FASTER, PLEASE: Ohio could pass comprehensive college DEI ban in 2025.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 2, 2025
HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:
FBI routinely spies on law-abiding Americans “to keep America safe.”
FBI became an important tool in Biden’s aggressive lawfare campaign against Trump.
Then when New Orleans got hit by an actual ISIS terrorist today, FBI said it wasn’t terrorism.
We need Kash now! https://t.co/XI3xK4KXe0
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) January 1, 2025
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Least shocking thing I’ve heard today https://t.co/5yCGRy3zMD
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 2, 2025
JOSH BLACKMAN: President Lyndon B. Johnson’s TV Station and the “Blind Trust.” “I recently wrote about the purportedly ‘blind’ trust created for President Jimmy Carter’s peanut business. President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a “blind” trust created for his television station. . . . There are no perfect solutions when a successful business person becomes President, and has only two months between election day and inauguration day to settle his affairs. And to demand that a president sell off his business holdings is to in effect create a new qualification outside the text of the Constitution.”
IS ANYONE SURPRISED THAT VALERIE PLAME’S HUSBAND IS A GRIFTER? A University President Accused of Squandering Public Money Resigns in Exchange for a $2 Million Payout. He even gave her a university credit card, although she was not a university employee, which she used for “high end” purchases. The severance deal was bad enough that the Governor of New Mexico has asked the Board of Regents to resign.
As I always say, if you get crosswise with a university administrator, examine their travel expenses.
YES:
The FBI should be focused on fighting criminals and terrorists.
Instead, the agency has wasted valuable resources hosting DEI seminars, investigating churchgoers, and raiding President Trump’s home.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) January 1, 2025
HAS ANYONE ON THE RIGHT DEFIED ANY FEDERAL COURT DECISIONS? Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts issues warning on ‘judicial independence’ weeks before Trump inauguration: Roberts says officials ‘from across the political spectrum’ have shown ‘open disregard for federal court rulings.’
And did Trump disregard any federal court rulings? Note that criticism is not disregard. And that Roberts is being Roberts here, which is no compliment.
WHY, INDEED? THEY SHOULD LET HIM OUT, AND PUT SOME GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN THOSE CELLS INSTEAD.
Why is Tommy Robinson in a solitary confinement prison for telling the truth?
He should be freed and those who covered up this travesty should take his place in that cell. https://t.co/Dn48JLoJgR
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 1, 2025
They covered this all up to prevent from “racial tensions” from escalating. They all belong behind bars. pic.twitter.com/G7RvHYOjnF
— Marc 🇺🇸 (@gopher_marc) January 1, 2025
WHEN POLICING FAILS: The Angel of Death Wears Granny Glasses. “Anne Kirkpatrick has been a police executive for a long time, proudly fighting to remove machismo from policing, and she’s bounced from high-profile job to high-profile job. Among many other jobs, she was the police chief in Oakland, California for three years, until she was fired. . . . You can’t exaggerate the failure of policing in Oakland, in the wake of an effort to, you’ll never guess, re-imagine policing and shift police funding to social justice. The city is notorious for shuttered businesses, driven out by daily crime. . . . Back when Kirkpatrick was the police chief, Oakland had a reputation for unanswered and slowly answered 911 calls, and new stories described 911 calls that were finally answered by an operator but never actually produced a police response. And of course, as I’ve said many times, Oakland’s best-known community activist makes videos in which he just walks around to show what a disgraceful shithole the city has become. So how does this person get to New Orleans? Let’s look at the hiring announcement from the mayor’s office.”
Plus: “Rises to management on limited experience. Bounces from job to job. Fails then gets hired again elsewhere. It’s a whole cultural story in a single lifetime. . . . Much respect to the NOPD officers on duty in the French Quarter this morning for handling a horrifying act of violence with courage, despite the quality of their leadership.”
True: “In New Orleans this morning, a terrorist attacked a crowd with his truck, then tried to get out of the car and start shooting — and New Orleans cops, working for a department that has an old reputation for troubling behavior, stopped him instantly. We have footage on social media that shows a bunch of NOPD officers sprinting straight into the attack, and choppy, broken footage that maybe sort of shows the edges of the gunfight. The attacker appears to have died right next to his truck, a fact that suggests courage and seriousness in the police response.”
BTW, don’t invite Kirkpatrick to be your designated driver.
FLASHBACK: Blow Up The Administrative State.
Title IX simply reads: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” That’s all.
But from this small, simple statement — there shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex — has been created a regulatory Tower of Babel governing sports teams, student discipline and even, and most dubiously, sexual consent.
One doubts that the members of Congress who drafted Title IX intended to produce what Harvard Law School professors Jacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk have called ”bureaucratic sex creep,” in which colleges — allegedly to ensure compliance with Title IX’s non-discrimination mandate — micromanage the sex lives of students, and subject them to Orwellian levels of surveillance, investigation and supervision. In essence, students now risk being kicked out of school for not getting express consent for every sexual act, all based on a law that was intended, four decades ago, to end discrimination in college athletics.
This has been done not because Congress ordered it, or even because the Education Department promulgated regulations with notice to the public and an opportunity for comment. Instead, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has issued “guidance,” in the form of letters to colleges and universities stating its opinion as to what the law required. And its opinion represents quite a stretch from what Congress intended, and wrote.
And this happens all over. Time to put it to an end.
January 1, 2025
A WEEK AGO HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR THIS:
“Fuck off to Palestine. This is London.”
Hero.
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) January 1, 2025
IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE PARODY, BUT IT’S TOTALLY BELIEVABLE:
White House Insists Jimmy Carter Is Still Sharp And Focused Behind Closed Doors https://t.co/SLkhhWPDLd pic.twitter.com/tZc2eWj1zb
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 1, 2025
OPEN THREAD: How’s your New Year going so far?
I WONDER WHAT DATA THEY WERE ABLE TO GET FROM THE TESLA REGARDING WHO DROVE IT AND WHERE?
The evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack. Cybertruck actually contained the explosion and directed the blast upwards.
Not even the glass doors of the lobby were broken. https://t.co/9vj1JdcRZV
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 2, 2025
Nonetheless, one person was killed — but it was the bomber/driver — and several more injured.
NOT TOO LONG AGO THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN RIOTS. AND THERE SHOULD BE.
These appalling rape gang cases of girls as young as 11 shame our country. Not only do the perpetrators need to be punished. So do the authorities who turned a blind eye in the name of not inflaming "racial tensions". https://t.co/D0xG4BaoV3
— Liz Truss (@trussliz) January 1, 2025
GIVEN THE EVENTS OF TODAY, you may want to read Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack, if you haven’t done so. Or reread it if you have.
Related: Attack and Defense: Thoughts on a 10/7 style attack on America.
THE REGIME IS MORE AFRAID OF ITS OWN CITIZENRY THAN OF ITS NOMINAL ENEMIES:
America is under Attack.
This most important question in the country right now:
How many hundreds of FBI counterterrorism agents were reassigned to ‘hunt’ peaceful January 6th protesters while terrorists poured into our country to organize and kill us.
This is the REAL Crime
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 1, 2025
Like you, I'm thrilled that instead of going after ISIS cells roving freely in the United States, every single person in the DOJ was instead MANIACALLY OBSESSED with going after pro-lifers, Catholics, parents, Trump, and Trump supporters. Excellent decisions, leaders. https://t.co/bx4GuZmamD
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 1, 2025
SO RACIST:
Let me get this straight… a white FBI Director (Chris Wray) gets fired and replaced by a brown minority Director (Kash Patel) and members of the FBI's DEI office are now protesting and threatening to resign? 🤡
The irony is ALMOST too good to be true. 😂 pic.twitter.com/7jcWkzpiPl
— Gain of Fauci (@DschlopesIsBack) January 1, 2025
TERRORISM:
Appears likely to be an act of terrorism.
Both this Cybertruck and the F-150 suicide bomb in New Orleans were rented from Turo. Perhaps they are linked in some way. https://t.co/MM6ehJO3SG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 1, 2025
We have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself.
All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion. https://t.co/HRjb87YbaJ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 1, 2025
A BIT PRICEY FOR ME, BUT IT’S SORT OF COOL THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE BULDING THIS: Tested: 2025 Rolls-Royce Cullinan Series II: The world’s most opulent SUV has been given a refresh. “I got into the Cullinan expecting it to be the most comfortable SUV in the world, and that’s exactly what Rolls-Royce has delivered.”
THAT WAS FAST, A FEW HOURS AGO THEY WERE SAYING NO TERROR: FBI: Now We Don’t Believe This *Terrorist* Acted Alone.
I’VE ALREADY GOT A SPOT PICKED OUT ON THE ROOF: The Anti-Drone Laser Is Fast Approaching.