From a poster on Ricochet comes this a capella rendition of our nation’s anthem. She performed it at an Arizona State University Homecoming football game.
The first commenter on the post offered this:
Where’s the video of Sinema singing The Internationale?
Indeed.
That’s fairly literal, this time. CNN‘s “star” reporter on the White House beat, Jim Acosta, struck a White House intern who was trying to do her job. Since then, CNN has denied—and it’s actually serious about it—that the strike ever occurred.
“She [White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders] provided fraudulent accusations and cited an incident that never happened,” CNN said.
The blow was delivered during a presser President Donald Trump was holding and near the end of a contentious exchange between Trump and Acosta. During such pressers and as a normal part of presser procedure, reporters wishing to ask questions are called on by the President and handed a microphone so that the President, all the other reporters in the room, and especially all of us in TV-land watching can hear the reporter’s question. The intern, as was her job, had approached Acosta to take the microphone that had been handed him on being called on so that, his turn having ended, she could pass it to the next reporter, that person having just been called on.
Acosta refused to give up the microphone, and when the intern tried to grab it anyway, he chopped down on her arm with his free hand. That’s clear in the video Fox News has included in its piece (the link above) on the incident. The intern’s approach and Acosta’s hitting her begins at about 0:22 of the video.
That video clearly shows Acosta striking the intern as she tried to do her job. Not a hard blow, certainly, but Acosta striking the woman at all is unacceptable. Bad as that is, though, CNN‘s pride in and open lie about Acosta’s misbehavior is worse—CNN seems to be validating its reporters getting physical with anyone who gets in their way, including others trying to do their job.
In a Wall Street Journal article about the general government paralysis in Great Britain as the Brexit question is allowed to consume all of Parliament’s energy, one statement jumped out at me.
Instead, her [Theresa May’s] premiership is being defined by the Brexit negotiation itself.
What negotiations? Brussels is dictating punitive terms, and May and her team are meekly rolling over and accepting them. They’re even agreeing to discuss an effective partition of Great Britain rather than rejecting the question out of hand and walking out of all of the “negotiations” over the calculated insult and attempt to dismantle Great Britain.
The ramp-up in political spending across Facebook’s social networks, which also include Instagram, is breathtaking: In 2014, digital ad spending was 1% of all political ad spending. Now it’s 22%, or about $1.9 billion, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Facebook says that politicians have spent nearly $300 million in the US on Facebook ads since May.
And
Politicians who want to reach the same voters their competitors are reaching on Facebook have little choice but to go there, too.
Which helps explain why Facebook was so willing to censor conservative political ads.
During final arguments in the civil suit against Harvard over its use of race in its admission decisions, Harvard’s lawyers insisted that
plaintiffs had to prove admissions officers were motivated by racial animus….
This is a disingenuous argument, though. Racial animus isn’t necessary to get a disparate impact ruling. With disparate impact established in the courts, for the time being, it’s clear that racial animus doesn’t have to be proved in Harvard’s bias case, either.
The Harvard lawyers weren’t through, though.
Harvard’s lawyers said race is only used as a preference among the most competitive applicants, in the same way exceptional musical talent can make a difference in admissions.
Here is the lie of the Harvard personnel. They deny race plays a role, yet they admit using race to play a role.
Beyond that, applicants’ musical talent (for instance) is entirely under those applicants’ control to acquire. Their race, however, is an accident of birth over which they have no control. It’s an entirely irrelevant and valueless characteristic in determining merit.