Archive for 2023

FASTER, PLEASE: Game-changing surgery can cure prostate cancer in one hour. “It uses a technique called irreversible electroporation to administer electrical pulses into the tumour, cutting open the membrane of the cells in a far less invasive manner than standard treatments, meaning there are fewer risks to surrounding organs and tissues.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrat First Amendment Haters Never Let Up. “We’ve seen from the Twitter files the lengths that Democrats will go do in order to quash dissent. It’s a mission for them. They hate freedom; therefore, they hate free speech. Can’t have people like me running around out here pointing out that they’re oppressive fascists, after all.”

ATTACHING A PRICE TO “MASSIVE RESISTANCE:” Should State Officials Receive Qualified Immunity for Creatively Resisting Bruen?

Most qualified immunity cases involve state actors engaged in legitimate policing, who make reasonable or negligent mistakes about the law. These mistakes, moreover, are often made by police in the heat of the moment, in difficult circumstances (e.g., while potentially under the threat of force). The Supreme Court has tried to shield officers from such liability for fear that it will chill them from vigorously performing their duties. In contrast, these states, through their combined regulations on sensitive places and private property, are intentionally trying to subvert Bruen’s specific holding. These policies, moreover, are not split-second judgments made in the heat of the moment; states have pursued these laws after extensive deliberation. The Supreme Court has never said that qualified immunity protects state actors who intentionally seek to violate a recognized constitutional right simply because the legal artifice they employ has not been the subject of a prior court decision.

I would abolish qualified immunity entirely. But in this case there’s certainly no “good faith” argument to be made.

THE HOUSE GOP’S 7-WEEK AGENDA TO SAVE AMERICA: If you read nothing else this week, this month, this year, read former FTC chairman Daniel Oliver’s American Greatness column today. This is How to Leverage 101 and it needs to be required reading for every member of the House GOP, starting with the Speaker. There will be a test.

THE PUBLIC HAS DIFFERENT PRIORITIES THAN ITS MASTERS: Most aren’t sold Martin Luther King Jr holiday is important.

Just 34% told the Rasmussen Reports survey team that it is “most important.” Another 13% called it the “least important” federal holiday. And the bulk, 48%, said its importance is “somewhere in between.”

But the results also suggested that how the nation feels about the importance of the day should not detract from how they view the man most famous for his nonviolent demonstrations for civil and black rights before he was assassinated in 1968.

The polling outfit said 83% of voters have a favorable opinion of King, including 50% who have a very favorable opinion.

And a growing number of people believe his call for unity and equal opportunity has been met.

Nonsense. If the problem has been fixed, who will sell us solutions? Or impose them.

GOOD: German police clear out environmental protesters including Greta Thunberg. “Of course it’s no secret why the Green party changed its tune on Lützerath as well as other issues. Russia has pulled the rug out from under the Germany economy by shutting off the gas supply last year. Germany has been forced to look for other supplies of energy which led to the Greens reversing course on nuclear energy and the expanded use of coal. In short, the Green party has accommodated reality and the protesters have not. . . . So the two year occupation ends in a total loss for the environmentalists who were betrayed by their own party.”

Like I said, good. They’re enemies of civilization.

DESPITE? Iranian oil exports end 2022 at a high, despite no nuclear deal.

Tehran’s oil exports have been limited since former U.S. President Donald Trump in 2018 exited a 2015 nuclear accord and reimposed sanctions aimed at curbing oil exports and the associated revenue to Iran’s government.

Exports have risen during the term of his successor President Joe Biden, who had sought to revive the nuclear deal, and hit the highest since 2019 on some estimates.

Ya think Biden should have waited to lift sanctions until after he gets his crappy deal?

THE DAVOS CROWD WON’T BE THE ONES EATING BUGS: Cozy Davos luncheon crowd includes Manchin, Sinema and…Coons? “That last name is a puzzler, let me tell you. He surely wasn’t invited for his intellectual heft. But he is gullible enough to eat the bugs if someone told him to.”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Get Woke, Go Broke: How Higher Ed’s Push for “Equity” is Backfiring, Hard. “Far be it from me to criticize hiring people based on their ability to do the job instead of the polish of their résumés, but this is a huge departure from the past, and it spells bad news for the people who’ve been selling the polish. If employees are no longer hired based on credentials, the market for credentials is going to head south.”

ALAS IST VERBOTEN:  It won’t stop with gas stoves.

But of course, available to the “elites.” They “work so hard.” Know your place, peasant.

AS I SAID, THE POLICE ISN’T THERE TO PROTECT CITIZENS:  Texas Follow-Up.

WHEN YOU CANT MAKE YOUR FALSE FLAG STICK FULLY, MEMORIALIZE IT: Democrats Want January 6th Enshrined Forever.

You’d think they’d remember that people can demand stupid monuments be destroyed, but apparently they’ve decreed history has ended and they won forever. The delusion is painful.