Archive for 2024
January 25, 2024
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO MURDER: Woman Stabbing Boyfriend 108 Times Receives Probation, Avoids Prison Time.
With slap-on-the-wrist penalties like that, they aren’t going to learn anything.
CHANGE: Sweden verges on NATO membership after Turkey vote, Hungary signal. “Sweden applied for NATO membership in May of 2022, just months after Russia invaded Ukraine. The decision was a sharp turn in Swedish foreign policy, which had previously favored a non-aligned status.”
NEW FRONTIERS IN FEMINISM: Know Your Place, Men!
IN THE MAIL: Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle with, and for, the US Naval Academy to Make Thinking Officers. #CommissionEarned
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: San Francisco Was Going to Spend HOW MUCH on a Toilet? “You don’t have to be a scientist with a fancy doctorate from Stanford in Human Poop Displacement to know that the whole thing is criminally stupid from top to, uh, bottom.”
I SUSPECT THERE WILL BE LESS DUMB STUDENT (AND FACULTY) POLITICS: ABA Seeks Comments On Proposal To Allow Accreditation Of Fully Online Law Schools.
COLD WAR II: With an assist from Russia, China’s plutonium reactors fuel strategic arms buildup.
The two fast neutron reactors under construction are located on an island off the coast of China’s Fujian Province opposite Taiwan. One reactor under construction since 2017 reportedly was set to begin producing electricity late last year and the second is set to go online in 2026, the analysis said.
Both reactors will produce plutonium that “could be used to produce weapon-grade plutonium for China’s rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal,” the report by the Air Force’s China Aerospace Studies Institute states.
Suspicions that the reactors are part of China’s rapidly expanding nuclear weapons program were raised the same year that construction on the first reactor began. In 2017, China stopped reporting its plutonium stockpiles to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. watchdog agency.
Russia’s Rosatom nuclear agency delivered 6.5 tons of uranium to the China National Nuclear Corp. for the Fujian reactor, Bloomberg News reported in February.
Background: China Is Engaged in a Massive Nuclear Missile Buildup. “The addition of 230 nuclear use-them-or-lose-them ground-based missiles will fundamentally alter the nuclear calculus between the U.S. and China/Russia.”
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Five New Hampshire Takeaways the Media Hopes You Won’t Read About.
IF IT WEREN’T FOR FAKE HATE CRIMES, HOW MANY HATE CRIMES WOULD THERE BE? HOAX: ‘Black feminist theory’ PhD student raised $40K on false assault claim, police say.
WE ARE NOT GOVERNED BY THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST: Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced her proposal for free community college in a bizarre video with “Professor Potato.”
SHOT: Boeing only lets planes fly when ‘100% confident’ of safety, embattled CEO says. “Concern over the reliability of Boeing jets has strained the group’s relations with key airlines. Ben Minicucci, the chief executive of Alaska, said it had found ‘some loose bolts on many’ Max 9 jets in its fleet.”
Maybe Boeing should consider recalibrating its confidence level.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: This Year in Creative Fiction — ‘The Bidenomics Success Story.’ “Frequent readers of mine know that I often refer to the media spin for Biden in 2020 as the largest ongoing creative fiction writing exercise in history. Well, it’s time to fire up the storytelling machine again.”
I DUNNO, IN THE PAST THE “PART-TIME” TRACK HAS MEANT WORKING 50 HOURS: Should Law Firms Pay Their Lawyers 20% Less For 20% Less Work?
CHANGE (IT BACK): With Oregon facing rampant public drug use, lawmakers backpedal on pioneering decriminalization law. “The bill would recriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs as a low-level misdemeanor, enabling police to confiscate them and crack down on their use on sidewalks and in parks, its authors said. It also aims to make it easier to prosecute dealers, to access addiction treatment medication, and to obtain and keep housing without facing discrimination for using that medication.”
UPENN REWARDS PROF’S ANTI-SEMITISM: Professor Dorothy Roberts, who teaches sociology and law at the University of Pennsylvania, is being honored by the school with her selection to deliver the 23rd Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice.
The lecture assembly is being hosted by the UPenn Center for Africana Studies, the Penn Carey Law School, and the Department of Sociology. Another host is particularly noteworthy because it is the Annenberg School of Communication. The Annenberg is Walter Annenberg, whose Triangle Publications owned the Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, the Daily Racing Form and Seventeen magazine.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman reports that Roberts “signed a letter accusing Israel of ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid’ and denounced U.S. military support for the Jewish state as a ‘moral catastrophe.'”
Her selection comes in the wake of the resignation of UPenn President Liz McGill following her inability/refusal to condemn anti-semitism on her campus in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that left more than 1,200 Israeli men, women, children and infants dead, including many who were murdered in horrendous ways.
Let’s see now, is that a raised middle finger we see from the UPenn academic establishment?
UPDATE FROM GLENN: Reminder that Penn is trying to revoke Amy Wax’s tenure for insensitivity about affirmative action.
CHANGE: Ariz. GOP Chair Jeff DeWit Resigns Over Leaked Kari Lake Audio. “Jeff DeWit is a businessman and politician who previously served as the Arizona state treasurer. He also served as chair for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign in Arizona.”
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Embattled Biden Judicial Nominee Helped Lead Anti-Police Nonprofit.
VIDEO: Scrambling For Eggs: Russia Asks Kazakhstan To Increase Exports. “Russia has been facing a deficit of eggs since last fall and has reached out to Kazakhstan to increase its exports. However, the price of eggs has also risen in the Central Asian country.”
More:
There are long lines across Russia due to a shortage of eggs. This essential food item symbolizes the changes that have affected ordinary citizens since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. Putin apologized in December for the crisis and the frequent lack of goods.
Putin quickly found scapegoats and ordered their punishment, assuring viewers that things would get better. However, he seems to have been mistaken. Despite Russian authorities recently asking Kazakhstan for help with a purchase of 1.2 billion eggs, Russia is once again experiencing a crisis. Eggs are in short supply and expensive, and extensive queues exist throughout the country.
This is due to sanctions, poor planning, and emerging issues within the Russian economy.
Post-Soviet Russia looks more and more like Soviet Russia.
DOING TO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WHAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DOES TO THE LAW AND CONSTITUTION: Texas’ Latest Border Move Is a Giant Middle Finger to the Biden Admin.
AT AMAZON, Shop the Winter Sale. #CommissionEarned