ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOR THE LITTLE GUYS: ATF Likely to Dodge Accountability Bullet in Arkansas Shooting Death.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 14, 2024
A TRUCK THAT SWINGS BOTH WAYS: GM Now Has the Hardware to Help an Electric Silverado Power Your House. “Power outages cost American businesses about $150 billion annually, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, so having a solution when power goes out is critical. Some electric vehicles allow bi-directional charging, meaning they can receive power to charge their batteries, but can also give power to a home or business when the grid fails. GM Energy, a subsidiary of General Motors, has new hardware that allows customers to charge their electric Chevy or Cadillac, and give power to their home in case there’s an outage, or use stored energy when costs spike.”
THEY’RE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT THE LAW: DOJ Busted for Illegally Retaliating Against Whistleblowers.
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Fruit fly testes offer potential tool against harmful insects.
WELL, THAT’S DISAPPOINTING: Study: Brain-injured patients who died after life support ended may have recovered.
DO THE LETTERS F O MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? Ancient Lame Duck Maryland Senator Wants to Limit How Much Ammunition You Can Own.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Police clash with aggressive pro-Palestinian protesters outside Pomona College graduation.
HAMAS 1, HARVARD 0: Harvard surrenders to encampment occupiers. “Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine announced early Tuesday morning that it would peacefully end the encampment in Harvard Yard, bringing an anticlimactic end to Harvard’s most high-profile pro-Palestine protest this year and paving the way for Commencement to proceed as planned. The decision to peacefully end the encampment came after University President Alan M. Garber ’76 and HOOP organizers negotiated a peaceful end to the protest. Garber’s administration agreed to promptly begin reinstating at least 22 students from involuntary leaves of absence and offered protesters a meeting with members of the University’s governing boards about divestment.”
Harvard just looks more pathetic all the time.
A PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON: Anti-Israel campus protesters have experienced “some kind of psychiatric break.” “I’ve not been threatened about Israel. I have been threatened with my job security regarding my criticisms of Black Lives Matter, but not regarding Israel. I think that undergrad students perhaps feel more threatened than I do because they have to live among the activists. I don’t live among them.”
BRING ON THE LAWSUITS: My New York Post column: Protesters, colleges are about to find out that, yes, the law DOES apply to them, too.
CHANGE: Two Virginia universities scrap DEI requirements after Youngkin audit.
Related: UNC Diverts DEI Funds Toward Campus Police: Report.
Plus:
Every month, we are reducing the perceived risk of abolishing DEI departments. By the end of the year, most red states will have abolished DEI in their public universities. Then we will move on to the next campaign.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 13, 2024
UPDATE:
NEW: The University of Wyoming has banned mandatory DEI statements and closed its DEI office:
President Seidel: “We will not allow units of UW to require job candidates to submit statements regarding diversity, equity and inclusion. We will not have a requirement for employees… pic.twitter.com/jID2XZMUbg
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) May 13, 2024
TODAY’S HAMAS-HUMPING BEHAVIOR ISN’T REALLY A DEPARTURE: Higher Ed and the Third Reich: As Hitler rose to power, colleges in the U.S. responded with a mixture of indifference, complicity and collaboration, a new book argues. “In order to understand the whole course of development that leads us to the Holocaust, I think it’s very important to see what influential sectors in the United States were doing. And in the case of higher education, it’s a very shameful record of complicity and indifference to atrocities committed against the Jews from 1933 onward — and actually a lot of collaboration, in terms of participating in well-organized student exchange programs, participating in well-orchestrated Nazi festivals in Germany, sending delegates to those and ignoring protests.”
NEWS FROM THE NCLA: The New Civil Liberties Alliance’s Peggy Little will take oral argument before the Fifth Circiut today regarding the FCC’s illegal diversity rules.
NCLA’s client, the National Center for Public Policy Research, which owns shares in many Nasdaq companies, argues that SEC has no power to regulate in this field because the rules have nothing to do with fraud or honest markets.
The diversity rules fall outside of SEC’s regulatory authority under the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act, which empowered SEC to regulate securities to ensure honest markets and enforce federal laws that punish fraud. These longstanding laws are being misinterpreted today by SEC to allow the agency, working with Nasdaq, to impose a “meet quota, explain why, or get delisted” regime.
Oral argument begins at 9 AM, and you can listen to it here.
Also: In NCLA Amicus Win, and FTC Amicus Loss, Second Circuit Upholds Decision Dismissing Antitrust Suit.
Reminder/disclosure: I’m on the NCLA’s Advisory Board.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: DEI Hits the VA: Biden’s Veterans Affairs Department Offers Race-Based Training Programs That Exclude White Vets. “‘Equity’ means realizing ‘treating everybody the same might not be enough,’ VA official Shawn Liu says.”
WHO DO YOU LIKE FOR VP? “Assuming no shenanigans occur with the election (yes, a BIG assumption indeed), Donald Trump is on a very promising track to secure his second term as POTUS.”
J.D. Vance seems like the obvious choice to me, which means it will probably be someone else.
CUI BONO?
Leftist NGOs have made a multi-billion dollar industry out of the border crisis. They have zero incentive to actually solve the problem. The worse it gets, the more they cash in.https://t.co/Ydr5v4VGQk
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) May 13, 2024
CDR SALAMANDER: Japan’s Renaissance: Just When We Need Her Most.
HOW IT’S GOING:
Latest Polls Show Biden Will Need Twice As Many Fake Ballots To Win Election This Year https://t.co/ngUqP0QjOY pic.twitter.com/qzxk1yQyci
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 13, 2024
May 13, 2024
THE TRUTH HURTS:
You are the party of runaway inflation, you are the party of "crime is fine," you are the party of suffocating regulations, you are the party of DEI failure, you are simply the Party of Misery.
Stop complaining. You're responsible for ALL of it. https://t.co/I2fObLUrwj
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 14, 2024
FRUITS OF BIDENOMICS: A “Restaurant Apocalypse” Is Starting To Sweep Across America, And That Is Really Bad News For The U.S. Economy. “Our ongoing inflation crisis is the primary reason why this is happening. Consumers simply have a lot less discretionary income now.”
FORGET THAT A FEW DUKE STUDENTS WALKED OUT ON JERRY SEINFELD: Pay Attention to His Speech.
Seinfeld did not acknowledge the students as they walked out. He went to the podium and began his speech like nothing was happening. His opening line was, “Thank you. Oh my God, what a beautiful day.”
The beauty of Seinfeld’s speech was that it was not political at all. No politics, no virtue-signaling about current progressive opinions on hot-button topics. He sounded like a dad advising his son or daughter about leaving college behind and entering real life.
Plus: “Many in the audience booed the students as they left. The Duke audience was refreshingly receptive to Seinfeld.”