IT’LL BE A STORY TO TELL THE GRANDKIDS:  Cute baby rescued from earthquake in Turkey after 128 hours.

BUT TRUMP HIMSELF ONCE SUPPORTED IT:  Trump rips DeSantis for once supporting privatizing Social Security.

THIS IS OBVIOUSLY TRAGIC, BUT WE NEED TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT CRIME:  Social justice warrior/anarchist/baker Jen Angel was recently dragged to death by a smash-and-grab robber.  The victim was well known for her opposition to incarceration.

JUSTICE?:  California man found “not guilty” of DUI by a jury of his peers on the ground that he was acting out of necessity.  He had been caught cheating on his wife and needed to escape two angry women.

HOT!:  My colleague J. Christian Adams discusses Americans’ civil right to be free from violent crime (and how the progressive members of the Commission on Civil Rights’s thwarted our efforts to look into rising crime).

THIS SORT OF THING HAS A TENDENCY TO END BADLY:  Boston’s mayor just appointed two high school students to the city’s Reparations Task Force.  What do you suppose their role will be?

Two members of Boston’s “Reparations Task Force” are high school students. Exactly what is the mayor thinking?https://t.co/YEjG9DmyMP

— Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot) February 8, 2023

MORE:  Fulton County to study reparations.

SOUTH BEND:  Reparations resolution here too.

SACRAMENTO THINKING ABOUT REPARATIONS TOO:  The idea seems to be going viral.

SAN FRANCISCO TO HOLD HEARING ON REPARATIONS:  Here we go.

MORE REPARATIONS:  Wealthy British family to pay reparations.

REPARATIONS IN THE DARNEDEST PLACES:  Northampton, Massachusetts eyes reparations.

JEFF JACOBY:  We’ve been paying reparations for almost sixty years.  That’s what LBJ’s War on Poverty was supposed to be,

DISNEY GOES IN FOR REPARATIONS:  I miss the days of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy.

You really do need to watch this. It’s bizarre. https://t.co/oZe9Qr9k62

— Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot) February 6, 2023

PETER WOOD & DAVID RANDALL:  Teach Black History, Not Activism.

IF YOUR SPECIALTY ISN’T DEI:  Ohio State doesn’t have much use for you.

STILL TRYING TO SHUT THEM DOWN:  In both New Mexico and California, efforts to shut down immigration detention facilities are on-going.  Honestly, I’ve toured three of these facilities in my capacity as a civil rights commissioner. They weren’t half bad.  One of them was really quite nice—so nice my progressive colleagues were a bit stunned.  It was amusing to watch the looks on their faces as the guide was showing us around.  They were so sure they were going to be shown hellholes.

RICHARD EPSTEIN:  “Home Equity Theft.”

BILL OTIS:  The morality of the death penalty.

LAWS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND:  The subminimum wage gives the severely disabled a chance to have a job and feel productive. Their parents and siblings know that.  That’s why they supported it so strongly when the issue was brought before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.  It’s less clear who is behind its repeal.  But there is a whole lot of effort behind that repeal.  One thing is for certain, if you repeal it, a whole lot of Down syndrome adults with jobs will end up jobless.

IT’S A LONG WAY DOWN: From Jaime Escalante to Prof. Gutierrez.

MAYBE I’M HANGING OUT WITH WRONG KIND OF GUY: But I’m pretty sure I’m right about their reactions.

Ha! The men I know would be thrilled. pic.twitter.com/xWZxeabPKt

— Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot) January 27, 2023

DEFUND THE LEFT, DEFUND THE LEFT:  Gov. DeSantis does his homework first (as he should).

“PEOPLE HAVE PERIODS”:  Title IX may be an imperfectly written statute, but it is not that silly.

I warned you… pic.twitter.com/S4WIm7Qe8a

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) January 24, 2023

DEFUND THE LEFT:  “Stanford student senate allocates thousands of dollars to fund Matt Walsh protesters.”  Seriously, a lot of problems could be eliminated if only colleges and universities weren’t so rich.  If you give these folks a nickel of your money, you’re making a huge mistake.  And if red state legislatures don’t start whacking state university budgets, they are making an even bigger mistake.  All conservatives and libertarians should wake up every morning thinking about new ways to defund the left in large and small ways.