LAWFARE: Jonathan Turley: The Unserious Migrant Lawsuit Against DeSantis. “Most of these claims are highly dubious.”
Archive for 2022
September 21, 2022
JEFFREY CARTER: The Joe Biden Economy Is Like Groupon: Half off. “If you held the S+P 500 ($SPY) on January 1st of this year and haven’t sold, your return is -17.25% including dividends that were reinvested. That’s an annualized gain of -24.12%. For what it’s worth the 2008 crash was 50%. Hey, we are halfway there! That’s something isn’t it? It ain’t the Republicans or Trump’s fault. It’s right in the lap of Joe Biden and the Democrats. The buck stops with them. They instituted the green energy policies and all the stupid spending. . . . Meanwhile, all Democrats can talk about is abortion no matter what state you are in. No one cares when you can’t feed yourself, walk down the street without the threat of getting assaulted, or afford to heat your home.”
AND AGAIN: Ex-Putin Ally Plunges to His Death ‘From a Great Height’ at Moscow Aviation Institute.
From the September 10th Power Line Week in Pictures:
MATT MARGOLIS: DeSantis Isn’t Sweating The Migrant Class Action Lawsuit. Here’s Why. “The real icing on the cake was the consent forms that each of the migrants signed.”
UPDATE: Link was broken. Fixed now!
KEN BURNS: ‘We’re in perhaps the most difficult crisis in the history of America.’
Wow, wait until this guy learns about the Civil War!
EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Accuse State Department of ‘Radical Gender Imperialism.’ “In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, members of the Republican Study Committee point to a leaked memo reportedly circulated by Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicating that the Biden administration may begin pushing other countries to endorse youthful ‘gender affirming care’ — a euphemism used by the media, activists, and Democrats to describe the more grisly-sounding transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers. “
SHE GETS A PASS BECAUSE… WELL, YOU KNOW THE REASONS: LGBT ‘Ally’ Stacey Abrams Spoke at a Church With a Pro-Farrakhan, Anti-Gay Pastor.
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EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Profits Plummet And Vehicles Left Unfinished As Ford Struggles With Inflation.
BIDEN THINKS THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IS DISGUSTING. HIS ATTACKS ON THE PRESS DANGEROUSLY UNDERMINE TRUTH AND CONSENSUS: Petulant White House Is Really Upset With Fox News Reporter Bill Melugin.
As RedState reported on Tuesday, the United States has now had more than two million apprehensions of illegal aliens at the Souther border in the current fiscal year. That’s the most in history and represents a major crisis, both for those charged with enforcing the law and for those breaking it.
With that being the setup, you’d think the Biden administration would be scrambling to enact better policies and provide some semblance of security at the border. After all, what’s going on is a political liability, and one that is becoming more front and center as each day pass.
But nah, instead the White House is gnashing its teeth about Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, who has been the go-to source for information about the current border crisis. You see, they don’t want to actually fix the problem, they just want you to not know about it.
Doesn’t Melugin know that as someone reporting on Biden, his place is in the closet?
UKRAINE WAR: Putin Threatens Nukes, Announces Partial Mobilization. “Putin’s order is already meeting some passive resistance: ‘One-way flights out of Russia were rocketing in price and selling out fast on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin ordered the immediate call-up of 300,000 reservists.’ How bad is it, really? Well, Moscow just ordered airlines to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65. I guess that means that Putin is considering drafting men up to 65 years of age.”
More from Laughing Wolf: Quick Initial Thoughts On Vladimir’s Speech.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: University of Oregon apologizes for ‘F*** the Mormons’ chant during BYU game.
PAYPAL’S LATEST ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH: PayPal Demonetizes the Daily Skeptic. The site has offered some of the best analysis anywhere of Covid data, science and politics (and other topics that the woke would rather not discuss). As Toby Young explains, PayPal is even shutting down the personal accounts of donors to the Daily Skeptic.
FRANCIS TURNER: Ukraine Trends and Thoughts. “Putting this together cynically makes me think that what a lot of people may have wanted is for a Ukraine to keep Russia occupied while not actually winning. A European version of Afghanistan if you like. I can certainly see a lot of the ‘Realpolitik’ sorts in various foreign ministries, state departments and so on not wanting to face the likely geopolitical upsets that a Ukrainian victory will probably produce. There is some justification for this. After all the collapses of totalitarian regimes in other places (Iraq, Syria, Libya to pick three) have led to mostly failed states (see also Somalia and Afghanistan come to think of it) and a failed state with nukes is not a thing to make anyone happy. But…. it isn’t clear to me that the alternatives are any better.”
Any likely Putin replacement is also likely to be worse than Putin — at least for the Russians. He also might be forced to mind his international manners — at least for a while.
IT WAS VERY RUDE OF THEM TO ARRIVE DURING PUMPKIN SPICE SEASON:
One day I want to be as happy as the Martha’s Vineyard residents kicking illegal immigrants off their island pic.twitter.com/rz4sa2ushd
— Millennial Republicans (@mrepublicans16) September 20, 2022
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Burn It All Down — Fire the Creeper Teachers. “One thing I’m constantly grateful for these days is that my daughter is no longer in the K-12 portion of her education journey. It’s a freak-filled jungle out there.”
GREENS AND “CLIMATE ACTIVISTS” ARE A CULT THAT REVOLVES AROUND MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE, SO THIS IS IN-CHARACTER: Climate activists block commute around Boston; state police arrest at least 5, more arrested in Boston.
And I mean that literally: The goal is to make your life worse. The planet is just the excuse.
REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS: B-21 Raider Will Be Rolled Out In Early December. “Hunter first announced the B-21 rollout plans at the Air & Space Forces Association’s 2022 Air, Space, and Cyber Conference. The Assistant Secretary had provided no additional details about the forthcoming event, including whether or not it would open to the public in any way, as was the case with the rollout of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber in 1988. However, Northrop Grumman’s subsequent press release added that the event would provide an ‘exclusive view’ of the bomber, which might indicate that a first-ever public look at the aircraft could accompany the event regardless of who is allowed to attend in person.”
Like the Navy’s Virginia-class subs, the Raider has at least so far been a rare procurement win for the Pentagon — on-time and under-budget.
IDIOCRACY WASN’T MEANT TO BE A HOW-TO GUIDE: FDA warns against potentially deadly ‘NyQuil Chicken Challenge.’
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR CANADA: Grotesque Trans Shop Teacher Is the Most Misogynistic Thing I’ve Ever Seen.
Related: Alex Stein knows his Alinsky:
Absolute legend. https://t.co/YOvaWJUBtJ
— Megan Fox (@MeganFoxWriter) September 21, 2022
FLASHBACK: It is time academics preach the virtues they practice.
Last week, ironic juxtaposition came to San Diego. University of San Diego Law Dean Stephen Ferruolo issued a statement critical of one of his faculty, Larry Alexander, who had committed the sin of coauthoring an oped with Amy Wax of Penn Law School. The two professors praised the “bourgeois virtues.” Also in San Diego that week, crews began hosing things down with bleach solution in an effort to halt a hepatitis A outbreak spread by people pooping in the street. And within the academy itself, the bourgeois virtues are seldom praised but often practiced. Nobody is better at deferring gratification than a graduate student or junior professor. In their own lives, most professors are quite temperate and hardworking. Their children are almost always encouraged to work hard, go to good schools, and get good jobs, and academic parents are inclined to brag when they do. (The original “Tiger Mom,” Amy Chua, is herself a law professor.) …
University of Chicago law professor Brian Leiter has called on Ferruolo to apologize or resign for his attack on Alexander and Wax. Leiter writes: “As Dean, his job is to defend freedom of speech and inquiry, even when it is unpopular. He has failed.”
Ferruolo has indeed failed his faculty. But he has also failed the very people he purports to care about, the less-fortunate who would be much better off in a society that encouraged the behaviors that Wax and Alexander promote. Whether or not he resigns or apologizes, I hope he at least spends a moment reflecting on that.
Not super hopeful that he did, but I don’t know.
THE POST-UKRAINE WORLD IS STILL SETTLING IN: Armenia, On Its Own? The West’s indifference so far results from hypocrisy, cynicism, and shortsightedness about its own interests.
Well, also many of our corrupt leaders are owned by Putin and/or the CCP.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry! (Bumped).
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