Fulfill your obligations, California

Hot Air: "California "reparations" hearings go as you would expect."

Pay up, California.  Live up to your own standards.

Democracy dying in pinkslips

Shot: "WaPo busted for stealth-editing article after getting busted for lying about Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss."

Chaser: "Washington Post Announces Layoffs, and Coddled Socialist Staffers Do Not React Well."

Hangover: "WaPo Town Hall Goes Off the Rails As Publisher Refuses to Take Questions."

Learn to code.  

I don't mean to celebrate the loss of anybody's job but the modern American journalist is an amalgam of liberal insularity, smug self-importance, and marginal talent.  Not one of them blinked twice when they advocated for policies that affected the livelihood of the hardhat set.

The #1 streaming movie in America now

It's "Home Alone."  This always makes me laugh:

Guess who's coming home for Christmas!

Red State: "Crypto Fraud and Democrat Megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Arrested in the Bahamas." 

"Bake me a cake" part 2

Reason: "A Likely Win for Free Speech."

Last week, the Supreme Court heard argument in 303 Creative v. Elenis, the latest wedding vendor case–this time concerning a web designer who does not wish to design sites for same-sex weddings. The wedding vendor cases typically present a conflict between free speech, including religiously-motivated speech, and equality in the marketplace for goods and services. Based on last week's argument, it seems the Court is ready to rule in favor of free speech this time...

The Masterpiece Cakeshop case was ruled on more narrow technical grounds than this case and the author notes: "The Court will have a hard time avoiding a broader ruling in 303 Creative—though some of the justices may try."  Sonia Sotomayor in particular will employ her usual practice of twisting the law to meet her personal beliefs.  Otherwise, from what I've read from the court transcripts, it seems like it's heading towards a solid victory for the First Amendment.

Good.

"It's OK because they're insured"

Moonbattery: "Shoplifting Drives Up Prices at Walmart"

This is insanity:

Just one month ago, the chief financial officer at Walmart’s biggest rival, Target, also revealed that shoplifting at its stores had jumped more than 50 percent year on year, leading to more than $400 million in losses in 2022 alone.

It's my belief that the future of retail is Amazon delivering everything to Amazon lockers.  Until then: "New York City store locks up Spam in plastic case amid crime spike."

The thoroughly revamped loss-prevention regime at the Port Authority Duane Reade has finally created something of beauty, a sort of Jeff Koons homage. pic.twitter.com/gtlpzY2l9G

— willy 🌜💧 (@willystaley) July 28, 2022

Somehow we survived the death of democracy in darkness

NY Magazine: "Just What Did the Times Walkout Change?"

Nothing and nobody cared.

They allow cellphones in classrooms?

NY Post: "50 shell-shocked teachers, staff flee chaotic Florida school district."

I read this article and couldn't believe they allow cellphones in classrooms.

The Left hates free speech, Twitter edition

Real Clear Politics: "Dem Attacks on Musk Prove Their Support for Free Speech Is Dead." - "When Elon Musk reached an agreement to acquire Twitter for $44 billion in October, the deal was met with a wave of outrage from the left. Democrats spanning the nation condemned the acquisition, claiming that it was “dangerous” for America. Now, we’re starting to figure out why."

The debate shifted from "it's a private company, they can do what they want!" to "we need to investigate Elon Musk and regulate Twitter" so fast, I got whiplash. 

Extra - Neo: "The Twitter files: leftism requires censorship." 

In the title of this post I wrote that leftism requires censorship. It cannot stand on its own and must stifle criticism or having its failures pointed out.

Censorship is the Left's go-to move. 

Accurate, so very accurate

Babylon Bee: "Disinformation Down 92% As NYT Writers Go On Strike." 

The Committee just wants to date her

Hot Air: "AOC under investigation by House Ethics Committee."  There will be no charges because you can't prove that America's dumbest Congressperson had criminal intent.  That would require brains. 

Kids in cages? What kids in cages?

Breitbart: "Joe Biden Can’t Find Time to Inspect Border After Vacationing 271 Days in 2 Years: ‘There Are More Important Things’."

It's true.  Joe Biden was very busy today doing...nothing:

Don't worry: he'll be heading off to Delaware tomorrow to rest up from a hard week of exactly one public event.

Democracy dies with white male shark experts

Fox News: "‘Shark Week’ blasted for ‘overwhelmingly’ featuring ‘White men' as shark experts in Washington Post report."

I was worried the mainstream media would beclown themselves again but they've earned a Pulitzer with this groundbreaking expose.

Trust in media running on empty

Shot: "How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media? - The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers."

Chaser: "Media Tailspin Continues As Trust Hits Record Lows: I&I/TIPP Poll."

We're merely three days away from the New York Times strike.  Will Joe Biden ask Congress to intervene to avoid this national disaster?  Democracy is dying in darkness!

Oh no

Don Surber: "Bidenomics leads to NYT strike." - "Barring some miracle, the staff of the New York Times will go on strike for 24 hours on Thursday. Its elitist readers may be denied their sanitized version of the world."

It's hard to believe that, when I was younger, I subscribed to the NY Times and Rolling Stone and the Atlantic.

These people are certifiably crazy

Fox News: "Mother frets her own daughter is 'bad for the earth' in Washington Post analysis piece - Environmentalist claimed having 'a single child' was right decision because of climate change." 

Confirming what we knew

NY Post: "Hunter Biden laptop bombshell: Twitter invented reason to censor Post’s reporting."

Once you adopt the position that censorship is justified against a political opponent, where does it stop?  Is it kosher for mail carriers to destroy mail-in ballots if they know the political leaning of the voter?  How about shutting down Fox News?

Scratch a liberal and find a tyrant.

Shockingly accurate

Babylon Bee: "Man Reads Tweet He Disagrees With, Dies." 

Oh that's (D)ifferent

Hot Air: "Time: Denying election results legit is not election denying."

Red State: "Media Pounces on GOP After Inconvenient Truths About Hakeem Jeffries Are Pointed Out."

The media doesn't even try to hide its bias anymore.  Noted fascist Jamie Raskin will testify. 

What happens when you graduate at the bottom of your law school class

The Corner: "Thus Far, the Constitution Has Held Up Against President Biden’s Executive Despotism."

Since August, President Joe Biden, that ertswhile restorer of our norms, has: (1) issued an executive order that he knew full well was illegal; (2) altered that illegal executive order in an attempt to avoid judicial review; and (3) asked the courts to allow him to proceed with his illegal executive order, so that, by the time it is inevitably struck down, the case has been rendered moot.

"YOLO, let's see what unconstitutional overreach I can do before someone stops me" isn't much of a governing style.