Wednesday, January 01, 2020
‘The Squad’ Is Silent About Anti-Semitic Stabbings in New York...
Instapundit Blog Archive SQUAD GOALS:
"‘The Squad’ Is Silent About Anti-Semitic Stabbings in New York.
"‘The Squad’ Is Silent About Anti-Semitic Stabbings in New York.
And there are plenty of Democratic Party operatives with bylines who are quite happy to help them maintain that silence.
(Politically correct) predictions for the academy in 2020 | The College Fix
(Politically correct) predictions for the academy in 2020 | The College Fix"University communities never cease to amaze us with their capacity for politically correct adolescent antics.
Each year the inanity quotient gets a giant uptick.
What are some of the possibilities in the year to come?
Your friendly neighborhood assistant editor speculates …
Your friendly neighborhood assistant editor speculates …
- —“White Fragility” author and speaker Robin DiAngelo will drop a sequel titled “White Brittleness” in the first half of the year.
“Brittleness” will focus on racism as literally a part of everything, even things you’d never, ever suspect (DiAngelo does have a PhD in multicultural education, after all).
Buying a new washer and dryer?
The name of the manufacturer can be traced back to 18th-century slaveholders. Sending a letter and putting the flag up on your mailbox?
Remember what the American flag represents.
Educators referring to what they write on with chalk as a “blackboard”? How dare you.
- —Student and faculty activists will push for further PC edits to old movies and TV shows..."
Joe Biden Suggests Coal Miners Should Learn To Code | The Daily Caller
Joe Biden Suggests Coal Miners Should Learn To Code | The Daily Caller:
Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested Monday that displaced coal miners should learn to code.
“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden said at a New Hampshire event Monday. He added later: “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested Monday that displaced coal miners should learn to code.
“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden said at a New Hampshire event Monday. He added later: “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
Squatters break into a vacant home in Oakland then demand the owners allow them to live there "in the interest of justice" - The Daily Sheeple
Squatters break into a vacant home in Oakland then demand the owners allow them to live there "in the interest of justice" - The Daily Sheeple
"Two homeless mothers have temporarily beaten back an eviction attempt brought by the property owners of the vacant West Oakland home they have occupied – without the owner’s permission – for the past six weeks.
On Monday Judge Patrick McKinney heard from both sides inside a jammed-packed courtroom before delaying a decision on whether or not the women would be evicted.
“I want to carefully consider the issues that have been raised,” he said.
...Simon-Weisberg told the judge the women should be allowed to live in the house “in the interest of justice” and based on a needs analysis of Oakland’s homelessness crisis..."
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"Two homeless mothers have temporarily beaten back an eviction attempt brought by the property owners of the vacant West Oakland home they have occupied – without the owner’s permission – for the past six weeks.On Monday Judge Patrick McKinney heard from both sides inside a jammed-packed courtroom before delaying a decision on whether or not the women would be evicted.
“I want to carefully consider the issues that have been raised,” he said.
...Simon-Weisberg told the judge the women should be allowed to live in the house “in the interest of justice” and based on a needs analysis of Oakland’s homelessness crisis..."
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The IRS Placed A Lien On Hunter Biden For About $113,000 In Unpaid Taxes From Year He Served On Burisma Board | The Daily Caller
The IRS Placed A Lien On Hunter Biden For About $113,000 In Unpaid Taxes From Year He Served On Burisma Board | The Daily Caller:
The IRS placed a tax lien on Hunter Biden seeking $112,805 in unpaid taxes from 2015, according to records the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained.
The federal agency issued the previously unreported lien in November 2018 and it seeks unpaid taxes for a year in which Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, served on the boards of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings and the Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners.
The IRS placed a tax lien on Hunter Biden seeking $112,805 in unpaid taxes from 2015, according to records the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained.The federal agency issued the previously unreported lien in November 2018 and it seeks unpaid taxes for a year in which Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, served on the boards of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings and the Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners.
12 of the Most Mortifying Media Bias Moments of 2019
12 of the Most Mortifying Media Bias Moments of 2019
Jussie Smollett (by: zz/Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx via AP)
My immediate reaction to seeing this story was, "They only found 12"?
Indeed, the media was a target-rich environment this past year.
MAGA hat rage, Jussie Smollett, the dud Mueller report, "collusion" meltdown; the list could be endless.
Grabien, which has specialized in these "video montages" of idiotic media moments, outdid themselves this year with "The 12 Most Mortifying Media Moments of 2019."
A lot of these media flubs are of the "Don't you wish you knew what we know now" variety," like Jussie Smollett.
The media’s unfortunate habit of stepping on rakes shaped like fake hate crimes continued apace into February. When TMZ first reported that actor Jussie Smollett was the victim of a vicious hate crime, it sounded almost impossible to believe..."
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‘Evil Exists’: Trump-Supporting Armed Congregant Speaks Out In Viral Post After Taking Out Church Shooter | The Daily Caller
‘Evil Exists’: Trump-Supporting Armed Congregant Speaks Out In Viral Post After Taking Out Church Shooter | The Daily Caller:
An armed church security guard who shot and killed the gunman who attacked a church in White Settlement, Texas on Sunday spoke out in a Sunday night Facebook post.
Jack Wilson, a candidate for Hood County commissioner who, according to his campaign’s Facebook page, owns a business called On Target Firearms Training Academy, Inc. and is a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, was one of two armed volunteer security guards who took down the gunman.
Jack Wilson, a candidate for Hood County commissioner who, according to his campaign’s Facebook page, owns a business called On Target Firearms Training Academy, Inc. and is a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, was one of two armed volunteer security guards who took down the gunman.
Exposing Junk Science!
By Paul Homewood--h/t Joe Public
However the Guardian claim is based on electricity only, and not all energy, a distinction that apparently is beyond Christiana.
Furthermore, a third of renewable electricity comes from biomass, which most experts now accept is extremely bad for the environment and will not reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
When we look at total primary energy consumption, we find that Christiana’s much vaunted wind and solar power only contributes a paltry 4% in Q3, even when hydro power is added in.
Meanwhile fossil fuels accounted for 77%.
Don’t worry about facts, Christiana!
However the Guardian claim is based on electricity only, and not all energy, a distinction that apparently is beyond Christiana.
Furthermore, a third of renewable electricity comes from biomass, which most experts now accept is extremely bad for the environment and will not reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
When we look at total primary energy consumption, we find that Christiana’s much vaunted wind and solar power only contributes a paltry 4% in Q3, even when hydro power is added in.
Meanwhile fossil fuels accounted for 77%.
History for January 1
History for January 1 - On-This-Day.com
Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 - Italian politician, diplomat, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico), heir to Medici banking empire, Paul Revere 1735, Betsy Ross (Elizabeth Griscom) 1752
George Washington Carver 1860, J. Edgar Hoover (U.S.) 1895, Barry Goldwater 1909
1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba.
1984 - AT&T was broken up into 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement with the U.S. Federal government.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
True North: The Principles of Conservatism | The Heritage Foundation
True North: The Principles of Conservatism | The Heritage Foundation:
The Heritage Foundation formulates policies that promote free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. Heritage does not support policies that deviate from these principles, nor are our recommendations ever influenced by donations or outside political pressure.
You can barely make it to GR and back in the winter...if your lucky!-----20 Downsides Of Electric Vehicles Drivers Often Overlook
20 Downsides Of Electric Vehicles Drivers Often Overlook"For almost 10 years now, electric vehicles have been the talk of the car industry.
...However, EV manufacturers have hidden the downsides of those vehicles.
The purpose of this list is to reveal to you the 20 things they won’t tell you.
Keep reading to discover why electric cars are still far from perfect.
Here’s why you should think twice before purchasing one.
- Short Range Anxiety
Range anxiety is the number-one factor when it comes to EV downsides. Simply, modern electric vehicles are still range-limited due to their small capacity batteries.
Most affordable electric cars on the market have a bit more than a 130-mile-range..."
Long, ugly list.
Playtoy for rich eco-preeners.
Read all.
Solid democrats!-----Union Bosses Rack Up $60,000 Cigar Bill on Union Outing
Union Bosses Rack Up $60,000 Cigar Bill on Union Outing"A federal complaint filed against the leader of the United Auto Workers union has uncovered lavish spending and alleges that union leadership repeatedly misused and encouraged the misuse of union funds.
A federal complaint filed in September, alleges that Gary Jones — the former president of the United Auto Workers — spent $13,000 of the union’s money in one day at a cigar store in 2015, according to The New York Times.
...The filing says that in the four years, union officials spent $1 million on outings, including four-figure dinners, months-long rentals of villas in Palms Spring, California, and golf outings.
It also alleges they spent $60,000 dollars on cigars and cigar paraphernalia during that time period..."
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Obama Appointee Blocks North Carolina from Requiring Voter ID | Breitbart
Obama Appointee Blocks North Carolina from Requiring Voter ID | Breitbart:
U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Biggs has delayed a decision on North Carolina voter ID legislation until next week.
Judge Biggs, an Obama appointee, has temporarily blocked measures that would require legal identification at the ballot box in 2020. Notification of the delay was appended to NAACP et al v. Cooper, one of two lawsuits challenging the new restrictions. The decision comes just before a statewide mailing which would explain them.
Judge Biggs, an Obama appointee, has temporarily blocked measures that would require legal identification at the ballot box in 2020. Notification of the delay was appended to NAACP et al v. Cooper, one of two lawsuits challenging the new restrictions. The decision comes just before a statewide mailing which would explain them.
Hmmm. Transgender man gives birth to non-binary partner's baby with female sperm donor - Mirror Online
- Transgender man gives birth to non-binary partner's baby with female sperm donor - Mirror Online:
- EXCLUSIVE: Proud dad Reuben Sharpe has revealed how he gave birth to miracle baby Jamie with partner Jay in Britain’s most modern family - and even the couple's doctor was transgender
- The 39-year-old transitioned to a man 12 years ago...
- Jay is non-binary – so does not identify as male or female...
- And that dream came true when he and partner Jay had a bouncing baby...(boy?, girl?, them?)
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Victor Davis Hanson Trump’s ‘Failures’ – American Greatness
Trump’s ‘Failures’ – American Greatness
"It is popular on the NeverTrump Right and everyone on the Left to claim that President Trump has “failed” as we head into an election year.
Take the wall.
True, Trump certainly in the last three years has not come close to building an envisioned initial phase of 1,000 miles or so of border fencing to stop the easiest access to the United States, much less made Mexico pay for it.
Yet even his critics concede he relentlessly tried—and are fearful he will soon succeed.
...Again, the point is that after three years of mockery insisting Trump has not build his wall, he nonetheless has attempted almost every imaginable method to do it.
And now the invective over the last few months has begun to alter.
If Trump between 2017-19 was mocked as an obsessive Ahab pathetically and in vain chasing his Great White Wall, he now is being redefined as a dangerous xenophobe, whose American version of the Maginot Line may soon become dangerously reified.
The Right Direction on Trade and China..
What “America First” Looks Like..
For better or worse, we are now fundamentally recalibrating the United States—not just redressing the prior Obama transformation, but the policies of past Republican administrations as well...
So we are watching a great experiment, as all of our past de facto assumptions about regulations, immigration, identity politics, trade, workers’ wages, manufacturing, the Middle East, China, Russia, and overseas interventions are all at once under sometimes chaotic reexamination.
We won’t know to what degree Trump won his battles against a now hard-leftist Democratic Party, the NeverTrump Right, the media, the academic and cultural elite, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the Washington deep state until he finishes his first term.
In 2020 the people will decide whether such risks were worth taking.
But the idea that Trump has “failed,” when the economy is booming, the United States is energy independent, the border is becoming a border again, China is on notice that the past 30 years of appeasement are over, the military is far stronger, and U.S. foreign policy is being radically recalibrated is absolutely absurd.
Impeachment was never about Trump’s failures, but about fears of his perceived successes..."
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"It is popular on the NeverTrump Right and everyone on the Left to claim that President Trump has “failed” as we head into an election year.
- But his supposed failures are instructive.
Take the wall.
True, Trump certainly in the last three years has not come close to building an envisioned initial phase of 1,000 miles or so of border fencing to stop the easiest access to the United States, much less made Mexico pay for it.
Yet even his critics concede he relentlessly tried—and are fearful he will soon succeed.
...Again, the point is that after three years of mockery insisting Trump has not build his wall, he nonetheless has attempted almost every imaginable method to do it.
And now the invective over the last few months has begun to alter.
If Trump between 2017-19 was mocked as an obsessive Ahab pathetically and in vain chasing his Great White Wall, he now is being redefined as a dangerous xenophobe, whose American version of the Maginot Line may soon become dangerously reified.
- The same ambiguity is true of many of Trump’s other “failures.”
The Right Direction on Trade and China..
What “America First” Looks Like..
For better or worse, we are now fundamentally recalibrating the United States—not just redressing the prior Obama transformation, but the policies of past Republican administrations as well...
- Fear of Trump’s Success Underneath It All
So we are watching a great experiment, as all of our past de facto assumptions about regulations, immigration, identity politics, trade, workers’ wages, manufacturing, the Middle East, China, Russia, and overseas interventions are all at once under sometimes chaotic reexamination.
We won’t know to what degree Trump won his battles against a now hard-leftist Democratic Party, the NeverTrump Right, the media, the academic and cultural elite, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the Washington deep state until he finishes his first term.
In 2020 the people will decide whether such risks were worth taking.
But the idea that Trump has “failed,” when the economy is booming, the United States is energy independent, the border is becoming a border again, China is on notice that the past 30 years of appeasement are over, the military is far stronger, and U.S. foreign policy is being radically recalibrated is absolutely absurd.
Impeachment was never about Trump’s failures, but about fears of his perceived successes..."
Read all!
Denver Sticking To Sanctuary Policy Following Arrest Of Hit-And-Run Suspect Who Was Already Deported Six Times | The Daily Caller
Denver officials do not plan on fully cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if they release an illegal alien who was deported six times before getting arrested for fleeing the scene of a deadly hit-and-run accident.
Juan Sanchez, a Mexican national living in the U.S. illegally, is accused of striking a pedestrian in the Denver area with a vehicle and immediately fleeing the scene. If Sanchez — who lives in a state that largely limits cooperation with ICE — is able to make bond, his release back into the community could pose another showdown between local officials and federal immigration authorities.
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