As Cyril Connolly paraphrased in his 1938 book “Enemies of Promise”…..
“Whom the gods wish to destroy,they first call promising.”
“Sick transit” the presidential aspirations of Governor Chris Christie….
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/370097/print How come no one’s worried about bringing Dinesh D’Souza “out of the shadows”? After all, the poor fellow didn’t do anything wrong — not really. He just wanted to participate fully in our national life, in our democratic process. He didn’t want to hide — he was forced to take cover by our draconian, […]
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ 2014.01.30 (Baghdad, Iraq) – Six al-Qaeda suicide bombers storm a government office building and murder eighteen people. 2014.01.30 (Giza, Egypt) – A policeman is murdered by Ansar Beit Al Maqdis as he leaves his house. 2014.01.30 (Pattani, Thailand) – Muslim radicals kill two people guarding a group of teachers with a homemade bomb. 2014.01.29 […]
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/maine-supreme-court-says-schools-banning-men-from-using-the-ladies-room-is-discrimination/print/
That’s not just the literal meaning of the ruling which states that a Maine school forbidding a boy who claims that his gender identity is that of a girl from using the bathroom is discrimination, but also the practical effect of the ruling which uses discrimination law to argue that, effectively, gender segregated bathrooms are illegal.
The school directed Maines, the boy in question, to use the staff bathroom, after complaints by family members of students.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s decision that banned a transgender boy from using the girls’ bathroom in Orono schools.
In a 5-1 decision, the justices said that Superior Court Justice William Anderson erred when he ruled in favor of what is now Riverside RSU 26.
The Chief Justice dissented by pointing out the obvious implications of this ridiculous decision.
http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/her-ladyship-marks-holocaust-without-mentioning-jews/
Here’s Ashton’s statement, all 121 words of it — a tribute to generic victims of yesteryear, sanitized of any reference that might offend anti-Semites by reminding the world of the mass atrocities committed in the name of their particular brand of bigotry. It’s hard to know whether Ashton did this deliberately, or is simply such an inept and banal functionary that by sheer accident she ends up sounding like a sly anti-Semite. Either way, is this really the face the EU wishes to present to the world? How horrifying.
You remember Baroness Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy? She’s the one who just can’t stop smiling at Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif. Here they are in Geneva together last October, beaming at each other as they prepare for Iran nuclear talks (from which Tehran’s rulers emerged celebrating the surrender to Iran of world powers and claiming they had an “inalienable right” to enrich uranium).
This week a friend sends news of Ashton’s latest performance. It seems that on Monday Her Ladyship issued a statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which she managed to make no mention whatsoever of the Jews. As the Jerusalem Post reports, in an editorial headlined “Ashton’s Lapse,” Ashton referred to the Jews who died — six million of them murdered by the Nazis quite specifically because they were Jews — as “victims” and “fellow citizens.” But not as Jews. The Jerusalem Post calls this a “mind-boggling omission,” quite likely pleasing to the likes of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but a watering-down of history.
Positive Environmental Report Means Admin Would Need Other Rationale to Kill Keystone By Bill Straub
http://pjmedia.com/blog/positive-environmental-report-means-admin-would-need-other-rationale-to-kill-keystone/?singlepage=true WASHINGTON – The proposed Keystone XL pipeline cleared a major regulatory hurdle on Friday with the release of an environmental impact statement declaring the controversial project presents only a limited environmental risk. The report, issued by the State Department – the controlling agency since the venture involves both Canada and the U.S. – was […]
NO, NO, NO “1. For $26 billion more a year, we could provide a basic education to every child in the world by 2015.” 26 billion dollars is roughly the education budget for New York City alone. New York has 8 million people. The world has 7 billion people. “2. For $990, a farmer can […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Friday Afternoon Roundup – One Leader, Three Branches of Government HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO Strip away the year and it’s hard for the listener to tell whether he’s listening to a cut from the 2008, 2011 or 2014 SOTU album. Clip all the static about competing with China by building bridges so that babies […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370095/progressivism-kills-kevin-d-williamson There are many horrific stories to be told about the implosion of Detroit, once the nation’s most prosperous city, today its poorest. There is the story of its corrupt public institutions, its feckless leaders, its poisonous racial politics, its practically nonexistent economy, the riots that have led to its thrice being occupied by federal […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/370056/print
Editor’s Note: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly “news”letter, the G-File.
Dear Reader (Including the growing number of you who don’t want this “news”letter to be a safe place where you can share things),
Here’s something I don’t say everyday: Capitalism ain’t all that.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m still the artist behind the spoken-word album, Capitalism Is My Bag, Baby. But here’s the problem. Because most people on the right love and respect capitalism and pretty much everyone on the right feels the very real need to defend capitalism from the Occupiers, technocrats, sans-culottes, nudgers, equalizers, faux pragmatists, and other members of the Social Justice League, we don’t spend enough time focusing on the limitations of capitalism.
I say “limitations” rather than “faults,” because limitations aren’t necessarily faults. This is a really important distinction that is sometimes lost on people. A car that can’t go more than five miles per hour is faulty. A car that can’t drive through solid rock is simply a car. Water has no protein. But few would say that water isn’t essential or good. Water does what it does, but it can’t do things water can’t do. Air is awesome. I use it every day. I’m using it right now! But if ever there was a good illustration of how “necessary” and “sufficient” aren’t the same thing, air is it.
And so it is with capitalism. Okay, technically we don’t need capitalism the way we need air or water. Cavemen didn’t have it. And, as a result, they ate a lot of grubs, scraped their dangly bits on rocks while running away from large hungry animals, and usually died a violent or painful death at a young age. The North Koreans don’t have capitalism and many North Koreans would count themselves lucky to live like cavemen. In fact, much of the West didn’t have it, in a meaningful sense, until around 1700 at the earliest. And that’s why it stunk to live in 1700 — literally and figuratively — for a lot of people.
