Monthly Archives: July 2017
July 6, 2017 — John Hinderaker
Representatives of the G20 countries are meeting in Hamburg, so the traveling circus of anti-capitalist rioters naturally showed up. As best one can tell, it is more or less the same people who turn out for all of these anti-capitalism demonstrations around the world. They don’t appear to have jobs, and quite a few of them are reported to be trust fund babies. These photos from Hamburg are typical; they
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July 6, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
Chuck Ross reports that CNN fell this week to #13 in the cable TV rankings. He cites weekly numbers posted on Thursday by TV Newser. Fox News and MSNBC came in first and second, respectively, in the cable rankings that measured average audience sizes for the period between June 26 and July 2. Fox News drew an audience of around 1.82 million while MSNBC drew an audience of 1.34 million.
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July 6, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
Yesterday, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was readmitted to MedStar Washington’s Intensive Care Unit today. He was listed in serious condition (downgraded from fair) due to new concerns about infection. Today, Rep. Scalise underwent surgery for the management of his infection. Medstar reports that he “tolerated the procedure well.” However, he remains in serious condition. Again, our thoughts and prayers are with the Congressman.
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July 6, 2017 — John Hinderaker
The “blue slip”–the power of senators to block judicial nominations within their states–is a venerable Senate tradition that has long outlived its usefulness. Similar to the filibuster, liberals view the blue slip either as incorrigible obstructionism or as the height of prudent constitutionalism, depending only on which party’s president is nominating judges. Thus, when Barack Obama was doing the nominating, Jeffrey Toobin, in a New Yorker article headlined “Blue-Slip Battle:
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July 6, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
President Trump’s visit to Poland — a great U.S. ally and a nation with strong personal links to ours — has become the latest pretext for Trump bashing by the U.S. media. The Washington Post (paper edition) tells us, darkly, that Trump “shares ideological affinities” with Poland’s right-wing ruling party. In particular, he shares its aversion to immigration by Muslims and its combative relationship with the press. The Post also
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July 6, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
Robert Mueller and his staff of fifteen lawyers, and counting, are sniffing around the 2016 Trump campaign looking for a Russia connection. Meanwhile, a clear Russia connection has been identified between Russia and the head of the 2016 Clinton campaign team — John Podesta. Peter Schweizer has the details. To summarize: In 2011, a small green-energy company, Joule Unlimited, announced Podesta’s appointment to its board. Months later, Rusnano, a Kremlin-backed
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July 6, 2017 — Steven Hayward
Charles Murray likes to describe the wedding announcements section of the New York Times as the “Mergers and Acquisitions” page, since it almost uniformly features a Stanford MBA junior investment banker on Wall Street marrying a Harvard law grad working as an associate at Big Firm on Madison Ave, while rehabbing three Brooklyn brownstones for themselves in between teaching refugees to read while riding a unicycle. The wedding was staged
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July 6, 2017 — Scott Johnson
At the RealClearPolicy site, editor M. Anthony Mills has posted a good summary of Professor Philip Hamburger’s critique of the administrative state — the regime of administrative law promulgated and administered by administrative agencies — set forth this year in the inspired Encounter Books pamphlet The Administrative Threat. I recently noted Professor Hamburger’s pamphlet here. I wrote about Professor Hamburger’s great work of scholarship on the subject — Is Administrative
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July 5, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was readmitted to MedStar Washington’s Intensive Care Unit today. He is listed in serious condition (downgraded from fair) due to new concerns about infection. The hospital did not elaborate on these concerns. Scalise’s condition had steadily improved since mid-June when he was shot by a left-wing gunman who trying to carry out the mass assassination of GOP members of Congress. The Louisiana congressman was released
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July 5, 2017 — John Hinderaker
We have software that tracks traffic to our site in real time, so we can see how much traffic is going to each post and where it is coming from. Some of us–if you guessed Scott and me, you could be right–follow the data obsessively throughout the day. I was surprised, earlier today, to see that people were visiting a post I did in 2009 titled Rush Is Out. A
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July 5, 2017 — John Hinderaker
I will guest host Joe Soucheray’s Garage Logic radio show tomorrow and Friday. Readers in the Twin Cities area are almost certainly familiar with the show; it airs from 1 to 3 Central on AM 1500. For those in other areas who don’t know about the show, Garage Logic is an often-humorous celebration of common sense, in opposition to the Mystery that is propagated by euphorians. The show is well
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July 5, 2017 — Steven Hayward
A recent book on Alcohol and Aging offers this very important chapter abstract: Epidemiological studies have observed that older adults who consume light to moderate amounts of alcohol have higher cognitive functioning and are less likely to develop different types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, compared to older adults who do not consume alcohol. Similar findings have been reported by studies that have examined midlife alcohol consumption and cognitive functioning
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July 5, 2017 — Steven Hayward
One of the refrains of anguish following Trump’s sagacious decision to ditch the Kellogg-Briand Pact Paris Climate Accord was that the United States would be “ceding world leadership” in promoting “clean energy,” along with some fancy-sounding statistics about how renewable energy is soaring in China. Well, about that: As Beijing Joins Climate Fight, Chinese Companies Build Coal Plants By Hiroko Tabuchi When China halted plans for more than 100 new coal-fired power
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July 5, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
That’s what might be inferred from this BuzzFeed story. According to BuzzFeed’s analysis, the CNN–WWE GIF that President Donald Trump tweeted last week was not the same as the one created by HanA**holeSolo. However, the GIF used by Mr. H.A. Solo is quite similar to the one tweeted by the president. Given the similarity, and Mr. Solo’s abject apology, he’s not the wrong guy by much. What happened, according to
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July 5, 2017 — Steven Hayward
CNN—the Comintern News Network?—is the gift that keeps on giving. In addition to Scott’s discussions below of CNN’s thuggery, there is a poll out right now that is being touted as showing CNN is “more trusted” than Trump, so there. Poll: CNN is more trusted than President Trump President Trump has amped up his battle with CNN, but it appears the news network is holding its own. A recent poll
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July 5, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
Alexander Bonds, an ex-con with a long rap sheet, shot and killed New York City police officer Miosotis Familia, a mother of three, as she sat in a patrol car in the Bronx. The attack was unprovoked. It was an assassination. According to the New York Times: Around 12:30 a.m., as Officer Familia neared the end of her shift, Mr. Bonds walked up to the vehicle and fired a single
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July 5, 2017 — Scott Johnson
The crowd on Twitter at #CNNBlackmail and Viva_La_Covfefe is not taking well to instruction by our betters at CNN/KFile. Steve may need to devote a special edition of his Week In Pictures to CNN all by itself. The response is in the spirit of 1776, with CNN taking the place of King George III, or in the spirit of the rebellious slaves who proclaim “I am Spartacus” to protect the
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