A guide to its current lack, and the importance of restoring it, from Jonathan Haidt.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The Mid-Twentieth Century “Global Warming Consensus”
Bob Tisdale takes a deep dive into the data, which seems to indicate that NOAA is continuing to try to cook the books.
Trump, On Scalia
And then there’s all the mutual-admiration society with Vlad, while endorsing the murdering of journalists. Yes, let’s make him Commander-in-Chief.
ObamaCare
We were told there would be no arithmetic. https://t.co/KBQddrglwx
— HealthCaliphate (@HealthDotGov) December 18, 2015
Why Trump Is Leading
…and why he will ultimately fail. An interesting Boydian analysis of the race.
Obama’s Failures
Ed Driscoll has a roundup of links chronicling them. We have to survive another year of this, unless the Democrats in the Senate suffer from a fit of sanity and agree to remove him.
Democrats
Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman on their increasing disconnect from reality on guns.
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Related: The Democrats’ compassion gap on terrorism.
They reserve their compassion for the enemy.
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Here’s an example. Yes, the Obama administration nixed a probe into the California jihadis.
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And this: Whistleblower says Obama more concerned with rights of Islamists than with protecting the American people. That’s pretty obvious.
Trump
If he wanted to get Hillary elected, what would he be doing differently?
Perp-Walk Shots
Ken White has some questions for Reuters:
Who leaked the time and place of the arrest? Was it an FBI agent, a prosecutor, staff, a coordinating local cop? How high up in the government did the decision to leak the arrest go? Did the leak violate the law? Did it violate the defendant’s rights? What was the government’s purpose in leaking the time and place of the arrest? How does this instance fit into the pattern of which arrests get leaked and which don’t? Which nonviolent defendants without records get arrested, and which get summonsed in (or self-surrender through arrangement with their lawyers), and why? What impact does a front-page picture of a defendant in handcuffs have on the jury pool? Is that impact a feature, or a bug, of leaking it? Was the leak intended to inflict extra-judicial humiliation and punishment on the defendant? If the government lies about whether or not it leaked, would you still keep it secret?
“Journalism.”
Hillary’s Criminal Investigation
…continues to move forward. It’s really amazing to see all of the crimes that she’s committed. And I’d forgotten about this one:
All of her behavior has triggered the FBI investigation because she may have committed serious federal crimes. For example, it is a crime to steal federal property. What did she steal? By diverting to her own venue the digital metadata that accompany all emails — metadata that, when attached to the work-related emails of a government employee, belong to the government — she stole that data. The metadata do not appear on her paper copies — hence the argument that she stole and destroyed the government-owned metadata.
This is particularly troublesome for her present political ambitions because of a federal statute that disqualifies from public office all who have stolen federal property. (She is probably already barred from public office — though this was not prominently raised when she entered the U.S. Senate or the Department of State — because of the china, silverware and furniture that she and her husband took from the White House in January 2001.)
I didn’t realize until the 90s how completely corrupt and indifferent to the law Democrats are.