ME, A WEEK AGO ON WHAT TO EXPECT POST-KAVANAUGH

Instapundit  Blog Archive  ME, A WEEK AGO ON WHAT TO EXPECT POST-KAVANAUGH: ►Strange new respect for judicial minimalism. …
OCTOBER 13, 2018--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.

--Posted by Glenn Reynolds

Washington Post Perspectives: Last night I told my husband 'I hate all men and wish all men were dead'

Washington Post Perspectives: Last night I told my husband 'I hate all men and wish all men were dead'
"Now for something completely different. 
The Washington Post has a “Post Everything” section where it posts opinion pieces from people who aren’t regular writers for the paper. 
Today, the Post published a piece that really seemed out there. 
It’s titled, “Thanks for not raping us, all you ‘good men.’ But it’s not enough.”

If you guessed from the title that this is not going to be a carefully reasoned piece, you guessed right. 

It opens with author Victoria Bissell Brown, a retired history professor, screaming at her husband over something she admits was a very trivial comment:

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...

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DePaul University Blacklists Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens | Breitbart

DePaul University Blacklists Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens | Breitbart:

DePaul University has blacklisted Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens from speaking on the university’s campus, denying conservative students the same experiences afforded to their liberal counterparts.

JMU student gets 100-120 days in prison for registering dead people to vote | Virginia | richmond.com

JMU student gets 100-120 days in prison for registering dead people to vote | Virginia | richmond.com:
A 21-year-old man who pleaded guilty last week to filing 18 phony voter registration applications in Harrisonburg will spend 100 to 120 days in prison, according to federal prosecutors in the Western District of Virginia.
Andrew J. Spieles of Harrisonburg admitted to filing the fraudulent registrations in August while working with Democratic-affiliated groups as a student at James Madison University ahead of the 2016 presidential election..."
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Facebook Cleans House - Purges Several Top Conservative Pages FOUR WEEKS BEFORE ELECTION

Facebook Cleans House - Purges Several Top Conservative Pages FOUR WEEKS BEFORE ELECTION
"On Thursday Facbeook announced the company took action on 559 Pages and 251 accounts that violated their “spam” and coordinated “inauthentic behavior” policies.

Facebook said most of those affected were political pages....

And now, several hours later, we are hearing that most of the purged political pages were on the right.

Facebook purged several conservative sites just four weeks before the election and without warning.

Facebook took down Right Wing News – a conservative page with over 3 million followers.

Brian Kolfage at Right Wing News reported:

I have been managing the Right Wing News Facebook page, and have been involved with the brand for many years.

And just today, Facebook took down our Facebook page, cutting off all contact we had with the millions of people who signed up to follow us, the millions of people who liked what we were sharing online.

I took over managing the page when John Hawkins decided to step aside to pursue other endeavors. John and I have a great relationship and I was honored to have the torch passed down to me. We had a coveted, verified blue check mark 3.5 Million fans, and I invested over $300,000 in ads at Facebook’s own request, nearly begging us to spend spend spend just to reach our fans … whom they kept making more difficult to reach with every passing year.

...No one from Facebook has reached out to any of these Facebook page owners to discuss their concerns..."

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Hmmm. I wonder what they mean by "time to take action".-----And today, 25 days from Election Day, is the time to take action.

Ralph -- There is so much is at stake in the midterm elections. We have the potential to put power into the hands of people who will actually stand up for the rights and well-being of their constituents. And today, 25 days from Election Day, is the time to take action. Debbie Stabenow is running for Senate in Michigan to bring sense back to Washington, and fight for you on the issues that matter most. You can take action with the campaign now. Don't underestimate the impact an individual can have. Talking to voters in these next 25 days is crucial to getting out the vote and electing real leaders. There is still time to make a difference in the midterm elections. Volunteer with Debbie Stabenow now....Dana Mayber-Campaigns Director--Organizing for Action

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New Book: More Than 80% Of Americans Reject 'PC Culture' | Daily Wire

New Book: More Than 80% Of Americans Reject 'PC Culture' | Daily Wire:

"Among the general population, a full 80 percent believe that 'political correctness is a problem in our country.' Even young people are uncomfortable with it, including 74 percent ages 24 to 29, and 79 percent under age 24. On this particular issue, the woke are in a clear minority across all ages," the study found.

The curious case of the Nazi pug - spiked

The curious case of the Nazi pug - spiked
Watch spiked’s film on Count Dankula and the fall of liberal Britain.

"Markus Meechan was working in a call centre just outside Glasgow, and spending his free time making memes and YouTube skits under the name Count Dankula, when the Scottish police knocked on his door. 
He was arrested, charged, prosecuted and eventually convicted of being ‘grossly offensive’, all for making a video in which he taught his pet pug to do a Nazi salute. 
He was criminalised, and smeared as far right in the media. 
In this film, spiked columnist Andrew Doyle went to meet the man behind the meme. 
He found that Markus’s bizarre and terrifying story is one of a once liberal Britain that has gone down a dark and authoritarian road."

AM Fruitcake

History for October 13

History for October 13 - On-This-Day.com
Molly Pitcher (Mary Hays McCauley) 1744, Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block) 1909 - Editorial cartoonist, Nipsey Russell 1924 - Comedian


Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider) 1925 - Comedian, satirist, Margaret Thatcher 1925 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Paul Simon 1941 - Musician


1943 - During World War II, Italy signed an armistice with the Allies and declared war on Germany.


1957 - Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special.

Staffers for TN Senate Candidate Phil Bredesen Caught on Tape Admitting he lied about Supporting Kavanaugh

Staffers for TN Senate Candidate Phil Bredesen Caught on Tape Admitting he lied about Supporting Kavanaugh:

Stewart reiterated that the Bredesen campaign’s moderate messaging is purely for political optics:
Between you and me, once Phil actually gets into the Senate, he’ll be a good Democrat.
Stewart then agreed with the undercover journalist's insincere insult of Tennessee voters:
JOURNALIST: So he’ll lose voters if he says yes [to not confirming Kavanaugh]?
STEWART: Oh, straight up, yeah.
JOURNALIST: Are the people of Tennessee that ignorant?
STEWART: Yeah.

NBC's Ken Dilanian: North Dakota, New York Having Same Number of Senate Votes 'Has to Change'

NBC's Ken Dilanian: North Dakota, New York Having Same Number of Senate Votes 'Has to Change'
"...Ken Dilanian, a reporter for NBC News, tweeted on Monday that the idea of North Dakota and New York having the same amount of senators "has to change" because of the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

"It may not happen in our lifetimes, but the idea that North Dakota and New York get the same representation in the Senate has to change," Dilanian tweeted, linking to a Washington Postarticle about the confirmation of Kavanaugh. 

"Senators representing less than half the U.S. are about to confirm a nominee opposed by most Americans"...

Read on.

Ken Dilanian

✔@KenDilanianNBC

It may not happen in our lifetimes, but the idea that North Dakota and New York get the same representation in the Senate has to change. “Senators representing less than half the U.S. are about to confirm a nominee opposed by most Americans” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/06/senators-representing-less-than-half-us-are-about-confirm-nominee-opposed-by-most-americans/ …

12:23 PM - Oct 6, 2018

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Wow! MUST VIEW!!-----Watch: GOP Ad 'The Left: An Unhinged Mob'

Watch: GOP Ad 'The Left: An Unhinged Mob'
The Republican National Committee (RNC) published an ad on Thursday casting Democrats and the broader left as “an unhinged mob,” blending together comments of incitement from Democrats with video segments of violent leftist protesters.

Featured Democrats included Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Maxine Waters (D-CA), former Attorney General Eric Holder, and Hillary Clinton.

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HS Principal Boots Student from Football Game for Wearing 'Trump 45' Jersey -- After Liberals Complain (VIDEO)

HS Principal Boots Student from Football Game for Wearing 'Trump 45' Jersey -- After Liberals Complain (VIDEO)
"A Harnett Central High School student was asked to remove his Trump 45 jersey at a Friday night football game.
Angry liberals complained to the principal who then told the boy to remove the jersey.
The student felt embarrassed that he could not wear a jersey supporting President Trump at the football game.

Conservative Tribune reported:

According to WTVD, ABC 11 in Durham, an 18-year-old student was ordered to change a jersey he wore with the name “Trump” and the number “45” for a football game Friday night, then marched off the premises by the school’s principal.

And his father isn’t happy about it at all.

“I think any mother or father would feel like I feel,” Mike Collins told the news station.

“We don’t want any kids violated. We don’t want to see kids embarrassed over something like this,” Collins said. “He was not disrespectful. He was not acting in a manner that would cause attention to him.”

ABC 11 has the video:

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