Higher education…

Stanford President and Stanford Law School Dean Apologize to Judge Kyle Duncan

The apology results from the disgraceful behavior described below:

Stanford Law Student Shout-Down Reflects Normalization Of Intimidation Of Conservative Judges

We live in the age of stupid…

LA Times Writer Slammed for Racist Claims that White Drivers are ‘Polluting the Air’ of ‘People of Color’: Article is a perfect amalgam of racism and pseudoscience

Stupid is devolving to the absurd right before our eyes.

Chaim Topol, RIP

Chaim Topol is an immortal icon for more than Tevye

“…Just as Sholem Aleichem’s book Tevye der Milchiker has been translated from Yiddish into many languages and has immortalized a fictional character who represented the typical Russian or Polish village Jew who always had too many children and not enough money, Chaim Topol, who portrayed him, forever will be identified with Tevye, no matter how many other productions there may be…”

‘Tevye the Dairyman’ played by Chaim Topol in the popular 1971 film, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ (credit: JERUSALEM REPORT ARCHIVES)

Traditional, happy, generous, unconquerable. A good man.

Is that a description of Tevye or Chaim?

Both.

Matt Taibbi on the current Democrat Party…

The Democrats Have Lost the Plot

“…The irony is that what Goldman was doing, confusing accusations with proof — as Thomas Jefferson said, the phenomenon of people whose “suspicions may be evidence” — was the entire reason for the hearing. Michael and I were trying to describe a system that wants to bypass proof and proceed to punishment, a radical idea that this new breed of Democrat embraces. I think they justify this using the Sam Harris argument, that in pursuit of suppressing Trump, anything is justified. But by removing or disrespecting the rights to which Americans are accustomed, you make opposition movements like Trump’s, you don’t stop them.

Yesterday was memorable for other reasons, but a depressing eye-opener as well, forcing me to see up close the intellectual desert that’s spread all the way to the edges within the party I once supported. There are no more pockets of Wellstones and Kuciniches who were once tolerated and whose job it is to uphold a constitutionalist position within the larger whole. That crucial little pocket of principle is gone, and I don’t think it’s coming back…”

The federal bureaucracy is a Democrat bureaucracy protecting and promoting Democrats…

FTC Hires Anti-Musk Activist Amid Agency’s Investigation of Twitter

“…New hire Sarah Miller highlights close relationship between FTC and left-wing advocacy groups that objected to Musk’s Twitter takeover…”

At the intersection of politics and medicine. Politicized medicine is a great mistake.

Australia didn’t have a lot of COVID deaths until after they rolled out the COVID vaccines. Now excess deaths are out of control. Something is causing those deaths. Any guesses?

Reasoned commentary from the cackling cacophony of lefty nitwits on the View

The killing of unborn children has become a weird religious ritual for Liberals.

Liberal women unite. Kill your babies!

Heh!

Canada goes authoritarian. Government to combat disinformation among citizens. The U.S. needs to reevaluate our relationship with Canada.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Announces “Expert” To Oversee “Civil Society Organizations” To “Combat Disinformation”

Related:

Leaked Intel Memos Suggest Trudeau Knew of Chinese Election Interference

Chinese

This is something that should be done. We have the capability. Mexico does not.

Destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels

Related:

Mexican President: I Will Campaign For Mexican-Americans To Not Vote Republican “If They Do Not Change Their Attitude”

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is weaker and more confused than Biden. I didn’t think that was possible.

Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador: Blame American parents, not drug cartels for fentanyl epidemic

Life among Democrats…

House Armed Services member: Biden DOD firing vax refuseniks to ‘purge conservative service members’ 

Related:

Pentagon Falling Short In Recruiting, Brass Says Kids Don’t Want To Serve

House Democrats reveal who they are. Press freedom only when it suits their political interests.

The dumbest five minutes of Congress, ever: Dems demand sources from journalists who exposed government-media censorship complex

Related:

Jim Jordan Drops Receipts on House Democrats During Contentious Exchange on Government Censorship

Liberal journalist Matt Taibbi:

How Press Bias Fed FISA Abuse in the Trump-Russia Panic

Vicious Cycle

“…I’ve finished the second in what I hope will be a series of posts exploring the risk of partisan abuse of U.S. intelligence authorities. (For the other, see this opinion piece, coauthored with Michael Ellis.) Section 702 renewal is on the agenda for Congress in 2023, and building support for renewal means taking seriously complaints on the right that intelligence agencies were affected by partisan bias in their treatment of Donald Trump’s candidacy, presidency, and staff. This means asking whether past practices created at least an appearance or a risk of partisan abuse—and thus whether any intelligence reforms should address those risks.

In my latest look at the issue, in Lawfare, I note that “respectable” opinion is finally acknowledging that press stories about a Trump-Russia connection may have been slanted by mainstream media, and I examine the role that media bias played in the early stages of the FBI’s investigation of Trump world. A few excerpts below:

The Trump-Russia media saga began with a bit of journalistic malpractice. As the GOP convention was preparing to nominate Trump, Gerth tells us, the Washington Post ran one of the early attacks on Trump for kowtowing to Russian interests: a July 18 opinion column from Josh Rogin headlined, “Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russian stance on Ukraine.” It was wrong. In Gerth’s understated words:

The story would turn out to be an overreach. Subsequent investigations found that the original draft of the platform was actually strengthened by adding language on tightening sanctions on Russia for Ukraine-related actions, if warranted, and calling for “additional assistance” for Ukraine. What was rejected was a proposal to supply arms to Ukraine, something the Obama administration hadn’t done…”

Doug Santo