Archive for 2024
January 7, 2024
AT AMAZON, Shop the Winter Sale. #CommissionEarned
JEFFREY CARTER: Competition, Embrace It!
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Josh Barro: Universities Are Not On The Level.
January 6, 2024
TAKING SIDES AGAINST CIVILIZATION:
Holy f@ck.@torontopolice deliver hot coffee to the Hamas supporters who are blockading the Jewish community in Armour Heights, Toronto.
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) January 6, 2024
IT’S TOTALLY NORMAL FOR SENIOR OFFICIALS TO DISAPPEAR FOR DAYS: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Hospitalization Saga Just Got Worse. “Is anyone else in the presidential line of succession in the hospital? If there were, we would never know. Who is talking to whom in this administration, and why is it that the easy, most simple things are disregarded or outright ignored?”
STEVE CALABRESI: January 6, 2021 Was Not an Insurrection.
OPEN THREAD: It’s Saturday night.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Is a black hole stuck inside the sun?
PLUS, THEY SUCK: It Turns Out Paper Straws Might Pose a Serious Problem Too.
Well, there’s better science on this than there was supporting the plastic straw ban, which was based on a 9-year-old’s science project.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: SecDef Hospitalized; Press Protests Lack Of Info To Public. “The Pentagon Press Association (which represents the press corp at the Pentagon) went on to say in it’s letter protesting the lack of information: ‘At a time when there are growing threats to U.S. military service members in the Middle East and the U.S. is playing key national security roles in the wars in Israel and Ukraine, it is particularly critical for the American public to be informed about the health status and decision-making ability of its top defense leader.'”
Related: A Pentagon mystery: Why was Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospital stay kept secret for days?
UPDATE: Ouch. But our ruling class sees China as a role model, so . . .
This is the type of behavior you expect from the Chinese government. https://t.co/e0Zclvnmhw
— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) January 6, 2024
ANOTHER UPDATE: Hospitalized Pentagon Chief Was in Intensive Care Unit. (Bumped).
MAYBE LUCID SHOULD JOIN SPACEX’S LAWSUIT AGAINST THE NLRB: Lucid illegally fired workers for supporting UAW, labor board alleges.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN, JUDGE CARPENTER ON TWITTER:
Judge Carpenter says that “officer of the U.S.” is “repeatedly” used in Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. 475 (1866). That’s a canonical or lead case. If you went to law school, it was probably assigned in Introduction to Constitutional Law or Introduction to Federal Courts. Still, I have written on this issue since 2008—Did I really miss this? And it is not just me—many others have written (or recently begun to write on this issue)—Did they all miss this too? So I looked it up. That phrase—“officer of the United States”—appears exactly one time in the report for the case. It does not appear “repeatedly.” Hyperbole is, at best, a legitimate tool for lawyers. For judges, I think it is less than appropriate.
More importantly, the phrase “officer of the United States,” although it appears in the case’s report, it is not part of the opinion of the Court. And, it is not part of any concurrence. It is not even part of a dissenting opinion. Actually, Judge Carpenter is quoting from an editor’s headnote reproducing a lawyer’s argument. So, the Supreme Court never used the phrase “officer of the United States” in Mississippi v. Johnson. Not even once.
Not very judicious.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
Now @JohnFetterman is telling everyone how he's not a progressive, he rejects us and is now calling Harvard "pinko." What the fuck? This is why people lose hope, because of frauds like Fetterman. You work hard to get a progressive elected and they turn into Republicans instantly.
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) January 6, 2024
UPDATE: Heh. Indeed.
He was a progressive then got mental health care. Good for him for his newfound sanity.
— Hollywood Resistance (@ResistItAllTX) January 6, 2024
PHOTOGRAPHER WAITS THREE YEARS TO CAPTURE STEALTH BOMBER FLYING OVER COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME:
A photographer captured an epic shot of a B-2 stealth bomber flying over a college football game which he says is the most special shot of his career so far.https://t.co/zMP0Gg0PBc
— PetaPixel (@petapixel) January 4, 2024
HARVEY FOR HARVARD: FIRE’s co-founder Harvey Silverglate is running for Harvard’s Board of Overseers to try to fix the place (if that’s at all possible, Harvey can do it). Get this and other news in my new ‘Weekend Free Speech Update.’
GUNS AREN’T ALWAYS THE BEST TOOL FOR THE PROBLEM: The Ins And Outs Of Pepper Spray: Because there are some self-defense problems which require something other than “BANG!”
READER FAVORITE: Yes4All Kettlebell Vinyl Coated Cast Iron. #CommissionEarned
WELL, THAT SEEMS REASONABLE: FAA temporarily grounds certain Boeing 737 MAX 9s after emergency landing.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: SpaceX sues US labor board, claims agency structure is unconstitutional.
MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, CITIZENS: Obama, worried about Trump, urges Biden circle to bolster campaign.
Former president Barack Obama has raised questions about the structure of President Biden’s reelection campaign, discussing the matter directly with Biden and telling the president’s aides and allies the campaign needs to be empowered to make decisions without clearing them with the White House, according to three people familiar with the conversations.
We know it’s not Biden, but this is yet another reminder of who is behind the scenes in the (P)resident’s administration, pulling the strings, “serving as a third-term president in all but name.”