So how much does it cost to learn how to think and feel like a victim at Columbia, from William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, video:
I don’t do passive. I also tend to reject asymmetrical theories. That it is the member of the designed oppressor class, to wit the white, hetersexual male who is the villain, and the member of the designated protected class whe is the victim.
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The voters of Second Congressional District of Illinois must be something special. They elected two felons to office back to back, from Johnathan Turley:
Remember former Chicago Representative Mel Reynolds? If you recall, he resigned from his congressional seat in 1995 after he was convicted of 12 counts of statutory rape, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. Well, he is back in the news after an arrest in Zimbabwe. You guessed it. He is charged with allegedly possessing pornographic material and violating immigration laws.
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While he was convicted on 12 counts, he was given only five years in 1995 and only went to prison until 1998. However, in April 1997, he was convicted on 15 unrelated counts of bank fraud and lying to SEC investigators. He was looking at the full sentence on the first conviction plus an additional sentence of 78 months in federal prison. That is when President Bill Clinton stepped in. While Clinton has worked hard to get people to forget his scandals in office, his abuse of the pardon powers from friends like Marc Rich is hard to forget. Less known but equally outrageous was his commutation of Reynolds who showed an utter contempt for the law and a sense of total impunity. However, Clinton stepped in to set him free
For those readers who might have been following this story on the lame stream media, and what the professor forgot to mention, is that Reynolds is a democrat. Just wanted you to know.
The Snark of the Day. Background, Lurch b/k/a John “French” Kerry has called so-called climate change a “weapon of mass destruction”,
from Roger L Simon, PJ Media:
By Kerry’s own “reasoning,” he’s a WMD himself.
Little wonder, that candidate Kerry attempted to hide his college transcripts. Lurch panic mongers about carbon emissions on vanity trip which emitted twelve tons of carbon. Go figure.
The Snark of the Day, from Kathleen Willey, WND
Hillary Clinton is the war on women, and that’s what needs to be exposed here
Welcome to the arena, Mrs. Clinton.
Yet another reason not to join, or to drop Facebook. For some strange reason not known to rational men, Facebook as now decided there are fifty-eight different genders, from Common Cents:
Here they are – the list of 58 Genders you can now choose from on Facebook!
Not sure if we should laugh – or cry! Here is the list of 58, yes Fifty Eight different genders that anyone can choose from on Facebook.
One is free to choose any one of the fifty-eight different Facebook genders but they still either be a boy or a girl. I don’t know about biology in Facebook Land, but here in the real world, there are but two sexes, to wit male and female.
Reaction, James Joyner, Outside the Beltwey (from the comments):
Ha. Indeed, the vast majority of us are privileged to be cissexual, meaning that we think we’re the sex that our body looks like and be attracted to people of the opposite sex. It’s useful to understand both that society treats us much better as a result and that we didn’t earn that. Beyond that, though, I’m not sure what to do with the information.
Hat tip: Jazz Shaw, Hot Air
On Earth humans are conceived as either male or female. Sex is a trait endowed by God and not a privilege granted by mere mortal men.
Larry King, the fossil, formerly of CNN, is either senile, a liar or both, circa 13 February 2014, from Washington Free Beacon:
Famed former CNN host Larry King said he has never heard of Juanita Broaddrick Thursday in an interview with Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV.
Broaddrick, a former Arkansas nursing home worker, accused President Clinton of raping her during the late 1970s in a 1998 Dateline interview.
Malzberg was describing a double standard of media coverage during the 2012 conventions, noting left wing pundits dubbed the GOP convention a “convention of rapists” while remaining silent on Clinton’s keynote address despite sexual assault allegations directed against the former president.
“Hold up, hold up. Stop! Bill Clinton was accused of rape?” King interjected.
Circa 8 March 1999, from Daily Howler:
Larry King had just interviewed Kevin Hickey, the 28-year-old son of Juanita Broaddrick; and in the very next segment, he asked poor Gergen to react to what Hickey had said:
GERGEN: Well, Larry, I kept thinking, listening to him as the two of you talked, what mother would tell her son that she’d been raped if it hadn’t happened? That’s what really gave me pause. I think it added to the credibility of the story. It’s possible that they’re participating in some huge frame-up of the president. But he seemed like a plain vanilla kind of guy. He was persuasive. [Gergen’s emphasis]Would a mother fib to her son about that? Gergen’s tone made it perfectly clear that he thought that was pretty strange stuff.
Here at THE HOWLER, we have no way of knowing if Mrs. Broaddrick’s story is accurate. We’ve said that one of the obvious possibilities is that Mrs. Broaddrick’s charges are true. But when such serious charges are lodged against public figures, we do ask pundits to play it straight–not to issue statements like this because to do so is safe and self-serving.
What kind of a mother would falsely say this? That’s simple–a mother who’s lying. And one would think a man of Gergen’s experience would know that, in real life, people lie all the time. Indeed, evidence overwhelmingly seems to suggest that other Clinton accusers may well have been fibbing. Gergen’s suggestion that no one would lie about this is so silly it deserves our contempt.
So too with the second part of Gergen’s statement, where he discusses Kevin Hickey’s demeanor. Gergen only considers the possibility that Hickey has joined his mom in a plot. But if Broaddrick is telling an inaccurate story, there is no reason to think that Hickey would know it. The fact that Hickey seems “persuasive” doesn’t mean his mother’s story is true.
But Gergen’s reading excited the panel. King questioned Dee Dee Myers:
KING: Dee Dee? You worked for Clinton.
MYERS: I’m certainly not going to raise any questions about the credibility of Juanita Broaddrick or her son, Kevin, who I think told his story quite–
Larry jumped in:
KING: David made a good point. What mother would lie to her son about being raped?
More:
KING: Will you respect me that I have never heard an agenda of any network that I have ever worked at? Will you respect that or are you not believing me?
With respect to Mr. King’s questions: one, I do not respect the fossil and two, I do not believe him. Do you?
King asserted that he never saw.
The veracity of Ms Hickey’s allegation with respect to post is moot.
The noted bigot Mark Joseph Stern argues that some how people should be denied fundamental God given freedoms. It is fine to hold, no matter how mistaken, that two people of the same sex should be allowed to marry and have such a faux marriage endorsed by the People. However the state sanctioning of homosexual sodomy is not enough to appease Stern. Not only does Stern endorse same sex marriage. He demands the state endorse and approve it, and further normal citizens must be forbidden to express any disapproval of such a so-called marriage, from Slate
A catch-all clause allows businesses and bureaucrats to discriminate against gay people so long as this discrimination is somehow “related to, or related to the celebration of, any marriage, domestic partnership, civil union or similar arrangement.” (Emphases mine.) This subtle loophole is really just a blank check to discriminate: As long as an individual believes that his service is somehow linked to a gay union of any form, he can legally refuse his services. And since anyone who denies gays service is completely shielded from any charges, no one will ever have to prove that their particular form of discrimination fell within the four corners of the law.
What has Stern’s knickers in a twist, the right to disapprove and not endorse another person’s freely chosen life style sure sounds like the Right of Free Association to me. Does it to you?
More news about Governor Andew “Mario Junior” Cuomo’s New York State Gestapo Evidence that extreme gun control laws are not meant to apply to the political elite, but rather only intended to disarm John Q. Public, from Will Rahn, Daily Caller:
Jerome Hauer, a top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, appears to have regularly carried a firearm to work in violation of state law.
Hauer runs New York’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. Cuomo, an advocate of ultra-strict gun control laws, appointed him to the job in 2011.
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[Hauer used his hand gun’s] laser sighting attachment as a pointer during a meeting with a Swedish delegation
Were Hauer some Joe Smoe he would already be in Mario Junior’s who-scow. Now that Mario Junior has protected us New Yawkers with his safe act,who going to protect the New York public from the Cuomo Regime. Hauer has twice been reported to have pulled stunt that had I committed them would put me in jail.
Hat tip William Teach, Right Wing News.
Much like her apparent hero, John “French” Kerry Abortion Barbie, b/k/a Wendy Davis opposed restrictions on abortion before she supported the same restrictions, from Mediaite:
In 2013, state Sen. Wendy Davis’ (D-Fort Worth) unsuccessful filibuster against a law that would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks and impose uniform health standards on abortion providers in Texas catapulted the previously obscure politician to progressive celebrity status. Urged by her enraptured supporters to make a bid for governor, Davis accepted.
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Davis said that she believes only 0.5 percent of all Texas abortion occur after 20 weeks of gestation and, in most cases, only after identifying fetal abnormalities or health risks to the mother. “I would line up with most people in Texas who would prefer that that’s not something that happens outside of those two arenas,” she said.
And, with that, the face of the opposition to that divisive law abdicated that role
Pandering and pathetic.
An American icon has passed. Shirley Temple Black dead at age eighty-five, from Norman Eisen:
We at Embassy Prague mourn the passing of Shirley Temple Black, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Ghana, movie star, and American icon. She was Ambassador here during one of this nation’s most important moments: the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The dissidents who suddenly found themselves running the country that would become the Czech Republic welcomed her help with the transition and had fond memories of her.
A full life, well lived.
The Snark of the Day, from Kathy Shaidle , Five Feet of Fury:
’21st century Russia of all places can’t even build a proper Potemkin Village’
See.
Murphy’s Law is what can go wrong, will go wrong. Evidently, Murphy’s Law is applicable to Islamists as well, via Phineas @ Sister Toldjah:
A group of Sunni militants attending a suicide bombing training class at a camp north of Baghdad were killed on Monday when their commander unwittingly conducted a demonstration with a belt that was packed with explosives, army and police officials said.
The militants belonged to a group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS
Does Allah now need 1584 virgins?
In what century is Russia?
The water closet has no privacy dividers and the trash can seen between the commodes is for the toilet paper. Sochi may been intended to show case Russia, and it certainly does. I just doubt this was Putin’s intended message.
Hat tip photo: Daily Mail (UK)
The Snark of the Day, from Heather Mac Donald, City Journal:
If the college experience were in fact the tsunami of violence that the feminists proclaim, leading to widespread emotional dysfunction—a dysfunction nowhere in evidence among increasingly dominant female college graduates—there would have been a stampede to create single-sex schools where girls could study in safety.
Being a gender feminist means that you think that while women are tough enough to be a Marine rifleman, they are to delicate to handle a male on a college campus.
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The Snark of the Day, from George Will, Washington Post, via Eric, Viking Pundit:
Barack Obama, the first president shaped by the celebratory culture in which every child who plays soccer gets a trophy and the first whose campaign speeches were his qualification for the office, perhaps should not be blamed for thinking that saying things is tantamount to accomplishing things, and that good intentions are good deeds. So, his presidency is useful after all, because it illustrates the perils of government run by believers in magic words and numbers.
Who knew President Fifty Seven States would have such a problem with numbers.
