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Archive for 2019
December 30, 2019
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NOT EVERY FISH CAN HANDLE HIS BOURBON: Jim Beam fined in massive bourbon spill that killed fish.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: ‘Snowmanning’ is winter’s heartbreaking new dating trend. I never thought a holiday fling that ended was “heartbreaking,” but that’s just me, I guess. The important thing is that now the phenomenon has a name.
OLD AND BUSTED: “If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
The New Hotness? Biden Obliviously Tells Press that Fossil Fuel Execs Should Be Jailed.
After the Democratic presidential candidates’ apocalyptic-themed “climate change” town hall on CNN in September, Bryan Preston wrote, “If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela. Thank you, CNN, just for letting these people talk. Do it again next week? Please?”
WELL, SURE, BUT ANY BEDROOM WITH THE INSTA-WIFE IN IT WILL BE — OH, WAIT. Your Bedroom Is Too Hot.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: ‘It’s Not Going Away:’ CNN’s Ana Navarro Calls Out Joe Biden for Lacking ‘Tight, Consistent Answers’ on Hunter.
WALKING BACK: Andrew Yang, pressed on health care, says he would ‘expand’ universal health care ‘over time.’ I remember the Democrats bragging that they’d fixed healthcare back under Obama. Guess those statements expired.
JONATHAN TOBIN: Most U.S. Jews Don’t Care About anti-Semitic Violence Against the ultra-Orthodox.
The latest incidents did prompt statements of outrage and solidarity from liberal and mainstream Jewish groups. And local authorities in New York are finally responding by stepped-up police patrols in the Brooklyn neighborhoods where assaults of Jews have been happening on a daily basis in recent weeks.
Yet it is still doubtful whether the welfare of the group that has been singled out in this fashion will maintain the attention of the rest of the Jewish community, let alone the news media that is still treating these incidents as primarily a local story rather than one of national significance.
The reason for such skepticism is based on two factors: politics and the antagonism that exists between the ultra-Orthodox and the rest of American Jewry.
Actually, the muted response cuts across lines of faith and ethnicity, probably because the press has chosen to treat the attacks as a local story. You can safely bet that’s by design.
SQUAD GOALS: ‘The Squad’ Is Silent About Anti-Semitic Stabbings in New York.
And there are plenty of Democratic Party operatives with bylines who are quite happy to help them maintain that silence.
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION?: Even if 2020 doesn’t turn out to be the administration’s last year, officials need to act on the assumption that it might be.
A couple of years back I recommended that the Trump Administration take a close look liability for “disparate impact” under Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (as well as few other statutes). So far there’s been no action. And time is running out. But these are serious issues that need to be addressed.
Here is why I believe disparate impact liability under Title VII is unconstitutional. For Title VI, no one claims the statute itself imposes liability for disparate impact; the claim is that the regulations made pursuant to Title VI do. Here is why I believe that this is a misinterpretation of the regulations and that if it’s not a misinterpretation the regulations are beyond the scope of the rulemaking power granted under Title VI and unconstitutional.
There are a variety of things—large and small—the Trump Administration could do about this. I hope they will have the time and the inclination to act.
FAIL, BRITANNIA: Lake District ‘must change’ to attract more diverse visitors. “The rugged landscape excludes too many people and must change to attract a more diverse mix of visitors.”
They should probably drain the lakes to make them more accessible to non-swimmers.
THIS IS WHY IT’S NOT ENOUGH FOR THE DOEd TO JUST RESCIND THE OLD TITLE IX RULES: In-House Regulators: Documenting the Impact of Regulation on Internal Firm Structure. “Using case studies and theoretical insights, this Essay hypothesizes that the structures firms create in a regulated environment will not immediately disappear in a deregulatory world. Rather, they will persist. Modern regulation causes firms to make department-specific investments and centralize information gathering. Firms accomplish this, in part, by increasing the presence of regulatory-related staff. And, once these investments are completed, they will insulate regulatory-related staff from immediate removal in a deregulatory environment. That is, in-house regulators will be sticky.”
In other words, regulation creates a constituency within firms — the “compliance” bureaucracy — that survives deregulation. You can’t just undo the regulation, you have to push them in the right direction.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Here is what’s going to happen in 2020.
DON’T HIRE STUDENTS FROM TOP-TIER LAW SCHOOLS, THEY’RE TOO EMOTIONALLY FRAGILE: Professor’s Repeated Use Of N-Bomb In Torts Class Sparks Backlash At Stanford.
WHAT A DICK: Beto O’Rourke Can’t Bring Himself To Thank Armed Churchgoers Who Stopped A Mass Shooting.
Compare and contrast: ‘I’m Thankful to GOD’: Hero Security Guard Speaks Out On Texas Church Shooting.
Which vision of the world/personality type do you want in charge of America’s future?
GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS; LOTS OF GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS: Four Armed Worshippers Descend on Shooter Seconds after Texas Church Attack Begins.
The Left’s response to these heroic actions — best summed up as, “If we can’t protect you, nobody should” — is either as revealing as it is revolting, or maybe the other way around.
From the author of HE’S ON THE WRONG SIDE OF NEARLY EVERYTHING: Joe Biden Blasted The Texas Law That Allowed a Lawful Gun Owner to Stop The Church Shooting.
“URBAN CAMPING”: Judge rules that Denver’s urban camping ban is unconstitutional. “In May, Denver residents voted to reject Initiative 300, which would have overturned the camping ban. The vote against the initiative was 145,649 to 33,685.”
I HAVE HOPES TOO, BUT HIGHER ED HASN’T HIT BOTTOM YET: Our Hopes for Higher Ed Reform in 2020.