I BET I KNOW WHO GETS DECIDE WHAT THE TRUTH IS: Elizabeth Warren demands criminal punishment for spreading social media lies about elections after Russian-linked accounts posted falsehoods during 2016 race.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Lock her up, I guess . . .
RICK WILSON, DON LEMON HARDEST HIT: Trump Supporters Score Higher on Verbal Ability Tests. And they do better on most science knowledge questions, too. “Indeed, less than half of 2016 Clinton supporters (49.6%) are able to answer correctly both of two related questions: whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth (EARTHSUN) and whether that takes a day, a month, or a year (SOLARREV). Remember these two questions are multiple choice! You would have a 50-50 chance of guessing correctly on the first part: whether the earth goes around the sun or vice versa.”
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
AVOID ANNOYING JAIL SENTENCES WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK: Convicted of sex crimes as a man, felon no longer deemed threat because of gender change.
FLASHBACK: Adam Schiff Said John Bolton Lacks ‘Credibility’ and Is Prone to ‘Conspiracy Theories.’
I wonder what changed.
YES. YES HE IS. Hunter Biden Is ‘Relevant Witness’ Says Democrat Senator.
I REMEMBER WHEN RICH PEOPLE TRYING TO BUY OUR POLITICAL PROCESSES WAS A BAD THING: Steyer, Soros-Funded Groups Part of New Coalition Launched to Attack McConnell.
DO YOU WANT YOUR FUTURE IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WHO’VE NEVER SUFFERED CONSEQUENCES? Ivy League privilege: Climate change protesters get records expunged for shutting down football game.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Ex-Trump aide Carter Page files suit against DNC over dossier: ‘This is only the first salvo.’ “Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court against the Democratic National Committee, law firm Perkins Coie and its partners tied to the funding of the unverified dossier that served as the basis for highly controversial surveillance warrants against him. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois’ Eastern Division Thursday morning, and was described by his attorneys as the “first of multiple actions in the wake of historic” Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse.”
Perkins, Coie has pretty much gotten a pass for its sleazy behavior so far. That may be about to change.
MAYBE STOP ELECTING SO MANY DEMOCRATS? Economists discuss ways to ‘keep Colorado competitive.’
Colorado continues to be a national model of economic growth. The state is a leader in tech jobs and workforce education, yet it slipped nationally, from fourth to ninth in one year, in a Forbes ranking for the best places to do business. Sustaining that growth will require a look at the state’s funding sources and local policies, local economists say.
“The risks to Colorado’s economy are, frankly, not economic risks,” said JJ Ament, CEO of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation. “The risk to Colorado’s economy in 2020 is politics and policy … We can’t let complacency develop of having it so good for so long that we don’t pay attention both at the Capitol in Denver and Washington.”
The Democrat-controlled state government seems determined to shut down the state’s fracking industry, which is a driver of growth, wages, and funding.
IT’S PRIMARILY A TOOL OF PRIVILEGED WHITE WOMEN SEEKING STATUS, BUT THAT’S THE LEFT TODAY: The Cult of Western Shaming. Respond with the contempt and mockery it deserves, and it will have no power.
HIGHER ED AS ADVERSARY CULTURE: Michigan State: ‘Our goal is to reduce apprehension’ of illegal immigrants.
IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL: 5 Times Obama Broke The Law But Democrats Didn’t Impeach Him
OFT EVIL WILL SHALL EVIL MAR: Don Lemon Did Trump a Huge Favor. “A video of CNN news anchor Don Lemon laughing hysterically as his guests mocked Donald Trump’s supporters went viral this week — and it couldn’t have been a more effective campaign ad for the president. . . . Make no mistake: Clips like this embolden Trump’s supporters. They don’t see this sort of mockery and start to question their beliefs — rather, it just strengthens their view that it is them (and Trump) against the world. It makes them more loyal to the president, not less.”
And rightly so. When people tell you they hate you and hold you in contempt, believe them.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Coronavirus Confusion Edition. “I favor dark humor, especially when faced with something terrifying like a virus that is having its way with people here in the era of modern medicine. It’s my coping mechanism, but I realize it’s not for everybody. So I’ll resist the urge to wonder why it couldn’t have wiped us all out and spared us this interminable impeachment boredom and move on to writing about the interminable impeachment boredom.”
He’s a giver.
XI JINGPING CALLS THE CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC A “DEMON”: It’s bedeviling his dictatorship, that’s for sure.
While meeting with a World Health Organization official in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping conceded that the coronavirus epidemic presented “the Chinese people” with a struggle. “The epidemic is a demon, and we cannot let this demon hide,” Xi said. Xi added that the Beijing communist government would “release information on the virus in a ‘timely’ manner.”
Read “timely” as “judged politically convenient by a Communist Party dictatorship confronting economic contraction and political resistance from Hong Kong and Taiwan that Beijing fears could spread to mainland China.”
More:
The coronavirus and its potential consequences of mass death expose the dictatorship’s brittleness. If you prefer, substitute “incompetence masked by police intimidation and lack of free expression” for “brittleness.”
Brutal authoritarian political control exacts overt and covert systemic costs. Western commentators — The New York Times’ Tom Friedman is a particularly smarmy example — admire authoritarian China’s alleged skill at solving major problems that dithering Western democracies cannot. What really dazzles Friedman and his ilk is the regime’s one-command-solves-it pose. Information control, especially control of dissent, bolsters this fraud.
It’s my latest Creators Syndicate column. Check it out.
BOLTON DEFENDED OFFICIALS LYING TO THE PUBLIC: There it is, in a 2010 Fox News interview. You know the next question.
WARTHOGS ON A SNOWBIRDS EXERCISE: Ten A-10 Thunderbolt II fighters, flown depart Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan. The A-10s are participating in a Snowbird winter training exercise. Photo take Jan. 21, 2020.
POWERLINE STAYS ON THE TRAIL OF A BULLY, MAKING HASH OF HASHI: Scott Johnson continues his series of posts on Ilhan Omar’s pet hardboy, Guhad Hashi. Hashi has street mouth, reeks attitude, makes vicious threats. But…he’s almost as stupid as Don Lemon. I mean, the boys at Powerline got Dan Rather, an even bigger punk than Hashi. Maybe Hashi’s gettin’ wise — or gettin’ scared. According to Scott’s latest post, Hashi’s wiped his Facebook page, trying to scrub his social media threats. Has he learned to wipe elsewhere? Of course, Minnesota’s leftist media continue to ignore Ilhan’s illicit escapades. So I urge you to read the entire Hashi series.
GOODBYE, FAREWELL, AND AMEN: Nigel Farage Bids Farewell to the EU.
Related: After Brexit. A US-Britain trade deal would be a boon for Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.
IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE GOOD HISTORY, IT WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE USEFUL PROPAGANDA: Disputed NY Times ‘1619 Project’ Already Shaping Schoolkids’ Minds on Race. And “disputed” is kind.
THE MEDIA’S FAVORITE REPUBLICANS ARE ALWAYS REPUBLICANS WHO HATE REPUBLICANS: Media’s NeverTrump Voices Drown Out Republican Perspective.
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