JOHN LUCAS: “As I type this, the President is reading a speech to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day. He is now urging us to ‘never forget’ the Holocaust and other outrages perpetrated against the Jewish people. This same man has attempted to micromanage Israel’s conduct of its defense against the Hamas murderers and has followed through by cutting off or limiting ammunition supplies to Israel. Never forget? Pay no attention to what this man says. Watch what he does — and does not do.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 7, 2024
I NEED A BIGGER GUN SAFE: First Look: Wilson Combat Tactical Ultralight Rifle.
C. BRADLEY THOMPSON: Who Will Defend Jonathan Yudelman?
CAMPUS PROTESTERS PRETEND TO SPEAK FOR STUDENTS, BUT THEY DON’T: Poll: 81% of College Students Want Protesters Held Accountable. “A majority also said they oppose the protest tactics: 67% say occupying campus buildings is unacceptable and 58% say it’s not acceptable to refuse a university’s order to disperse. Another 90% said blocking pro-Israel students from parts of campus is unacceptable.”
Plus: “And that’s after more than six months of radical campus actions. The pro-Hamas fringe isn’t even convincing their most sympathetic and proximal cohort, let alone anyone else.”
THIS EXPLAINS THE COLAVITA TRUCKS IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE: Olive oil could help reduce risk of dying from dementia, Harvard study says.
AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: How to solve social chaos: Treat people as persons, not things.
SURE, BUT THEN IT WOULDN’T PRODUCE GRAFT IN CALIFORNIA: Money California wastes on the homeless could buy a first-class life in Missouri.
In some places, one unit of supportive housing for people who are homeless costs a cool million dollars. And, every month after it is built taxpayers fork over $17,000 for security, maintenance, social workers to help them get government assistance, utilities, cleaning and such.
To put that in perspective for people in normal America, you could buy each Californian suffering from homelessness two first-class tickets to Kansas City International Airport, get them a limo ride to their new home, which would be a new three-bedroom ranch, fully furnished (natch) with a new Tesla in the garage, and still save hundreds of thousands of dollars. Every month, you could give them a salary for picking up cans and other debris along the highways that would be greater than half of what working Missourians make and still save $10,000 off that monthly bill.
If money and houses could solve homelessness, this is what California would do — and Missouri would be a winner, as all those formerly homeless people paid property and income taxes thanks to the taxpayers of the palm-festooned paradise on the Pacific.
Well, if California wanted to solve homelessness. But homelessness is too lucrative a problem to solve.
HIGHER EDUCATION SPEAKERS, LIKE SPEAKERS AT COLLEGES IN GENERAL, ARE JUST A MONEY LAUNDRY FOR THE LEFT: Democrats outnumber Republicans as commencement speakers – again.
THE EV BUBBLE DEFLATES: Pulling the plug: Three signs EVs are not catching on in the country.
The dogs don’t like the dog food.
STANDING UP TO HATRED AND BIGOTRY: 13 Federal Judges Say They Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Columbia University, Citing ‘Virulent Spread of Antisemitism’ and ‘Explosion of Student Disruptions’.
The letter marks a new front in the hellish public relations war that has consumed Columbia and cost it major donor capital. As the encampment drew throngs of outsiders to the university’s doorstep—some of whom promised daily repeats of the Oct. 7 attacks—pressure mounted on Shafik, the university’s president, to lay down the law.
She did not do so until April 30, after nearly 5,000 alumni signed a petition demanding that the police clear Hamilton Hall. In the interim, Columbia lost one of its most prominent patrons, Robert Kraft, who said he could not in good conscience donate to a school awash in “virulent hate.” Billionaires Leon Cooperman and Henry Swieca have also cut ties with the university.
Related: Columbia Faculty Group Goes on Strike in Solidarity With Anti-Israel Student Protesters.
THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT:
If you were or are currently being excluded from public spaces at your university campus because you are Jewish, support Israel, or are otherwise not accepted by SJP security, please consider filing a Title VI complaint. https://t.co/kU03Zr1vW4
— Julie Hamill (@hamill_law) May 6, 2024
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Dems use the legal system to target the right — yet give the left a pass.
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
This philosophy, announced by Brazilian President Getulio Vargas in the 1940s, is no longer just the favored approach of Latin American strongmen. It has become the openly practiced strategy of today’s Democratic machine.
Read the whole thing.
IT WILL BE UNTIL THE ELECTION: Inflation is Transitory Again.
“WE DON’T EXPECT TO GO TO WORK AND GET SWARMED:” Exclusive: Columbia Custodian Trapped by ‘Angry Mob’ Speaks Out.
AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Media Should Honestly Report on the ‘Protesters.’ “News outlets have a duty to both accurately report the news and include the context necessary for readers to understand it. The Post article not only casts the whitewashing of Hamas and the murders it committed as “criticism” of Israel; it also fails to explain Hamas’s aims—which include the complete destruction of Israel by any means, including the mass murder of innocent civilians. What happens to public discourse around the most controversial issues when media outlets don’t talk about what we’re actually talking about?”
Plus: “The American media are whitewashing these protests because honest reporting would expose them as rabid anti-Semites and Hamas terror sympathizers … and raise lots of questions about the environment and pedagogy on American college campuses. And the media would rather paint them as sympathetic, which raises all sorts of questions about the media.”
No, it answers all sorts of questions about the media.
POUR RESOURCES INTO HIGHER EDUCATION, THEY SAID. IT WILL INCREASE THE STORE OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, THEY SAID.
Some economists tried to reproduce the results of 67 economics papers and they pretty much couldn't do it:
Even with help from authors, only half of papers ended up being reproducible, and this was still a problem at journals with required reporting of code and data. pic.twitter.com/CriUcBcxku
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) May 6, 2024
THE PRESS WANTS YOU DISTRACTED FROM THIS, AS DOES THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION:
Your reminder that the Palestinians started this war by invading a country, raping its citizens, slicing the throats of babies, tying people up and burning them alive, shooting children in the head and then kidnapping over two hundred people – including toddlers – and raping and…
— leekern (@leekern13) May 7, 2024
May 6, 2024
WELL, THERE IS THAT: Joe Biden’s biggest problem is that his presidency is an utter failure.
TRUE.
This is the truth. “But Gavin Newsom doesn’t work for the people of California – we are only paying his salary. He works for higher powers – China, the WHO, WEF, the UN. He’s even a graduate of the World Economic Forum’s Young Leaders program.” https://t.co/6pxgCXS6FB
— HK (@hezzopolis) May 6, 2024
WELL, YES: We’re Now in Full Goat Rodeo Mode in the NYC Trump Trial. “How many catastrophic yet entertaining courtroom fails can one team of prosecutors suffer before the judge calls a halt to this goat rodeo? It’s time to dismiss this case against Donald Trump after Friday’s testimony. But don’t get your hopes up. The bulldogger of this rodeo is the judge.”