Author Archive: Stephen Green

SINCE AT LEAST LENIN, THE LEFT HAS SEEN STRONG FAMILIES AS IMPEDIMENTS TO PARTY CONTROL:

ARIZONA DIDN’T MAKE THE CUT? DHS plans to launch voter fraud investigation surge Tuesday. “Offices in nine states are expected to take investigative action from early September to mid-October, according to the guidance. Those states include Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York and Connecticut.”

MORE OF THAT WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE ON DISPLAY:

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: RFK Jr. Continues to Terrorize Leftists With Healthy Food. “We knew that the Dems were going to be permanently triggered by the fact that a scion of their royal family jumped ship to become part of the MAGA machine. Kennedy continues to compound their misery because he and the president have obviously developed a strong, friendly bond through working together. It doesn’t matter what he does in his role at HHS; the lefties have predetermined that they’re going to hate it all.”

ERDOĞAN WEEPS: Israel, Greece finalize €3 billion defense system agreement. “Greece has dubbed the new program ‘Achilles Shield,’ a deal the ministry ranks among the largest in the country’s defence history. Never before has the Israeli Ministry of Defense delivered a single, fully integrated array built to counter threats as varied as ballistic missiles, aircraft, and hostile drones. The two countries also finalized a smaller, supplementary contract, valued at 26 million euros, for Israel to provide Greece with drone dome systems.”

REMEMBER, SPACEX TURNS THE IMPOSSIBLE INTO THE MERELY LATE:

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Troy Jackson Cosponsored Bill Sending Millions of Taxpayer Dollars to His Son’s Lobbying Client.

Chace Jackson’s arrangement with the academy was unusual. He served as the legislative designee while simultaneously representing corporate clients as a lobbyist for the Resurgam Group, the “full service lobbying” firm founded by his father’s former chief of staff and current campaign adviser, B.J. McCollister. State agencies in Maine are required to appoint full-time employees as legislative designees to avoid retaining pricey outside firms for state-level lobbying. The University of Maine’s legislative designee, for example, is its chief governmental affairs officer, Samantha Warren, who has held the role for nearly a decade and has not worked as an outside lobbyist during that time. None of the more than 300 active legislative designees, in fact, are registered lobbyists with outside firms, according to a Free Beacon review.

That the bill passed the Maine Senate but failed to become law came as a pleasant surprise.

YES:

Registration required but worth it.

MAYOR COSPLAY: Mamdani’s free day care plan in chaos as cash-strapped centers warn they may not open.

The program is scheduled to begin Sept. 10, but some day care operators say they still have not received the funding needed for teachers, classroom supplies and furniture. Several have warned parents that their centers may not be able to open if the money does not arrive soon, reports the New York Times.

The delays have also affected city-backed bridge loans intended to help providers cover expenses while waiting for their contracts to be processed. Some operators say they have turned to personal loans, family members and their own savings to keep their businesses running.

“Yes, they have a 2-K program, but they didn’t set up the infrastructure to make it work,” said Nurita Love, who operates four Bronx day care centers preparing to offer four 2-K classes.

Promises are easy. Infrastructure is hard.

THAT’S BECAUSE HE PALLED AROUND WITH TERRORISTS, AND ANYBODY WHO SPOKE THE TRUTH WAS PILLORIED FOR IT:

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

SPACE: Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese radar satellite to orbit early on Sept. 1. “Synspective is assembling a constellation of about 30 Strix satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). These spacecraft — which are named after a widespread genus of owl — use synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to study our planet both day and night, and in all weather conditions.”

THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES:

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Those guys are utterly furious that the Legislature built some legal protections for the aerospace industry into the state statutes in this past session, without which SpaceX probably doesn’t come here.

After all, Louisiana has a very well-deserved reputation as a judicial hellhole, so a large industrial undertaking like SpaceX would rightly be skittish about coming here.

The trial bar is a big loser in this exchange, which is something they aren’t used to at all. Not in this state. So they’re doing everything they can to stir up outrage over it, declaring that Jeff Landry and Susan Bourgeois sold out the state and so on.

Exit quote: “It does seem like a dead-ender move, though.”

Indeed.

DIDN’T EARN IT: Inside Cal Berkeley Law Review’s Admissions Team, Where ‘Diverse Life Experience’ Matters More Than ‘Editing Abilities.’

“When I first joined [Politico], I realized that the newsroom lacked the diversity necessary to reduce bias and improve our content,” Parthasarathy wrote in her application to the admissions committee. To fix the problem, she said, her team at Politico “did not consider grades,” instead creating a “holistic” review process that included, among other things, an editing test.

“For candidates on the borderline of a passing score on our test, we considered strengths they showed in other parts of their applications, and experiences they would bring to the table,” Parthasarathy said. “At the end of my tenure at Politico, our team had grown from just one person of color — me — to fifty percent hires from underrepresented backgrounds.”

Parthasarathy’s boasts were probably a legal liability for Politico, which did not respond to a request for comment, insofar as they described how the company sought to change the racial composition of its employees by de-emphasizing objective factors. But they were catnip for the California Law Review, which elected Parthasarathy to serve on the admissions committee in a journal-wide vote.

Read the whole thing.

SPOILER: She is unwilling to learn the difference.