CULTURE OF COWARDICE: Would Anyone Publish The Satanic Verses Today?
Archive for 2016
September 4, 2016
CLAUDIA ROSETT ON OBAMA’S CLIMATE KOW-TOW AND CHINA’S INSULT.
Not that he doesn’t deserve it, but man, China just treated Obama almost as rudely as Obama treats Republicans.
OFF-DUTY CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER ROBBED AT GUNPOINT IN CHICAGO.
To borrow from the classic riff in Kentucky Fried Movie, Chicago isn’t quite “worse than Detroit” yet – but it’s achieving parity very quickly.
“WE HAD TO TAKE A DELAY OF GAME, WEREN’T ABLE TO GET ALL 11 GUYS OUT TO PUNT IN TIME. MISSING ONE OF THEM.”
UPDATE: Sam Foltz’s brother says home was robbed while he was at Nebraska tribute.
(Hat tip: Dan Riehl.)
GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE: Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in ‘most severe ever’ rationing in the NHS. “I think we are going to see more and more decisions like this.”
You are surplus to the needs of the State.
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NOBODY DOUBTS THAT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEY OFFER INSUFFICIENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT: The Formula for a Richer World? Equality, Liberty, Justice.
BECAUSE THEY COME FROM A CULTURE OF SMUG ENTITLEMENT, AND DEMOCRACY GETS IN THEIR WAY: Why Do Our Politicians Hate Democracy So Much?
GAFFE FOR THE AGES: GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE JILL STEIN LATE FOR RALLY BECAUSE SHE WENT TO THE WRONG CITY: “The campaign of the Green Party candidate for president, Jill Stein, made one of those gaffes for the ages. The candidate was scheduled to speak in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday but she arrived two hours late because her staff had booked her on a flight to Cincinnati…This is entirely understandable. After all, most Stein staffers are of the coastal elite variety. They probably don’t know that Columbus and Cincinnati are different cities. They both begin with a ‘C,’ right?”
Well I guess Hillary can breathe a sigh of relief — she’s not the only far left presidential candidate who has a great deal of difficulty understanding what (C) stands for. As for Stein, you’d think the face of an ideology that professes to believe that plane travel is destroying the planet would be much more careful about this sort of thing.
SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU REVIEW: “Hagiographic retelling of Obama’s first date likely to disappoint those uninitiated into his cult of personality,” Sonny Bunch writes at the Washington Free Beacon, noting that the film comes complete with a funhouse mirror version of John Galt’s lengthy stemwinder near the end of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged:
Like Galt’s rambling ode to the Makers-Not-Takers Class, Obama’s vision of a world that works best when compromise is prized bears little relation to the world we’ve seen for the last few years.
The rest of the film is less annoyingly, but rarely more artfully, put together. It’s a lot of shot/reverse shot and slow walk-and-talks, with Barack and Michelle’s faces all-too-often draped in shadows. Oddly, the movie often works better when Michelle and Barack are not on screen together, as in the early going when the two of them discuss the evening’s events with their respective families.
There’s an interesting film to be made about Obama’s relation to his father, but director Richard Tanne doesn’t make much use of this fertile territory.
That’s OK. Bill Whittle already made it five years ago, in a video that moves at a much brisker pace than the 84 minute running time of Southside With You:
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LAUNDER KIDS: Police: N.C. mom, her boyfriend put child in dryer.
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WELL, IF THE TIMES HAD TO TELL THE TRUTH, ITS POLITICAL OPTIONS WOULD BE SHARPLY LIMITED: Greg Lukianoff: “This morning, readers across the country woke up to a New York Times op-ed by Yale University lecturer Jim Sleeper that contains patently false charges about FIRE and me.”
IT’S COME TO THIS: “What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?”, Timesman in search of cheap clickbait asks.
(Link safe, goes to Twitchy.)
Baby steps, Gray Lady, baby steps. I’d be happy if the Times simply got the faiths of the Republican presidential candidates right (and didn’t viciously mock them) before tackling the Big Guy.
CNN PANEL LAUGHS AT KAINE: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE IF HILLARY DOESN’T HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE?
The MSM could do far more than this — if they really wanted to. As to why they don’t, just think of them as Democrat operatives with bylines – and in CNN’s case, financial contributors to the Clintons’ slush fund – and it all makes sense.