Archive for 2016
October 30, 2016
Sounds like hate-filled, eliminationist rhetoric to me, but considering the source it’ll just be called “passion.”
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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: A President Clinton would be out of control. “‘Someone somewhere should have told her no.’ Those are the words of a Clinton ally quoted in a roundup of Democratic reactions to Hillary Clinton’s FBI news by congressional newspaper The Hill. And, despite the fact that they come from a Clinton supporter, albeit an angry and disappointed one, they may illustrate the best reason for choosing Donald Trump instead of Clinton.”
I’VE GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS: What Would a Senate Led by Chuck Schumer Look Like?
ORIN KERR: Was it legal for the FBI to expand the Weiner email search to target Hillary Clinton’s emails? “Does expanding the FBI’s investigation from the unrelated case to the Clinton case violate the Fourth Amendment? We don’t know all the facts yet, so it’s somewhat hard to say. But here’s why the expansion of the investigation might be constitutionally problematic. Consider this a tentative analysis unless and until more facts emerge.”
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-DOMINATED INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF AGEISM AND DISCRIMINATION? NYU Tells Surgeon He’s “Too Old” To Operate.
Stuchin acknowledges he’s had a “slight tremor” in his thumbs since 2013, but says it didn’t impact his work, and NYU took no action until Orthopedics Chairman Joseph Zuckerman and Richard Iorio, who heads the university’s Adult Reconstructive Surgery department, began zeroing in on his age in December 2014.
When Stuchin sought help from Dr. Steven Abramson, vice dean of the University’s School of Medicine, Abramson allegedly replied, “We just had a gender discrimination lawsuit, I guess now we will have an age discrimination lawsuit,” Stuchin claims in court papers.
NYU lawyers swore to “defend” the university against Stuchin’s claims.
I expect a lot more age discrimination suits are in the future.
JOURNALISM: CNN Stealth Edits Article That Originally Made False Claim Trump Told Supporters To Vote Multiple Times. What, is Harry Reid working there now?
LOOKING AT SCOTT ADAMS’ GIRLFRIEND, he must really be a Master Persuader.
WHEN DEMOCRATS SEEM DESPERATE: Jim Geraghty: “Blocking me doesn’t make my citing of your tweets any less true, @donnabrazile. That move is beneath you.” Well, no it’s not.
EVERYTHING IS BROKEN:
UPDATE: By the way, I saw Webb Wilder do a hell of a cover of the Dylan song once, but I can’t find a video online. But here’s Bob Dylan sounding almost as good as Webb. But the strong bassline made the Webb version shine.
TAMARA KEEL, recovering 10mm addict.
THOUGHTS ON PACIFISM AND PATRIOTISM FROM SETH BARRETT TILLMAN:
I want to focus on the widely shared moral intuition that the Quakers’ opposition to service in northern and southern armies was admirable. It strikes me that there are two possibilities. First, the Quaker position is seen as admirable specifically because it was religiously rooted. Or, second, it is seen in a positive light because, broadly speaking, principled pacifism is admirable, even if not religiously-rooted.
If our moral intuitions accord with the second view, if we credit the Quakers’ behaviour without regard to their religious inspiration, then why do our standard histories judge President James Buchanan and Chief Justice Taney so harshly?** Buchanan and Taney preferred the United States to go to pieces rather than maintaining it by war. They were unwilling to order or to support a war, and the deaths, which would undoubtedly follow. Yet very few today see Buchanan and Taney as heroes or as acting on moral principles akin to those of the Quakers. Why?
Perhaps, just perhaps, our society only sees pacifism as admirable if it is specifically motivated by religious scruples? Or are these two divergent moral intuitions rooted in a prudential judgment: we can only have reasonable confidence that pacifism is sincere if rooted in religious garb? In other words, secular pacifism might sometimes be real, but we suspect that it is more often than not used strategically, as opposed to sincerely. Or perhaps a third possibility: many hold divergent moral intuitions because they have not thought it all through sufficiently?
I suspect it’s that secular pacifism is often used strategically — just notice how the “antiwar movement” vanished the moment there was no longer a Republican in the White House.
FROM CATO, A REMINDER: You Have a Constitutional Right to Record Public Officials in Public.
And it’s not just the First Amendment. You also have a due process right to record the police.
HISTORY REPEATS: Hillary Stages A Nixonian Coverup In The Campaign’s Homestretch.
HAVE YOU NO DECENCY? NO DECENCY AT ALL? Gawker’s Feminist Blog Jezebel Mocks Death of Mike Pence’s Dog.
The all-out war on Comey strikes me as a mistake. It reeks of desperation.
UPDATE: All-out war indeed. Unindicted Gun Criminal David Gregory Rips FBI’s Comey. “In making his case against Comey, however, Gregory did not mention that his lawyer wife has represented former Clinton aides involved in the scandal.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Frank Niceley: If Comey’s so awful, Obama can always fire him.
MORE: From the comments: “Here is the important item to remember, either Huma or Weiner retained this trove of emails as an insurance policy against the Clintons, not because they are pack rats. There is some major S++t in there.”
STILL MORE: The Hill: Hillary’s emails matter: A retired CIA officer explains why.
Plus, Mike Pence weighs in: “In fact, Pence added, why doesn’t Huma Abedin just put her emails out? Why does the Hillary campaign think the missing information should come from the FBI? If they sincerely want transparency, why don’t they get transparent?”
PREDICTION: “Comey broke precedent about announcing a criminal investigation near an election because he saw something disqualifying.” If so, Hillary may regret the demand that he release everything ASAP . . . .
Meanwhile, as to the timing, note this: FBI agents knew of Clinton-related emails weeks before director was briefed. Does this mean that the agents were afraid to tell him for fear of Loretta Lynch-style interference, like last time?
ANN ALTHOUSE: Maybe It’s Okay That Half Of Academic Papers Are Never Read.
Oh, I don’t think we really want to put academics to work building up society and addressing its problems. It might be a very good thing to contain these academic types in a place where they won’t do too much damage. It may be that we have marginalized these very intelligent people who live deeply in their own minds and conjure up new ideas because it’s best to keep them separated and deactivated.
No one forces anyone to go into academics, and the people who go there may know — on some level — that they don’t belong in the world of business and politics, that they shouldn’t have their hands directly on any levers of power. The academy is a structural safeguard. We don’t lock these people up. We give them a place they can choose to go, where they will be comfortable. Don’t worry too much about the waste in not using them more… not until you’ve calculated the waste they would cause if set free to solve our problems.
Both Obama and Hillary are former professors.
FLASHBACK: Hillary Clinton’s 38-Year History of Sleaze and Corruption. “There’s a lot more material I could share, but the purpose of today’s column isn’t to demonstrate Hillary’s recent unethical behavior. Instead, I want to show how she has a decades-long pattern of using government for self-advancement and self-enrichment. And I’ll follow by drawing (what should be) a very obvious lesson about public policy.”
THAT WAS FAST:
