Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Wilbur Ross confirmed to Commerce by Senate 72-27 last night
And that took almost 40 days with that kind of support because why? Why because Chucky Schumer tried but failed to tar him with a connection to Russia.
Reported here.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Yeah, and I remember when Chris Plante pronounced "Die" in "Die Welt" rhyming with "lie"
Michael Savage is right, "gender" is misused
Gender is an aspect of inflected language, as in gender, number and case. Sex is an aspect of human reproduction, as in male or female. The equation of the two is a phenomenon of contemporary times.
For example, "the dummy" in German is "der Dummkopf".
"Der" signifies it is a masculine noun, singular in number, and nominative as to case.
"Der Dummkopf" functions as the subject in a sentence, for example when Michael says "The dummy says gender when he means sex".
When it is the indirect object in a sentence, it is spelled "dem Dummkopf", in the dative case, as in "Michael said to the dummy . . .. "
Michael Savage talks to many dummies, "den Dummköpfen", who are plural in number and dative in case, who don't understand the difference between gender and sex.
There is no answer to "What is your gender?"
To "Sex?" the answer is either male or female.
And sometimes "Yes".
My hometown is a small town: Libertarians chafe at staying in the same place
Tyler Cowen, here:
Americans traditionally have thought of themselves as the great movers, and indeed that was true in the nineteenth century and even through most of the twentieth. But since the 1980s, Americans have become much less restless in movements across the country, and more people are looking to simply settle down and entrench themselves.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Repeal the income tax of 1913: It facilitates the massive growth of our enemy the administrative state
After the passage of the income tax in 1913, outlays doubled from $2.9 billion in 1911 to $5.7 billion by 1917, and they keep doubling and doubling and doubling . . ..
In 2016 over 36% of GDP is diverted from the free market and misspent, poorly spent or destroyed. Almost $6.7 trillion . . . phhhhhht.
To kill the beast, stop feeding it.
Laugh of the Day: Over 100 days after death Politico still expects dead person to conduct her own autopsy
"In the absence of a definitive 2016 autopsy report from the Clinton campaign . . .."
I see dead people walking.
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Tom Perez, supported by Obama and Biden, beats Ellison, supported by Sanders, 235-200 to head DNC
But WaPo, in sympathy with the defeated far left Ellison, can't bring itself to report it that way here, making you do the math:
The race was close enough that it required a second round of balloting, with Perez winning 235 of 435 votes cast. With tensions still high as the result was announced, nine Ellison supporters chanted “Party for the people, not big money!” and stormed out of the room.
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.
Friday, February 24, 2017
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.'"
Thursday, February 23, 2017
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.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
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.
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