Liberal insanity in Texas: Girl taking testosterone to become a boy permitted to compete and win girls' state wrestling title

They call her a transgender boy to confuse you.

She advanced through the competitions due to forfeitures by girls who refused to wrestle a girl who gained an unfair advantage from taking drugs.

But the story here doesn't tell you that.

The Chicago Tribune here has the true story which the Fort Worth, Texas Star-Telegram didn't want to tell you:

Mack Beggs, a junior at Euless Trinity High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, won a regional championship after two opposing wrestlers forfeited, apparently over concerns that Beggs has an unfair advantage because of testosterone treatments that are part of the transition.

Beggs, who has a 52-0 record, has a first-round match in the state tournament Friday in suburban Houston. 

Obama hollowed out the military and SECDEF Mattis wants to keep those responsible in place at DOD

Kimberley Strassel delivers the bad news here:

President Trump promised to rebuild our hollowed-out military, a cause as urgent as any domestic priority. Years of Obama budget cuts and neglect slashed force sizes and provoked a readiness crisis. Over half the Navy’s aircraft are grounded. Of 58 Army brigade combat teams, only three are ready to immediately join a fight. The Air Force is short pilots and aircraft maintenance workers. ...

[Mattis] wanted, for instance, former Obama undersecretary Michèle Flournoy for a top post. He’s looked to recruit from Ms. Flournoy’s liberal-hawk think tank, the Center for New American Security. And he’s pushed for some names who hail from Never Trump backgrounds, including Mary Beth Long, an official in George W. Bush’s Pentagon.

Perhaps only to make a point, Mr. Mattis is blocking some rock-star conservative talent. One is Mira Ricardel, a former Boeing executive and Bush Pentagon alum who helped with the Trump transition. Mr. Mattis continues to nix a long list of names offered by the White House team. ...

The Pentagon today remains in the hands of Obama holdovers who have spent years thwarting congressional requests, minimizing readiness problems, and generally covering for Obama failures. Those holdovers include Deputy Secretary Robert Work, an opponent of reform, and Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs Stephen Hedger.

Mr. Hedger helped write an infamous 2016 Pentagon memo outlining how the Obama administration could use a presidential veto of greater defense spending as a “weapon” to get other Obama priorities. Civil servants are also place-warming other key positions. As well-intentioned as many are, it’s unrealistic to expect this crew to march in a new direction after eight years under President Obama.

Mattis isn't a Mad Dog. He's just mad, as in crazy.

Nearly half of Trump's cabinet still not confirmed, a record, because of Congress

Nearly half of Trump's cabinet still not confirmed, a record, because of Congress

There's no urgency felt by the Congress, which has been in recess all week, but you wouldn't know that from the CNBC story, reported here:

More than a month in, nearly half of Trump's Cabinet nominees have yet to be confirmed by the Senate, the longest run for any modern president.

"It's just delay, delay, delay - it's really sad," Trump told a cheering crowd at a Conservative Political Action Committee meeting Friday. "I love setting records. But I hate having a Cabinet meeting and I see all these empty seats. I said, 'Democrats, please, approve our cabinet.'"

Hey Ann Coulter, stop covering for CPAC: They're unenthusiastic for Trump because they're libertarians, not conservatives

Trump to CPAC: Basically, all I've done is keep my promise

Your opposition to Trump's border control initiatives is directly proportional to the severity of your drug addiction

Story here.

Steve Bannon poses as our new Albert Jay Nock, says Trump's third goal is the deconstruction of the administrative state

Good stuff, except the real enemy is the income tax. Leave the income tax in place and a new behemoth administrative state is just another administration away.

Here.

Hey Hillary, put a sock in it, it's you who couldn't stand the heat on the 9/11 anniversary

With its new motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" maybe WaPo should switch all its publishing to Confide

That way its stories would evanesce into the ether and no one would ever be able to blame it again for its partisanship and lying.

What happens to investments when capital is misallocated to a foreign war and a war on poverty

Supreme Court ruling in 2011 requiring releases from Calif. prisons to ease overcrowding results in officer slaying on Monday

The story is here.

Justice Antonin Scalia, who dissented here, called it "perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our Nation's history": 

Today the Court affirms what is perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our Nation's history: an order requiring California to release the staggering number of 46,000 convicted criminals.

What? Roe v. Wade, which resulted in the deaths of millions of innocents, was less radical? Overturning millennia of marriage law and the statutes of 30 states was less radical? Obliging people to engage in health insurance commerce was not a repudiation of centuries of contract law? 

Antonin Scalia was right to dissent in this one, but come on, Solomon he was not.

WNBA 98% lesbian, average attendance at a game is 7,655, NBA averages just shy of 18,000

So says WNBA star Candice Wiggins, here, who was

"harassed for being straight". . . “I would say 98 percent of the women in the WNBA are gay women. It was a conformist type of place. There was a whole different set of rules they [the other players] could apply.”

And you thought guys liked watching lesbians.

This woman is far more disgusting than Milo because she's paid by the state to sexually abuse children

Here.

Trump outraised Obama, and Hillary and Bernie combined, from small donors

From the story here:

Mr. Trump raised about $239 million from small donors during the campaign, compared to $137 million for Mrs. Clinton and about $100 million for Mr. Sanders, according to the report from the Campaign Finance Institute.

Mr. Obama had raised about $219 million from small donors during the 2012 race and about $181 million during the 2008 campaign. Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, raised about $58 million from small donors that year.

Obama started to cut back on deportations after his 2010 ass-whuppin as a 2012 reelection strategy

Lots more here.

California has gone from exceptional drought in Feb. 2016 to mostly abnormally dry one year later

Calif. exceptional drought 2/16

Calif. abnormally dry 2/17

I don't believe Milo is gay, I think it's all an act and he's just trying to make money like Ru Paul, who isn't a tranny

If Milo is gay, I say release the movie and prove it.

If he does, report back here and tell me what you saw (comments subject to editing) because I won't watch it, even if it becomes the last movie on earth.

Trump's right about the lending slowdown

In the 15 quarters ended 3Q2016, total loans in all sectors have grown by a measly 14.5%.

Compare the 15 quarters ended 3Q1986 when the measure grew by 53%.

The fact of the matter is lending hit the big brick wall in 2007. It has recovered but not to anything like the post-war rate where total credit market debt outstanding doubled every 6 to 11 years. Under Reagan it doubled in 6 years.

Ten years out from 2007, we're currently about $34 trillion behind the outside range with a year to go. We aren't going to make it.

Why that is has to do with the broken housing model more than anything else, and the failure to find anything else to replace it.

With overcapacity everywhere else in the economy, it doesn't seem likely anything will be found to take housing's place, either, except housing.

Maybe someone could revive "A Dodge in every garage and a chicken in every pot"?

Obama certainly failed to understand the central importance of housing to the economy, and Trump talk now of $1 trillion in infrastructure spending is laughably unimaginative, the equivalent of taking a wizz in the ocean.

Infrastructure spending isn't conceivably up to scaling the $34 trillion lending deficit we face.

The Wall Street Journal features my nutty Congressman, who represents an ideology, not me

Students revolt against Moochelle's school lunches throwing away $1 billion worth of food a year

From the story here:

Penn-Trafford High School is among more than 500 schools that have dropped out of the NSLP since strict nutrition regulations were imposed on schools through the Healthy Hunger Free Act championed by former first lady Michelle Obama.

The changes drove down school food sales nationwide for the first time in years and created an estimated $1 billion in additional food waste as students across the country revolted against the rules.