Archive for 2019
October 13, 2019
NO, THEY’LL WORK FOR UKRAINIAN OIL COMPANIES AND THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS: Biden Takes Shot at Trump Family After Question About Son Hunter: None of My Kids Will Have White House Offices.
Though to be fair, Biden’s never going to have a White House office either.
ABSOLUTELY: Rand Paul Calls For Probe Into 4 Democratic Senators Over Threats To Ukraine. “Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for a probe into four Democratic Senators on Sunday over a letter that they sent to Ukraine in 2018 that threatened to withhold aid from the country if it did not continue to investigate President Donald Trump.”
OPEN THREAD: Do that comment voodoo that you do so well.
ANTISEMITISM IN OUR TIME: I was protested at Bard College for being a Jew.
SCHEDULES: Why we don’t see each other anymore.
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OH: HK leader ditches meeting Ted Cruz, says the U.S. senator.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam scrapped a meeting with U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, the highest profile U.S. politician to visit the city since anti-government protests broke out more than four months ago, the senator said on Saturday.
Lam’s office had requested that the afternoon meeting be completely confidential and that Cruz refrain from speaking with the media about it, Cruz told journalists in Hong Kong.
“She seems to misunderstand how free speech operates, and also how freedom of the press operates,” said Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas and a vocal critic of China who was stopping in Hong Kong for two days as part of a regional tour.
I’ve always gotten a kick out of Cruz’s low-key wit.
THE COLLEGE LOAN CRISIS THAT ISN’T: The Manhattan Institute’s Beth Akers dove deep into the data on Millennials, college loan debt, and household incomes and family wealth, and concluded there is no crisis. At least not like the one claimed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and most of the rest of the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination contenders.
IT REALLY IS RELENTLESS: Kimberley Strassel: Inside the media’s relentless crusade to destroy President Trump. “The press has embraced its bias, joined the Resistance and declared its allegiance to one side of a partisan war. . . . This media war is extraordinary, overt and increasingly damaging to the country.”
GOOD: U.S. to Restrict Visas for Chinese Officials Linked to Abuse of Muslim Minorities.
The visa restrictions—which will limit the ability of affected Chinese officials to travel to the U.S.—come a day after the U.S. imposed export restrictions against more than two dozen Chinese firms for having a role in government policies toward minorities.
Both moves come as U.S.-China trade talks are slated to resume Thursday in Washington.
The State Department said the visa restrictions will apply to designated Chinese government and Communist Party officials, along with their families.
China has engaged in a crackdown on what it sees as a long-simmering separatist movement led by the region’s Muslim Uighur population.
Western scholars estimate more than one million Turkic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities have been arbitrarily detained in China’s Xinjiang region over the past few years.
Not just detained, but “re-educated” in fine Chinese Communist tradition.
IT WAS TRUE THEN, AND IT’S STILL TRUE: Glenn Greenwald: CNN and MSNBC Are Like “State TV” With Ex-Intel Officials As Contributors.
IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT REALLY? Hillary enters 2020 race after entire Democratic field have surprise heart attacks.
WE NEED A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF NBC UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE: MSNBC president Phil Griffin ‘smirked as he waved around a zoomed-in photograph of Maria Menounos’ naked crotch in a staff meeting, after she was caught on camera suffering a bikini malfunction, according to Ronan Farrow’s new book.
ANTIFA BURNS NAZI MANIFESTO’S SECTION ON RACISM, PRESERVES REMAINDER AS PART OF OWN PLATFORM.
I’m so old, I can remember when the Babylon Bee was still satire, before morphing into America’s Paper of Record.