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October 13, 2018
HILLARY CLINTON’S SECURITY CLEARANCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED IN 2016: Good news that Hillary has finally lost her top secret security clearance. Loose lips do sink ships. Here’s essay from 2016 examining her criminal abuse of classified information.
The laws protecting national security are a fortification of sorts—a legal fortification that contributes to national security. Americans entrusted with security clearances and tasked with handling classified information must make every effort to avoid negligence. The laws help insure constant awareness. They promote self-discipline and institutional obedience.
Hillary Clinton’s criminal “negligence” followed by James Comey’s sellout of the rule of law is breaching the legal fortification.
Hillary ought to be serving time for her crimes.
MORE SUPPORT FOR THE MISMATCH THESIS: A recently-posted paper on the National Bureau of Economic Research web site contributes to the growing body of evidence that affirmative action preferences hurt, rather than help, their intended beneficiaries.
Interestingly, this study was of students’ experiences in primary school rather than in college or graduate school. But if competing with students that are much better prepared to do well can cause problems for primary school students, it’s hard to see why it is so unthinkable that it would do so for college students.
Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt write that their research “establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has long-run impacts that are independent from underlying ability.” To put it in more concrete terms: Suppose a primary school student has the experience of being toward the bottom of her class in math simply because her class happened to have a lot of high-ability students in it. After that experience, she is less likely feel confident of her math ability and less likely to study and do well in math in secondary school than a student who had the same demonstrated ability in primary school, but who ranked higher in the class because he happened to be competing with fewer high-ability students.
For more background on the problem of mismatch, read Want to be a Doctor? A Scientist? An Engineer? An Affirmative Action Leg up May Hurt Your Chances and A “Dubious Expediency”: How Race-Preferential Admissions Policies on Campus Hurt Minority to Students.
TO BE FAIR, MANY OF THEM WERE ALREADY CLOSE ENOUGH TO WALK: Politico: ‘Trump Anxiety Disorder’ Is Driving Liberals Crazy.
GIZMODO CAN’T EVEN: Trump Signs Actually Good Bill To Clean Up Ocean Garbage.
ALASKAN AGGRESSOR: An F-16 assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, takes off.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Funny. I cant find any editorials about how all women should vote for Marsha Blackburn to break a Tennessee ‘Glass ceiling’.” Sometimes it’s important to advance women, sometimes it’s important to vote for the old white guy. What’s the difference? It’s a mystery.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Tell If You Are Part of a Mob.
Related: The left: An unhinged mob.
ME, A WEEK AGO ON WHAT TO EXPECT POST-KAVANAUGH:
►Strange new respect for judicial minimalism. As Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeule remarked, “Law review editors: brace for a tidal wave of legal academic theories supporting judicial minimalism, Thayerianism, and strong — very strong — theories of precedent. Above all: the Court must do nothing without bipartisan agreement, otherwise it is illegitimate.” The past half-century’s enthusiasm for judicial activism will vanish, as legal academia turns on a dime to promote theories that will constrain the court until a left-leaning majority returns, at which point they’ll turn on a dime again.
►New disrespect for the court: . . . If the court shifts right as expected, you can also expect legal academia and the news media, both of which lean very heavily to the left, to shift quite rapidly from near worship of the court to nonstop denigration. Some on the left are already talking openly of packing the court with additional seats, as Roosevelt tried to, if they get back in power. Others are talking about impeaching Kavanaugh, because, well, of course.
Now: Vox: The Case For Abolishing The Supreme Court.
Plus: Slate: The Supreme Court is a historically regressive and presently expendable institution.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher who smiled for mugshot pleads guilty to sex with student.
DAVID FRENCH: The Black Men Who Identify with Brett Kavanaugh Understand the Stakes. “The bottom line is that opponents of Kavanaugh didn’t just want to stop Kavanaugh, they wanted to create a cultural moment that many black men are very wise to be wary of. ‘Believe survivors’ is a slogan that resonates far beyond one single judicial confirmation. It’s the slogan of campus ‘justice’ that all too often echoes the injustice of America’s racist past.”
I yelled at my husband last night. Not pick-up-your-socks yell. Not how-could-you-ignore-that-red-light yell. This was real yelling. This was 30 minutes of from-the-gut yelling. Triggered by a small, thoughtless, dismissive, annoyed, patronizing comment. Really small. A micro-wave that triggered a hurricane. I blew. Hard and fast. And it terrified me. I’m still terrified by what I felt and what I said. I am almost 70 years old. I am a grandmother. Yet in that roiling moment, screaming at my husband as if he represented every clueless male on the planet (and I every angry woman of 2018), I announced that I hate all men and wish all men were dead. If one of my grandchildren yelled something that ridiculous, I’d have to stifle a laugh.
A man behaving this way would be accused of domestic abuse. And John Sexton’s comment is on point: “Someone needs to say ‘get a grip’ and it might as well be me.”
Nobody makes the case for patriarchy as persuasively as the feminists.
Related (From Ed): “If somebody starts a Go Fund Me account to pay for Mr. Brown’s tab at his local bar, I’ll kick in,” Rod Dreher writes.
SHE WENT FULL EMMET TILL. NEVER GO FULL EMMET TILL. Woman dubbed #CornerstoreCaroline BUSTED by surveillance video that ‘completely vindicates the child’ accused of groping.
LIBERAL SUPPRESSION: Section 501(c)(3) And The Taxation of Speech.
October 12, 2018
IT TOOK 1,279 DAYS BUT HILLARY CLINTON FINALLY LOST HER SECURITY CLEARANCE: Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed Friday that Hillary asked that her security clearance be withdrawn, according to a September 21 letter from the Department of State.
And if you believe she voluntarily did this, I have some incredible ocean beachfront lots in Oklahoma that are available at prices you won’t believe … Go here for the rest of the story.
MY TAKE ON THE CURRENT SCENE:
I HAD A VISIT AT THE SPACE COUNCIL IN DC AS THIS HAPPENED, AND THERE WAS SOME CONCERN: Russian launch failure “could set off a sequence of events that leads in January to the station being emptied of all crew for the first time in 18 years.” But not as much concern as this article suggests. And maybe SpaceX can pick up the slack.
BOOK PLUG FRIDAY RETURNS: Talking Plot on Book Plug Friday
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IS THERE NO LIMIT TO THIS MAN’S EVIL?
“With the president’s signature Thursday, the Music Modernization Act is officially the law of the land. As we celebrate the harmony and unity that got us here, we applaud the efforts of the thousands of performers, songwriters, and studio professionals who rallied for historic change to ensure all music creators are compensated fairly when their work is used by digital and satellite music services,” Neil Portnow, President and CEO of the Recording Academy said in a statement.”
THE IMPORTANCE OF VERTICAL FARMING.
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING:
● Sinema “associated with a prominent 9/11 truther and told a radio host that she didn’t care if he joined the Taliban.”
Earlier:
● Sinema in 2010: My state is the “meth lab of democracy.”
● Sinema in 2011: “I want to talk to you about some of the things that I think that you can do to stop your state from becoming Arizona.”
● Sinema in 2003: Sinema’s anti-war group blasted ‘U.S. terror,’ depicted soldier as skeleton on flyers.
In sharp contrast, during that same decade, Martha McSally, Sinema’s GOP opponent, was leading a squadron of A-10s against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Sarah Silverman Shrieks ‘We’re All Gonna F*cking Die’ From Climate Change.
Buried lede: There are people still alive. I thought everybody had been finished off already by net neutrality, tax cuts, Kavanaugh, etc.
HILLARY CLINTON LOSES SECURITY CLEARANCE AFTER SERVER SCANDAL: “Chairman Charles E. Grassley also revealed top Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and four others no longer have clearance.”
NEAL STEPHENSON TOLD ME THE SAME THING ABOUT READING ISAAC NEWTON’S HANDWRITTEN NOTES AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM: Walter Isaacson says going through Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks gave him a profound appreciation for paper: “Its battery never runs down. Its operating system never goes out of style…”
POLITICAL AD OF THE YEAR: Steve Ferrara Has the Most Badass Campaign Ad for 2018.
THE INDESTRUCTIBLE LIE: WaPo congressional reporter blames right-wing mobs for inspiring Gabby Giffords shooting.
From Neo yesterday: Blaming the Right for Leftist Violence began with the JFK Assassination — the politics of reporting on left-wing violence against the right.
ANDREW SULLIVAN BEGINS TO WORRY THAT MAYBE TRUMP IS A SUCCESS:
Along with Gorsuch, Kavanaugh cemented a 5-4 majority for the right on the court for the indefinite future — more quickly and decisively than any Republican had hoped for. If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, in stark contrast, we’d be looking at a 6-3 liberal tilt by now. That’s a huge, huge payoff for what looked at one point like a major gamble for establishment and religious Republicans — and there could be more vacancies ahead.
Second, it showed that the broader Republican coalition isn’t completely dead. The over-the-top tactics of the Democrats and the mainstream media in turning a Supreme Court hearing into an epic battle in a newly energized gender war may have riveted Democratic women and galvanized a younger generation … but it also brought moderate Republicans and Trumpers together again. When confronted with the rhetoric and ideology of the social justice left, NeverTrump conservatives came temporarily back to the fold. I felt it happening to myself.
Worse, there was evidence that some of the culture war issues the Democrats are relying on may not be so win-win. Yes, a focus on sexual assault and harassment in the workplace and elsewhere is important in its own right — and it strongly resonates with suburban women who may decide the midterms. But it can also energize conservative and moderate women in defense of what they see as threats to their own husbands and sons; it can further alienate more traditional working-class men from the Democrats; and it could cement a worrying shift among young white men toward the GOP since 2016.
Yeah, weird how when you constantly attack and denigrate a group of people, they start voting for the other side.
ARE YOU NOW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN . . . LA Passes Ordinance Requiring City Contractors To Disclose NRA Ties. It’s clear that the objection to McCarthyism was never about what it involved, just who.
WELL: Court Rules Ellison Divorce Records Will Be Unsealed. I thought that sort of thing was only for Republicans.
JESUS CHRIST, DUDE, GET A GRIP: GOP gov candidate says he will ‘stomp’ Dem opponent’s face with ‘golf spikes.’ This is wrong when Republicans do it, too.
PATRICK POOLE: Beware of Media Sourcing for Jamal Khashoggi ‘Scoops.’
STUPID CHINESE. IN MY EXPERIENCE, AT VOX THEY’LL DO IT FOR FREE: China Paying Vox To Publish Communist Propaganda.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Scientists Attempt to Clone Mice From Poop.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teacher Who Claimed Stephen Miller Ate Glue as a Kid Has Been Suspended.
The teacher who claimed this week that controversial White House aide Stephen Miller ate glue as a kid has been suspended from her job. Miller—now the mastermind behind Donald Trump’s most hardline immigration policies—was an odd kid, according to comments from veteran teacher Nikki Fiske. She recounted this week to The Hollywood Reporter: “He would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off, and then eat it. He was a strange dude.” The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District has placed her on “home assignment” while it decides what to do about the matter. A school-district spokesperson said they were concerned about “her release of student information.” Fiske also said of Miller, then aged 8: “I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk—he always had stuff mashed up in there.”
Benjamin Svetkey had the “as told to” byline on the original Hollywood Reporter story. Makes you wonder what he was doing in third grade.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: ABC Regrets Firing Roseanne Over Bad Tweet?
THE INSTAWIFE: When Bad Women’s Magazines Become Worse.
NOW RADICAL LEFT IS TURNING ON WHITE WOMEN: Tamika Mallory, the radical lefty who was seen at a Louis Farrakhan rally earlier this year, has a Huffpo oped up today, the title of which says it all: “White Women, Stop Waiting for Black Women to Save You.”
LifeZette’s Deirdre Reilly notes that Mallory also issued a tweet touting the oped, saying “We need white women to get comfortable with discomfort, to check their fellow white women when they prop up white supremacy and white male patriarchy.” In other words, being a white woman makes you as much a beneficiary of “white privilege” as being an angry white male.
And then there’s this from Mallory, according to Reilly: “In November, we will replace rape apologists with the women the march inspired to run against them. In January 2019, we’re coming back with an agenda to end rape culture, white supremacy and patriarchy in America.”
Does this tell us that when the radical Left has to choose between gender and race, race will win? And should a reasonable person then conclude that the goal of radical left activists like Mallory isn’t racial reconciliation but racial weaponization on behalf of political power?
THE NEW CIVILITY: Susan Rice’s Conservative Son Allegedly Assaulted at Stanford.
CONGRATULATIONS TO PROF. JACOBSON: Legal Insurrection is 10 years old: Dread has turned to cautious optimism.
POLITICAL TERROR: VANDALS HIT NYC GOP HEADQUARTERS: ‘ATTACK IS MERELY A BEGINNING.’
THE NEW, WOKE GOP IS AMAZING:
ALBERT MARREWA: The Kavanaugh Smear War Broke My Decades-Long Support For Feminism. “All these years I silently stood by and watched third-wave feminism (with assistance from the radical left) methodically take a sledgehammer to Western society as a whole, and males in particular. Foolishly, I hoped things would eventually turn around, only to see things get worse over time. Yet it wasn’t until I witnessed the Me Too movement snowball into an all-out, anti-male witch hunt that I realized good men were in real trouble. Astonishingly, after having been an advocate for women my entire adult life, I quickly learned I was still considered the ‘enemy,’ simply for being a man.”
Males are still OK; it’s masculinity which feminists have decided is a crime — “castration culture,” Glenn has taken to calling it.
HMM: Researchers find genetic risk factor for impotence. You’d think that such genes would be selected against.
BLUE ON BLUE: South Carolina Democrat Says Sanders Would Be ‘Doing Us All a Favor if He Just Got Lost.’
On Wednesday, only one day after Sanders announced he would be hitting the campaign trail for Democratic candidates on the ballot this year, high-ranking members of the South Carolina Democratic Party made it known that not everyone welcomed the senator’s visit, the Associated Press reported.
Amanda Loveday, a former executive director of the South Carolina Democratic Party, indicated that Sanders’ decision to journey to South Carolina ahead of the midterms struck her as “selfish,” especially as the senator is speculated to be weighing another run for the White House in 2020.
“I just think it’s extremely selfish of Bernie Sanders to think he could walk into South Carolina without an invitation from a candidate and think he’s going to be welcomed with open arms,” Loveday said. “It’s hard for me to think of an actual, legitimate Democratic candidate who would stand on stage with him here.”
There are at least a few Democrats worried about the direction their party has taken.
DIVERSITY IS THEIR STRENGTH: Migrant celebrates Swedish citizenship by raping woman and tells her: ‘Now I can do what I want.’
I DON’T LIKE THE SOUND OF THESE HERE ‘BONCENTRATION BAMPS’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Her Plan to Overthrow the Supreme Court.
I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Sandia’s Swerve Could Lead To First-gen Hypersonic Production Line. “The veil of secrecy has lifted over one of the Pentagon’s largest hypersonic weapons programs, revealing new details of a triservice rush to adapt a nearly 40-year-old experimental maneuvering reentry vehicle concept into an air-, sea- or land-launched common-boost-glide weapon.” A rush, huh?
ARIZONA DEM SENATE CANDIDATE KYRSTEN SINEMA IN 2010: My state is the “meth lab of democracy.”
HEALTH: Bogus homeopathy data published in top journal sparks outcry, facepalms. “Editors at a respected scientific journal are reconsidering their decision to publish a study, which claims that a homeopathic dilution of poison oak can reduce pain in rats, after online critics pointed out that the study is rife with bogus, sloppy, and low-quality data.”
#METOO GOES FULL EMMET TILL: White woman calls cops on black child she says touched her butt.
DAVID HARSANYI: Yes, Democrats, It’s a Mob.
If Holder had been honest, he would have said, “When they win a presidency via the constitutionally mandated route and the duly elected president nominates a Supreme Court justice with a 12-year exceptional record on the bench and then the duly elected Senate follows all the rules and precedents set by Democrats — offering numerous hearings and investigations along the way — and confirms that nominee, we kick them, because we’re frustrated.”
There’s nothing wrong with “fighting” in politics. We don’t need to be hypersensitive about every metaphorical overindulgence (unless it’s Donald Trump; then we must take it literally, seriously and hysterically). But the problem is that Democrats have a bad habit of acting as if every political setback they experience is caused by some act of criminality. This instigates lots people to act like a bunch of children — or worse.
Democrats do it because they think it’s working for them, but there’s a chance to prove them wrong, peacefully, on November 6.
REIHAN SALAM: Taylor Swift Succumbs to Competitive Wokeness: The pop star has long avoided partisan politicking—but in the culture industries, making a show of social liberalism is increasingly the only option. “The views we typically describe as socially liberal are, by and large, the views of the affluent, college-educated people who lead virtually all of our major institutions, even when these views are actually rather censorious. These women and men can shape culture by incentivizing certain behaviors through their control over, for example, elite college admissions. They normalize some ways of life while stigmatizing others through their informal control of the organs of culture and entertainment. . . . What is new, I would argue, is the second development: that the number of people who are susceptible to elite influence has grown larger. Here is where I must tread lightly, as what follows is necessarily impressionistic. I get the sense that the most aggressively ‘woke’ young people are precisely those who find themselves in the most fiercely competitive environments. Status and prestige matter to everyone, of course, but they matter to some more than others. Most of all, they matter to those who find themselves in precarious industries where one’s reputation counts for a great deal and, just as important, to lonely, unattached people who long to feel valued and desired. Delayed marriage and child-rearing ensure that many more young people spend many more years in the mating market and, by extension, orienting their lives around fulfilling their own social and sexual appetites over the care and feeding of children. This is especially true among children of the culturally powerful upper middle class, who’ve been trained to fear downward mobility in a stratified society as much as our primitive ancestors feared being devoured by toothy predators. The result is what you might call a culture of ‘competitive wokeness.'”
FLASHBACK: Manchin Wanted to Use Opioid Funding on Personal ‘Governor’s Helicopter.’
That’s OK, maybe West Virginia voters are big on helicopters, too.
SPENGLER: The Stock Market on the Orient Express. “Everybody did it in Agatha Christie’s novel Murder on the Orient Express, and the same problem bedevils the U.S. stock market today. A dozen co-conspirators killed the victim in the Christie novel. Here are a dozen factors that bedevil the stock market…”
Click on over.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, SEXISM EDITION: Professor who hears Title IX cases deletes ‘frat boy’ tweet, locks account after College Fix inquiry.
Flashback: Bros Are People Too: Title IX enforcers need to fix the toxic environment they have created for men.
References to “testosterone poisoning” should be avoided. This variant on “toxic masculinity” identifies a particular hormone (stereotypically identified with men, though in fact women produce testosterone too, and suffer problems if it’s too low) as poisonous. Again, this is simply a statement of naked gender prejudice whose expression is likely to make students who identify as male feel uncomfortable, unappreciated, and stigmatized. In addition, of course, those students who are transitioning from female to male require regular injections of testosterone to maintain their new gender identity. The term “testosterone poisoning” might make them feel that they are going to their physicians to be injected with poison. This sort of hormone-shaming is not okay.
“Frat boy.” As historians of discrimination know, the term “boy” was used to diminish African-American males during the Jim Crow era. Applying it to members of fraternities — who may, after all, be of any race — is a similar effort to diminish. It is offensive and deeply insensitive to the Greek campus community and should be avoided.
Rape-gendering. It’s racist to pretend that African Americans commit the majority of rapes in America. In the Jim Crow era, exaggerated fears of rape were pinned on black men as a way of perpetuating white privilege.
Likewise, it’s sexist — and in light of data from the Centers for Disease Control showing rough equality here, it’s scientifically inaccurate — to pretend that sexual coercion on campus is strictly, or even largely, a male-on-female phenomenon. Discussions of sexual assault that assume a male perpetrator and a female victim, or the use of phrases like “Teach men not to rape,” constitute the gendering of a crime that is in fact committed by people of all genders. That is not okay.
“Bro.” This is a disrespectful term used to stereotype young males as stupid and superficial. It should be avoided. It is also inappropriate as a form of one-on-one address to male students, unless you are actually their brother.
I hope that members of university communities nationwide will take this advice to heart.
Not so much, I guess.
THAT SEEMS LIKE A LOT: Interior Dept. disciplined 1,500 employees for misconduct.
The employees, both full-time staff and probationary appointees, have either been removed, reprimanded or suspended, according to the email sent by Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt.
Bernhardt provided the update to follow up on Secretary Ryan Zinke’s promise to crack down on what the department called “the widespread and pervasive culture of harassment and discrimination” in a news release last year. The initial effort focused on harassment in the National Park Service, but since then, the department has taken steps to combat harassment throughout the department. The 1,500 employees come from all parts of the department as well.
Zinke announced plans to combat harassment in the National Park Service last October, a week after The New York Times published the first story detailing allegations of sexual assault and harassment from Harvey Weinstein, igniting the national #MeToo movement.
A National Park Service Work Environment Survey from 2017 found that 10.4% of service employees had experienced sexual harassment, and 38.7% employees reported experiencing some form of harassment in the past year alone, according to the initial release.
Is every federal department this bad?
RUN, HILLARY, RUN! Another losing presidential candidacy is the best way she can serve her country.
Does she have to spell it out for you, America? Hillary Clinton wants you to beg her to run for president in 2020. On behalf of America, I am answering. Hillary Rodham Clinton, I beg you: Please run again.
Hillary Clinton is precisely the candidate the Democratic party needs. And the Democratic party she represents is exactly the one the country needs: foolhardy, inept, dismissive of reality, blind to appearances, deaf to lessons, alien to the heartland, and contemptuous of the voters. The longer Hillary Clinton remains the Democrats’ idea of a standard-bearer, the better off the country will be. She should run in 2020. And in 2024. And forever.
Forever is a mighty long time.
NORTH KOREAN DENUCLEARIZATION UPDATE:
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Friday North Korea understands the need to give up its existing nuclear weapons to achieve complete denuclearization and says it will do so. The only remaining questions are when and how, he added.
“North Korea promised complete denuclearization. It said it will give up nukes for economic development. (It) promised that it has no reason whatsoever to possess nukes while facing difficulties, such as sanctions, as long as the safety of their regime is guaranteed,” Moon said in an interview with Britain’s BBC news.
MORE:
Moon said the complete denuclearization that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un promised included giving up existing weapons when asked.
“Complete denuclearization that Chairman Kim Jong-un says starts from not staging additional nuclear tests or nuclear missile tests and goes to dismantling facilities that produce nuclear weapons and develop missiles,” the president said, according to a script of the interview released by his office Cheong Wa Dae.
“And it includes everything else, such as getting rid of existing nuclear weapons and nuclear materials,” he added.
Stay tuned.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI EDITION: Kavanaugh flyers torn down, students threatened with violence.
A NEW POST FROM THE DAY JOB:“Hey, Alexa!” Artificial Intelligence & the Lightbulb That Listens
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Caused by climate change? “In the midst of this disaster, The Guardian runs this headline: ‘Victims of Hurricane Michael voted for climate deniers.’ The article’s description: ‘Elections have consequences. Denying science has consequences. And we are reaping what we sow’.”
LEAVING SAN DIEGO: The USS Montgomery goes to sea.
HEALTH: Growing number of U.S. children not vaccinated against any disease.
An estimated 100,000 young children have not had a vaccination against any of the 14 diseases for which shots are recommended, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday.
“This is pretty concerning. It’s something we need to understand better — and reduce,” said the CDC’s Dr. Amanda Cohn.
Most young children — 70 percent — have had all their shots. The new estimate is based on finding that, in 2017, 1.3 percent of the children born in 2015 were completely unvaccinated. That’s up from the 0.9 percent seen in an earlier similar assessment of the kids born in 2011. A 2001 survey with a different methodology suggested the proportion was in the neighborhood of 0.3 percent.
Young children are especially vulnerable to complications from vaccine-preventable diseases, some of which can be fatal.
Flashback: Rich People in Hollywood Aren’t Vaccinating Their Children.
How many belong to the “Party of Science” or the “Reality-Based Community?”
LEFTY WOMEN SHOCKED TO ENCOUNTER LIBERAL MEN who are tired of angry #MeToo feminism. “I’m frustrated and embarrassed, my boyfriend of three years said to me, with how worked up you are.”
THAT’S OKAY, WEST VIRGINIA VOTERS ARE BIG ON YACHTS: Manchin’s Failure to Report $700K D.C. Yacht Sparks Call for Probe From Watchdog: Manchin lives on yacht while in D.C.
THEY STILL THINK THEY HAVEN’T RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Cash-strapped Venezuela sets new wages for oil workers as protests simmer.
BLACKBURN WAS MAKING THIS ARGUMENT BEFORE KAVANAUGH, BUT I IMAGINE IT HAS MORE RESONANCE NOW: Bredesen Campaigners: He’s Promising Voters “Kavanaugh,” But He’ll Give Them “Schumer.”
WELL, GOOD: Turkey Is Expected to Release American Pastor on Friday.
Mr. Brunson, who has been held since 2016, is due to appear in court near the coastal town of Izmir, where a judge is expected to drop some charges and, at most, sentence him to time already served, these people said. One person said Mr. Brunson also could be released on technical grounds.
In any case, he is expected to be handed back his passport and put on a plane to the U.S., the people said—an outcome people close to him said they would consider a victory.
Officials on both sides urged caution, warning a previous deal between Turkey and the U.S. for Mr. Brunson’s release had collapsed at the last minute.
His release could help improve relations between President Trump and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at a sensitive time in bilateral relations, as Ankara is seeking Washington’s support to confront Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of a journalist in Istanbul.
I had been assured that Trump’s blustering style would make this kind of trust-building measure impossible.
