Archive for 2023
July 27, 2023
THAT WOULD BE A FIRST: It Looks Like Hunter Biden Might Experience Some Accountability.
SHUT UP, RACIST: Prof demands white editors ‘resign’ from ‘positions of power.’
MARK JUDGE: Why Oppenheimer has hotter women than Barbie. “Pugh is magnetic whenever she’s on screen. She smolders with sex appeal and sharp intelligence. Compare that to the resentful, dour feminists lecturing the audience in Barbie.”
SO MY PROBLEM WITH THIS INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES piece on smartphones and domestic life isn’t the piece, but the illustration. It’s the usual clueless-goober father looking at his phone while his wife and kids look on reproachfully. You would think that the IFS, at least, wouldn’t join in the dad-bashing that’s common in popular culture. But, alas, you would be wrong.
And in fact, “Females use smartphones for longer periods than males.”
WELL: Did Japan Just Say, “We’re in on Taiwan”? “Deciphering Japanese Defense Ministry messaging would drive a Sinologist to drink, but with Japanese military advisors in Taiwan discussing how to beat a Chinese blockade of Taiwan, and there now being a couple of billion dollars of new long range weapons positioned in the southern Nansei islands, just north of Taiwan, it’s safe the say Japan’s strict neutrality is a policy of the past when it comes to Taiwan’s defense.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Add Mitch McConnell to List of Beltway Elders Who Shouldn’t Be at Work. “A number of this nation’s highest-ranking leaders are a smidge past their primes. Worse yet, almost none of the elders of the village are aging well. We live in amazing times, when humans can live longer quality lives than we have ever been able to before. It would not appear, however, that our political elites have been doing the things they need to do in order to be as robust as possible in their 80s.”
THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THESE INSTITUTIONS MUST FACE UNPLEASANT PERSONAL REPERCUSSIONS: De-banking has begun in the US.
IT’S LENGTHY: Will Republicans Impeach Biden? Here’s The Full Corruption Timeline.
November 2013: Hunter joined with Chinese investors to create Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. (BHR), an investment fund controlled by the Bank of China. One month later, then-Vice President Joe Biden traveled with Hunter on Air Force 2 to China and met the CEO of BHR, Jonathan Li. Soon after that, BHR’s business license was approved and Hunter had become a board member.
February 5, 2014: Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakhstani businessman, met Hunter Biden at a Washington, D.C., hotel.
April 23, 2014: Rakishev’s Singaporean company wired $142,300 through his Latvian company to a Rosemont entity. Soon after, that entity wired $142,300 to a car dealership in New Jersey for a new sports car for Hunter Biden.
May 12, 2014: Ukrainian gas producer Burisma announced that Hunter Biden had joined its board of directors.
Much — and I do mean much — more at the link.
HOW IT STARTED: Democrats May Want to Panic About Hunter Biden Now.
—Matt Margolis, PJM, yesterday afternoon.
How it’s going: Meltdown at CNN as Hunter Biden’s plea deal falls apart.
—The Washington Examiner last night.
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Transgender Policy Allegedly Leads Activists to Make Disturbing Threats Against School Board President.
MY HERO:
Some people brag about their fat paycheck, their cool car, their hot girlfriend or boyfriend, or their beautiful family. I brag that Thomas Sowell sends me things in the mail. At 93, he is still writing. May he still be writing when I’m 93. pic.twitter.com/JD7PBs95Vj
— Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot) July 26, 2023
In case you’re jealous, it may comfort you to know that I drive a middle-aged Honda Civic.
THESE FOLKS NEVER GIVE UP: With this letter the American Civil Rights Project and Californians for Equal Rights Foundation have registered our adamant opposition to the California Legislature’s ACA7. If passed, ACA7 will put ANOTHER effort to repeal Proposition 209 on the ballot. We clobbered them in 2020. We’re quite prepared to do it again if necessary.
This time it would be disguised as a mere “exception” to 209. But the “exception” would swallow the rule. California voters aren’t that stupid.
I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF BRANDS: Bud Light Brewer Lays Off Hundreds of U.S. Workers.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): From the comments: “Right…some jerkwad in Marketing makes a terrible decision and the first people are impacted are the people who would have told them not to do it.” Biden’s America in a nutshell.
DISCIPLED INTO FEAR: “In 2021, Scott McGreal, writing in Psychology Today, reported that an American study demonstrated a link between high levels of neuroticism and liberal politics. Additional findings from a British study later that same year indicated a similar link between left-wing political views on economics and the environment (among other issues) and the occurrence of generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and phobias.”
Well, yes. This is obvious to anyone who has paid attention.
IF YOU SAY SO: Yale professor: Biden’s economy most successful since FDR’s New Deal.
Previously: FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.
I guess that Yale professor is on to something.
FROM MY COLLEAGUE BRAD AREHEART: The Top 100 Law Reviews: A Reference Guide Based on Historical USNWR Data.
PUBLIC TRUST, ONCE BROKEN, IS DIFFICULT TO RESTORE: Study Suggests U.S. Government Lied About Myocarditis Risk From COVID Vax.
WELL, MOSTLY BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY APPARAT IS NO LONGER WHOLEHEARTEDLY PROTECTING THEM: Are Walls Closing in on the Bidens?
WELL, NOW WE KNOW WHERE THE LEADING DEMOCRATS CAME FROM: Non-human biological pilots were recovered.
WHO HERE MISSED PIERRE DELECTO? WELL, HERE HE IS, FLAPPING LIPS: A puzzling suggestion from Mitt Romney.
PROGRESSIVISM IS AMERICA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: Progressivism Is Aggravating America’s Mental Health Crisis.