JUST LIKE IN ROTHERHAM: British Police ‘Are Giving in to the Mob’: Critics say cops aren’t enforcing the law fairly. Cops say they are scared to.
It’s unfortunate when a country’s ruling class has contempt for the people it rules. And that is the situation throughout much of the West.
And the concept of “racism” and its related “phobias” has become a very powerful tool of social control.
YES, I’M EXPECTING A TORRICELLI MANEUVER: DeSantis: Republicans Need To Be Prepared For Biden Dropping Out, Ready For Who Dems Pull Out Of The Hat.
IF YOU’D SAID THIS THREE YEARS AGO YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN SLAGGED FOR “MISINFORMATION:” Probiotics may help reduce COVID-19 symptoms, delay infection.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Behind the Shortage Keeping Cancer Patients From Chemo.
THEY CAN’T ADVANCE THEIR AGENDA WITH THE TRUTH: It’s Almost as if Giffords’ Standard for ‘Gun Safety’ Has Nothing to Do With Actually Keeping People Safe.
SO CAN WE: China Can Replace Coal With Nuclear Power.
SO YOU’RE SAYING SHE’S KINDA THE POSTER-CHILD FOR ABORTION, THEN? Kamala Harris to launch nationwide tour in 2024 to promote abortion rights.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Spain’s New Space Agency. “It appears the goal was to consolidate Spain’s government space operations from eleven different agencies so as to better coordinate that government’s work with the nation’s burgeoning new commercial space sector.”
DON’T BE RIDICULOUS, ONLY REPUBLICAN-APPOINTED JUSTICES CAN HAVE ETHICS PROBLEMS: KBJ Repeatedly Failed to Report Husband’s Income, Investiture Donors: Complaint.
HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:
As Biden collapses in the polls, and Trump rises, Democrats are going to resort to increasingly desperate — and anti-democratic — means to ensure Trump can't run, all while they insist that only they are the Guardians of Democracy.
This is playing with real fire: https://t.co/UFdoju77UW
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 20, 2023
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1737462680288370875
Related:
Colorado Saves Democracy By Not Allowing People To Vote For Preferred Candidate https://t.co/N15XfiPRbK pic.twitter.com/K637JI4Rk6
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 20, 2023
Also related: “A giant game of civilizational Jenga, with one support after another for civil society being withdrawn.”
I’D RATHER THEY GRADUATE PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND PHARMACOKINETICS: Southern Illinois U. med school hires first poetry professor; dean is her father: Carr describes herself as ‘ecofeminist,’ writes abortion poetry. “There are 5,800 institutions of higher learning across America. What are the odds that Carr landed at the only institution that employs her father as dean and provost?”
Follow the science!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF HIGHER EDUCATION: NYU promotes pronoun website that recommends gender-neutral terms like ‘Crotch Goblins.’
IT’S A HATE CRIME EVEN TO NOTICE THIS: Politically Connected Trans-Activist Arrested for Child Rape.
THE GODS OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS: The Military Is Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Wokeness.
In October 2020, Major General Ed Thomas — who at the time was the commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service — wrote an op-ed for Yahoo News. It was entitled, “86% of Air Force pilots are white men. Here’s why this needs to change.”
In about 800 words, Major General Thomas outlined his plan to recruit pilots without regard for their competence or fitness or loyalty to the United States. Instead, Thomas explained, the most important thing for the Air Force to focus on was the skin color of its recruits. He said that hiring more black and brown recruits was vital in order to keep pace with Russia and China. They’re busy developing hypersonic missiles that can fly at 20 times the speed of sound, the general wrote — but we’ve got our secret sauce that will keep us competitive. And that secret sauce, as he described it, is diversity. According to Ed Thomas, “Our goal is to get in front of every demographic group in America and show them someone who wears a flight suit every day they can look up to and say, ‘That could be me.’”
Three years after he wrote that op-ed and launched the Air Force’s anti-white recruitment plan, Major General Ed Thomas retired. He inflicted his DEI recruitment strategy on the Air Force, and then he left. So he doesn’t have any reason to care about the consequences. But especially as World War III seems more plausible by the day, the rest of us have an important question to ask, which is: how did this DEI strategy turn out, exactly?
Thomas’ replacement — a general named Christopher Amrhein testified this month before the Senate Armed Services Committee. He informed Congress that for the first time in 24 years, the Air Force has failed to meet its recruitment goal. Once again, for the first time in more than two decades, the Air Force didn’t hit its recruiting objective. It was off by around 10%. And they’re not alone. Amrhein went on to testify that the Army and Navy — which also put a new emphasis on recruiting minority candidates — also fell far short of their projections in the most recent fiscal year, which ended in September.
Related: The US Army discovers woke doesn’t win wars — but is it too late?
MICHAEL WALSH: A Model Immigrant.
FLASHBACK: WHIPSAWED BY THE PARTY LINE: So this piece at The Atlantic yesterday — published at noon — tries to connect people opposing Obama’s attack-Syria plan with (in the Democrats’ latest buzzword) “Neo-Confederates.” But then, within hours, Obama himself had turned Neo-Confederate, asking Congress to postpone his vote. Oops! The window where you were racist if you didn’t want to bomb brown people has slammed shut.
ANOTHER NCLA VICTORY: In NCLA Victory, Dep’t of Transportation Scraps Illegitimate Administrative Proceeding vs. gh Package.
Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance agreed to a stipulated dismissal of its gh Package v. Buttigieg lawsuit challenging the Department of Transportation’s unconstitutional and abusive administrative enforcement regime. NCLA’s federal-court lawsuit successfully pressured DOT to dismiss with prejudice its case against a family-run company, gh Package Product Testing and Consulting, Inc., which tests packages used to transport hazardous chemicals safely. The stipulated dismissal follows DOT’s dismissal of its administrative proceeding against gh Package with prejudice. NCLA celebrates this great victory for its client.
DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) launched the enforcement proceeding against gh last year, claiming the company submitted test reports with minor inaccuracies that violated DOT regulations. DOT hauled gh into its in-house tribunal, where agency officials violate the due process of law by acting as both prosecutor and adjudicator and by depriving defendants of jury trials. DOT’s in-house adjudicators are illegitimate under Article II of the Constitution because neither the President nor the Secretary of Transportation appoints them and they enjoy improper protection from presidential removal. Rather than defend against these constitutional defects on the merits in a real federal court, DOT decided to dismiss its enforcement proceeding.
As a result of NCLA’s recent Supreme Court victory in Michelle Cochran’s fight against the Securities and Exchange Commission, gh was able to challenge DOT’s unlawful tribunal directly in district court before having to endure the entire administrative proceeding. NCLA requested a preliminary injunction in August to stop the unconstitutional proceeding against gh. Just days before PHMSA was to file its final brief opposing that injunction, it withdrew its notice accusing gh of probable wrongdoing, thus ending the unlawful proceeding as NCLA requested. The Administrative Law Judge who oversaw the enforcement proceeding ultimately dismissed it, declaring that “[b]y its decision to take no further action on the allegations,” PHMSA had “in effect failed to meet its burden” to prove its accusations. NCLA is pleased to have vindicated its client in this successful case against DOT’s unlawful enforcement regime, and we hope that defendants in similar proceedings will take note.
I expect that they will. And the viability of proceedings before Administrative Law Judges is growing steadily more dubious.
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
IT’S JUST SYMBOLIC, BUT DARN: SpaceX to just miss goal of 100 Falcon launches in 2023. “Despite missing the goal, the company’s launch cadence has been a significant achievement compared both to its past activity as well as global competitors. SpaceX launches increased by more than 50% from 2022 and are triple what it performed in 2021. SpaceX accounts for nearly half of the 209 orbital launch attempts so far in 2023, 200 of which were successful. . . . mong American companies, SpaceX has performed more the nine times as many launches this year as the second most active company, Rocket Lab, which recently flew its tenth Electron rocket of 2023. SpaceX expects to continue increasing its launch cadence into 2024.”
TODAYS JUDICIARY:
The Colorado Supreme Court has issued an unsigned opinion disqualifying Trump from the ballot: "The sum of these parts is this: President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three; because he is disqualified."…https://t.co/Ilwl4e8Wli
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) December 19, 2023
UPDATE: Matt Taibbi: “This is a major escalation of the lawfare phenomenon that’s zoomed from simmer to boil in the seven short years since Trump was first elected in 2016. The glee of #Resistance dolts like Robert Reich and Dean Obeidallah at this decision shows that this was a move dreamed up at the very center of the bubble-within-a-bubble-within-a-bubble that is the blob of the modern Democratic Party.”
THAT’S NICE, BUT PUTTING SOMETHING IN ORBIT WOULD BE NICER: Blue Origin completes 24th launch of New Shepard suborbital rocket.
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