TOM FITTON ON WHY FISA REFORM WITHOUT PROSECUTIONS WON’T WORK: Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton lays it out in stark terms – “reforming” the FISA Court without putting people from government in jail who violated the Constitution while deceiving the court between 2012 and 2017 will fail.
Archive for 2020
March 10, 2020
I CAN MAKE YOUR BIG TOE ITCH BY STIMULATING THE RIGHT SPOT ON YOUR BRAIN: But I can’t stimulate your brain to make you think about the rough elegance of Madison’s solution for the problem of factions in a republic. Trust me, this is a big deal in politics and everything else because Mind Matters.
March 9, 2020
WOMEN HARDEST HIT, OF COURSE: Why the new coronavirus may kill more men than women. Plus: “We make these broad sweeping assumptions that men and women are the same behaviorally, in terms of comorbidities, biology and our immune system, and we just are not.” Only under pandemic conditions would a scientist feel free to make such a statement nowadays. . . .
AT AMAZON, save in Blu-Ray and DVD.
DON SURBER: NeverTrump Pins Its Hopes On Coronavirus.
THOUGHTS ON BIDEN’S VEEP CHOICE:
PLUS, FACE MASKS ARE IMPORTANT: Coronavirus can travel twice as far as official ‘safe distance’ and stay in air for 30 minutes, Chinese study finds.
IS THE STOCK MARKET CRAZY? “Many are freaking out over the steep decline in financial markets over the last couple of weeks. Not me: I haven’t lost a nickel. Why not? I haven’t sold anything.”
Exactly. Read the whole thing.
SOMEBODY CALL THE BURN WARD:
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!
I’M SCHEDULED TO BE ON SIRIUS-XM’S BEATLES CHANNEL (CH #18) IN A HALF-HOUR on a “My Fab Four” segment, discussing the songs (primarily from the Revolver through Magical Mystery Tour period, not surprisingly) that George Martin’s production techniques radically transformed.
If you miss it tonight, my segment will be repeated on Wednesday at 5:00 am eastern, and Friday at 2:00 am eastern.
Earlier: Solid State: New Book Provides In-Depth Look at the Making of the Beatles’ Swan Song, Abbey Road.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
ASKING THE PRESS TO DO THEIR JOB IS APPARENTLY ASKING TOO MUCH.
‘OIL PRICE WAR,’ CORONAVIRUS COULD DRIVE GAS PRICES BELOW $2 GALLON.
But isn’t that bad news, considering that both Bernie and Biden have promised to ban fracking? (Biden at least seems to waffle on the issue, because, Biden.)
As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
And as Bryan Preston writes today at PJM: Putin is Meddling in the 2020 Election — By Attacking American Oil Producers.
Flashback: Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?
Well, it’s a start, as Steven Chu, former President Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
IT WOULD BE BIGGER NEWS IF IT WEREN’T: Space Force’s 2021 budget plan is heavy on satellites and launch.
WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF SEXISM?
There’s also a fair amount of projection in the above tweet, considering a previous presidential campaign exposed an especially absurd strain of sexism by the Atlantic itself.
HERE’S WHAT SAN FRANCISCO MUNI LOOKED LIKE AT 8:30 AM MONDAY MORNING: “The immediate impacts on the local economy will be felt by all downtown restaurants, bars, and retail stores as the daytime population of San Francisco drastically dwindles for weeks on end. Additionally, multiple conventions at the Moscone Center have canceled this month, including the major Game Developers Conference, and the SF Travel Association estimates the economic loss to the city is $138 million and counting.”
GREAT MOMENTS IN ALUMNI RELATIONS, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY EDITION: [Note that Brandeis is a Jewish-sponsored university, with a historically majority-Jewish student body.]
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: US Death Toll Hits 26 with over 600 Cases.
Pence: Major health insurers have agreed to waive copays for coronavirus tests.
Commander of US Army Europe self-quarantines after he and others were exposed to coronavirus.
Coronavirus Deaths in Washington, California Raise U.S. Toll to 26.
LabCorp and Quest to Offer Coronavirus Tests.
Coronavirus: driver, 44, latest confirmed case in Hong Kong, bringing total to 115.
Volunteers needed: Human guinea pigs to be paid $7000 to be infected with coronavirus.
Lancet study decodes progression of novel coronavirus symptoms.
Hospitals prepare ‘negative-pressure rooms’ for COVID-19 patients.
27 killed by alcohol poisoning in Iran trying to protect themselves from coronavirus.
Ireland cancels all St. Patrick’s Day parades due to coronavirus.
Coronavirus News: Connecticut state employees told not to travel out of state as 2nd case confirmed.
Coronavirus: quarantined congressman flew with Trump on Air Force One.
Madonna cancels Paris shows after France limits crowds amid coronavirus concerns.
Trump to Ask Congress for Payroll Tax Cut Amid Coronavirus Outbreak.
About 20 people tested for coronavirus in Alabama, no one has the virus.
Consumers Worried About Coronavirus Turning to Telemedicine.
South Korea says coronavirus is ‘coming under control.’
South Korea sees coronavirus ‘stable phase’ but ‘too early to be optimistic.’
NOTE: For some reason there’s been a lot of nastiness in the comments to these updates. Disagree all you want, but if you can’t do it without being nasty, either go away or I’ll ban you. I’ve never had to post a notice like this before, and I notice that most of the nastiness seems to come from commenters I don’t recognize, which will just make it easier to ban people.
21ST CENTURY CHILDHOOD: Kids Spend Less Time Outdoors Than Prisoners.
WELL, LET’S HOPE SO: Fears of negative impact on U.S. GDP due to coronavirus overstated.