Monday, December 08, 2014

OBAMA: "a thin-skinned, narcissistic little putz."
WITNESS THE COLLAPSE OF THE PROGESSIVE LEFT: The New Republic cancels December issue after mass staff resignation.
ALMOST A CRIMINAL ACT: being a heterosexual male in America.
IN BERKELEY, NO LESS: Garner chokehold death protest turns violent.

It took a day longer than I expected....
EBOLA? WHAT'S THAT? Ebola 'czar' Ron Klain returning to the private sector.
FAKE BUT ACCURATE: Don't let facts interfere with the preordained narrative.
OBAMA’S 2011 PREDICTION of a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015 wasbarely missed -- by a mere 826,000.
THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY on grand juries.
WHAT A WORLD OF WIMPS: Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams.

I was in college on Friday, November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated -- a far more traumatic event, I should think. Classes resumed on Saturday (college was 6 days a week back then). No exams were postponed, there was no 'trauma counseling', and no plans were made for future teach-in to 'educate ourselves and formulate a response to the implications' of the assassination.

Wimps indeed.
THEY LIED! Thanks to Instapundit for the reminder.
MICHAEL BROWN PROTESTERS have shut down more traffic than Chris Christie. But, but ... Christie was a Republican!
DEMOCRATS CAN BE a working-class party, or a multicultural one, but not both.

Stick with multiculturalism, Democrats; it's working well (for Republicans).
WE'RE WINNING, RIGHT? So our troops won't have to return home, right?
PERSONALLY, I'D RATHER SHOOT THEM, but this'll work.
THE LAW IS AN ASS: And it puts us all in the same danger as Eric Garner.
'STOLEN VALOR' RANGER meets actual Army Ranger. I don't think he'll be doing it again -- at least, not soon, and not in that mall.
WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON with Holder’s civil-rights crusade against police departments.
Civil-rights investigations in Ferguson and Staten Island? No, what denizens of St. Louis and New York City ought to be worried about right now is ... the crime wave overtaking Seattle.

If you don’t understand why, then you probably thought Obamacare was about covering the uninsured. Like its health-care “reform” campaign, the Obama Left’s civil-rights crusade is about control — central control of state law enforcement by Washington.
With Democrats, it's always about control. Read the rest.
OBVIOUSLY TRENT LOTT didn't get the message.
COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY: Steyer fundraising goal falls $40 million short.
REMEMBER EZEKIEL EMANUEL'S 'Why I Hope to Die at 75' article in the Atlantic magazine last month? It generated significant backlash, especially from PJ Media's Ron Radosh, who was positively scathing.

Instapundit is kinder, merely suggesting that Emmanuel's committment to 'die early' may be the result of the "feeble, ineffectual, and even pathetic" liberals he associates with.

I'm actually somewhat sympathetic to Emmanuel's argument, as I suspect that there comes a time in most lives (who die of 'natural causes') when individuals, having lived their lives fully, become ready for death and don't wish it prolonged unnecessarily.

Where I have problems is that Emmanuel is one of the chief architects of ObamaCare, and his personal philosophy has become infused into a 'healthcare system' -- death panels, anyone? -- I can no longer control.
ED GILLESPIE: An Obamacare Do-Over. He should have been Virginia's new senator, but the 'cemetery voters' were overwhelming.