NO WONDER SHE’S SLIPPING IN THE POLLS: Elizabeth Warren’s campaign slogan is “End Corruption in Washington.” Alas, her own “scholarly” work is not exactly on the up and up.
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January 13, 2020
AT AMAZON, deals in Automotive.
BREAKING: Cory Booker Drops Out of 2020 Race.
THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Cameras Show Animals Thriving in Fukushima’s ‘Uninhabitable’ Radioactive Zone.
“EMBARRASSMENT” IS NOT THE WORD I’D USE: Judge Jeanine: Public humiliation of ‘Pelosi and her Democrat caucus’ is ‘an embarrassment to watch.’
“Schadenfreude” comes much closer.
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Study Finds No Link Between Testosterone Levels and Reduced Cognitive Empathy. “A new study contradicts the hypothesis that higher testosterone levels are the reason for impaired cognitive empathy in autism spectrum disorder. The research, which involved nearly 650 men, found no association between testosterone and cognitive empathy, the capacity to read the emotions of others, a trait that is characteristically impaired in people with autism. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.”
Flashback: “This sort of hormone-shaming is not okay.”
GOOD ADVICE AT ANY TIME: Care About Australia’s Wildlife: Please Don’t Give Money To PETA.
Well, if we begin to take a look at PETA’s Australia chapter, we can imagine why they are not first in line to help those poor koalas and kangaroos we keep hearing about on the news. For example, PETA’s Australia chapter received over $49 million in contributions in 2019, but only less than 1 percent went into actually helping troubled animals. The rest of the money, in true PETA fashion, was used on advertising, public disturbances, paying off celebrity spokespersons, and lobbying politicians and businesses into getting what they want and they want one thing, and one thing only-total animal “liberations”. This would mean no zoos, no aquariums, no responsible meat, or dairy consumption, no pets, no wildlife conservation efforts that require rehabilitation or breeding programs, and no use of animals for therapeutic purposes. PETA is also against the use of guide dogs for those who are blind. If that is not enough to throw you over the edge about who PETA is, they once compared farm animals to Jewish Holocaust victims in order to convince the public to switch over to a vegan lifestyle. In addition, they also have long ties to eco-terrorists groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and the Earth Liberation Front.
They don’t care about animals so much as they hate humanity.
WELL, SURE, THE SOCIALISTS ARE OUT OF POWER: Liberty Is On The Rise In Brazil.
MARK RIPPETOE: The Minimum Effective Dose of Training.
CONGRATS TO MY FORMER STUDENT, MAJ. CHRIS DAVIS USMC, for being nominated to the HillVets100. He founded the law school veterans’ organization, Vols for Vets, of which I am a faculty advisor.
NEW YORK SUN: Nancy Pelosi’s Catch-22.
The first thing for the Senate to do when it takes up the war powers resolution just passed by the House is to give it a proper name. The Sun proposes the “Enemy Emboldenment Act of 2020.” For the resolution is designed to ensure that the Supreme Leader of Iran and his camarilla are not under any misapprehension that the Democrats support our GIs or their constitutional commander-in-chief.
One can see the Democrats’ logic. If the enemy thought that the Democrats and Republicans were united in respect of the war, the Iranians might decide to retreat. That, in turn, could have the deleterious effect of interfering with our election by creating the impression that President Trump was winning the war. In other words, there’s a real possibility that an Iranian retreat could throw the election to the GOP.
This is evident from the text of the Enemy Emboldenment Act, which contains a lot of palaver designed to obscure its purpose.
Read the whole thing.
YES, ALL THIS DIVERSITY STUFF IS REALLY A PLOT TO MAINTAIN WHITE SUPREMACY. IT MUST GO! Prof: University diversity trainings not helpful to minorities, reinforce ‘white privilege.’
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: ABA Approves Thomas Jefferson Law School’s Teach-Out Plan. That is, a way to let existing students graduate as the school shuts down.
ON THIS DAY IN 1968: Johnny Cash performed lived at Folsom State Prison.
RASMUSSEN: Even Fewer Expect Trump’s Removal From Office. “Only 12% now feel it’s more likely that Trump will be impeached and removed from office before serving his first full term. That’s down from a high of 29% when Rasmussen Reports first asked this question in late December 2017 and marks a new low.”
TOXIC MASCULINITY: 91-year-old military veteran shows off his one-arm push-ups. Wearing his WWII uniform, which he still fills out nicely.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, UBIQUITOUS ANTI-SEMITISM EDITION: Federal complaint: Georgia Tech. faculty turned away from socialist event for being Jewish. I guess our national Socialist movement wants to be judenfrei.
I GOT A NEW BIO AND HEADSHOT for USA Today‘s Board of Contributors. The headshot’s by Knoxville’s Christian Lange, who does great work.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Iranian Protesters Let Loose With Soleimani Hate. “Those of us in the sane part of the world know that Soleimani was a murderous monster who could only morph into a sweetheart in the minds of American liberals, who still think that Teddy Kennedy was some kind of hero.”
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LET’S HOPE: Iran plane crash: Why this could be a watershed moment.
On the international front, the downing of flight PS752 is unlikely to result in further escalation and might even provide an opportunity for defusing some of the tensions which have been simmering over the past few months.
On the domestic front, however, this tragic accident could have much deeper repercussions.
Just days before the flight crashed, Iran displayed an unprecedented level of unity and popular support when millions of people poured on to the streets all over the country to mourn the death of Soleimani.
This seemed to indicate that, when faced with the external threat of military confrontation, Iranians from different political and economic backgrounds could come together and put aside their divisions.
But all the very smartest people assured me that the Suleimani strike would result in a wave of anti-American nationalism.
HE’S NOT WRONG:
