A bunch of Harvard student groups signed a letter blaming Israel for the atrocities of Hamas. They didn't think there would be any fallout. Two trucks circled Harvard Square with the names and photos of some of the supporters of terrorism.
The billboard trucks, funded by the conservative news group Accuracy in Media, featured LED screens that changed throughout the day to feature at least a half dozen Harvard students under the words, “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites.” The trucks also linked to a website, HarvardHatesJews.com, which directs users to send messages to Harvard’s board of trustees.
I’m not in favor of cancel culture. On the other hand, I am a fan of irony and paybacks. And just a few years ago, all the best people were assuring me that it was laudable to punch Nazis. . . .
Michelle Goldberg is a Liberal who works for the New York Times. But then there are no conservatives who work for The Times.
Here is how The Other McCain feels about her.
If your stock in trade is bad writing in support of bad ideas, the only way you can find work is to be a liberal, Michelle Goldberg got her start at the worthless Salon-dot-com, and if she ever wrote anything worth reading, I missed it.
Today she is surprised that The Left, which she counts herself a member of, is celebrating acts of atrocity.
This could only be surprising to those who have paid no attention to the Jew-hating climate on university campuses fostered by the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement. Was any conservative surprised by the pro-Hamas rally in New York? Or were we surprised when Black Lives Matter celebrated this terrorist attack? I don’t think so.
Officials learned a man, identified as 30-year-old Ricky Gomez, had forced his way into a home in the area and the man living at the home shot him. Gomez died from his injuries at a hospital.
No arrests have been made because of the Castle Doctrine. Arizona actually has Stand Your Ground, but that doesn't really apply in this case, except that you are not required to retreat.
So, if someone is attacking you in Arizona, you're not obligated to try and run away before using force," [Craig] Rosenstein said.
Mr. Rosenstein is a criminal defense attorney who works with a self-defense education group called U.S. Law Shield.
Police in the United Kingdom confirmed last week that all charges have been dropped against Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the woman arrested for “thoughtcrime” as she stood and silently prayed outside an abortion facility. The police also apologized to Vaughan-Spruce for the length of time it took for them to determine whether or not she would face charges.
The apology came just one week after the British Home Secretary Suella Braverman told police that “silent prayer, within itself, is not unlawful.”
The Country Formerly Known As Great Britain is more like Airstrip One every day.
I like all citizens being able to arm and defend themselves.
And Saturday night is right for girls with guns...
Mary Fields, a friend of Gary Cooper, from last week
Report: Virginia Universities Drowning in DEI Policies
“Which state’s public universities have the largest diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies? It is not a deep-blue state, like California or Oregon.
So many links, so little time. So lets dig in. Nine Eleven Americans were killed in the terrorist attack on Israel.
Victor Davis Hanson on why the attack happened now.
You don't need to use a large, expensive Large Language model to generate nonsensical garbage anymore. A small, cheap, Tiny Language Model can do the job just as well. (Quanta)
There is actually a point to this. ...
Cafe Hayek: On the Meaning of “Deindustrialization”, More from Thomas Sowell on Social-Justice Fallacies, and Dan Klein in the Wall Street Journal on the Censoring of Science
CDR Salamander: Prelude to Slaughter
FBI Knew New York Post’s Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was Real Ahead Of 2020 Election, FBI Form Shows. Always check the paperwork. Jonathan Turley continues to hammer the theme The Biden Family Tree: How Investigations are Exposing the Bidens’ Influence-Peddling Dynasty.
The Indians are upset in New Brunswick (CBC). A Hamas celebration in Canada. Trans Mountain Pipeline is causing genocide or something (CBC). The Marxist infiltration. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel all the way to Yellowknife. Trudeau’s unbiased CBC. Charity calls Israel sadistic.
ITEM 3: Sebastian Gorka tweeted, “Chuck Schumer called the people who voted against McCarthy extremists.”
Why does he hate every Democrat in the House?
As part of the Cato Institute’s brilliant “Defending Globalization” project, Jim Dorn reviews China’s post‐1978 economic development and its entry into the global trading system.
EU Commission Will Keep Funding Palestinians
Just hours after Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Varhelyi announced the immediate freezing of nearly €700 million in EU aid to the Palestinian Authority on Monday, October 9th
The New Push for Censorship Under the Guise of Combating Hate - How an obscure British nonprofit came to influence White House COVID policy and lead attacks on Elon Musk
Update On Offshore Wind Projects Off The Mid-Atlantic And New England
"The Radical-in-Chief helped spawn the jihad terror group's current mayhem and destruction inside the Jewish state."
How Obama Enabled Hamas’ Terror Attack on Israel
A bus crash, impacting several vehicles. A drive by Shooting in which a Chicago Transit Authority supervisor was hit. A tow truck driver, with a concealed carry license returned fire, getting the bad guys to leave the area.
And then there were the people caught in the middle. Like Lorenzo Hernandez, who was just trying to get to work.
"The shooting happened so quickly, I didn't have time to react," Hernandez said. "In Chicago, you go to work not knowing if you will come back home. This happens everywhere. I thank God that I didn't get hit."
At the end of the chaotic ordeal, Hernandez said the tow truck driver came over to him to thank him.
"The tow truck driver thanked me. He said if my SUV wasn't there, he would have gotten killed," Hernandez said.
The Chicago media seems to be getting used to the idea that concealed carry might be legal, even in the People's Republic of Chicago.
Fifty coaches carrying migrants have arrived in Chicago over the last week and authorities are bracing for up to 25 buses with around 1,250 people aboard to start arriving daily.
The deluge has caused huge problems and prompted backlash from residents in the city, which long ago ran out of shelter space and has been allowing asylum seekers to sleep in O’Hare Airport and police stations across the city.
In a scathing letter to President Biden Monday, Illinois’ Democrat Governor, J.B. Pritzker accused the feds of failing to provide adequate aid to the city — a sentiment echoed by numerous other American mayors as the crisis unfolds.
The outrage is years too late.
The residents of the city are starting to push back, because they couldn't be bothered to worry about it when it was far away.
The activists are still all in on open borders of course.
Florida Man Friday is your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have a riding mower that doubles as a brewpub, a flawless T.J. Hooker impersonation, and a tale from Atlanta too wild to believe.
NBC does the unthinkable, and posts footage of meetings at Hyde Park and Amundsen Park documenting community displeasure with the housing of illegals in their neighborhoods.
Climate policies are not about the climate — they are about power. “You can go back through history and see how times of crisis or perceived crises are used to consolidate power,” said Morano.
On this day in 1571, an alliance of Catholic states including Spain and Venice faced off against the Turkish fleet led by Ali Pasha. Under the command of Don John of Austria, the smaller Catholic fleet won a stupendous victory over the Turks, forestalling a major invasion of Italy and forever ending Turkish naval domination in the Mediterranean.
What can I say? If climate protestors held up a few banners by the side of the road, and respected the rights of others, by doing their best not to inflict unlawful disruption on ordinary people, I would fully uphold and defend their right to protest. And of course, I would uphold the right of passers by to ignore them.
Does any friend of Israel think Biden’s Middle East policy is better than Trump’s? And how do Messrs. Kristol, et al., feel about their current alignment with the party of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib? Not happy, I’ll bet.
As I have said before, far be it from me to accuse anyone of being a pedophile without evidence, but on the other hand, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, you should consider the possibility it’s actually a duck.
A 16 year old died after being stabbed in a "dispute between rival groups."
[18-year-old Egypt Otis] is the 20th person accused of shooting, killing, or trying to shoot or kill someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony. The cases involve at least 33 victims, ten of whom died.
CWBChicago started keeping score because the powers that be refuse to acknowledge that their policies are not good.
CWBChicago began our series of reports in November 2019 after Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans publicly stated, “We haven’t had any horrible incidents occur” under the court’s bond reform initiative.
Illinois has since made that initiative the law, eliminating most cash bail.
They are taxing people based on video of license plates.
London’s Metropolitan Police has revealed that nearly 800 spy cameras installed to enforce far-left Mayor Sadiq Khan’s green agenda car tax have been stolen or destroyed since May.
Three arrests have been made, though one case was dismissed. They also arrested one person who said he supported the destruction of the cameras, because in the country formerly known as Great Britain you are not allowed to disagree with the government.
In 2016, there were 12,820 rapes in France; in 2020, this had risen to 22,770; by 2021, the latest year for which records are available, there were 30,780 rapes, an increase in one year of 40%. This catastrophic rise corresponds to the rise in the number of Muslim migrants. Remix News reports here on the increase in the number of rapes in France by Muslim migrants, with many of the victims being middle-aged or elderly: “France ravaged by migrant rapes as spate of sexual assaults targeting elderly women sweep the nation,” by Thomas Brooke, Remix News.
The government's response? A coverup.
The French government tries to keep these statistics on Muslim crime from the public, for fear that the truth will enrage the public, and lead inexorably to a victory by the so-called “far right” parties — Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and Eric Zemmour’s Reconquista.
Unrestrained immigration. What could possibly go wrong? Click thru for the details, a couple of cases, and the government's increasingly ineffective actions. (Hat tip to Anonymous Conservative.)
This is much longer than I usually feature, but if you have the time (25 minutes) I think you'll like it.
Dream Theater is usually considered Progressive Metal, but it strikes me more as Progressive Rock from the 1970s. I'm not sure who they remind me of.
This is "In the Presence of Enemies (Parts I & II)" by Dream Theater from their 2007 album Systematic Chaos. It is 25 minutes, so plan accordingly. (Part I is about 9 minutes, and Part II is 16 minutes or so.)
You could always build firearms. Most shade-tree mechanics have all the tools, and most of the technical know how to produce firearms. The advent of 3D printing made that both easier, and worse, given the quality of 3D printed guns versus things like Philip Luty designed submachinegun. Though the quality issues are being addressed.
That leaves ammunition as the bottleneck.
Developments include the production of shell casings, primers, large fin-stabilized projectiles capable of carrying a payload, and complete cartridges.
You can click thru for the depressing details, about how the child was always dirty and hungry and begging neighbors for food, and to stay. Until the mother kicked most of the family out of the house.
The government?
Bradley and other neighbors said they made numerous reports to the Kansas Department for Children and Families in the weeks leading up to her death, citing the deplorable living conditions in Zoey’s home — which lacked running water and was filled with feces.
Numerous reports to the bureaucracy over weeks, and the bureaucrats did nothing. So why is it being funded at all?
But don't worry. There will be an inquiry, which will be run by the government. It will conclude that more funding is required, and more power. And in the end nothing will change, because bureaucracies take care of the bureaucrats.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a plaintiff in a First Amendment lawsuit against the HHS, Pres. Biden, and Dr. Fauci, after the Twitter Files revealed that Dr. Jay was targeted by the administration’s efforts to censor social media posts of experts who shared dissenting opinions on lockdowns and mask mandates.
And he is not some quack. He is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, among other things.
The allegation of the case is that the federal government put together a vast censorship enterprise. A federal judge in the case called it a "Ministry of Truth."
The animated Disney film, The Little Mermaid (1989) was one of the most successful pieces of intellectual property that Disney has ever created. In terms of merchandising and everything downstream from there, it was a home-run. That means that the live-action remake should have been a no-brainier. Except of course, that Disney had to change EVERYTHING about the film, including the soundtrack. Why? Because reasons, and you are racist/misogynistic/whatever for even QUESTIONING the changes that they made.
How much did that rap song cost to write, to film, and to animate? Did they achieve anything except making meme fodder for the internet?
Disney has revealed that the cost of making the live action version of its classic cartoon The Little Mermaid swelled to nearly $300 million by the end of August last year, eight months before the movie opened.
The colossal cost blows its estimated budget out of the water. Variety forecast that the movie had "a $250 million production budget" and there is good reason why it sailed past that.
Say that again: Disney spent $300 million on production as of August 2022, nearly a year before the movie was released. That doesn't include $1 of marketing. Posters. Ads. Trailers. What do you think they spent on marketing?
So they couldn't break even on their most profitable legacy IP. They may have even damaged that IP, since it will take some time for people to forget the live-action abomination. What do you think their chance of breaking even on Snow Off-white and the Seven Portland Baristas is? Slim or none? Then there is Bambi, which they are planning to "remake, for a modern audience." Which means that they are planning to remove the death of Bambi's mother from the film because reasons. I'm sure that will be a success. Or maybe not.
Even Forbes, which has some of the best reporting on Disney, is trying to cover for them in some articles, but the Truth is that EVERY division of Disney has lost its way. The Parks are pushing Woke agenda, even though families are staying away. Marvel is a joke, Lucasfilm is dead. Pixar is a hollowed out shell of its former self.
