NBC NEWS: KANSAS CITY SHOOTER IS FORMER DEMOCRAT GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, KLANSMAN. Okay, they pushed the Democrat part down a ways in the story. Can you imagine the glee at the SPLC, though? They’ll fundraise off this for a decade.
UPDATE: Ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2006, too. Doubt the press will play this up much. Say, did you know that Fred Phelps was a Democrat?
I HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING ABOUT JUSTICE STEVENS’ DUMB PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE SECOND AMENDMENT because (1) it’s dumb; and (2) it’s never going to happen. Might as well talk about my proposal to add five words to Article Three, so that Justices serve during good behavior, “or until they displease Glenn.” But Clayton Cramer has taken up the cross.
JOURNALISM: Media: Hillary Shoe-Thrower ‘Frightening’; Bush Shoe-Thrower A ‘Folk Hero.’ Though to be fair, some of this is in the response: Hillary seemed like a frightened old woman, Bush like an amused jock.
PAY “GAP” REMINDER: Men vastly overrepresented in dangerous jobs, workplace deaths.
WHEN IT’S EASIER TO BECOME “THE MAN” THAN TO CHALLENGE HIM: Google, once disdainful of lobbying, now a master of Washington influence. ” Nine years ago, the company opened a one-man lobbying shop, disdainful of the capital’s pay-to-play culture. Since then, Google has soared to near the top of the city’s lobbying ranks, placing second only to General Electric in corporate lobbying expenditures in 2012 and fifth place in 2013.”
Yeah, like I said, they’ve gone from rebel outsiders to crony insiders.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Men and women are equally good at reading partners’ sexual satisfaction, new study finds. “Sally’s very loud — and very fake — public orgasm in the film When Harry Met Sally was her emphatic way of proving that Harry has no clue if the revolving door of women he sleeps with are satisfied or not. Although the jury is still out on one-night stands, a new study of relationships by Canadian psychologists has found that men and women are equally good at picking up on their partners’ sexual satisfaction. If you’re in a committed partnership, your lover already knows how much you’re enjoying yourself in bed — so no need to start using Sally-esque theatrics to get your point across, in other words.”
THE NEGATIVE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING.
“We’re far more inclined to embrace positive information about our own investments than negative information. We often turn that off,” says Tali Sharot, author of “The Optimism Bias: A Tour of Our Irrationally Positive Brain.”
What if the “power of positive thinking” is simply a numbing drumbeat that reinforces the positivity delusion, leading us to make blockheaded business and investment decisions?
So, kind of like the media coverage of the Obama Administration. Plus, a shocking phrase to read in the WaPo: “Old-style American Calvinism, while not a load of laughs, has a lot to do with American wealth and development.”
I CAN SEE WHY THAT WOULD BE DIFFICULT: New York Court Struggles To Find Jurors Who Don’t Hate The Occupy Movement.
BEYOND REPROACH: “Manuel Roig-Franzia at the Washington Post described the perils facing Samantha Power: dictators, third world warlords, terrorist. None of them inspired in her the slightest fear. There was only one thing on earth that gave her pause. Hillary.”
COMPARISON: Walking vs. Elliptical Training.
TLC’S ANTI-MALE STEREOTYPES: Sexism Sent Me To The ER.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: High School Science Teacher Suspended For Teaching Science. Mark Frauenfelder concludes: “One of the most important lessons kids learn in public schools is that school administrators are usually autocratic imbeciles.”
Well, yes. You could write a book on it.
AT AMAZON, Warehouse Deals On Kitchen Gear.
NO MATTER HOW SMART YOU ARE, THERE’S SOMEBODY OUT THERE WHO CAN FOOL YOU. That Time A Star Trek Captain And A Physicist Got Tricked Into Doing A Documentary On Geocentrism. To be fair, the captain was only Kate Mulgrew. Shatner or Stewart would have snifffed this one out, I think.
WHILE PUTIN DEVOURS EASTERN EUROPE OUT OF WEAKNESS, we’re secure enough to focus our diplomatic efforts on getting other countries to ban texting while driving.
SO MAYBE ALL THAT INTERCONNECTION WAS OVERSOLD? Now That Everything Is Connected, Everything Will Get Hacked. Can I get my operating system on ROM?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Finding The Right Condom Size Can Save Your Sex Life.
REALLY? If I were going to break into a house, it wouldn’t be Tammy Bruce’s. He’s lucky he escaped with his life.
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 339.
POWER LINE: Standoff at Bundy Ranch Ends, With Photo of the Year So Far. “The new head of the BLM, Neil Kornze, worked for Harry Reid as a policy adviser from 2003 to 2011. It is reasonable to assume that Reid got him the BLM job, and I would hazard a guess that Reid saw the situation turning into a public relations disaster–-Nevada’s Governor and Senator Dean Heller, both Republicans, were more or less siding with Bundy–-and told Kornze to give it up. It still isn’t clear what the crisis was all about. Rumor has it that Reid wants the land for a giant solar farm that would be supplied by a Chinese company and, presumably, subsidized by the federal government. Reid’s son is apparently a participant in the deal. Whether that is true, I haven’t yet tried to figure out. One thing I will say with some certainty, however, is that tortoises had little or nothing to do with it.”
HANS VAN SPAKOVSKY: For Attorney General Eric Holder, Justice is for Democrats only.
A veteran Justice Department lawyer says that Attorney General Eric Holder has politicized the department in a way he hadn’t seen before. In short, “Holder is the worst person to hold the position of attorney general since the disgraced John Mitchell.”
Now in his sixth year as attorney general, Holder has increasingly tilted the department in an ideological direction. It’s one thing to emphasize President Obama’s legal priorities. It’s quite another to decide not to enforce certain federal laws — such as the ban on marijuana — or urge state attorney generals to refuse to defend local laws on same-sex marriage. Legal changes are achieved through legislation, not through a sudden whim not to enforce them. No other attorney general has acted in this manner.
Holder clearly believes he has the inherent power to politicize his department. When House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte asked him last week whether he believed there were any limits to the administration’s prosecutorial discretion. “There is a vast amount of discretion that a president has — and more specifically that an attorney general has,” Holder responded.
But courts have frequently disagreed with Holder’s interpretations of the law.
Yes, and if the right had the lawfare/legal infrastructure that the left does, that would happen more often. It’s a major lack. Donors and policy entrepreneurs take note.
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