The ranking Progressive-Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warren (D, VA) has a thought on the DoJ IG report on the FBI’s investigation of the Clinton email scandal.
He says the authors of the IG report found no evidence of bias in the FBI’s handling of that investigation. Then he says that that handling “benefited the Trump campaign more than one time’.”
That other benefitting, though, wasn’t bias at all.
Hmm….
Elizabeth Bernstein asked—and she was serious—the question of when it’s appropriate to violate a confidence.
A while back, my sister, Rebecca, called with a request: she wanted me to book a flight to come and see her immediately—and not tell anyone.
Rebecca explained that she was having a breast biopsy the next day, was terrified to hear the results, and wanted me there for support. But she didn’t want to worry others in our family.
…would rather find a reason to be offended than see humor, even if that humor isn’t their style. Such folks are professional victims. Here’s an advertising sign that one physical fitness gym owner has put up to advertise his business.
Folks actually are up in arms over this. Is the joke for everyone? Of course not; no joke is; not even those told by Milton Berle or Bob Hope.
That’s a big so what, though; humor varies from person to person. Nevertheless, professional victims are calling him out for fat-shaming folks, for bullying folks.
Last weekend, a woman accused a Texas State Trooper of sexually assaulting her during a traffic stop. Sherita Dixon-Cole
alleged that after she failed a field sobriety test, Hubbard had “suggested she could go home in exchange for sexual favors,” according to [Dixon-Cole’s lawyer Lee] Merritt’s initial press release. Dixon-Cole said that after she refused, she was taken to Hubbard’s police car where she was “forcefully groped, fondled, and vaginally penetrated during a prolonged arrest.”
She went on to say Hubbard continued his sexual advances on the way to the police station, even alleging that he offered to take her to a remote location where she could provide sexual favors in exchange for her release from custody.
…rates are declining. Or so a headline number implies.
The share of new delinquencies on student loans has fallen to the lowest level in more than decade—and it’s not just due to the healthy labor market.
In the first quarter, slightly over 9% of student debt outstanding was newly delinquent….
Aside from employment rates, which encourage jobs as trade-off for college, the decline is laid off to a couple of causes.
[F]forbearance[] allows borrowers to go months without making a payment while remaining in good standing on their debt.
And
Three dentists in North Carolina dressed up in traditional clothing of an American Indian, a Japanese, and a Scot in order to run an advertisement under the catchphrase “Everyone smiles in the same language!”
Oh, the hoo-raw. SJWs crawled out through their baseboard holes on this one, proclaiming the ad to be “ignorant and offensive” and racist.
No. What’s ignorant and offensive is the naked racism of manufacturing a beef where there is none for the sole purpose of supporting the professional victim industry.
A Miami-Dade police officer’s 14-year-old daughter dissed her teacher at Pinecrest Cove Preparatory Academy charter school, and her father was called to the school. The video at the link shows the ensuing abuse: the “father” whipped his daughter with his belt, slugged her, yanked her hair. Fortunately, no serious physical damage appears to have been done, but I have to wonder about the emotional damage, I have to wonder about the quality of her home life, and I have to wonder whether that life might have been a factor in her relationship with her teacher.
That’s what April Ryan, CNN’s star news analyst has said about First Lady Melania Trump.
Not culturally American. Never mind that Melania Trump emigrated to the United States and has enthusiastically embraced our American culture with open arms and all her heart. She’s as American as it gets.
Since Ryan wants to go there, let’s do. Who’s really not “culturally American?” How about ex-First Lady Michelle Obama who never thought well of our country and only claimed pride in it when hubby Barack started gaining ground in the 2008 Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential primaries and she started gaining status?
Recall Kanye West’s remarks supporting President Donald Trump, even though he disagrees with Trump on a number of questions, and West’s further remarks saying that 400 years of slavery was a choice—and his follow-on statement that the latter remark was “just an idea.” Just an idea that Americans who happen to be black don’t all have to think alike—they’re as free to think and speak their own minds rather than engaging in Left-approved group think as any other American.
In a clear demonstration of West’s point, we get this from a pair of denizens of the Left:
In a Sunday Wall Street Journal op-ed, Peter Funt opined about the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner’s post-dinner speech that was delivered by Michelle Wolf.
Many pundits were as conflicted about Ms Wolf’s act as they are about how to cover the Trump administration….
Only the pseudo-journalists of the NLMSM would be conflicted about reporting truthfully, whether about a revered administration or a despised one.