Monthly Archives: February 2016
February 26, 2016 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll contemplates THE FRACTURED FAMILY OF MAN. She writes: When I was in college, back in the quaint days when young men and women lived in separate residence halls, and not a single professor of Divisive Studies called for “muscle” to remove a student journalist from a public gathering, I bought a coffee-table book at a used bookstore. The title of this book was The Family of Man and
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February 25, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
There were five official presidential candidates in tonight’s GOP debate, but six debaters. The sixth was a female reporter from Telemundo. She was running a single-issue campaign. Her issue was relief for illegal immigrants. Her performance was nauseating. The Telemundo woman, María Celeste Arrarás, asked the candidates this question: “Do you [or your fellow candidates] get it?” By “it,” as she made clear in a speech masquerading as a question,
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February 25, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, their campaigns in danger of extinction within a month, came out swinging at Donald Trump tonight. Many of their lines of attack have not been used in previous debates, as far as I can recall. Here is a list of tonight’s attacks, new and old, that I compiled: Trump has hired illegal workers and was fined $1 million for doing so. Trump ran a “fake
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February 25, 2016 — John Hinderaker
Marco Rubio made a laughingstock of Donald Trump in tonight’s debate. Twitter was on fire over this exchange, in particular, where Rubio had great fun at Trump’s expense, while exposing him as a know-nothing on health care. If Trump’s campaign fails, this may be the moment when the tide turned: It’s not a bad thing to see a bully humiliated.
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February 25, 2016 — John Hinderaker
Tonight Marco Rubio went after Donald Trump repeatedly, with devastating effectiveness by most accounts. Among other things, Rubio pointed out that Trump was fined heavily for using illegal immigrants to build New York’s Trump Tower, in order to get out of paying overtime. For more of this story, check out this video: The facts appear to be a lot worse than Rubio could communicate in a few sentences tonight.
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February 25, 2016 — Steven Hayward
There’s a fuss going on Stanford right now about the proposal to bring back a serious requirement for the study of Western Civilization—you know, the lineage of ideas that brought us things like freedom, prosperity, and . . . Stanford University. Okay, two out of three ain’t bad, so maybe the radicals are ironically correct. “Up to a point, sir,” if you know the reference. Which brings us to today’s
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February 25, 2016 — Scott Johnson
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February 25, 2016 — Steven Hayward
. . . or why you should ignore most pundits. From Vox last July: Donald Trump’s rise is great news — for Jeb Bush Donald Trump’s surge in the polls has been covered as terrible news for the GOP. But it’s fantastic news for one Republican — Jeb Bush. The rise of the bombastic celebrity mogul and the saturation media coverage of his controversial comments on illegal immigrants is a godsend for the putative frontrunner,
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February 25, 2016 — Scott Johnson
Omri Ceren summarizes recent developments involving Iran’s use of the cash kindly released to the regime by the Obama administration under the JCPOA. As always, Omri provides alphabetized footnotes to his summary. Omri writes: The context is the recent Iranian announcement that they intend to purchase Sukhoi-30 warplanes from Russia. According to UNSCR 2231 that sale has to go through the Security Council, which means the U.S. can veto it.
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February 25, 2016 — Steven Hayward
News out in the last hour that the University of Missouri has fired Professor of Fascism Melissa Click: Assistant Professor Melissa Click, captured on video calling for “some muscle” to remove reporters from a campus protest site, was fired Wednesday by the University of Missouri Board of Curators, Chairwoman Pam Henrickson said in a prepared statement. The board voted 4-2 in favor of termination during a closed session in Kansas City, with
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February 25, 2016 — Steven Hayward
Hillary Clinton was confronted at a small fundraising event in South Carolina yesterday by a Black Lives Matter activist, attacking Hillary for something she said 20 years ago about “superpredators” being “brought to heel.” Here’s the two-minute highlight reel of Her Highness reacting with her usual imperiousness to being challenged: I haven’t seen that Hillary said anything about criminal “superpredators” being black necessarily, but I’m not going to go back
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February 25, 2016 — Steven Hayward
Reuters is reporting in the last few minutes that Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval has asked that his name be withdrawn from consideration for the Supreme Court. Here’s the tweet:
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February 25, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
I’m guessing that few sentient conservatives are happy with the way this election season is going. Two brands of conservatives will be particularly disappointed: libertarians and hard-core (or “movement”) conservatism. The libertarian movement has been pushing to break through for years. This cycle, it seemed to have the ideal candidate to make a run at the presidency — Rand Paul, dubbed “the most interesting man in politics” by Time Magazine.
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February 25, 2016 — Scott Johnson
At a Senate subcommittee hearing yesterday Senator Mark Kirk questions Secretary Kerry yesterday regarding Ibrahim al Oosi, a terrorist released released by the Obama administration from the detention facility at Guantanamo who has since returned to work for al Qaeda. Kirk asked Kerry for his thoughts on Ibrahim al Qosi while a staffer held up a picture of al Qosi to jog Kerry’s memory (video below). Kirk expressed the fond
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February 25, 2016 — Scott Johnson
Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified to Congress yesterday that the matter of Hillary Clinton’s private email for official State Department business was under investigation by the FBI and career attorneys at the Department of Justice. Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne report on Lynch’s testimony here. Herridge and Brown add that the assignment of career DoJ attorneys to the case shows the FBI probe has progressed beyond the initial referral, or
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February 24, 2016 — John Hinderaker
Alex Rackley was a 19-year-old member of a criminal gang. In May 1969, gang members suspected that Rackley had been disloyal. They kidnapped him and brought him to a house where he was tied up and tortured for two days, mainly by having boiling water poured over much of his body. He was also beaten with a blunt object in the “face, groin and lumbar region,” as Wikipedia describes it.
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February 24, 2016 — Steven Hayward
I see that John has beat me to this story, but here’s my two cents on it as well: The news wires today are buzzing with the trial balloon of Nevada’s moderate Republican Governor Brian Sandoval as a possible Obama nominee to the Supreme Court. I believe it is a head fake, but it is worth starting out at face value. On the surface, the idea is plausible. You would
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