LEFTISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER:
Like yesterday the libs were all driving EVs and touting their moral superiority. Now they’re firebombing Tesla dealers. These people are such weirdos pic.twitter.com/3UrLF5Qjt3
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 11, 2025
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 10, 2025
I MEAN, HE’S NOT WRONG:
On their current trajectory Dems are like @ 6 weeks from kidnapping some Jews to exchange for Khalil
— Kamel Amin Thaabet (@K_AminThaabet) March 11, 2025
COMPARE AND CONTRAST:
Pop Quiz, Hotshot …
Which one of these people is the Democrat Party totally rallying behind? pic.twitter.com/Zotwu4g29X
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 11, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
WELL, BYE: Librarian Who Removed Chabad Poster Is No Longer Employed at Harvard. “Former Radcliffe Institute librarian Jonathan S. Tuttle is no longer employed at Harvard after he was filmed tearing down a poster showing the faces of Israeli hostages during a Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine rally on March 3, a University spokesperson confirmed Sunday. By Sunday, Tuttle’s name and contact information had been removed from the Schlesinger Library’s official website, where his title was previously listed. Tuttle worked as a cataloger of published materials at the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library.”
SEND LAWYERS, GUNS AND MONEY: Property and sovereignty in space: Countries and companies face potential clashes as they take to the stars.
FROM WASTE TO RESOURCE, VIA SCIENCE: Scientists Reveal Battery That Can Be Powered by Nuclear Waste.
WOKETOPUS:
🐙THE WOKETOPUS
"What if I told you that our government is a lie? It's not a small lie, either, but a con on a monumental scale."
The government doesn't work the way the Constitution says it should, and my book explains why this is a serious problem.
It was a pleasure to join… pic.twitter.com/slUjySZp80
— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) March 10, 2025
WE WARNED YOU ABOUT THE NEW RULES YOU WERE CREATING:
These protests openly called "to bring the intifada home," called to "bomb Tel Aviv," and openly sought to boost terrorist groups. These protests are a Trojan Horse for radical Islamism and extremism. They need to be attacked as if they were the KKK. https://t.co/lBiI43sZK9
— Corey Walker (@CoreyWriting) March 10, 2025
LAWFARE:
A petition for writ of habeas corpus has been filed in SDNY. The Judge assigned to the case just ordered that Khalil not be removed from the country pending further order.
The first named defendant is "William P. Joyce."Joyce is the Acting Field Office Director for ICE in… https://t.co/LEPuP6N7AW
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) March 10, 2025
UPDATE:
The Democrats have spoken out more for Syrian national Mahmoud Khalil than for Laken Riley.
Let that sink in.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 10, 2025
CLIMATE CHANGE: Ancient Cave Discovery Reveals That 8,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Was Green. I think we’ve actually known that for a while. But who knew there were SUVs back then?
IT’S NEVER ABOUT THE CHILDREN’S WELFARE:
BREAKING: Randi Weingarten REVEALS why she doesn't want to abolish the Department of Education and send the money back to the states 🚨
She's AFRAID states will decide to give the money to PARENTS for school choice.
"We know what Texas would do: THEY'LL USE IT FOR VOUCHERS!" pic.twitter.com/lV4HaYCxEl
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) March 10, 2025
I WANT ACTIVE ECM: How Radar Detector Tech Keeps Up, Then and Now. I suppose ARMs are a bit much.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Montana House Advances Bill To Preempt Local Red Flag Laws.
SHOTGUNS AND FLASHLIGHTS: Seeing what you’re shooting is rather important.
REST IN PEACE, CALPUNDIT: Kevin Drum’s wife reports his passing. Another major figure from the early blogosphere taken from us.
IT’S NOT JUST FOR HUNTER BIDEN ANYMORE: How to remove Google search results about you.
SOMEONE SHOULD NAME A WWII SUBMARINE AFTER IT: A longer, sleeker super predator: Study paints more accurate picture of megalodon’s true form.
THE LOCKDOWN DAMAGE WAS DONE: Cancer screening rates rebound after COVID-19 pandemic.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Trump cuts Columbia’s grants over handling of student protests: Should he include universities that violated academic freedom? “Stripping even a handful of institutions of large numbers of federal grants will wake up administrators. They do not yet understand that their conduct is precisely the reason why public trust is in the toilet. A stronger message is needed. I offer this suggestion only because I believe that in the long run, universities would be better off if they foster and encourage debate, and allow faculty to hold a range of ideas. And because I worry that if they don’t do that, they will increasingly become irrelevant.”
Grab ’em by the budgets and their hearts and minds will follow.
SUE THEM INTO OBLIVION, ELON: ActBlue Funding Terrorist Campaign Against Tesla.
DAMN LUCKY INDEED:
They are damn lucky that some unanticipated oddball geniuses like Vint Cerf, Bradord Parkinson and Elon Musk fortuitously came up with ideas that saved our bacon which they can now declare "human rights".
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 9, 2025
But not in the least bit grateful.
PHIL HAMBURGER: What Trump Meant by ‘Illegal Protests:’ ‘NO MASKS!’ is a reference to the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
When President Trump tweeted on March 4 that “all federal funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,” he puzzled many academics. Most protests are lawful and constitutionally protected. Even more bewildering, he emphasized “NO MASKS!” Since then, Education Secretary Linda McMahon has begun cutting off some funds. Is this mere bullying, or is it a response to a real legal problem?
After the Civil War, members of the Ku Klux Klan relied on masks to protect their identities when they threatened, assaulted and murdered recently emancipated slaves. The masks liberated Klansmen from any inhibitions and protected them from identification by witnesses to their crimes.
Congress responded by enacting laws against masking, including the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. One of its provisions is now Section 1985 of Title 42 of the U.S. Code. It provides for damages when two or more persons “conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws.” This statute recognizes masking as an equal-protection problem.
The masking question is linked to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination on the basis of race and, by extension, national origin in federally funded programs. Like Klansmen, masked students shield themselves from accountability for disruption and violence. A university, not knowing their identities, can’t take disciplinary actions against them, including disciplinary actions required by Title VI. Thus, when a university takes a permissive approach to masking, it facilitates the masked wrongdoers, and it deprives their targets—in this case, mostly Jewish students and faculty—of the equal protection of the laws, including Title VI.
Under the First Amendment, Title VI shouldn’t be understood to require the suppression of open debate. But civil-rights laws have long limited masking to preserve equal protection, and on that ground alone, the government has reason to think itself justified in cutting off its largess.
The “smart, educated” people calling Trump Hitler over this don’t seem to know this elementary stuff.
Plus: “The larger point is that universities need to take civil-rights laws seriously. Schools that permit obstructive, bullying, and sometimes violent antisemites to hide their identities are depriving Jews of equal protection in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act and Title VI.”
Schools that are happy to micromanage students’ love lives over Title IX should be willing to stop masked violent mobs under Title VI.
