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February 25, 2018
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CATHY YOUNG ON AMERICA’S PERVASIVE SEXISM: When wives beat their husbands, no one wants to believe it. “Partner violence by women is one of the most contentious subjects in social science. The first large-scale study of domestic abuse, the 1975 National Family Violence Survey conducted by the late University of New Hampshire sociologist Murray Straus and his colleague Richard Gelles (now at the University of Pennsylvania), found that similar numbers of women and men admitted to assaulting a spouse or partner in the previous 12 months. The researchers were skeptical initially, assuming most female violence had to be in self-defense, though in many cases the wife was the self-reported sole perpetrator. Later surveys showed that in mutually violent relationships, women were as likely as men to be the aggressors. These findings have been confirmed in more than 200 studies.”
Yes, but they don’t fit the narrative.
Plus: “Female-on-male violence is often assumed to be harmless, given sex differences in size and strength. Yet women may use weapons — including knives, glass, boiling water and various household objects — while men may be held back from defending themselves by cultural taboos against harming woman. David Nevers, an Illinois man who went public about his experience as a battered husband 20 years ago, suffered serious, documented injuries — burns, cuts and a broken nose — despite being four inches taller and 100 pounds heavier than his then-wife.”
NOW OUT FROM THE VERY SMART RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Open Curtains: What if Privacy were Property not only a Right. His coauthor George Spix is also very smart.
SHARYL ATTKISSON: The “Collusion against Trump” timeline.
THEY CAN’T EVEN GET PEOPLE TO COMPLY IN CONNECTICUT: What Will Gun Controllers Do When Americans Ignore an ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban?
But since the point of gun control is to humiliate and grind down flyover people and demonstrate that the Ruling Class is ultimately the, well, Ruling Class — not to control crime — the appearance of submission is probably enough. Plus, a seldom enforced and often ignored law is ideal if you want to be able to target troublesome individuals later.
CONTINUING ITS DESCENT INTO ABJECT IDIOCY, the Southern Poverty Law Center is now calling my wife a “Male Supremacist.” I call the SPLC a scam and increasingly a hate group itself. The difference is, I’m right. And yes, Helen is “far more qualified than anyone from the SPLC,” a two-bit bunch of grifters that sells the media political cover for messages the media want to send anyway, while pretending to stand for something decent.
OPEN THREAD: Talk about what happened today, what you expect will happen tomorrow, and anything else that strikes your fancy.
I THINK HE MAY BE ON TO SOMETHING HERE: “Many Germans define themselves by their moral rectitude, as exhibited by their reckoning with the Nazi past and, more recently, by the government’s decision to accept more refugees from the Syrian civil war than any other Western country. Sloterdijk is determined to disabuse his countrymen of their polite illusions. He calls Germany a ‘lethargocracy’ and the welfare state a ‘fiscal kleptocracy.'”
“MOST PEOPLE ARE GRATEFUL THIS WAS PUT INTO PLACE:” 14 months later: How Hanover schools say armed teachers are working for them.
DEAR UNITED AIRLINES AND DELTA: If You Really Oppose Guns, Disarm Your Pilots And Crews.
IF ONLY 3% OF PEOPLE TRUSTED A PILOT TO LAND A PLANE, WOULD YOU TAKE THE FLIGHT? Americans Don’t Trust The Government Because It’s Failing.
THIS IS CNN: “If someone told you that disgraced journalist Dan Rather appeared on a show called ‘Reliable Sources’ to excoriate President for living in a ‘fantasy land’ and to give career advice to a young anti-gun advocate,” NewsBusters reports, you might think they were reading an article from the popular satirical news site The Onion. But it wasn’t a joke! It actually happened on CNN on Sunday.”
No, it’s a joke alright. On the same show today, Stelter allowed this to occur:
Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Brian Stelter. Hogg focused on the power of the NRA and, specifically, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch.
Hogg got a handful of information incorrect.
He called Loesch the NRA’s CEO, when she’s not. She’s their Spokeswoman.
He said Loesch owns Congressmen, which is false. Hogg believes that because the NRA donated to Second Amendment-supporting legislators that suddenly they’re being bought off by the gun group.
Hogg also said Loesch doesn’t care about children’s lives, yet she has two children of her own.
As Salena Zito tweets, “This steps over a line — to state [Loesch] does not care about children’s lives is just plain awful.”
Later in the show, Nicholas Fondacaro of NewsBusters writes, “After Hogg was done smearing the NRA and Spokeswoman Dana Loesch, who he claimed was the ‘CEO’ of the organization and the owner [of] congressmen, the CNN host looked to Rather to give the young man some career advice.”
Curiously, Rather and Stelter did not advise Hogg to learn what fonts were available on Air Force teletype machines in 1972.
WEIRD. WHERE COULD THIS HAVE COME FROM? Measles Cases in Europe Quadrupled in 2017. If you’re thinking it might have been a wave of immigrants from countries where vaccination rates are low, shame on you, you bigot. The Times instead informs us that “some conservative Protestant sects in Europe believe vaccination subverts God’s will.”
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MY USA TODAY COLUMN IS ON OUR PERVASIVE INSTITUTIONAL ROT: Florida shooting yet another government failure to keep us safe: From the FBI to local law enforcement to the schools, every institution failed. We have more government than ever, but it isn’t working. “People are being asked to trust the government to keep them safe, when the government is patently unable to do so. And then, when the government fails, it engages in blame-shifting deflection. Why should people listen? Increasingly, they won’t.”
SO AT THIS POINT I’M THINKING TRUMP CAN PROBABLY INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT: Warning of ICE sweep, Oakland mayor takes Trump resistance to new level. But he’s probably saving that for the second term.
THE TRUDEAU FAMILY’S “GROSS CULTURAL APPROPRIATION SIDESHOW” IN INDIA. “If my kid can’t be Pocahontas without some pink-haired harridan pointing and screaming, why does he get to be Gandhi?”
MORE ON THE LATEST IN CLIMATE CHANGE: The Ross Ice Shelf is Freezing, Not Melting. Which Is Weird.
IT’S COME TO THIS: “The Arcata, California city council voted Wednesday night to remove the statue of President William McKinley from the town square. The statue has been in place for over a hundred years. As per usual, McKinley’s sins have not been clearly elucidated. He was assassinated in 1901. Like Matt Lauer, the statue will vanish into the ether. One of the groups demanding the statue’s removal is the Humboldt State University student group, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanco de Aztlan, whatever that means. I’m embarrassed to admit I’m a resident of Arcata. Our neighboring town to the north is McKinleyville. The town’s name is probably not long for this world.”
As Ron Ross writes at the American Spectator, “A precondition to needing to virtue signal is guilt. Virtue signaling is one of the left’s package deals that typically involve two steps. Firstly, make people who have done nothing wrong feel guilty. Then, offer them ways to assuage that guilt. It’s little more than a con game but it has worked amazingly well for liberals.”
SAMPAN LANDING, TET OFFENSIVE, 1968: A Marine platoon aboard sampans supports Operation Houston south of Phu Bai, Vietnam.