba without the sun.”
Read the whole thing.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. It’s Not Republicans Who Are Reluctant to Accept Political Outcomes They Don’t Like.
“Can Republicans relearn how to accept political outcomes they don’t like?” What in holy hell is the Washington Post’s Paul Waldman talking about? According to the piece, Matt Bevin’s (completely legal) request to re-canvass the Kentucky election portends an unwillingness by the GOP to accept the results the democratic process. Talk about projection.
We shouldn’t have to say more than “Stacey Abrams.” And it’s not just that the Democrat is a full-blown conspiracy theorist, it’s that leading members of her party enable her attacks on veracity of elections. Joe Biden claimed, without any evidence, that “voter suppression is the reason why Stacey Abrams isn’t governor right now.” Pete Buttigieg said suppression “racially motivated” in his remarks to the group that Abrams “ought to be governor.” And they’re not alone.
Abrams lost by 54,723 votes.
Waldman gives Abrams a pass for her recalcitrance, because, he notes, she “ended her campaign for governor of Georgia but pointedly refused to call it a ‘concession’ because, she said, it would grant the election, in which her opponent engaged in various forms of voter suppression, a legitimacy it did not deserve.” Well, yes, that’s the point, isn’t it? Everyone has a reason for why they don’t accept results. Democrats tend to rely on nebulous claims of “voter suppression.” But Abrams had legal avenues available to her, and they turned up nothing. Unlike Abrams, Bevin hasn’t argued that the results won’t be legitimate. “So why can’t they just let the process play itself out?”
Why indeed?
ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TO DO IS NOT BE CRAZY, AND THEY CAN’T EVEN DO THAT: Snopes Confirms Dems Tried to Impeach Every Elected GOP President Since Eisenhower.
Hey, Alvy Singer was ready to impeach Reagan four years before he actually took the White House!
COMING FROM JOHN YOO: Defender in Chief: How Donald Trump Is Fighting for the Constitution.
HOW TO PREVENT ELECTION HACKING? PAPER BALLOTS.
I’ve been writing about this since 2002.
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