but some of the old stuff is new(s) again

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘WE,’ KEMOSABE? Obama’s Iran Deal Was Much Worse Than We Suspected.

YOU CAN’T BUY THAT KIND OF P.R.: Al-Qaeda Slams Trump as ‘Hateful Crusader Master.’

Libyan Army Spox Says Obama, Clinton ‘Abandoned the Libyan People’ to the Terrorists.

Paul Begala summary: We should start nuclear war with Russia because Hillary was too dumb to campaign in WI/PA/MI.  Paul, when Ed Driscol called you guys the John Birch Left in 2014 – honest, he didn’t mean for you to take the metaphor so literally.

UPDATE: Begala, of course, mocked Romney in 2012: “Potus nails Mitt for saying Russia our #1 geostrategic threat. ‘The 1980’s called. They want their foreign police back.’ Bam!”  And the beards have all grown longer overnight.

OUCH: “Those sailors did not have the basic seamanship skills, but by God, they got their sensitivity training, they got their race relations training, they got their sexual harassment training.”

which is interesting.  A LOT of thestuff I havefrom September is no longer timely.  As I asked my SJW niece at Thanksgiving "what were you outraged about two months ago?"

Let's start with some "humor"(?) about the predicessor:   “Obama Service Award Recipient Now Researching ‘Butt-Fisting’” and bestiality, the Washington Free Beacon reports, along with some presidential-level trolling in their choice of photos to accompany the article…

NEW YORK TIMES: Having a dispute with siblings over the family summer house? Try transformative mediation.  They still have that common touch.

YOU STAY CLASSY, POLITICO: Yes, We Must Talk About Politico’s Awful, Smug Insult To Texans And Faith.

TOO LATE, I THINK: Salon: Time to give up on identity politics: It’s dragging the progressive agenda down.

Also Salon: White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it.

PERHAPS SARAH HOYT WILL LET ME BORROW HER SHOCKED FACE: This NPR Reporter Doesn’t Understand Federalism.  Related - I mentioned the other day in from of my far left tenant that I was a Federalist.  Her "girlfriend" asked what that meant.She then explained, approvingly: "It means he likes big government"  <sigh> - but it promotes commity.  Not my circus.  Not my monkees.

MATT YGLESIAS ATTEMPTS TO USE BERLIN AIRLIFT TO HIT TRUMP ON PUERTO RICO RECOVERY, GETS A HISTORY LESSON INSTEAD.  Not least of which is this response: “You can’t airdrop electricity from transports.”

A NOVEL APPROACH: ‘You Have to Know History to Actually Teach It.’

The Female Viking Warrior Isn’t Real. Why Do So Many People Want Her to Be?

BY “TO BLAME,” I THINK YOU MEAN “DESERVE CREDIT:” Pirates Are to Blame For Why The US Doesn’t Use The Metric System.

HISTORY: “Everything was awful for a very long time, and then the industrial revolution happened. Interestingly, this is not the impression of history I got from the world history books I read in school.”

NANCY PELOSI?  JERRY BROWN?  California names an official state dinosaur.

Told you I was catching up:  TRUE: “Those who now question Columbus conveniently ignore the fact that slavery, cannibalism, warfare and even human sacrifice all existed in the Americas before he even sailed.”

Can we have better — and more diverse — teachers?  “The test includes algebra and geometry questions — high school math — that Peters says she doesn’t need to teach fourth grade,” writes Barnum. “A study looking at Praxis scores in North Carolina found that black students performed better with a black teacher who had failed the exam than with a white teacher who passed the test.”

Three cheers for government monopoly schools!  8th-Graders Made to Lie in Dark with Wrists Taped, Watching ‘Roots’ at Calif. School.

Do Students Understand Student Loan Debt? Not Really. And schools are counting on that.

15% don’t think they have to pay them back. 34% expect loan forgiveness. They are likely to be disappointed.

Plus: “25 percent of respondents thought that Elizabeth Warren was the Secretary of Education, part of a larger group of respondents (63 percent) who did not know the Education Secretary was Betsy DeVos.”

Parent report cards: Gutsy or pushy?

This works well in a classroom setting as well:

BUT OF COURSE: THE NEW YORK TIMES’ CROSSWORD PUZZLE IS INCREASINGLY PROBLEMATIC TO ITS INTENDED AUDIENCE. As James Lileks writes, “So the crossword is old and white. So what? Well, it’s in the Times, and thus it should be inclusive, and that means abandoning terms that Young Persons of Color don’t get, or, if they do get them, don’t find them appropriate for the newspaper. Eskimo, for example. The term is no longer used – therefore it should not be referenced. Cultural literacy thus shrinks to only the common terms deemed acceptable by the Word Judges, until we have a generation unaware that the term Eskimo ever existed.”

AND SPEAKING OF IDENTITY POLITICS DRIVING THE LEFT INSANE… CNN: ‘Ordinary People’ Are ‘White Supremacists By Default.’

WEIRDLY, WHEN THEY HAD A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR AND PRESIDENT, IT WAS FINE: University of Maryland band won’t play pro-Confederate state song. Amazing how much stuff was perfectly okay until this week.

HE MUST BE SILENCED. THIS THREATENS THE WHOLE FEEDLOT: Prof finds majority of minorities don’t face discrimination. “

IF SHE WERE BEING BULLIED BY WHITE STUDENTS, IT WOULD BE ALL OVER THE MEDIAL.  AS IS, EXPECT RADIO SILENCE: Black Parents Sue School, Claim Bullies Abuse Daughter for ‘Acting White’.

Did I post this last week?  Well, read it again!  A Statistician Reconsiders Her Support for Gun Control After Looking at the Data

SO WHAT YOU’RE SAYING IS, THEY’RE NOT DUMBASSES: They Survived the Las Vegas Shooting. But They Don’t Want More Gun Control.  The lefty media hates it when people retain the capacity for rational thought after a tragedy.

THE MEDIA DOESN’T UNDERSTAND GUNS — AND DOESN’T WANT TO:

After Las Vegas, Democrats Send In The Clowns. “Gun control is not as much about guns as it is about control. Even anti-gun leftists are coming to this conclusion.” Yes, the goal is to humiliate the deplorables and show them who’s boss. It’s not about safety, it’s about cultural warfare.  Related: Hate From The Left.

BRIAN DOHERTY EXPLAINS HOW: How Could Anyone Deny the Need for Tougher and More Stringently Enforced Gun Laws in the Wake of the Vegas Slaughter?

It’s easier to deny it when Democrats are saying they want to kill us.

this could take a while

OH, THAT LIBERAL FASCISM: Antifa Declares: ‘F**k Your F***ing Constitution, We’re Here to Punch Nazis.’

WELCOME TO THE NEW NORMAL: Pee-Filled Projectiles A Recurring Weapon Of Choice For ‘Anti-Fascists.’

BLUE ON BLUE: BLM member tells Antifa to take their masks off and get out of his city. They punch him and accuse him of being a cop.

WEIRD HOW THIS NEVER HAPPENED AT TEA PARTY RALLIES: In Charlottesville and elsewhere, U.S. journalists are being assaulted while covering the news. Note the Stockholm Syndrome

THE HILL: Left-wing assassination fantasies spill over into real violence.

Jonah Goldberg writes:ON CHARLOTTESVILLE, TRUMP, AND ANTI-AMERICANISM

Quite long, but AWESOME!  @WilliamBaude: Is ‘the language of the law’ a language?  Why do "we" defer to experts in other fields in our everyday life but not law?  I had two relatives recently ask me to read a piece of proposed legislation and give my opinion.  I've studies reading legislation.  I been reading legislation for DECADES!  I've even TAUGHT how to read legislation.  But afterreading this and giving my well-reasoned explination, I was accused of being a tool of Big Pharma and a corporate shill - by someone who doesn't knw you schould capitalize Big Pharma or what a shill is!  Just sayin'.

BUT DON’T QUESTION THEIR PATRIOTISM. Student body prez: UC-Berkeley ‘not bound to Constitution.’

TO BE FAIR, WE’RE BASICALLY BETTER AT EVERYTHING. SEXIER, TOO. Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs.

YEAH, BUT UNDER OBAMA WE WERE CONSTANTLY REMINDED THAT THE CONSTITUTION WAS OVER 100 YEARS OLD: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Obama lawyer who worked on DACA admits it’s probably unconstitutional.

They've calmed down a bit but clip and save for when it comes up again:  FOUR MYTHS ABOUT IMPEACHMENT: