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August 5, 2018
MICHAEL WALSH: “The President is every bit as much the arbiter of the Constitution as is the Congress or the Supreme Court; if Trump’s ready to tackle the problem of the runaway federal judiciary, this would be a great test case. Because, sooner or later, it’s a battle that needs to be fought and won if the constitutional balance of power is to be protected. To paraphrase Andrew Jackson, ‘John Bates has made his decision — now let him enforce it.”
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BUT IT’S OKAY BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT WHITE WHICH MEANS — OH, SARAH JEONG CAN EXPLAIN IT I’M SURE: China is Treating Africa The Same Way European Colonists Did.
BLUE ON BLUE: A Bunch of Guys Running in Democratic Primaries Are Attacking EMILY’s List: A group that boosts female Democrats has a new group of critics this year: pro-choice Democratic men. Well, you can’t blame them for being annoyed at being targeted by an explicitly sexist campaign organization.
OPEN THREAD: The weekend’s not over yet.
SURPRISE, SURPRISE: New York City schools use a Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) to determine which students get into its elite high schools and which do not. Mayor Bill de Blasio has opposed the test essentially on the ground that it lets in too many students of some races and not enough of others. But a just-made-public 2012 study shows that the test does indeed identify the students who are most likely to succeed at their studies.
As always, I remind everyone that you are not doing students any favors, no matter what their race, by admitting them to academic programs where their academic credentials put them toward the bottom of the class. Students learn more in programs where they are competitive with other students. See Want to Be a Doctor? A Scientist? An Engineer? An Affirmative Action Leg Up May Hurt Your Chances and A “Dubious Expediency”: How Race-Preferential Admissions Policies on Campus Hurt Minority Students.
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Face Tattoos Go Mainstream.
PAUL MIRENGOFF: Hate Has A Home At The New York Times.
LET’S TALK ABOUT MELANIA’S SHOES INSTEAD: I’m not one to say this sort of thing, but if this were happening in a white neighborhood it would lead the news. Every damned day. The Chicago Tribune reports:
At least 41 people were shot from 11 a.m. Saturday through Sunday morning, four fatally, police said. Three of those deaths happened since about midnight in a period when 35 people were shot. During one 2½-hour early-morning period alone, 25 people were shot — two fatally — in five multiple-injury shootings, police said.
One of the dead was a 17-year-old girl who was shot in the face.
If there is such a thing as “white privilege,” its the lower odds of being gunned down in a city run for decades by corrupt Democrats.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Related: Chicago Politicians Are In Bed With The Gangs.
AND NPR’S MARA LIASSON IS NOT OVERFLOWING WITH JOY: As Supreme Court Nears Solid Conservative Majority, GOP Reaps Reward From ‘Long Game.’
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WHY ARE DEMOCRATS PROMOTING VIOLENCE AGAINST REPUBLICANS?
THE DANGERS OF “POST-HOSPITAL SYNDROME.”
But last September, Ms. Lewandowski entered a hospital after a compression fracture of her vertebra caused pain too intense to be managed at home. Over four days, she used nasal oxygen to help her breathe and received intravenous morphine for pain relief, later graduating to oxycodone tablets.
Even after her discharge, the stress and disruptions of hospitalization — interrupted sleep, weight loss, mild delirium, deconditioning caused by days in bed — left her disoriented and weakened, a vulnerable state some researchers call “post-hospital syndrome.”
They believe it underlies the stubbornly high rate of hospital readmissions among older patients. In 2016, about 18 percent of discharged Medicare beneficiaries returned to the hospital within 30 days, according to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Ms. Lewandowski, for example, was back within three weeks. She had developed a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot in her lungs, probably resulting from inactivity. The clot exacerbated her heart failure, causing fluid buildup in her lungs and increased swelling in her legs. She also suffered another compression fracture. . . .
Any hospital patient, or hovering family member, knows those stresses: Disrupted sleep, as staff draw blood and take vital signs at 4 a.m. A distorted sense of day and night. Unappetizing meals often served at inopportune times.
I haven’t been hospitalized since I was 3. But from staying with the Insta-Wife I’ve observed that the lack of sleep in particular is terrible, even when you’re not the sick one; a few nights spent in the hospital and I was a wreck every time. I once proposed an experiment in which we’d check perfectly healthy students into a hospital for a week or two, then evaluate their condition for change. I think we’d find drastic deterioration, and it might have trouble getting past the IRB because of risk. . . .
LISTEN: CALLER THREATENS TO KILL CNN’S BRIAN STELTER AND DON LEMON IN LIVE C-SPAN BROADCAST.
[Stelter] did not address, though, what Mollie Hemingway addressed on Fox’s corresponding show, “Media Buzz.” Hemingway said the relationship between Trump and the press is “dysfunctional,” which is a good word because it correctly suggests all parties are wrong.
The media is not to blame for, has not invited, and should not be subject to, this “war” talk or threats of rape or murder. Seriously, that’s not just a disclaimer to throw out there. It’s outrageous and everyone should be outraged. It’s terrible. Stelter is absolutely right about that. They have not earned this. You cannot caveat that.
It doesn’t mean you can’t also address other issues, like how the press covers Trump. Hemingway is correct about that part, though similarly one-sided in her perspective.
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NEO-NEO-NEOCON: Neoneocon, who is often linked here, has changed sites. Look for her at thenewneo.com
WITHOUT GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, WHO WOULD PROTECT US FROM . . . OH, NEVER MIND. F.D.A. Did Not Intervene to Curb Risky Fentanyl Prescriptions. “The agency could have sharpened prescriber training programs and agreement forms, he said, or investigated prescribers. At the least, he and other researchers said, the agency could have made the data from the program public.” It’s okay, it’s not like anyone at the FDA will lose his or her job.
‘LET THE WHOREHOUSE BURN:’ The cynical rise and painful fall of the euro.
During the acute phase of the euro crisis in 2010, the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas exhorted Angela Merkel to be a true leader, one who “took domestic political risks for Europe.” Did he not see that European leaders were already taking the craziest risks for Europe, or at least in the name of Europe, and that they might actually be its problem? Or did he, too, forget that politics concerns not just those who take risks but also those who bear them?
Lengthy, but well worth a read.
AND AGAIN: “Last night, Twitter suspended Candace Owens, who has 663,000 Twitter followers, for 12 hours on account of an unspecified violation of the platform’s terms and conditions. Maybe it was because Candace tweeted this criticism of Sarah Jeong:”
Owens posted a series of tweets simply reversing the colors in Jeong’s multiyear jeremiad against whites. “There was no way Twitter could sustain the suspension, in view of the hateful trash that is constantly tweeted by leftists like Jeong. But some low-level employee evidently vented his or her hostility toward conservatism by arbitrarily suspending Owens.”
That does seem to be the ongoing pattern — unexpectedly.
UPDATE: The Daily Caller quotes Owens herself:
“The thing is, I wouldn’t have minded if I was locked out, because I actually agree with Twitter that that language is inappropriate,” Owens said.
“My point in tweeting that and replacing the word with black and Jewish yesterday was to show how different that mentality is when you see it in that context and you see talking about Jewish people and predisposed to burning under the sun or black people saying they should live underground,” she said.
“It’s horrifically racist, but somehow we’ve gotten to a point in society where it’s OK to say the exact same thing about white people, and that’s problematic.”
It’s been brewing for a very long time. As an American Thinker columnist notes, “Let’s all thank Sarah Jeong for showing us what liberals think of white people.”
GOOD GUY WITH A GUN: Police: Armed bystander takes down gunman at Titusville back to school event. “A flyer posted on Facebook and Instagram said a back to school event called ‘Peace in the City’ was going on at the park when the shooting happened.”
As Keith Laumer once wrote, there’s nothing more peaceful than a dead troublemaker. Though in this case, just wounded was enough.
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GREAT MOMENTS IN “FACT CHECKING.” WashPost Fact Check: ‘Wringing’ Sarah Sanders’ Neck Different from ‘Choking’ Her.