Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Jake Tapper Levels Biden Over Outright ‘Rejection’ Of Army Report:

Jake Tapper Levels Biden Over Outright ‘Rejection’ Of Army Report: ‘It’s Difficult To Overstate How Insulting It Is’.  

More here: The Great Awakening. Many people stepped outside the comfort of their political beliefs and began to question everything coming out of the government.

President Biden wants credit for nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. But here is the shameful irony: As a senator, Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, he would filibuster and kill her nomination.

The Unbearable Lightness of Biden. The man has no firm principles, which makes the country feel sadly leaderless.

On the most recent episode of Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News, host Mark Levin blasted Democrats and the media for giving us Joe Biden and said they knew “damn well” he wasn’t capable of handling the presidency.

The High Cost of ‘Free’ Covid Testing. Insurance has to pay for it, with no limits. What could go wrong?

From today's Wall St. Journal: 

Your editorial reminded me of an incident in the mid-1970s, when I was a young university professor. I received a memo from the university’s Equal Opportunity Office concerning a promotional brochure that I had prepared. I was informed that I had omitted the statement that the university “is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.”

I asked for clarification: An equal-opportunity employer is one who will not discriminate in hiring because of race, but an affirmative-action employer is one that will discriminate on race. Could the staff member help me reconcile these conflicting statements? After some hesitation and fumbling, he told me: “Well, some people need more help than others.”

Here's an interesting film review from an earth-science magazine: Ammonite: A Missed Opportunity. Mary Anning’s story is fascinating in its own right - so why make it up.

Vetoing a Black Woman Judge. Look who’s targeting one of Biden’s possible Court nominees. The left.

The Toxic Absurdity of “Diversity Statements” As academics, we’re fond of defending ourselves against charges of radical indoctrination by claiming that we teach students “how to think, not what to think.” If that’s true, then why do we now tell job applicants—potentially, those students’ future teachers—exactly what they’re required to think…or else?

PROGRESS: Nominees for a Science Award Were All White Men—Nobody Won.

Students demand revocation of assistant professors’ honorary degree for his Christian beliefs

Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor has proven himself, almost beyond a reasonable doubt, to be the single weakest leader in American higher education.

Biden’s New Energy Department Pick Is His Most Outrageous and Appalling Yet. Brinton also noted proudly that he would “even be (to my knowledge) the first gender fluid person in federal government leadership.” He is much more than that. He is, to the best of my knowledge, the first drag queen and the first person to discuss his affinity for sex with animals to hold an office of the public trust.

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Peggy Noonan's report on Biden's speech about voting rights

The president’s Tuesday speech in Atlanta, on voting rights, was a disaster for him.

There's an online game that's taking the Internet by storm. It's really fun. Everything you need to know about Wordle.

Why are Caucasians Vanishing in TV Commercials?

Remember those death rays from science fiction? The Army is putting some in the field. Army readies to deliver first set of Strykers with 50-kilowatt laser weapons

Rand Paul: Does this mean snot-nosed censors at YouTube will come to my office and kiss my … and admit I was right?

There is no way to recover national political standing once a politician becomes a popular butt of humor, a punchline in a degrading joke. Kamala Harris is now officially a joke

Maybe the anti-vaxers are on to something. These are healthy young athletes. 461 Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 269 Dead, After COVID Shot

Jackie Gleason’s Insurance in a Trunk. When the star hit it big, he prepared for a reversal of fortune.

School Closures Were a Catastrophic Error. Progressives Still Haven’t Reckoned With It. Sometimes you need to own up to an error, so it’s not repeated. school closings were not only a mistake, but an error of judgment that was sufficiently consequential and foreseeable that we can’t just shrug it off. 

'Walk Away' Activist Brandon Straka Can Finally Speak About Being Under the FBI's Thumb After Jan 6

The bridge that just collapsed in the city of Pittsburgh was set to be restored in 2016. Instead of replacing the completely rusted out supports, they diverted the money to bike lanes, green energy programs and lanes for self-driving cars.

Democrats Were Stealing Overseas and Military Ballots from Michigan, Georgia and Now Arizona Too 

The United Nations has announced that they have received “credible” information that the Taliban, despite saying that there would be a “general amnesty” for those Afghans who had worked with the United States, has killed up to 100 former members of the Afghan government, armed forces, and those who worked with American and other international troops

Democrats are looking to resurrect pieces of their Build Back Better plan, and a leading candidate is President Biden’s $200 billion universal pre-K entitlement. So it’s worth digesting new evidence that low-income children who attended a state pre-K program fared worse in sixth grade than similar children who didn’t.

Operation Warp Speed Slowly Gets Its Due. The program’s premature abandonment left the country unprepared for the Delta and Omicron Covid waves.