HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: February 2017 MBE bar scores collapse to all-time record low in test history. Are the takers getting worse, or is the test getting harder? Answer: “And it’s not because the MBE was ‘harder’ than usual. Instead, it primarily reflects continued fall-out from law schools accepting more students of lower ability, then graduating those students who go on to take the bar exam.”
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: Arrests of illegal alien criminals jump 250% in one week.
As promised, immigration police have expanded their campaign to deport illegals with criminal records, announcing the seizure of 368 illegals in seven states and Washington, D.C.
That nearly a 250 percent increase over the 106 announced a week earlier.
The biggest seizures by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in Texas, but they made arrests as far north as Wyoming.
What’s more, they targeted members of the violent MS-13 gang and illegals charged with sex crimes against kids.
It’s going to be hard for the Dems to make campaign ads around that.
THE HILL: Supreme Court enters new era, raising conservative hopes.
The ascension of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court is expected to usher in a new conservative majority that could become part of President Trump’s legacy.
Gorsuch, who was confirmed by the Senate on Friday, is widely expected to shift the ideological balance of the court to the right, with his views seen as mostly in line with the man he is replacing: the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
But some court watchers say Gorsuch may be even more conservative than Scalia, his mentor and a fellow adherent to the originalist view of the Constitution.
“I think it’s interesting he’s cast as either a follower of Scalia or a more temperate version of Scalia, but in fact it seems that he may be quite to the right of Scalia in certain areas,” said Caroline Fredrickson, president of the left-leaning American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
Like Scalia, Gorsuch was part of a majority ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby stores. His 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that that the Affordable Care Act could not compel certain companies to provide health coverage for contraception if it violated their religious beliefs.
The Supreme Court upheld that ruling in 2014.
While Gorsuch ducked questions at his confirmation hearings about his views on equal protections for LGBTQ Americans, liberal groups expect him to give heavy weight to religious freedom in decisions about civil rights.
Don’t get too excited, guys, until Trump has replaced at least one left-leaning judge with a conservative. This was fundamentally just a holding action.
YEAH, I’M OKAY WITH THAT. FASTER, PLEASE! Don Surber: Trump is plowing and salting the fields of a bureaucratic oligarchy.
MEXICO IS A NEAR-FAILED STATE THAT DOESN’T FULLY CONTROL THE TERRITORY IT HAS NOW: Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back?
April 8, 2017
SELF-MARGINALIZATION: Clarksville NAACP Opposes U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s Visit To Austin Peay. This is self-marginalization both because it’s stupid (and it is) and because people on the right are no longer quite so willing to forgive and forget this sort of partisan game-playing. As a famous man once said, don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.
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WELL, WELL: Susan Rice Cancels Public Appearance. “There was fallout this weekend from the pending criminal investigation of Susan Rice for her role in Barack Obama’s illegal espionage of President Trump. Just a few hours before her scheduled appearance on Saturday before the Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women, Rice canceled her speech.”
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: The Fake Butt Phenomenon.
THIS IS TRUE:
Our cultural portrayal of young men is interesting, because we objectify them to be — essentially — perfect pleasure receivers. We assume they are so ugly, so inexperienced, and so gross that they’re unable of giving anyone else pleasure, and that they’re so horny and undersexed that even the lightest of sexual touches will send them off into a world of inarticulable delights.
But, I’ve been there and done that (done them) and the reality is a lot more nuanced. As it always is.
Perhaps I’m blessed with an unusually good memory (well, actually, yes, I am blessed with an unusually good memory) but this seems less surprising to me than it may to many.
HMM: How I Doubled My Testosterone Levels Naturally and You Can Too. I’m sure these techniques are of some benefit, but I suspect that starting out with levels artificially depressed due to stress is the key to such dramatic improvement.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that! I can honestly say that I’m in much better shape than I was when I was half my current age — because when I was half my current age I was in terrible shape. . . .
I’VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE WORSE THAN SUGAR, AND I THINK SUGAR’S TERRIBLE: New Research Breaks Down Why Artificial Sweeteners May Be Bad For You.
CNN NARRATIVE FAIL: Syrian Refugee Slams Clinton, Obama; Praises Trump.
The look on CNN host Brooke Baldwin’s face is priceless. (Bumped, by Glenn).
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor: ‘Trump Must Hang,’ Republicans Should Be Executed For Each Immigrant Deported.
CHANGE: Syphilis rates are up in gay and bisexual men; here’s why. Funny, when I was a kid syphilis had been almost eradicated.
I BLAME A PERVASIVE CULTURE OF INEQUALITY AND MISOGYNY: World Champion Women’s Soccer Team Loses to High School Boys’ Team 5-2.
I WONDER WHAT THEIR SECRET IS: Accepted, 8 times over: Ohio quadruplets earn spots at Yale, Harvard. “Honestly, to have one child from a family be accepted to a school like this is amazing. . . . But for all four to be accepted — I just don’t, I don’t know how it happened.” They’re not the first quadruplets to all be admitted to Yale.
UPDATE: First link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!
AND NO ONE IN THE GOVERNMENT WILL LOSE THEIR JOB: 100,000 Taxpayers Compromised In Hack Of FAFSA Tool At IRS.
DON SURBER: NYT Does A 180 on Russia. “Meh, I only quote these losers to point out what bad liars they are. Horrible. They cannot keep their story straight, and they are the only ones believing their lies. Pathetic. They cannot accept they lost last November.”
YOU F***ED UP — YOU TRUSTED US: ESPN Tells Hosts To Get More Political, Then Replaces Black Conservative Who Got Political.
Rush Limbaugh, whose firing marked the start of ESPN’s slow transformation into MSNBC with a more interesting B-roll, could not be reached for comment.
WHAT’S SAD IS THAT SUCH AN OBVIOUS DISPLAY OF COMMON SENSE IS NEWSWORTHY: Federal Judge Says Molestation Law Criminalizing Diaper Changes Violates Due Process.
THE SCOURGE OF BI-PHOBIA.
I WONDER WHERE THAT’S COMING FROM? As Measles Surges In Europe, Officials Brace For A Rough Year.
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I APPROVE: F.D.A. Will Allow 23andMe to Sell Genetic Tests for Disease Risk to Consumers. “For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration said it would allow a company to sell genetic tests for disease risk directly to consumers, providing people with information about the likelihood that they could develop various conditions, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.”
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Sorry, Democrats, The Obama Spying Scandal Isn’t Going Away.
But the fact is members of intelligence committees are not perfect about how they handle disclosure of classified information. Schiff has a reputation for lacking discretion, but many other Democratic members would be sure to face problems if mild mention of already public surveillance was cause for censure or oblique denials of FISA warrants. If Republicans wanted to make life difficult for Democrats on the committee, they could. Or as one anonymous official on the committee said, “There is evidence that some Democrats have leaked classified material — both inadvertently and intentionally.”
The House is busy with health care discussions and on a spring break. But Rep. Nunes will continue to dig into the potentially improper handling of information collected on Trump associates. And now he’ll have more time to do so. Those who watched him investigating previous intelligence problems know he is like a dog with a bone when it comes to getting to the bottom of wrongdoing. Whether Democrats agree with Nunes’ decision to go public with the news of the unmasking and dissemination of information about Trump associates, the fact that the public knows about it means that an investigation must continue.
Sorry-not-sorry.
MEGABOTS: The Giant Freaking Robot Fight—U.S. vs. Japan—Is Now Set!
My eleven-year-old is thrilled about this — and Dad might be, too.
SHORT ANSWERS TO HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT HPV. “This week, the federal government reported that nearly half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 59 are infected with genital human papillomavirus — some strains of which can cause deadly cancer. The report, by the National Center for Health Statistics, notes that HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. It also said that some high-risk strains infected 25 percent of men and 20 percent of women, and cause about 31,000 cases of cancer each year.”
KNOWN WOLF: Stockholm Truck Attack Suspect Was Previously Investigated Over Extremism.
Swedish police said Saturday they were racing to draw a more complete profile of the man, who was apprehended Friday night in a Stockholm suburb after a five-hour manhunt, to determine whether he acted alone or as part of a broader network in what authorities called a terrorist attack.
The suspect had been flagged as recently as last year, authorities said. An undisclosed source had alerted authorities that he posed a potential security risk, said Dan Eliasson, the head of Sweden’s national police. Sweden’s security services determined, however, that their information on the man was of a “marginal character,” he added.
“We are of course analyzing his social media, his contacts, his whereabouts to examine his links” to foreign terrorist groups, he said.
Clearly, the West sucks at vetting. Either procedures improve or more people die.
BUT IF IT SAVES JUST ONE MICROWAVE, ISN’T IT WORTH IT? Idaho’s $4.3 Million Solar Project Generates Enough Energy to Run ONE Microwave Oven.
(Classical allusion in headline.)
NEVER FORGET: Vogue’s Fawning Profile of Asma Al-Assad. The link to the Vogue story in that piece is now dead, but here’s an archived copy.
IN THE MAIL: From Richard J. Herrnstein & Charles Murray, Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.
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YESTERDAY IT WAS THE RUSSIANS: Hillary Clinton says misogyny ‘certainly’ played a role in 2016 election loss.
Women-hating Russians with frog avatars told her not to campaign in Wisconsin.
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: Left’s Talking Point On Gerrymandering Put To Rest.
During the second half of the Obama era, it became an article of faith among many Democrats that Republicans had essentially stolen the House of Representatives and polarized the government by nefariously redrawing district lines in their party’s favor. But it was always clear to impartial observers that the impact of gerrymandering had been greatly exaggerated, and that demographic changes in the distribution of the population played a far greater role. A new analysis from the nonpartisan Cook Political Report confirms this: “As it turns out, gerrymandering wasn’t as much of a factor in the House’s polarization as some redistricting reform advocates might argue. Of the 92 “Swing Seats” that have vanished since 1997, 83 percent of the decline has resulted from natural geographic sorting of the electorate from election to election, while only 17 percent of the decline has resulted from changes to district boundaries.” . . .
But however comforting it might be to imagine that Congressional polarization is the result of reversible partisan machinations, the fact is that it has much more to do with broad-based geographical sorting. Democrats trying to break out of their “built-in” disadvantage in the House and state legislatures should spend less time railing against gerrymandering and more time trying to reach voters outside of their dense, hyper-sorted urban strongholds.
Hey, toward the end of the campaign, Hillary had a “rural outreach” person at her Brooklyn headquarters.
FAITH MOORE: New York Times Op-Ed Says Families Where Wife Stays Home Aren’t ‘Egalitarian’
Arbeit macht frei?
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Woman Banned From Uber for Life After Threatening to Falsely Accuse Driver of Rape. “Luckily the driver had the whole encounter on video, where it even appears she hit him at one point. She also threatened to punch herself in the face and tell the cops the driver had punched her.”
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DAVID BERNSTEIN: The post-constitutional world of Judge Richard Posner.
REALITY SINKS IN: Gay voters embrace French far-right.
Motivated in part by the deadly Islamic extremist attacks at home and at a Florida gay nightclub, a growing bloc of traditionally left-leaning gay voters has embraced far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, leader of the once-fringe National Front party.
“Faced with the current threats, particularly from radical Islam, gays have realized they’ll be the first victims of these barbarians, and only Marine is proposing radical solutions,” said Kelvin Hopper, 25, a gay artist who lives in a hipster district of Paris and plans to cast his ballot for Le Pen.
While nobody knows how far Le Pen’s supporters will carry her in the April 23-May 7 vote, several years of polls have shown the National Front is now more popular with the LGBT voters who make up 6.5 percent of the French electorate than it is with straight voters.
Say what you want about Le Pen, she won’t be throwing gays off buildings.
EXCELLENT CHOICE: White House names Neomi Rao as next ‘regulatory czar.’
Prior to joining the faculty at the Scalia Law School, Rao worked in the White House counsel’s office in the George W. Bush administration and as a staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She worked for Clifford Chance in London and clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Rao also serves as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and is co-chair of the Regulatory Policy Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.
Trump’s selection of Rao suggests the administration is serious about regulatory reform, not merely reducing high-profile regulatory burdens. The selection of a well-respected administrative law expert further suggests the administration recognizes the need to be attentive to legal constraints on administrative action and that meaningful reforms require more than issuing a few executive orders. Rao is a superlative pick.
As Abner Mikva later reflected (gloated?) one reason why so many Reagan Revolution reforms foundered in the courts was insufficient attention to the niceties of administrative law. I’m glad to see that the Trump Administration is taking the right steps to avoid that error.
WELL: Source: Trump ‘expects’ four more Supreme Court picks.
President Trump believes that he will have the opportunity to pack the Supreme Court with five judges, making him only the seventh president to appoint a majority and potentially cementing his legacy and that of the conservative court well past 2055.
Buoyed by the Senate’s expected confirmation today of Neil Gorsuch to replace the late Antonin Scalia, Trump has told associates that he fully expects to name four more justices.
“He expects to name five to the court,” said one of those associates.
A new report on the court reveals that the average age of justices who leave the court is 79. Scalia was 79 when he died.
By the end of Trump’s first term, three will have crossed that line, Anthony Kennedy, who will be 83, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who will be 86, and Stephen Breyer, who will be 81. The next oldest is Clarence Thomas, who will be 71.
Supreme Court justices are notoriously long-lived, but the actuarial odds aren’t bad for Trump. I certainly hope he gets to fill several seats.
NEW LEFTY THESIS: Donald Trump Is Functionally Illiterate, Can’t Really Read.
I’ve heard similar stuff about every GOP president from W., who read dozens of books a year, all the way back to Gerald Ford, who was a Yale Law grad. But imagine that it’s true. If it’s true, then Hillary and all the brightest minds of the left were beaten like drums by a man who can’t even read!
But maybe, as with Reagan, it’s all just an act.
ALEXANDER BOLTON: McConnell’s shining moment.
Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court is a huge victory for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), a frequent target of conservatives who saved Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat for the right.
When Scalia died suddenly in February 2016, in seemed certain that then-President Obama would be able to tilt the court to the left with his third appointment.
Instead, McConnell issued a statement within hours that essentially shut the door on an Obama appointment, stating “this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
The Senate GOP backed McConnell up, and Donald Trump won the presidential election in an upset of Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Months later, Trump nominated Gorsuch. McConnell made good on his promise to see the judge confirmed, even triggering the controversial “nuclear option” to break Democrats’ blockade and end filibusters for Supreme Court nominees.
“When the final chapter in Mitch McConnell’s book is written, this will place very prominently,” said Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).
“It prevented the court from going in a completely opposite direction, so in that sense, it’s a huge victory, consequential for decades,” he added.
McConnell on Friday, moments before the Senate confirmed Gorsuch, said the decision to keep the seat open was “the most consequential decision I’ve ever been involved in.”
The strategy leaves McConnell as an unlikely hero of hard-line conservative activists who have sometimes criticized him over as an establishment figure too willing to craft deals with Democrats.
True.
April 7, 2017
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MAKES SENSE; MY HAIR PRIVILEGE ENDED BY THE TIME COLLEGE WAS OVER AS WELL: Villanova Student Shaves Her Head to Confront ‘Hair Privilege.’
THIS IS GENERALLY, ALTHOUGH NOT UNIVERSALLY, TRUE: Suzanne Venker: We Need To Admit That Men Need Sex More Than Women Do. “As a rule, men communicate via sex. Via action. Your husband isn’t being insulting when you walk by and he grabs your butt. He’s not being rude when he turns some innocuous statement you made into something sexual. (If I had a dollar for every time that happens in our house!) He’s trying to get close to you. So let him. If he didn’t do those things, you’d have a problem on your hands.”
Well, that’s where the Maintenance Sex comes in, you know. And maintenance sex has saved some InstaPundit readers’ marriages.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO MURDER: Wife gets 40 years for putting antifreeze in husband’s steroids.
THEODORE DALRYMPLE on outrage: “Outrage is a substitute for religion: It convinces us that our existence has some kind of meaning or significance beyond itself, that is to say beyond the paltry flux of day-to-day existence, especially when that existence is a securely comfortable one. Therefore we go looking for things to be outraged about as anteaters look for ants. Of all emotions, outrage is not only one of the most pleasurable but also one of the most reliable.”
FROM WHAT I KNOW ABOUT HIM, HE’S A GOOD CHOICE, BUT HE WAS POSITIONED TO BE A STRONG CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. I WONDER IF SOMEBODY ENCOURAGED THIS TO TAKE HIM OUT OF COMPETITION? President Trump nominates Tennessee state Sen. Mark Green for Army secretary.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 1860s series of photos illustrating the ‘5 stages of inebriation’
Larry Miller’s take is both more modern and more accurate.
DAVID SOLWAY ASKS, WHAT WILL TRUMP’S SECOND HUNDRED DAYS BE LIKE?
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Woman says Fitbit helped save her life. “A few months ago, she wasn’t feeling well and thought her sinus infection may have turned into pneumonia. ‘I went to the doctors to have that checked out and that turned out to be negative,’ she told CBS News. Lauder then noticed her resting heart rate on her Fitbit was climbing higher and higher every day. One day, she experienced shortness of breath and her heart rate spiked to 140 beats per minute, so she called an ambulance right away. She underwent a CT scan and doctors discovered a potentially life-threatening problem – two pulmonary embolisms, or blood clots clogging an artery in the lung.”
RELAX, EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY ON THE IMMIGRATION FRONT: Sweden: Soldiers of Odin target Muslim school in Stockholm.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Yale punished male student for writing essay that said rape is an ‘irrational act,’ lawsuit says.
ROGER SIMON: “I’m on RCP again this aft. It’s about the hundredth time in the last two years. (Yes, I bribe them.) Naturally, this brings out the trolls in force. I can’t imagine they have any impact at all on readers. Most of them are too obvious. Some, I suppose, do this out of “love,” but many are obviously paid and have pre-written talking points. You can see this because their responses are always vaguely off-topic. Anyway, what I’d like to know – and perhaps someone in our group has some information – just how much are these people paid and by whom? Yes, I know Soros is often the Grand Paymaster in the Sky, but how exactly does it work?”
I’ve often wondered this myself — any clues?
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should you stand or walk on the escalator?
Huh. It’s faster if everybody just stands.
Update: Link was weird, fixed now — sorry!
TOM KNIGHTON: Why Climate Change Models Are So Horrendous.
21ST CENTURY CLAIMS: We Aren’t Using Your Robocar Laser Beam Secrets.
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NAME THAT PARTY: Seattle Mayor Murray sued for alleged sexual assault of teen in 1980s.
The 46-year-old Kent man filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court on Thursday claiming Murray “raped and molested him,” as first reported by the Seattle Times.
D.H. alleged he met Murray when he was 15-years-old on a Metro bus, and Murray, who was about 32-years-old at the time, propositioned D.H. to visit his Capitol Hill apartment for sex. The encounters continued for “an extended period of time,” according to court documents.
“Addicted to drugs at the time, D.H. was willing to do whatever Mr. Murray asked for as little as $10-20,” the lawsuit claimed.
Murray’s lawyer denied the allegations and said, “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that these allegations have occurred in the midst of a mayoral campaign.”
However:
D.H. wasn’t the first person to accuse Murray of sexual abuse. Jeff Simpson of Portland, Ore. also claimed Murray abused him as a teenager in the 1980s.
Simpson, 49, said he first met Murray when he was six-years-old living in an orphanage. Murray was appointed Simpson’s resource parent, according to Simpson, and Simpson said he later went to live with Murray.
“He was my only parent figure,” said Simpson, who now works on a county road crew.
The details are shocking, but report did omit just one: Murray is a Democrat.
EMBRACING MULTICULTURALISM: Swedish football fans protest mask ban by wearing niqabs. “A group of Swedish football fans have launched a protest against a new ban on wearing masks at stadiums, exploiting an exception to the ban by wearing niqabs to cover their faces. On March 1st, the ban on wearing masks in the stands at Swedish football stadiums entered into force in an effort to combat violent behaviour at games. Exceptions to the ban can be made however for people covering their faces in the line of duty like police, or people who cover their face for religious reasons. And it was the latter exception that some supporters of Stockholm club AIK exploited during their Allsvenskan season opener against Häcken on Sunday. A number of ultras wore niqabs to the match at the Friends Arena.”
YUGE:
"The United States will no longer wait for Assad to use chemical weapons without any consequences. Those days are over." – @NikkiHaley pic.twitter.com/PMb24zpPId
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 7, 2017
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Dietary fats make worms live almost 50% longer—no human results yet. “No studies in humans yet, but plant-based diets are definitely healthier anyway.”
BRIDGET JOHNSON: Russia Slams U.S. Strikes, Warns ‘New WMD Attacks Can be Expected’
GROUNDHOG DAY: Activity Continues at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site.
Over the past four weeks, there have been unusually high levels of activity at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, especially around the North Portal—the tunnel in which the four most recent nuclear tests have taken place. New commercial satellite imagery from April 2 indicates continued activity in this area and at the Main Administrative Area, while the rest of the facility remains quiet. This pattern of activity could mean a sixth nuclear test is imminent, but the imagery does not provide any definitive evidence of the installation of a nuclear device or the exact timing of such a test.
I hope President Trump brings this up, complete with the photos at the link, in his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
READER BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Reader Evan Mayerle emails: “A first novel, “Hells’ Gate” by Bill Schutt and J. R. Finch, is a retro-techno-thriller with lots of action and enough odd tech bits thrown together to make quite a story. With proper treatment and casting it would make a great start for a new Hollywood franchise, but I doubt Hollywood is that competent and I know they’d cut some of the back history of the main character.”
NYT today: Missile Strikes on Syria Put U.S. Relationship With Russia at Risk.
NYT on Monday: Trump Tries to Deflect Russia Scrutiny, Citing ‘Crooked Scheme’ by Obama.
C’mon, fellas — which is it?
HEALTH: 23andMe is finally allowed to tell you if you have the genes for Parkinson’s.
Nine other diseases made the FDA’s approval list, including late-onset Alzheimer’s and celiac disease.
I get the feeling that an awful lot of people who think they’re sensitive to gluten are going to be disappointed with their results.
HORRIFIC MURDER CASE PUTS MILWAUKEE’S PROGRESSIVE FAILURES IN SPOTLIGHT: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin has been a bastion of the Left for over a century now; the last Republican mayor left office in 1908, and a string of Democratic and socialist mayors has ensued. Various sources have rated the city as one of the ten poorest in the nation, and also as one of the most segregated.”
Why are Democrat-monopoly cities such cesspits of violence, poverty, and segregation?
CHANGE: New Chinese Immigrants Are Different From Chinese Americans And Proud Of It. “The boisterous new diaspora from China is of a different breed. Their voice in the U.S. will only become louder as their home country becomes more powerful.”
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE? France Isn’t Good for the Jews.
MICHAEL F. CANNON: Here’s How Trump Can Get Congress To Repeal And Replace Obamacare.
The Mo Brooks Method still seems the best and most straightforward.
SHOULD DEMOCRATS MOVE LEFT IN DOWN-BALLOT RACES?
It’s either that or try Rahm Emmanuel’s faux-moderate “Blue Dog” approach of 2006, aka “Nancy Pelosi’s Crash Test Dummies,” most of whom ended up being slaughtered in the 2010 midterms after they voted en masse for Obamacare. Would voters fall for the same strategy once again? Pretending to be moderate and free of drooling Trump Derangement Syndrome would likely be quite a challenging sell.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Google is wading into the battle against online fake news and adding a fact check to its search results.
The Californian tech giant announced on Friday that it is rolling out globally a feature in its search and news results that will assess the authenticity of information shown.
Google isn’t doing this fact-checking itself: Instead, it’s relying on respected independent fact-checking organisations like PolitiFact and Snopes to provide the info.
No bias there.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Sean Davis nails it:
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT INSTITUTIONS SUCH HOTBEDS OF SEXISM AND LEONARD COHEN REFERENCES? Rachel Maddow Fans Accuse MSNBC of Sexism for Bumping Her for Brian Williams.
To be fair though, Williams did manage to namedrop a pretty cool song while playing anchorman last night. You never heard Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley riffing on Gerry and the Pacemakers during Vietnam, did you?
UPDATE (from Steve): I dunno, Ed — Brinkley could be surprisingly hip.
SALON: Donald Trump, who’s totally not Vladimir Putin’s puppet, warned Russia before airstrikes on Syria.
Can you imagine the headlines if Russia hadn’t been warned — doing so in Syria is a routine matter between Moscow and Washington, and has been since President Obama — and Russian personnel had been killed in the attack?
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Forget it, Steve, it’s Salontown.
THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED, FASCISM WOULD STALK AMERICAN CAMPUSES. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Heather Mac Donald speech on ‘War on Cops’ shut down at Claremont, partly shouted down at UCLA.
This behavior needs to be punished. But don’t expect anything constructive from faculty: An Anti-Koch Meltdown at Wake Forest: Professors are attacking the billionaires and undermining academic freedom.
Though to be fair, my own Faculty Senate stood up quite strongly for free speech and academic freedom on campus last semester.
MICHAEL TOTTEN: In Assad’s Syria, the Lesser of Two Evils is Still Evil.
HILLARY BLAMES THE RUSSIANS FOR HER LOSS: ‘More effective theft even than Watergate’
Notice, please, the smug implication that the White House was somehow hers already and that it was stolen from her by others — others who weren’t the American voters.
BREAKING: GORSUCH CONFIRMED TO SUPREME COURT, 54-45.
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ROGER SIMON: Trump Schools Obama and Democrats with Attack on Assad.
If history is any indication, the spin from the left as this plays out will be astonishing to watch, as these flashbacks from 2013 and the late 1990s illustrate:
(Bumped.)
SWEDEN TERROR: Truck plows into department store, killing at least 2.
More at Hot Mic.
UPDATE: And the almost-inevitable attempt at deflection from Chris Cillizza.