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February 2017

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 04, 2017 21 Comments
If you've been paying attention for the last few days, you may have noticed a concerted effort by many liberals to suggest that the "Black Bloc" protesters who showed up at the Berkeley riots are not part of the progressive movement. That suggestion is absurd. These folks are part of the Democratic Party's base. They showed up in Ferguson, Charlotte, Baltimore, the inauguration and now Berkeley.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2017 27 Comments
I wrote the other day about how Bill Maher was complaining that liberals apologize too much, and I wrote that was not my "lived experience" as someone who lives among liberals, Do liberals really apologize too much? My "lived experience" is more along the lines of Melissa Click. You remember the Social Justice Warrior Mizzou Professor whose rant during a Black Lives Matter protest went viral, particularly when she called for "muscle" to help her remove a student journalist.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2017 4 Comments
Car ramming has become a favorite tactics of terrorists, as we witnessed in Nice, Berlin and Ohio State U. Car ramming as a terror tactic may not have been invented by Palestinian terrorists, but it certainly was elevated as a tactic with dozens of car rammings, as we documented in The long list of Palestinian car rammings:
The use of a truck as a terror weapon in Nice has shocked so many people not only because of the death toll, but also because the terrorist turned an ordinary device into a weapon.

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 03, 2017 15 Comments
Who knows? It seems to change every single week. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) have now said that they would settle to repair Obamacare instead of a full repeal:
And Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee — another panel with a crucial role in the effort to repeal the ACA — said Thursday that he “could stand either” repealing or repairing the law. “I’m saying I’m open to anything. Anything that will improve the system, I’m for,” he said.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on February 03, 2017 32 Comments
As Aleister pointed out this morning, you don't have to like or care about a speaker to be concerned about the willingness to shut down speech deemed "offensive." Co-founder of Vice media Gavin McInnes was speaking to a College Republican club at NYU Thursday night when protesters stormed the lecture hall.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on February 03, 2017 20 Comments
No one can take a joke these days, especially not media outlets driven by confirmation bias. The Daily Mail was the first outlet to report Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch started a club in high school called "Fascism Forever". Touted as an "exclusive", The Daily Mail must've obtained a copy of a yearbook. Rather than focus on the numerous conservative tendencies of the young Gorsuch, also included in the yearbook, the Daily Mail ran with the clearly satirical "Fascism Forever Club."

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 03, 2017 25 Comments
The Senate woke up bright and early Friday morning to vote on President Donald Trump's education secretary Betsy DeVos to advance her to a final vote on Monday. She advanced with a 52-48 vote, but her confirmation vote will not come easy.

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 03, 2017 8 Comments
The Treasury Department has announced new sanctions against Iran after the regime performed a ballistic missile test earlier this week. From CNN:
The Treasury Department said it was sanctioning individuals and companies connected to Iran's ballistic missile program and those providing support to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Qods Force.

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 03, 2017 26 Comments
Let's be clear. What happened at UC Berkeley on Wednesday night has nothing to do with Milo Yiannopoulos. It is part of a much larger problem on American college campuses which has been brewing for years. Left wing radicals, some of whom even have criminal pasts, are frequently welcome to speak on college campuses. Conservatives are not and are often shouted down if not protested.

Posted by Mark Finkelstein on February 03, 2017 11 Comments
Larry O'Connor's suggestion was so brilliant that . . . Rachel Maddow is almost sure to ignore it. On today's Morning Joe, Weekly Standard editor and radio talk show host O'Connor suggested that Rachel Maddow, accompanied by Dem senator Cory Booker, should escort onto campus Milo Yiannopoulos and other conservative speakers who have been confronted with violence. Maddow should make the point, suggested O'Connor, that violence is "not what we do in America." O'Connor argued that by their silence, Dems are being hurt by the protests because Americans are seeing opposition to Trump as "violent thugs."

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 03, 2017 25 Comments
The smoke is clearing from the violent demonstration at University of California - Berkeley, and reports of attacks on conservative students who were planning to hear Breitbart editor Yiannopoulos are finding their way into social media. For example, the pepper-spraying on a young woman wearing a Make Bitcoin Great Again cap.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on February 02, 2017 14 Comments
For all the hubbub over "fake news", major news outlets are making a name for themselves peddling misinformation and inaccurate reports. Like this New York Times report. Here's how the NYT ran the story:

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 02, 2017 29 Comments
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings (MD) erupted into a fight at a hearing on Thursday over possible Russian interference in our election. The fight started when the two sides discussed a possible Oversight investigation into the phishing schemes against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Democrats argued it must happen:
“It’s clear that politics have prevented this committee from being willing or able to do the necessary objective and nonpartisan oversight on the Russian attack,” said Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.).

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on February 02, 2017 20 Comments
The 2016 election cycle and subsequent presidential coverage made painfully clear the disconnect between the political media and the rest of the real world. East Coast and particularly Beltway elites could not wrap their heads around Trump's win and for good reason -- they do not experience or live in the same world as the country that elected Trump president. As they've learned, the world does not revolve around D.C. or Manhattan. Which explains why Reuters Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler sent a very public memo to staffers (no accident there) reminding them what journalism is and how it ought to be conducted.
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