Monthly Archives: November 2016
November 17, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
While Democrats around the country try to “process” what happened last week, wily Chuck Schumer is planning what will happen next year. The soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader announced that, unlike Republicans during the Obama years, the Democrats won’t reflexively oppose whatever the president proposes. Instead, they will consider each proposal on its merits and work with President Trump when they consider his proposals meritorious. Schumer isn’t just saying this to
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November 17, 2016 — Scott Johnson
I think we should recognize the ongoing freakout among the talking heads and reporters in the mainstream media in response to the victory of Donald Trump and the defeat of Hillary Clinton. The Media Research Center’s NewsBuster compiled the video clips below documenting the election night and day-after freakout. It is full of mind-numbing vulgarity, but Chris Matthews takes the cake with this G-rated comment (at 1:00): “This is a
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November 17, 2016 — Scott Johnson
I attended the nine sentencing hearings in the ISIS conspiracy case brought in April 2015 against the “Minnesota men” (as the Somali Minnesotans are usually described in the headlines). Six of the defendants pleaded guilty; two of the six cooperated with the government by assisting the investigation and testifying against the three who contested the charges and went to trial this past May. On June 3 a Minnesota jury returned
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November 17, 2016 — Scott Johnson
Love and Honor is the greeting of Miami University (Ohio). It comes from their fight song chorus. The whole “fight song” thing sounds a little dicey to me in the current campus environment, but university president Gregory Crawford draws on it to balm the wounds of the community arising from the result of last week’s election: From: Gregory Crawford [email address deleted] Date: Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 5:19 PM
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November 16, 2016 — Steven Hayward
Okay, I keep saying I’m going to give up doing these parodies, but I got lots of requests to do one about the obvious topic of the moment, and it is such easy pickings I couldn’t resist. (And if you’re sick of these, fair enough. You don’t have to watch.)
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November 16, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
One of Hillary Clinton’s campaign themes was her alleged competence, based on years of public service, which she tried to contrast with Donald Trump’s amateurism. Yet, Clinton, through her campaign once again demonstrated that she is not competent. That she was outperformed by an “amateur” undermines her “competence” theme all the more. Hillary lost to Barack Obama in 2008, it has been credibly argued, because Obama focused on state caucuses
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November 16, 2016 — Scott Johnson
I talked about Keith Ellison with Seth Leibsohn and Chris Buskirk on the aptly named Seth & Chris Show for two segments this afternoon. Seth has kindly forwarded the audio hot off the air (posted here and enbedded below). I’m celebrating ten years on Ellison’s case, trying to warn Democrats off the guy. It turns out I must be Ellison’s good luck charm. If past experience is a guide to
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November 16, 2016 — John Hinderaker
I don’t normally link to articles that I can’t intelligibly excerpt from and summarize, but this is an exception. My American Experiment colleague Kathy Kersten has an article in this month’s First Things that you simply have to read. The subject is the transgender “movement” that seems to have taken America by storm. Kathy begins with the story of Nova Academy, a top-notch charter school in Minnesota that was blown
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November 16, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
Go home, that’s what it should do. I agree with Rick Manning of Americans for Limited Government. He advises: The single most important decisions for Congress in the lame duck session are to get in and get out, and do a short term continuing resolution that will allow the new Trump administration and Republican majorities in Congress to assert their spending priorities this coming spring. No criminal justice reform. No
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November 16, 2016 — Steven Hayward
Maybe the best example of lack of self-awareness of the left was the cold open of Saturday Night Live this weekend, with Kate McKinnon in her Hillary garb offering rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” The geniuses at SNL apparently have no appreciation that hallelujah expresses precisely the relief, if not jubilation, of at least half the county that Hillary Clinton will never be president. So leave it to Remy Munasifi to
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November 16, 2016 — John Hinderaker
Last night, Donald Trump went out to dinner with his family at the 21 Club, where he got an ovation from the other diners. Shockingly, he failed to tell reporters he was leaving Trump Tower. So the Associated Press headlined: “Trump ditches media – the public’s eyes and ears – again.” The AP’s presumption is awe-inspiring. Their story is written by Julie Pace. Let me break it to you gently,
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November 16, 2016 — Steven Hayward
The reaction of colleges and universities to Trump’s election reveal them to be fundamentally unserious. You want to see how serious scholars behave under actual adversity? Power Line friend Herbert Meyer directs our attention to this passage from from Harrison Salisbury’s book 900 Days about the siege of Leningrad in World War II: By the end of spring [1942] he [A. A. Ukhtomsky, a 66-year old distinguished physiologist] was still
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November 16, 2016 — Scott Johnson
A reader fowards a self-described “important message from President Napolitano and UC Chancellors about [the Novmember 8] election results.” Now listen up! They say it’s important, even if the message sounds a bit, ah, familiar at this point. They’re not aspiring to originality in the formulation of their, ah, thoughts: November 9, 2016 In light of yesterday’s election results, we know there is understandable consternation and uncertainty among members of
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November 16, 2016 — Scott Johnson
On Monday Keith Ellison met with the billionaire Marxists of the Soros-founded Democracy Alliance at its 2016 investment conference. Ellison was to update donors on “the working class vote.” Ellison presumably advised the assembled billionaires that, despite control of the media and culture by their allies on the left, false consciousness among “the working class” remains a challenge to the ultimate victory of the causes they hold dear. Politico’s Ken
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November 15, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
At this time a week ago, polls were still open in many states and it was unclear who would win the election. So it seems premature for talking heads breathlessly to be discussing “chaos” in Donald Trump’s transition team and claiming that the president-elect is off to a start unprecedented in its rockiness. The cause (or pretext) for this chatter is the removal of Chris Christie from the transition team.
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November 15, 2016 — John Hinderaker
Post-election, the newspapers and talking heads have picked up right where they left off last Tuesday. They are in full anti-Trump mode. They try to convince us that a handful of alleged incidents of Muslim girls having their hijabs torn off constitutes a wave of terror that Trump is obliged to denounce. Never mind that some of those incidents, at least, are hoaxes. My guess is that most of them
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November 15, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
Watching excerpts from various anti-Trump demonstrations, I saw this sign: “Your vote was a hate crime.” “Hate crime” is not a figure of speech. The concept has made it into the criminal law, and would be more prevalent there if the left had its way. Thus, those who view a vote for Trump as a hate crime must want to criminalize voting for a candidate whose views offend them greatly.
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