THE IRS WENT AFTER THE TEA PARTY, BUT PRO-TERRORIST GROUPS ARE FINE: GOP Senators Press IRS To Revoke Tax-Exempt Status of ‘Palestine Chronicle’ Nonprofit Tied to Hamas Hostage Taker.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
June 13, 2024
MERRICK GARLAND’S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DECLINES TO PROSECUTE: House votes to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt. Reason: “Only Republicans go to jail for contempt of Congress. Duh.”
CDR SALAMANDER: An Incredibly Dangerous Time to be an American. “Terrorists, pirates, and criminals are like all humans; they respond to incentives and disincentives. Like all predators, they are constantly taking a view of the environment, looking for opportunities that have changed, and responding accordingly. On the international stage, it is best to be both feared and respected by friends and foes alike; the second requires the first. Our national reputation suffered generational damage following the national disgrace in Kabul in the summer of 2021, and the same team that brought our nation to that humiliation are still in charge.”
If Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack comes true, a substantial portion of our leadership needs to be not simply fired, but strung up for treason.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
Update on the Suez Canal crisis:
– transits thru the Canal are down -50%
– shipping lines punctuality is at 54.6%
– shipping rates prices +44%
– ships transit times +90%Latest news is Houthis arming Somalis to extend reach
Lost a strategic area in the hands of terrorists
— Marco Castelli (@macastel3) June 12, 2024
INFLATION IS NOT “FUNCTIONALLY OVER” EXCEPT AS A PRESS TROPE. All those inflated prices haven’t returned to normal, they’re just growing more slowly for the most part.
June 12, 2024
JEWS HAVE BEEN THROWN UNDER THE BUS BY DEMOCRATS IN THE INTEREST OF GETTING VOTES FROM THE HATE-FILLED MUSLIMS THE DEMOCRATS IMPORTED: Protesters are harassing Jews every day in NYC, when will pols protect them?
Earlier this week, a protest in front of the Nova Music Festival Exhibition on Wall Street, which commemorates those slaughtered at a music festival in Israel during the October 7 attacks, waved Hezbollah and Hamas flags and a “Long live October 7th” banner, lit flares and chanted “long live the intifada.”
On Tuesday, a mob took over a New York City subway car and chanted, in a call and repeat fashion, “Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist. This is your chance to get out.”
Two nights ago, the homes of Brooklyn Museum’s director Anne Pasternak and several of the museum’s Jewish board members, were defaced with fake blood and a sign that accused Pasternak of being a “White-Supremacist Zionist.”
I’ve been writing in these pages about the growing antisemitism in New York for years.
But this is the worst it has ever been. It’s no longer random attacks, that could be blamed on the mentally unwell.
Nope. And it won’t stop until there are — severe — consequences.
Related:
NEW: In leaked text messages obtained by the Free Beacon, top Columbia administrators—including the dean of the college—mocked and dismissed concerns about anti-Semitism on campus and even used vomit emojis to refer to a Columbia rabbi’s op-ed.
Scoop w/@elianayjohnson.🧵 pic.twitter.com/BXC4fBQPHO
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) June 13, 2024
Full article: Columbia Administrators Fire Off Hostile and Dismissive Text Messages, Vomit Emojis During Alumni Reunion Panel on Jewish Life. “Throughout the panel, which unfolded over nearly two hours, Chang-Kim was on her phone texting her colleagues about the proceedings—and they were replying to her in turn. As the panelists offered frank appraisals of the climate Jewish students have faced, Columbia’s top officials responded with mockery and vitriol, dismissing claims of anti-Semitism and suggesting, in Patashnick’s words, that Jewish figures on campus were exploiting the moment for ‘fundraising potential.’ The text messages, which were captured by an audience member sitting behind Chang-Kim who photographed the vice dean tapping away on her phone, also used vomit emojis to describe an op-ed about anti-Semitism by Columbia’s campus rabbi.”
OPEN THREAD: It’s everything they say, the end of a perfect day.
TOO BAD THEY DIDN’T HAVE PREHISTORIC SUVs: An interstellar cloud may have caused an ice age on Earth. Here’s how.
WELL, GOOD: A New Biological Pathway: Major Cause of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Discovered. “Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute identified a key biological pathway in IBD involving the ETS2 protein, which can be targeted with already available MEK inhibitor drugs to potentially reduce disease symptoms.”
CHANGE: What Is ‘Ozempic Face’, And Why Is It So Controversial? “It’s known that when significant body weight is rapidly lost, excess skin around the temples, cheeks, eye, jawline, and mouth can sag and wrinkle. Depending on an individual’s diet and hydration, their skin can appear duller, dryer and more wrinkled as body fat drops. What’s more, the use of GLP-1 agonists – regardless of fat loss – can also cause changes to the size of a person’s lips, cheeks and chin. Studies show that patients who experience massive weight loss in general are more likely to look several years older in the face than those who don’t.”
Yes, everyone I’ve known over 50 who has lost a lot of poundage has looked funny for a while. The skin needs time to catch up.
SO I FINALLY FINISHED J.N. CHANEY & JONATHAN BRAZEES’ Sentenced to War series. Good future Space Marines style military SF, though at 15 books, it’s an awful lot thereof. But it came to a satisfactory conclusion. Plenty of page-turning entertainment!
I took a break in the middle to read Blood-Warm Waters, the latest in Scott Cook’s WWII submarine series. Good reading, though I doubt that Admiral Yamamoto spent much time thinking about any particular U.S. sub as he went about his business. Also good page-turning entertainment, if not quite in P.T. Deutermann territory.
CALLED TO COURT FOR EXPOSING THE TRUTH: New hearing ordered over more leaked writings from Covenant School shooter: The Tennessee Star and its editor-in-chief could be held in contempt of court. “It comes after the judge in the case, I’Ashea Myles, warned against further leaks, threatening contempt of court for anyone who did it again. However, Judge Myles was unaware of the supposed leak, until WSMV4 Investigates’ Stacey Cameron called the court asking for a reaction to the leak, wanting to know if she was considering holding the Star or anyone else in contempt.”
Journalists didn’t used to try to gin up prosecutions of journalists for reporting the news.
The Supreme Court ruled in Bartnicki v. Vopper that journalists can’t be punished for publishing even illegally obtained material so long as they’re not the ones who illegally obtained it. I don’t see contempt of court applying any differently.
EAT WELL EVEN IF YOU EAT LESS: Guidelines outline nutrition requirements for those on Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: UAW President Shawn Fain Under Investigation for Alleged Retaliation.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: New Revolvers From Colt: Two new .357 Mag. wheelguns and a thumper in .44 Mag.
IT’S HARD TO SEE THESE THINGS BEING REALLY USEFUL UNTIL THE HALLUCINATION PROBLEM IS LICKED: AI speech-to-text can hallucinate violent language. “Speak a little too haltingly and with long pauses, and OpenAI’s speech-to-text transcriber might put harmful, violent words in your mouth, Cornell researchers have discovered.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Study: Short-duration spaceflights pose no significant health risks.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Big Trouble At America’s Small Banks.
HAVE YOU TRIED SPACE LYSOL? ISS spacewalk to study microorganisms on exterior of orbiting lab.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Test used to assess concussion in athletes may be useless, research shows.
FLASHBACK: An untraditional war: We can’t stop ISIL-inspired massacres if we deny we’re fighting Islam’s jihadist strain. “The thing is, proposals such as gun control are basically peacetime remedies, which don’t apply in time of war. But traditional wartime remedies might not work, either, because this is not a traditional war. . . . There were warning signs with the San Bernardino shooters, whose neighbors reportedly didn’t want to call the cops for fear of being thought racist. And there were warning signs with Mateen, who apparently had been on security officials’ radar screen for some time but not enough to do anything about it. Classmates of Nidal Hassan said he regularly spouted Islamist propaganda months before he shot up Fort Hood, but the military was too politically correct to do anything and afterward tried for some time to pretend that his deliberate, jihadist attack was merely ‘workplace violence.'”
Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack was supposed to be a page-flipper warning, not prophecy.
I’M BEGINNING TO WARM TO HER: Anti-Israel students, faculty don’t like Yale’s new president.
READER BOOK PLUG: From Terry Gibbs, The Resentful Citizen Looks at America.