STANDING UP FOR CIVIL RIGHTS: Virginia sued over Second Amendment rally gun ban.
Archive for 2020
January 17, 2020
AMITY SHLAES: Why LBJ’s Great Society Flopped—and What It Means for the 2020 Election.
Her new book is Great Society: A New History.
BLUE STATE UPDATE: Massachusetts state pensions, debt at crisis levels.
CONRAD BLACK: This Tawdry Impeachment Spectacle Must Run Its Course.
GETTING WHAT THEY VOTED FOR, GOOD AND HARD: The Cult Of Pelosi Is A Deadly Thing For Democrats’ Future.
THE ATLANTIC: Democrats Should Be Worried About the Latino Vote. The woke white Twitter crowd isn’t that appealing to minorities. Or anyone else, really.
DON’T MISS THIS TONIGHT AT 7 PM EST: There was so much more in the Horowitz IG FISA Report than has been reported by the MSM to date. John Spiropoulos of One America News (OAN) put it all in a one-hour investigative documentary that airs this evening.
THE CONSTITUTION BARS CORRUPTION OF BLOOD, BUT THE LEFT SURE SEEMS TO BELIEVE IN IT: MSNBC Anchor: ‘Bleak’ Future for Children, Grandchildren of Trump’s Defenders. These people are monsters and clowns simultaneously.
YOUR SCIENTISTS WERE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH WHETHER OR NOT THEY COULD, THEY DIDN’T STOP TO THINK IF THEY SHOULD: Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete.
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Grand Jury Backs Murder Charges Against Houston Cop Who Lied to Justify a Deadly Drug Raid. “The indictment confirms the state charges filed last August against Gerald Goines, who is accused of lying to obtain the warrant for the raid, and Steven Bryant, who is accused of subsequently backing up Goines’ false portrayal of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas as dangerous heroin dealers. Both men are accused of tampering with a government document, a felony punishable by up to two years in prison. Because Goines’ misrepresentations caused two deaths, he is also charged with two counts of felony murder, which could result in a life sentence.”
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: CNN’s bias is now beyond laughable.
As Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) walked through the hallways of the Senate Thursday, CNN senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju asked her if the Senate should consider “new evidence as part of the impeachment trial.” McSally shot back: “Manu, you’re a liberal hack. I’m not talking to you.”
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In 2017, Raju reported an “exclusive” that Donald Trump Jr. had advance notice of WikiLeaks dumps against the Democratic Party, thus proving criminal conspiracy. It turned out Raju had gotten the date on a supposedly incriminating e-mail wrong: The e-mail apprised Don Jr. of documents that were already in the public record.
CNN ran a massively embarrassing correction while insisting the reporter had followed “editorial process.” But Raju never explained how his two supposedly independent sources both got the date on the e-mail wrong.
The Don Jr. e-mail story was just one of dozens of failed scoops that fueled paranoia around the 2016 election results. CNN was perhaps the worst offender, so it really has no business feigning indignation when a Republican senator calls one of its reporters a “hack.”
And it’s all kabuki — as Jim Treacher tweeted yesterday, CNN’s Jake Tapper “sat there like a big dope while Scott Israel blamed Dana Loesch for the failures of his own department. That was less shocking to you than a senator calling one of your pals a hack.”
January 16, 2020
CONSERVATISM FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE: Liberal elites’ secret weapon is conservative family values.
A new study by Brad Wilcox and Wendy Wang at the Institute for Family Studies lays out the real picture.
“When it comes to their own families,” the authors discovered, “California elites with kids overwhelmingly ‘live right’ in private, giving their children the benefit of growing up in a two-parent family.”
Wilcox and Wang reveal granular data showing “that some of the most elite neighborhoods in the state — including several in Hollywood and San Francisco — have virtually no single parents.”
This is a far bigger story than Hollywood’s message vs. Hollywood’s lifestyle, of course. Across the country, Americans in the upper class are much more likely to profess liberalized teachings on family and marriage while personally practicing conservative family values. Wilcox and Wang just happened to get the data for California.
Among Californians aged 18-50, the college-educated were far more likely than those with no college degree (85% to 69%) to agree that we should celebrate the diversity of family structures, including single parenthood, unmarried parents, and other alternative family structures. The college-educated were specifically far more cheerful toward single motherhood.
That’s how they feel about others. How do the elites feel about their own lives? “It’s very important for me, personally to be married before having children,” 68% of the college-educated sample agreed. That number was only 59% for those who never went to college.
So the elites are more “tolerant” than the working class ideologically, but they are much more conservative about how they plan to live.
Roger Simon was pointing this out over a decade ago.
AT AMAZON, Outlet Deals in Automotive.
WELL, THE RULES ARE DIFFERENT BECAUSE TRUMP: Presidents Madison and Trump did the same thing — but Trump got impeached.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The New Post-Trump Constitution. “The new normal: Impeachment as a routine partisan tool, endless investigations, lying under oath with impunity, surveillance of political enemies, zero accountability …”
OPEN THREAD: It’s all about you.
Personally, I think it’s okay to talk to reporters any way you want. I’d call them whores, but that’s an insult to the professionalism of prostitutes.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: The problem with switching gender in prison.
SARAH HOYT ON PUBLISHING: When The Walls Fell.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Teacher of the Year Takes a Knee. “If someone took a knee in the middle of the Superdome and no one noticed, did it matter? Only in the media.”