The Left hates free speech

Hot Air: "A Case of Campus Cancel Culture Finally Goes to Trial."  Pushing back against the heckler's veto.

Cheating at Brown

Free Press: "I’m a Brown University Professor. Half My Students Are Cheating."

I saw this story elsewhere and the proof of cheating is the wide chasm in scores between the take-home midterm exam and the in-class final exam.  The funniest part is that there are two students - one got around a 95 on both exams and the other got around a 57 - who were clearly playing it straight.  I feel like the 57-score guy should be allowed to pass the class just on honesty.

The textbook definition of suicidal empathy

NY Post: "NY mom Jamey Carney’s migrant beau asked her for hefty dough a week before her murder in Ireland."

The migrant boyfriend suspected of murdering a New York mom at her home in Ireland allegedly asked her for a bunch of money just a week before her death.

Jamey Carney, 43, had told a pal that her beau, Ahmad Al-Saqar, sought the equivalent of around $5,700 about a week before her murder at her house in Killarney, the Irish Independent reported.

Al-Saqar is now wanted for questioning by authorities in connection with the murder of Carney, who is believed to have been beaten and then suffocated in her bed early Tuesday.

This woman absolutely bathed in the moral vanity of her bottomless tolerance and her pro-Palestinian causes.  She leaves behind a 13-year-old daughter.

Another business eyes the California exit

Semafor: "Paramount weighs leaving California over Warner Bros. rift."

As California tries to derail Paramount’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount CEO David Ellison’s friends and advisers have been pushing the media executive to consider shifting his business out of the state.

There's no saving that state.  Wait until the wealth tax hits.

Shocking news

Fox News: "Longtime GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after 'brief and sudden illness'."

Ukraine is winning

Hot Air: "Russia Closes the Kerch Strait After 76 Ships Hit With Drones."

The Russians recently had their yearly military parade and there were no vehicles, only marching soldiers and a brief flyover.  And then, last week, Russia suspended exports of diesel because the entire country is running out of gas.

Entitled graduate students

Manhattan Contrarian: "What makes a person become a Communist?"

One requirement seems to be never holding a real job.

A man needs to have principles

Still rollin'

LA Times: "Every Rolling Stones album, ranked worst to best."

It's always crowded at the bottom but this list correctly names "Exile on Main St." as #1.

I saw the Rolling Stones at Shea Stadium in 1990 (I think) and - although the show was good - I swore off stadium concerts forever.  With my binoculars I could see the giant TV screens broadcasting the concert.

Free stuff for everyone

Paid for by the billionaires!  That's the shallow and childish ideology of the Socialist left: "Washington Post: Yes, the DSA Really Does Want to Destroy Capitalism." 

You can vote yourself into socialism but you have to shoot your way out.

Dozen red flags

WSJ: "The Red Flag That Led to Graham Platner’s Implosion Was Hiding in Plain Sight."

Hot Air: "Guess Who Was a Red-Flag Parade For Months (That We Never Spotted)?"

This opens the door for me to cite a great little country song: "Dozen Red Flags" by Mackenzie Carpenter.  It opens with these lyrics:

He deletes all his texts

Still talks to his ex

Flirts with my friends

His dad pays his rent

Hey!  Sounds like somebody we know!

"Mistakes were made"

Townhall: "The New York Times Is Trying to Do Damage Control After the Graham Platner Implosion."

He's out

Breaking news: "Oyster Shucked: Graham Platner Suspends Campaign Operations in Maine Senate Race."

These people, man...

Former NY Times editor Jill Abramson in today's Boston Globe: "The New York Times is taking heat over Graham Platner. It doesn’t deserve it."

During my 17-year career at the Times, I never saw partisan considerations color news stories. The Times’s policy, then and now, is to tell readers everything newsworthy that their reporters have confirmed as accurate and is important for readers to know.

I give up.  These people are in a bubble that cannot be pierced. 

Extra - This must be all in my imagination: "Trust in Media at New Low of 28% in U.S."

Unclear on the concept

Twitchy: "Move Over for Do-Over?: Dem on CSPAN Says Platner Is ‘Obstructing’ a Fair Election by Staying in Race." 

Maine Democrats voted for him.  He's your nominee, buddy. Democracy much?

I've been reliably told nobody is above the law

Hot Air: "Judge Dugan's Sentence is a Joke."

Ace: "Leftwing Judge Refuses to Sentence Former Judge Dugan to Jail for Helping Illegal Alien Elude Police, Won't Even Put Her on Probation."

Just a $5000 fine for a felony conviction.  Let's be honest: Dugan was never going to do a day in jail but at the very minimum there should have been some kind of probation or community service, just to bring her down a little bit and feel the bite of the law.

Instead she was let free and forced to pay her accumulated vacation from her severance. 

The NY Times does the NY Times

Catch and kill: "The New York Times Knew All About Graham Platner's Rape Allegation But Deliberately Buried It."

None of this should be surprising to anybody paying attention since the Brett Kavanaugh persecution.  Know what's the difference here?  There's evidence that Platner and his victim actually met. 

Shortages, stagnation and corruption

LA Times: "Democrats' newest ideas have been failing for centuries." "As Jason Furman, who chaired President Obama’s economic advisory council, put it, “Rent control has been about as disgraced as any economic policy in the tool kit.” The Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck — a socialist, mind you — was pithier: “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city — except for bombing."

He's toast

NY Post: "Graham Platner’s ex Jenny Racicot accuses him of rape, says Maine Senate hopeful was ‘very drunk and wouldn’t take no for an answer’."

Stephen Green: "Is Platner out?"  The Maine Democrat Party is calling for his withdrawal.

Politico: "Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her"

Here's one damning part about the New York Times:

Racicot said she later felt compelled to go public about her experience because the reaction to the Times story was dominated by controversy about another woman, Lyndsey Fifield, who alleged Platner mistreated her and faced attacks because of her ties to the Republican Party. (Contacted by POLITICO, Fifield stood by the allegations she made to the Times and declined to comment further.)

“My part of the story was just a read-over,” Racicot said in an interview. “And the story was Lyndsey, and the accusations of her being politically motivated.”

So Racicot, who appears to be a Democrat ("agrees with Platner politically") came forward because she felt the New York Times sought to discredit another accuser as politically-biased.  For the Times, it was a "catch and kill" story.

By the way, I guarantee this story was released by a Democrat to get Platner out before the July 13th deadline to replace him.  Republicans had been rumored to have a data dump ready to go the day after Platner couldn't withdraw from the race.

The wealth tax in California

NY Times: "It Failed in France. It Would Be a Disaster in California."

Other countries have made the same mistake Californians are being tempted to commit. In 1990, 12 industrialized countries levied a wealth tax. By 2025, nine countries had repealed theirs — including Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France. These nations discovered that wealth taxes are hard to implement, cause wealthy people to move and take their money elsewhere and raise far less tax revenue than promised. The co-authors of the tax plan must know this history well: France, their home country, abolished its wealth tax in 2018 after an estimated 200 billion euros (about $228 billion) left the country over two decades and, according to estimates, the tax generated an annual budget shortfall of 7 billion euros.

All of the things that happened in France would happen in California, and the consequences would probably be worse.

California will probably vote for the wealth tax because if there's one thing California has produced besides fruits and nuts it's the sense of entitlement for other people's money.

Extra - Jonathan Turley: "No, the Framers would have hated the Billionaire Tax."

Get happy!

Washington Post: "25 reasons to be optimistic about America's future."

America 250!

Greatest country in the history of the universe, baby.

Oh, really, you're surprised? Interesting

Twitchy: "Patti LuPone ‘Furious’ After Gay Cruise She’s On Gets Banned From Turkey for Violating 'Moral Values'."

These people, man - and I mean the left-leaning types who delude themselves into believing the "religion of peace" will accept them.  It's not like we've been saying it for decades now.  Let's get Mamdani on the record for this issue.  Do it.