Archive for 2023

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: Hundreds of Harvard Protesters Stage ‘Die-In’ to Demand End to Violence Following Gaza Hospital Blast. Note the “From The River to the Sea” sign, which is an endorsement of genocide.

But they’re not proud enough of what they’re doing to put their names and faces to it anymore:

During the die-in, a man began to film demonstrator’s faces. Within minutes, he was escorted out by protest organizers, who blocked his camera with their keffiyehs — traditional scarves worn by Palestinians that have come to symbolize Palestinian nationalism. Demonstrators yelled “shame” at the disruptor as he left.

Yes, Harvard students are wearing keffiyehs in solidarity with rapists and mass murderers. Wouldn’t Klan hoods be more comfortable, and better at hiding their faces?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Law Professor Pay Plummeted 30% This Decade While College President Pay Rose 20%. “Law school applicants and enrollment peaked around 2010, but have been in long term decline according to data from LSAC. In 2004, 105,000 prospective JD’s applied to law school. By 2010, it was 91,000, and by 2016 it had fallen to 57,000. As of 2022, applicants recovered only slightly to 64,000, still down 42 percent since 2010. Declining student interest may be due to a widespread perception among prospective students that law schools have become excessively political and distracted from their core mission, and related concerns that law schools are not doing enough to help their students prepare for the rigors of work as professionals in the private sector.”

I don’t know where people would get that idea.

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Leaker of Trump Taxes Worked for Biden Beltway Donor That Just Won a Big New IRS Contract.. “The massive IRS theft is the third major breach of confidential and classified government information by Booz Allen contractors over the last decade . . . . Cyber-thief Charles “Chaz” Littlejohn was working on an IRS contract for Booz Allen in 2018 when he stole more than two decades of Trump’s personal tax records from IRS computers. He later leaked them to the New York Times, which published negative stories on Trump’s long-sought returns several weeks before the 2020 election, which Trump narrowly lost in a handful of battleground states.”

Someone who did this to a Democrat would be hounded for the rest of his life.

TRUMP ON TRIAL: Judge In Trump’s Docs Case Hands Jack Smith’s Team Big Setback.

Smith and his prosecutors had requested to keep documents seized during the FBI’s August 2022 raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in a private facility outside of the Florida district where the case was filed, but U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, whom Trump appointed, refused to allow it.

Cannon ordered Smith to share the documents in a location convenient for Trump’s legal time, within the South Florida district.

“The parties are advised the production of classified discovery to defense counsel is deemed timely upon placement in an accredited facility in the Southern District of Florida, not in another federal district,” Cannon wrote. “It is the responsibility of the Office of the Special Counsel to make and carry out arrangements to deposit such discovery to defense counsel in this District.”

The ruling is another favorable to Trump as it builds on a previous decision over the summer denying Smith’s request to hide his list of 84 witnesses from Trump’s legal team. Smith had argued that Trump’s frequent critique of his court cases in public and on social media would prejudice or intimidate those witnesses who could see their names made public.

Related: The Left Is Coming to Terms With Failure to Lawfare Trump Out of the Race.

I HAVE TO SAY, I WENT ALL-LED AND MY ELECTRIC BILLS DIDN’T DROP NOTICEABLY: The Incandescent Ban and the Lie of LED Efficiency.

As with all this stuff, it’s not about the promised results, it’s about obtaining compliance.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden says Palestinians ‘gotta learn how to shoot straight’ after hospital blast that killed about 500 people.

President Biden told reporters Wednesday that Palestinian terrorists have “gotta learn how to shoot straight” — one day after an explosion outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip.

“I’m not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it,” the president said at Ramstein Air Base in Germany en route back to Washington after visiting Israel earlier in the day.

“It’s that old thing: Gotta learn how to shoot straight,” Biden went on.

Insert obligatory “imagine the media freakout if Trump had said that” comment here.

A TIMELY BOOK FROM RACONTEUR PRESS:  Or All Will Burn.

There’s a question every parent faces and dreads; what would they do to protect their children? What lengths would they go to in order to make sure their children survive? And how would they avenge them if they couldn’t?

Or All Will Burn contains stories that explore these questions through space, time, and species. Join these 11 authors as they dive into the depths a parent will go to for their children.