JOHN HINDERAKER: Why Are Police Shootings Dominating The News? “Rarely has paranoia been more ruthlessly, or more dishonestly, promoted.”
Archive for 2015
May 3, 2015
21st CENTURY PORN: A new website allows women (sorry, boys) to raise crowdsource funding by providing a little home-made porn. I guess it does have the advantage of cutting out the middleman.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN IS ON AL SHARPTON’S LATEST LOUSY IDEA: Want a lawless police force? Federalize it. Accountability comes from having law enforcement under multiple umbrellas.
UPDATE: From the comments: “The primary characteristic of a police state is a state police. Keep it in mind.”
ED DRISCOLL HAS BEEN LIVEBLOGGING the failed Islamic terror attack in Garland, Texas, and the reactions thereto.
Me, I wrote a song, to the tune of You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Me, Lucille. “You picked the wrong state to jihad, Abu. Texans have guns and they’re going to shoot you. You picked the wrong state to jihad, Abu.” Okay, I stopped with one verse, but you get the idea.
OVER AT ACE OF SPADES, SOME THOUGHTS ON ENGAGING WITH THE LEFT: “EFF OFF.” “We have to stop granting the left, and especially the activist left, the SJW types, the courtesy of treating them as if they are legitimate. We need to tell them to eff off. We need to stop debating and start dismissing. Most of what they are saying is so stupid and flimsy that it NEEDS the prop of our treating it seriously to lend it the mantle of legitimacy.”
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Washington Post: The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor.
WHEN HATE RULES: DC GamerGate meetup disrupted by ‘feminist bomb threat.’
A 250-strong meetup of GamerGate supporters, which included game developers, journalists and think-tank scholars were evacuated from a bar in Washington D.C on Friday after an anonymous bomb threat was made against the gathering.
This followed an unsuccessful social media campaign spearheaded by anti-GamerGate Salon columnist Arthur Chu to convince the bar’s proprietors to voluntarily eject GamerGate supporters from their establishment.
The event was the largest GamerGate gathering so far, with somewhere between 200 and 300 attendees. It follows a trend toward offline organising by its supporters, who up until recently have tended to congregate on social media and image boards.
The event was held at the Local 16 in Washington, DC, hosted by Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos and featuring AEI resident scholar Christina Hoff Sommers as its guest of honour. Although primarily attended by gamers, a wide range of journalists were also at the event, including author and Reason magazine contributor Cathy Young, Daily Caller columnist and policy analyst Mytheos Holt, and Washington Examiner columnist Ashe Schow.
Police arrived on the scene at approximately 12:15am, just over three hours after the meetup had kicked off. The evacuation began immediately, causing particular difficulty for the event’s two disabled attendees, who had to be carried down from the second floor. The other floors of the bar, which were occupied by regular customers, was also evacuated.
I wonder if the perpetrators will be found and punished? But nothing says we’re the establishment, they’re the crazy ones like a good bomb threat.
THE “FACT-CHECKING” BUSINESS IS BASICALLY A PARTISAN RACKET: PunditFact: A Case Study In Fact-Free Hackery: Watch PunditFact turn a statement that is “clearly accurate” and “technically true” into something that is “Mostly False.”
CONCEALED CARRY SAVES LIVES: A man with a concealed carry permit in Utah shot and killed a man who was trying to carjack a woman outside a grocery store. He shot only one round. Now that police are being restrained by various political and legal forces, it’s good to know our neighbors can protect us.
ANDREW KLAVAN: It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way. “No wonder Hollywood has remade Poltergeist. When it comes to the very worst policy ideas of the 1970s, they’re baaaa-ack.”
TWO SHOT OUTSIDE MUHAMMAD ART EVENT IN GARLAND TEXAS. Unconfirmed reports from SWAT that they had explosives on them.
For updates, check the twitter feed of reporter Jobin Panicker and WFAA News.
Also, Pamela Geller is there and tweeting.
UPDATE: Robert Spencer is there and tweeting, too.
MORE: People Evacuated Singing Patriotic Songs.
And this is cute: “The would-be terrorists in Garland fell for one of the classic blunders: Never assume that you’ve outgunned an art show in Texas.” True!
WALTER HUDSON: A Selfless Parent Is A Bad Parent.
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EMILY BAZELON SAYS THAT JON KRAKAUER’S NEW BOOK ON CAMPUS RAPE is too politically correct and unreflective to be useful.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: It’s Me Or The Dog. “Don’t get me wrong. . . . It’s very attractive to me that you’re able to care for another living being. I love that. But it’s a step too far. It’s like having another person in the bed.”
DUMB ARGUMENT OF THE WEEK: Today in Congress, We Heard That Encryption is Enabling Upskirt Photos.
REVIEW: The 2015 Volkswagen GTI.
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Science Confirms: The More Coffee You Drink, The Longer You Will Live. You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you?
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: A 3-D-Printed Implant Saves Lives.
COMPETITION IS GOOD: Report: Comcast plans YouTube-like online video service.