I’ll TAKE THINGS NO ONE IS SAYING FOR $500, ALEX: “We’d talked about the dynamics of Iowa, her competitors and the pressure she put on herself not ‘to screw this up.’ But here and now [Elizabeth Warren] offered her plainest view of the landscape yet: ‘Everyone comes up to me and says, ‘I would vote for you, if you had a penis.’”
Archive for 2022
August 12, 2022
POLITICIANS ARE SAFE: Study: Thinking hard makes people tired because of ‘noxious’ accumulations in brain.
THEY WEREN’T OFF BEFORE? WOW: ‘Now, the Gloves Are Off’: Christina Pushaw Resigns as DeSantis’ Press Secretary.
BURGERS AND FRIES, BEST THING FOR YOU: Women who eat vegetarian diets at higher risk for hip fracture.
THINKING ABOUT JOINING THE IRS? Babylon Bee helpfully provides the 17 job requirements you must satisfy in order to be considered. Instapunditeers should pay particular attention to #14.
COLORADO: What’s Happening With ‘South Park’ Creators’ Casa Bonita? “The answer to that question’s a complicated one, and first, we need to review exactly what’s going on with the South Park creators’ quest to reopen the shuttered landmark with actual ‘good food,’ not the stuff that makes everyone only remember the fountain-waterfall attractions and maybe the sopaipillas.”
SCHEDULED FOR 5:40 PM ET: Watch SpaceX launch 46 Starlink satellites, land rocket today.. It’s a big deal that this has become so routine.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Eisgruber’s Emails: A nine-month correspondence with Princeton’s president sheds more light on his administration’s deceitful embrace of woke fanaticism at the expense of excellence.
Our institutions are run by people who are substituting their own agendas for the institutions’ missions.
AND NOT A CLEVER OR BELIEVABLE HOAX: Trump: Nuclear Weapons Documents Story ‘a Hoax’
STUDENTS SUE COLLEGE PRESIDENT WHO INVENTED RULES TO BAN CONSERVATIVE FLYERS. A new lawsuit from FIRE.
I’ve been at FIRE almost 19 years, and I continue to be amazed how scared administrators are of flyers.
RESEARCHERS SAY REGULAR BIBLE READING IS HEALTHY? Well, yes, according to HillFaith, that’s what the authors of the American Bible Society’s (ABS) 2022 State of the Bible Report say they found among Gen Zers, the youngest and typically least happy generation. The report is a product of a joint effort between University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center (NORC) analysts and those with the ABS.
SALMAN RUSHDIE ATTACKED ON LECTURE STAGE IN WESTERN NEW YORK. “An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.”
THE HOME FRONT: Russians Fleeing Crimea. “For all the talk of how Crimea is ‘inseparable’ from Russia, it seems like an awful lot of actual Russians are separating from it as quickly as they possibly can.”
This is fallout from the mysterious explosions at Russia’s Saki airbase, previously thought to be safe behind the front lines.
NO, 87K NEW IRS AGENTS WON’T JUST AUDIT MILLIONAIRES: The Heritage Foundation’s Rachel Greszler digs into the data and the history and concludes that “even increasing recent audit rates 30-fold for taxpayers making over $400,000 — including 100 percent audit rates on taxpayers with incomes over $10 million — still would fall more than 20% short of raising the estimated $35.3 billion in new revenues in 2031.”
Ergo – the auditors will focus on everybody making less than $400,000, especially those filing W-2 and 1099-based returns claiming multiple deductions. Those claims will be red flags for the auditors.
IT’S AS IF TWITTER IS A GARBAGE PLATFORM RUN BY GARBAGE PEOPLE: Ex-Twitter Manager Convicted of Being Secret Agent for Saudi Arabia + Leaking Private User Information.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: As FBI Raids Trump’s Home, Hunter Biden Rides Off on Air Force One to Vacation With the Big Guy.
HELPFUL BOOK: Stretching Anatomy. #CommissionEarned
THE CALL CAME FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE: FBI Informant ‘Really Close’ to Trump; 6-8 People Knew About Mar-a-Lago Safe.
SUNLIGHT IS A DISINFECTANT: College deletes race-based job posting after news inquiry.
DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Democratic professors dominate University of Nebraska-Omaha departments. And pretty much every other university department everywhere.