Monthly Archives: June 2019
June 28, 2019 — John Hinderaker
Paul has been on top of the apparent Kamala Harris fraud. Harris, attacking Joe Biden for having collaborated with segregationist Democrats in the Senate to oppose school busing, claimed that she was bused as a kid, in Berkeley, and it did her a world of good. Or something like that. Given the demography and geography of Berkeley at the time–she was 10 years old in 1974–it seems highly unlikely that
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June 28, 2019 — John Hinderaker
The Rasmussen Survey has two recent polls that shed early light on how voters see President Trump and the Democratic presidential candidates in relation to their own views. A poll of likely voters released today found that: …just 25% of Likely U.S. Voters consider most of the announced candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination to be about the same as they are in political terms. Fifty-four percent (54%) say
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June 28, 2019 — John Hinderaker
In his latest cartoon, Michael Ramirez takes off from Paul’s entertaining post on last night’s part 2 of the Democratic debate kickoff. I’ve never watched any of the “vote them off the island” reality shows, but you don’t need to in order to get the point:
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June 28, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
Last night, Kamala Harris said: [T]here was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day — and that little girl was me. Harris’ statement that she was “part of the second class to integrate her public schools” appears to be false, as I discussed here and here. But note what Harris did not
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June 28, 2019 — John Hinderaker
The Associated Press’s story on last night’s Democratic presidential debate is now accompanied by this correction: In a story June 27 about the Democratic presidential debate, The Associated Press reported erroneously in some versions that former Vice President Joe Biden worked with Republican segregationist senators. In fact, the senators were Democrats. A reader wonders: “How many times can reporters and editors make this mistake?” Good question! But I am not
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June 28, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
Last night, Kamala Harris repeated her story about how, thanks to busing, she was able to be part of only the second class to integrate in the Berkeley public school system. She used this story to thrash Joe Biden, who offered anti-busing legislation as a U.S. Senator in the 1970s. Last year, I questioned Harris’ story: [I]s it. . .true that Harris was in only the second class to integrate
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June 28, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
Before last night’s debate, I suggested that part of the suspense was the extent to which Joe Biden would resist the leftism that has infected his party. The answer turned out to be that he isn’t resisting, but neither is he embracing it. Joe is just going with the flow. Biden’s ambivalence was made manifest when the debate moderators couldn’t tell whether, in response to yes or no questions about
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June 28, 2019 — Scott Johnson
In the first part of this series I posted my correspondence with former United States Attorney for Minnesota Andrew Luger. Mr. Luger’s letter of August 22, 2016, to Omar attorney Jean Brandl played an oversize role in terminating the controversy over the curious case of Ilhan Omar. Brandl, by the way, was the Omar ally who responded on Omar’s behalf to my original inquiry to the Omar campaign in August
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June 28, 2019 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll is on the road again in NO MOUNTAIN FOR OLD LADIES – Big Road Trip – Part 1. She writes: When Dodge hits 114, it’s time to get out of Dodge. I have stayed in the Dusty Little Village for several summers, as a kind of Arizona gang initiation, while Max Cossack, the prolific novelist, has gone elsewhere for a variety of reasons. So it’s not like I’m
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June 27, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
Kamala Harris was the hands-down winner of night two of the Democratic debates, in my opinion. She was ahead on points even before she went after Joe Biden for waxing nostalgic about his collaboration with racist Senators on anti-busing legislation. With that attack, she clinched her victory. I’m not sure any other candidate helped himself or herself appreciably tonight. However, I think Pete Buttigieg got himself back on track. He
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June 27, 2019 — John Hinderaker
…in tonight’s debate, President Trump has been tweeting about Australia’s policies with regard to illegal immigration. Australia has published a series of brochures intended to discourage attempts at illegal entry, like this one: If you can’t read it, the text says: * If you get on a boat without a visa, you will not end up in Australia. * Any vessel seeking to illegally enter Australia will be intercepted and
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June 27, 2019 — John Hinderaker
One of the problems with having a day job is that you can fall behind on stories that are revealing if not, strictly speaking, important. I am a day late with this, so bear with me if you already have seen it: Photos reveal AOC was crying over an empty parking lot. This goes back to 2018, when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez conducted a photo op at the Mexican border. She posed
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June 27, 2019 — John Hinderaker
Spanish was flying around the stage during the Democrats’ debate last night, as the candidates vied for the Hispanic vote. You might assume that Julian Castro, from San Antonio, is a Spanish speaker. But, as the New York Times told us back in 2010, Castro is actually “post-Hispanic.” Toward the end of a long and admiring portrait, the Times tells us this: Although he pronounces his name “HOO-lee-un,” he doesn’t
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June 27, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
I’ll be interested to see what kind of performance Joe Biden produces tonight in the Democratic presidential debate. It’s difficult to predict how Biden will fare because his past performances run the gamut. His first outing was in 1988, before he was exposed as a plagiarist and had to withdraw from the race. It was real “deer in the headlights” stuff. I still recall him fidgeting with the pencil in
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June 27, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
This year is the 50th anniversary of the New York Mets improbable run to World Series victory. William McGurn of the Wall Street Journal uses the occasion to argue that Gil Hodges, who managed the Mets to glory, should be in the Hall of Fame. He calls Hodges’s absence from the HOF “baseball’s greatest continuing injustice.” That’s quite an overstatement. Hodges’s managerial career is not Hall of Fame caliber. Yes,
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June 27, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
The first question posed at last night’s Democratic debate came from Savannah Guthrie. It was about the economy. Guthrie prefaced the question by noting that the vast majority of Americans think the economy is strong, and even a majority of Democrats hold that view. In light of this fact, Guthrie wanted to know whether it made sense to disrupt things with big spending programs like free college for all. Guthrie
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June 27, 2019 — Scott Johnson
I take it that the government is underwriting the order of $200,000 worth of bedding and other furniture to BCFS, a nonprofit contractor that operates immigration detention facilities at the southern U.S. border. The furniture is needed to accommodate the detention of illegal aliens crossing into the United States. Current accommodations are inadequate to the task occasioned by the massive invasion with which our law enforcement authorities are attempting to
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