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November 13, 2023

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: San Francisco Goes Full Potemkin Village to Suck Up to Commie Xi Jinping. “The sad thing about this is that they’re putting on a show for other commies. The Potemkin Village shtick was a charade for Western visitors back in the day. Now San Francisco is putting on its Labor Day best to look good for the real commie pros.”

Posted at 9:15 am by Stephen Green on Nov 13th, 2023

WELL, THEY’RE THREATENED BY A STRONG BLACK MAN:

Posted at 9:14 am by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 13th, 2023

EUGENE VOLOKH: One reason I broadly oppose governmental restrictions on the expression of ideas—even obviously bad, dangerous, and offensive ideas—is the phenomenon I call ‘censorship envy’: The common reaction that, ‘If my neighbor gets to ban speech he reviles, why shouldn’t I get to do the same?’

It’s a fair question, except that it’s not usually “my neighbor,” but my political rival, who’s engaged in one-sided censorship.

Posted at 9:01 am by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 13th, 2023

AS MANY AS POSSIBLE: Good Question. How Many Perverts Did the FBI Ignore While Chasing Trump Supporters? “The FBI had Welsh in its sights and was set to bring charges against him. Even one week before Jan. 6, 2021, the man they believe is Welsh was trying to get a sex date with a prepubescent boy online. But the FBI but dropped the case on Jan. 6, 2021, according to the FBI’s Statement of Facts to the court. It had more important things to investigate – Trump supporters.”

Posted at 8:26 am by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 13th, 2023

I’M VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH M.I.T.: WHY DIDN’T MIT EXPEL VIOLENT STUDENTS? “Some of the worst anti-Semitic campus outbursts of recent weeks have been at MIT. Pro-genocide activists physically prevented Jewish students from attending classes, and refused to disperse when ordered to do so by university officials. Normally you would assume that a student who engaged in such barbaric conduct would be expelled. Yet MIT has treated its anti-Semites with kid gloves. Why?”

The answer: “There you have it: the pro-genocide students (or many of them, anyway) are non-Americans, most likely from the Middle East. They have brought their unAmerican attitudes with them to this country. MIT doesn’t want them to be deported, likely in part, at least, because they are rich kids who pay full freight. Foreign students are a cash cow for universities, often being nearly the only ones who pay the university’s sticker price. So for MIT, left-wing ideology and financial interest probably go hand in hand.”

Posted at 7:38 am by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 13th, 2023

THE FED FEELS RESTLESS? TRY BUYING GROCERIES OR SELLING A HOUSE: Stubborn Core Inflation Helps Explain Some Fed Restlessness.

Compared with October of last year, the core CPI is projected to rise 4.1%. That would match the annual advance in September and snap a six-month stretch of slowing price growth.

While considerable progress has been made since hitting a multi-decade high a year ago, the pace of inflation remains elevated and above the Fed’s goal. Having paused tightening at consecutive meetings, leaving the benchmark rate at a 22-year high, policymakers are proceeding deliberately — and not ruling out further increases.

“If it becomes appropriate to tighten policy further, we will not hesitate to do so,” Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday. “We will continue to move carefully, however, allowing us to address both the risk of being misled by a few good months of data, and the risk of over-tightening.”

If they’d have risked over-tightening a couple of years ago, we might have been spared the worst of it.

Posted at 7:32 am by Stephen Green on Nov 13th, 2023

YESTERDAY, IT WAS AYAAN HIRSI ALI: Today on HillFaith, it’s MIT’s Rosalind Picard, Sc.D., a former atheist scientist who became a Christian. Not only is Picard a scientist of world renown, she is also an inventor, entrepreneur, author, professor and engineer.

You may also have read her book, “Affective Computing,” which, according to her MIT bio, “proposed and described how to give skills of emotional intelligence to computers — including voice assistants, robots, agents, and many kinds of interactive technologies.”

Posted at 7:18 am by Mark Tapscott on Nov 13th, 2023
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