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Archive for 2023
March 29, 2023
OF COURSE THEY DID, THAT WAS THEIR GOAL: Chemerinsky: Stanford Law Students Violated Free Speech By Shouting Down A Conservative Speaker.
BECAUSE OF COURSE: Can You Guess Who NBC News Portrayed as the Real Victims of the Nashville Shooting?
NBC is actually behind the curve. ABC’s Terry Moran was painting the killer as a victim of Tennessee politics within hours of the murders.
AS I KEEP SAYING, ROUTINE NOW, BUT THAT’S WHAT’S COOL: Watch SpaceX launch 56 Starlink satellites, land rocket at sea today. Scheduled for 4:01 pm ET.
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Russia-China Strategic Partnership is Molotovribbentroperrific. “This is the Chinese making a naked power play for control of Russia’s backyard.”
IMPEACHMENT WOULD BE EVEN MORE GLORIOUS: Ted Cruz Lays Into Mayorkas, and It’s Glorious. “Mr. Secretary, I want to say to you right now, your behavior is disgraceful. And the deaths, the children assaulted, the children raped, they are at your feet. And if you had integrity, you would resign. The men and women of the Border Patrol, they’ve never had a political leader undermine them. They despise you, Mr. Secretary, because you’re willing to let children be raped to follow political orders. This is a crisis. It’s a disgrace. And you won’t even admit this human tragedy as it is a crisis.”
TWITTER BANS FEDERALIST CEO SEAN DAVIS FOR REPORTING ON ‘TRANS DAY OF VENGEANCE.’ Apparently Elon Musk didn’t fire enough people.
I THINK MY LIVER CAN HOLD OUT AT LEAST THAT LONG: Humans will achieve immortality in eight YEARS, says former Google engineer who has predicted the future with 86% accuracy.
AMERICA THE LOST: Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon is unsurprised by the results of that much-publicized Wall Street Journal survey and concludes that it’s “no surprise, but it is a calamity. The nation is where it is because it has been attacked from within by people of a political persuasion that, for generations, has paid only hypocritical lip service (if that) to being on America’s side.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Hillary Clinton will teach foreign policy ‘decision-making’ course at Columbia.
Thanks to Obama’s policies — and Hillary Clinton’s — black people were sold as slaves in Libya. That’s what establishment “expertise” gets you.
I DIDN’T KNOW AI ALGOS COULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT BEING BEHEADED: ChatGPT Makes Tasteless Joke About Jesus, Declares Mohammed Off-limits.
YOU’LL CHARGE YOUR CAR AT NIGHT, THEY TOLD ME. IT’LL BE READY IN THE MORNING TO DRIVE ALL DAY, THEY SAID: Stanford study warns against charging electric cars at home overnight. “It found that if rapid EV growth continued with a continued dominance of residential, nighttime charging, peak electricity demand could increase by up to 25% in just over a decade.”
DEAL OF THE DAY: HOTO Electric Screwdriver. #CommissionEarned
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: American Left Has Grown More Violent While FBI Was Hunting Soccer Moms. “Parents at school board meetings have yet to amass a body count.”
UNEXPECTEDLY! $52 Billion Chipmaking Plan Is Racing Toward Failure.
Passed last year with bipartisan support, the law was meant to revive US chipmaking capacity. Although America is a world leader in cutting-edge chip design, its share of global semiconductor manufacturing has declined from 37% in 1990 to about 12%. Given the importance of such chips to the economy and especially to national security — the Defense Department needs about 1.9 billion of them a year — a more or less coherent case could be made for subsidies, prudently applied.
Yet simply writing checks was never going to be enough. Producing chips in the US still takes 25% longer and costs nearly 50% more than doing so in Asia. Significant policy changes would be needed for US-based manufacturers to be even remotely competitive. As things stand, they face three serious impediments — all inflicted by the government.
As predicted by pretty much everybody who wasn’t expecting a handout. Maybe soon we’ll get a study showing that the Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t reduce inflation.
HEY, IT’S NOT LIKE IT’S ANGRY PARENTS YELLING AT SCHOOL BOARDS: FBI Isn’t Treating Nashville Shooting As Domestic Terrorism.
STOP CELEBRATING, INDULGING, AND SUBSIDIZING MENTAL ILLNESS — THAT IS, WHEN WE AREN’T PRETENDING TO IGNORE IT: The Nashville Killer Lied About Her Guns. “Had authorities known about Hale’s mental issues, she wouldn’t have been able to buy the ‘seven firearms from five different gun stores here,’ Drake told reporters.”
VIDEO OF RECENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS EVENT: “Anti-Asian Discrimination at College Admissions.”
The U.S. Commission of Civil Rights had a briefing on Friday about anti-Asian racism. Our progressive Staff Director wanted the briefing to be about anti-Asian hate crimes. He considered it dirty pool that our witnesses wanted to bring up discrimination against Asians in college admissions. He tried to stop them. It was hilarious. (Fortunately, we have the NAS to sponsor an event that takes on the anti-Asian college admissions issue head on.)
FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION THIS ISN’T A BUG,IT’S A FEATURE: Biden’s Interior Secretary Agrees: Electric Vehicles Increase US Reliance on China.
ANOTHER GALAXY BRAIN TAKE FROM THE VIEW: Sunny Hostin suggests Chinese internment of Muslims not as bad as U.S. mass incarceration.
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin compared the Chinese internment of Uyghur Muslims to the U.S. on Tuesday and said “they’re putting more Black people in jail here.”
Hostin said she doesn’t see American exceptionalism due to the threats her children face as minorities.
“I don’t see that part of American exceptionalism. I’m sorry. I think this country has a lot of problems. They could be solved. Yes, maybe they are putting Muslims in jail in… China,” she began, turning to co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin. “They’re putting a lot more Black people in jail here.”
Farah Griffin said earlier in the segment that if America is not the number-one global superpower, it was going to be China and slammed it for its dreadful human rights record. The Chinese Communist Party has long claimed its re-education camps are voluntary, but its forced labor, sterilization and killing of the subjugated peoples has been deemed a genocide internationally.
I’m shocked to see a cast member of a Disney-produced show defending the CCP!
Assigning moral equivalence to the human rights records of the United States and China is more than factually incorrect. It’s delusional. https://t.co/2qApJMnXXw
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) March 29, 2023
Flashback: Biden Sold Out America To China While Working For Hollywood.
And from America’s Newspaper of Record: Disney Editing Blunder: An Uighur Concentration Camp Can Be Clearly Seen In The Background Of ‘Mulan.’
PRIVACY: The FBI Has Been Buying Bulk Internet Data from This Florida Company.
The FBI’s cybersecurity division has been purchasing bulk internet data from a little-known tech firm based in Florida, Motherboard reports. Team Cymru, which calls itself a “global leader in cyber threat intelligence,” sells access to bulk web traffic and tells clients it can act as a gateway to a “super majority of all activity on the internet.” It has previously been found selling its services to a number of other federal agencies.
Details of the FBI’s contract were revealed via a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Motherboard. The 4-page document is heavily redacted and doesn’t given much away about the broader purpose of the bureau’s data acquisition. However, it does show that, in 2017, the government paid a total of $76,450 for the information haul. Just what the bureau’s Cyber Division ended up doing with that data isn’t exactly clear, although Motherboard notes that the data in question is what is known as “netflow” data, which, in some cases, can allegedly be used to help track cybercriminal activity. Companies like Cymru typically purchase the data from internet service providers, then resell it to law enforcement agencies, Motherboard states.
The FBI isn’t the first federal agency to be found purchasing data from Team Cymru. Last September, it was reported that multiple agencies within the U.S. military had spent millions of dollars to procure a powerful internet monitoring tool from the Florida firm, dubbed “Augury.” According to advertising materials, Augury allows a user access to bulk internet traffic logs. In some cases, the data being provided could include “access to people’s email data, browsing history, and other information such as their sensitive internet cookies,” the outlet reported.
The Stasi never had it so good.
I WAS TOLD THAT THESE VALUES EMBODY WHITE SUPREMACY: Majority Still See Hard Work, Tolerance, and Religion as Important American Values.
JOHN RINGO IS WRITING AGAIN: And you can read his work as he writes. Hot Off The Pen Keyboard.