Archive for 2021
November 3, 2021
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Bezos Employee Jennifer Rubin Auditioning For a Job At The Babylon Bee?
CHARLIE OLAFSSON, TERRY MCAULIFFE’S SOCIAL-MEDIA MANAGER, DROPS THE MASK:
No link, as multiple people here are stating that the tinyurl in Olafsson’s bio goes to Pornhub.
Flashback to Friday, when Olaf helped to fan the flames of the Lincoln Project’s tiki-torch stunt, tweeting, “Disgusting reference to the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville.”
Further thoughts from Ace of Spades: CNN Panel Comes to Slow Painful Realization That Democrats Just Might Be “Coming Across as Annoying and Offensive and Seem Out of Touch” and also “Moralizing” and “Self-Righteous.”
WITH MANY COLLEGES OVER 60% WOMEN, THIS WAS PREDICTABLE: Men with “golden penis syndrome” are ruining sex and dating for women. To be fair, women at engineering schools have been this way for decades, with far less media attention for some reason.
In fact, not only was it predictable, I predicted it.
Related: Are universities turning into pink-collar ghettos?
More here.
CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL. US Would Have Highest Top Income Tax Rate Among Developed Nations Under Biden Plan, New Analysis Warns.
Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously quipped that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Well, despite the Biden administration’s rhetorical spin, there’s also no such thing as a multi-trillion-dollar spending plan that costs “zero dollars.” Indeed, Biden’s plans include a vast suite of tax hikes to “pay for” the proposed spending—hikes that would leave the US with the highest top income tax rate among developed nations, according to one analysis.
The right-leaning, nonpartisan Tax Foundation examined the updated details of the president’s “Build Back Better” tax proposals. It reviewed the new proposed tax surcharges on high earners, proposed redefinition of certain tax bases to include more people, and already-scheduled increases in income tax rates. Under this tax regime, the Tax Foundation warns that accounting for federal, state, and local taxes, the US would reach a 57.4 percent top income tax rate—meaning that above a certain level of income, nearly 60 cents out of each additional dollar earned must go to the IRS.
As the below chart shows, the US would far surpass most other developed nations under the Biden administration’s proposals:
Flashback: Milton Friedman’s Revenge.
Related: Joe Biden, Milton Friedman, and the Tyranny of Tiny Minds.
HOW BAD A NIGHT DID “BRANDON” HAVE? THIS BAD: How a truck driver spent $153 on his N.J. election campaign to likely dethrone a political kingpin.
To be fair, it was money that quite wisely spent!
As a legendary nuclear engineer once said, “Donuts — is there anything they can’t do?!”
LIBERALISM IS POLITICALLY WEAPONIZED MENTAL ILLNESS, SO: NY Times: Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals. Discuss.
WHY I LEFT CALIFORNIA FOR FLORIDA: New video from Reason TV’s Zach Weissmueller.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why Are Moms Like Me Being Called Domestic Terrorists?
I am a mother of four, a criminal defense attorney and a lifelong liberal who is deeply concerned about the direction of New York City’s public schools. I’ve been outspoken about my views, along with an untold number of frustrated parents. For that, the FBI is considering using the PATRIOT Act against me.
Let me explain: late last month, the National School Boards Association, an umbrella organization representing thousands of local elected school board officials, sent a letter addressed to President Biden. It warned that “America’s public schools and its education leaders are under an immediate threat.” But not just any threat: “the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.” The letter implored the White House to enlist the support of Homeland Security, the FBI and the Department of Justice to investigate the threat — adding that the alleged crimes fall under the purview of the “PATRIOT Act in regards to domestic terrorism.”
I read the letter with grave concern, as would any American who cares about our public schools and the safety of teachers and students. What was the nature of this threat? And would my own children be at risk?
As it turns out, the threat is me. The threat is parents showing up to dress down school boards over their dereliction of duty. That is what the NSBA considers a crime.
I urge you to read the letter in full. You will see that it contains 24 footnotes. The worst of the so-called crimes include prank calls; a single individual in Ohio yelling a “Nazi salute in protest of masking requirements”; another individual in Washington State whose disorderly conduct prompted the board to call a recess; “spreading misinformation” online, and disorderly conduct arrests. In New York, where I live, disorderly conduct is not even a criminal offense.
And yet within days of the NSBA letter, the top law enforcement official in the country, Attorney General Merrick Garland, publicly responded to the letter with a memorandum to the director of the FBI. Garland agreed with the NSBA that “there has been a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” against board members — without providing any evidence. He further announced specialized training for board members to “aid in the investigation and prosecution of these crimes” and, more worryingly, the creation of a task force composed of FBI and Justice Department representatives to “determine how federal enforcement tools can be used to prosecute these crimes.” The FBI’s clear message to parents is that the NSBA is on the right track.
The above column was posted on October 11th by Maud Maron on former Timeswoman Bari Weiss’s Substack, illustrated with a photo captioned, “A Virginia school board meeting in Ashburn, Virginia, June 22, 2021.”
Flash-forward to last night:
I LIKE THE CUT OF HER JIB (AND THE CALIBER OF HER RIFLE): Meet Virginia Lt. Governor-Elect Winsome Sears: She’s Crashing Through Glass Ceilings and Demolishing Stereotypes.
MANCHIN SHOULD JUST SAY NO TO BIDEN BILL: West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin looks at the $1.75 trillion “reduced” Biden Build Back Better and sees a pile of “shell games, budget gimmicks that make the real cost of the so-called $1.75 trillion bill estimated to be almost twice that amount, if the full time is run out, if you extended it permanently. And that we haven’t even spoken about. This is a recipe for economic crisis.”
That being the case, suggests Issues & Insights, Manchin should take a page from Nancy Reagan and bring this charade to a close.
IF IT’S NOT CLOSE, THEY CAN’T CHEAT: Possible recount looms in NJ gov race as Murphy, Ciattarelli remain neck and neck.
(Classical reference in headline.)
BIG BROTHER: Civil Liberties Watch: Congress Really Wants a Look Into Gun Buyers’ Bank Accounts.
I think we should all be able to look into congress members’ bank accounts.
IT’S ABOUT COMPLIANCE, NOT PREVENTION: Rutgers forcing online student to get the jab. Because they can.
POST-PRIMETIME PLAYER: ‘SNL’ Legend Dan Aykroyd Cheers on Cancel Culture. “It turns out the ‘SNL’ alum would happily cancel himself.”
ANOTHER SOCIALIST GOES DOWN: Byron Brown claims victory in Buffalo mayor’s race; write-in ballots swamp India Walton.
Byron Brown, considered politically dead by many following his stunning defeat in the June primary for mayor of Buffalo, appears to have resurrected his long career as he claimed victory Tuesday in his bruising write-in campaign against Democratic nominee India Walton.
The growing accumulation of write-in votes point to a significant lead for Brown and the first time any Buffalo mayor has won a fifth term. Walton refused to concede, but that did not stop Brown from proclaiming victory at around 10:30 p.m. to cheers at his Washington Street headquarters.
The NYT article points out that Walton will be “the first socialist mayor of a major American city since 1960, when Frank P. Zeidler stepped down as Milwaukee’s mayor.”
It was assumed she automatically win in the general election. Didn’t happen.
Good.
LET’S GO, BRANDON! Voters shake up school boards in Colorado’s biggest districts. “The slate of conservative-backed candidates in Douglas County appeared to have won all four races, the biggest victory of the night, based on unofficial returns.”
AFTER LAST NIGHT, EVEN THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE MIGHT STEP AWAY FROM THIS: CDC Approves Immediate Use of Coronavirus Vaccine For Kids Age 5-11.
WAIT, JUST YESTERDAY TERRY MCAULIFFE TOLD US IT WASN’T ABOUT TRUMP: Trump sweeps Election Day, goes 4-0.
AS A ST. LOUIS NATIVE, IT WASN’T EASY CHEERING FOR THE BRAVES, BUT CHEER I DID: The Braves winning the World Series is a smack in the face to woke MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred for moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta.