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Archive for 2020
November 20, 2020
OBVIOUSLY SHE MEANT WHAT SHE SAID: University of Arizona linguist declares ‘words matter,’ then attacks ‘white evangelicals.’
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Why the SpaceX ‘ferry’ just truly launched a new Space Age.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Recounts and Lawsuits Are Karma for 4 Years of Dems Lying About Russia. “After what the Democrats put this president and the country through with the Russia collusion hoax, the impeachment charade, and four years of flat-out saying that the 2016 election wasn’t legitimate I don’t care if the Left has to suffer frustration forever. Put simply: they’ve brought this on themselves.”
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Control of U.S. House of Representatives Delegations and yet-to-be called House races.
REPURPOSING: AI discovered an old arthritis drug that can help elderly people survive COVID-19.
The once-daily medicine, called baricitinib, was first identified as a potential treatment for the virus by BenevolentAI, a startup based in London.
The company used its AI software to comb through scientific literature for drugs that might block the infection process. The most promising treatment it discovered was baricitinib, which it predicted could stop the infection from entering lung cells.
The new study has now shown the drug’s safety and efficacy in the largest group of patients published thus far.
Scientists from Imperial College London and Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet gave baricitinib to 83 COVID-19 patients with a median age of 81 who were being treated in hospitals across Italy and Spain.
They found that patients receiving baricitinib had a 71% reduction in mortality compared to the 83 people in the control group who had not taken the drug.
Not a huge group, but amazing numbers nonetheless.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW:
I REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE DEFENDED HIGHER EDUCATION AS FOSTERING REASONED, CRITICAL THOUGHT: Berkeley Prof. Compares Trump Supporters to Germans Under Nazi Rule.
PERHAPS GOVERNOR NEWSOM COULD START BY SETTING AN EXAMPLE — FOR ONCE: California struggles with how to enforce coronavirus orders.
UNEXPECTEDLY: NBC Hides Radical Trump-Hating Rant From Ta-Nehisi Coates.
In a comment that was clearly not meant to be a compliment to President Trump, Melvin remarked: “There are some who have suggested that, in the long run, we’ll be better off as a country, as a society, because Donald Trump was in the White House.” Coates vehemently rejected the notion:
“Strongly disagree. Strongly, strongly disagree. I think the damage that has been done certainly will outlast my lifetime. Who knows how far it will go? Before Donald Trump, I think people believed that there were certain limits to what could be done and said within American politics. And I think that’s been obliterated. I think people thought there were certain norms for what presidents would and would not do….I think a great deal of damage has been done.”
“Before Donald Trump, I think people believed that there were certain limits to what could be done and said within American politics?” Coates has made his career violating those terms – not least of which a 2013 column in the New York Times, in which he condemned “The Good, Racist People” of Manhattan, which is quite a read, even now.
If the reliably Democrat-voting multicultural milieu of the Times’ subscriber base can’t pass muster with Coates, how can anyone else?
And as Glenn noted in 2017:
If you divide America along racial/ethnic lines, eventually the largest racial/ethnic group will start to think of itself as a racial/ethnic group and act accordingly. But in the meantime, it’s a good living for [Ta-Nehisi] Coates, and I guess an okay one for [alt-right founder Richard] Spencer.
And if you want more Trump, well, Coates will help you get more Trump, and a lot more effectively than Spencer ever has. Right after the election, John Podhoretz tweeted, “Liberals spent 40 years disaggregating [the] U.S., until finally the largest cohort in the country chose to vote as though it were an ethnic group.” That’s where “whiteness”-as-original-sin gets you. But hey, like I said, it’s a good living for some people.
Current protestations by Trump and his aides notwithstanding, I’m assuming there will be a Biden administration in January. (Sorry, a Biden-Harris administration.) That won’t stop the left from growing ever crazier, which will likely result in a very Trumpy successor to Trump running in opposition in 2024. (The strange new respect that Trump will receive from the media in order to attack his successor will be astonishing to watch.)
WATCH HIM WRIGGLE, WATCH HIM SQUIRM: Ossoff Dodges on Warnock’s Praise for Anti-Semitic Pastor.
Hey, Ossoff’s on the same side as Ilhan Omar: Omar Backs Warnock: ‘Nobody Can Serve God and the Military.’
FINGERS CROSSED: Immunity to the coronavirus may last years, new research suggests. Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University, said she was not surprised that the body mounts a long-lasting response because ‘that’s what is supposed to happen.’ Still, she was heartened by the research: ‘This is exciting news’.”
HEY, WE ALL NEED A LAUGH: And Now For Something Different.
HE’S OWNED BY CHINA. OF COURSE HE’S A FASCIST. WHAT DO YOU THINK CHINA IS? Joe Biden Bumbles Through Appearance, Vows to ‘Dictate’ to Companies.
THAT WOULD CERTAINLY BE CONVENIENT FOR JIHADIS: Biblical Scholar Ilhan Omar: Christians Shouldn’t Serve in the U.S. Military.
FAUX-RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE MAIN KIND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS DISPLAYED BY THE ACADEMY: The Faux Righteousness Of Test-Optional Admissions: Increasing U.S. News Rankings, Not Diversity, Is The Motivation.
You know, a long time ago I suggested that conservative billionaires should buy women’s magazines. But now I think they could have a bigger impact by simply buying U.S. News and fiddling with its ranking system. It’s become a huge point of vulnerability for academia, and someone should take advantage of it to work some positive changes.
MEANWHILE, REMEMBER YOU’RE OPERATING UNDER EXTREME STRESS. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AS THOUGH YOU WERE SOMEONE YOU LOVE FOR WHOSE CARE YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE: Sitting by the Sick Bed.
AOC, YOU’VE BEEN WARNED: Reagan biographer Craig Shirley has a message for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — aka “AOC”— and her comrades in “The Squad:” Don’t!
Don’t think, that is, that there won’t be massively unpleasant legal consequences if they or anybody else on the Left tries to deny a Trump appointee or supporter a future job, promotion, peaceful dinner, media appearance, etc. etc.
“If she is responsible for even one person in the United States not getting a job or getting fired and the boss says, ‘I’m not hiring you because of what AOC said,’ or ‘I’m not hiring you because of your politics,’ she has committed tortious interference and has opened herself up to massive litigation,” Shirley tells The Epoch Times.
The litigation will be launched by Citizens for the Republic (CFTR). If that name sounds familiar, it should because it’s the advocacy group Reagan formed after losing the 1976 GOP presidential nomination battle to Gerald Ford, and which was instrumental in Reagan’s 1980 win.
Shirley recently revived CFTR after it had lain dormant for years. Among the Reagan-era stars on the resurrected CFTR board are former Attorney General Ed Meese, former Reagan White House Communications Director Mari Maseng Will, and former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Dan Oliver.
CALIFORNIA CHURCHES IN COURT TODAY ON ABORTION MANDATE: A trio of California congregations represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) present oral arguments today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They will ask the court to declare unconstitutional the state’s regulation requiring their employee health insurance to pay for abortions.
Included in the evidence to be discussed are a series of 2014 emails in which Planned Parenthood specifically lobbied state regulators not to exempt churches from the abortion coverage mandate.
“We are asking the 9th Circuit to invalidate this unconstitutional mandate because California officials are required to follow the law and legal precedent, not the dictates of groups that have an axe to grind against religious organizations that don’t share their views on abortion,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jeremiah Galus.