Dana Milbank’s Absurd Filibuster Propaganda

ANOTHER TAKEAWAY FROM THAT WAPO POLL THAT DESERVES MORE ATTENTION: “Democrats have lost considerable ground on this front. The 28 percent who say the party is in touch with concerns of most Americans is down from 48 percent in 2014 and the biggest drop is among self-identified Democrats, from 83 percent saying they are in touch to just 52 percent today.”

Only 28% of Americans think Democrats are in touch with the concerns of most Americans. And remember, 2014, when the number was 48%, wasn’t exactly a banner year for Democrats.

HUH. I WONDER WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM AND THE COUNTIES THAT HAD A LOT OF MURDERS? Murders in US very concentrated: 54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% of counties have 51% of the murders. 

Which Countries Destroy the Environment the Most (and Least)?

THE MEDIA REDISCOVERS MANIPULATION OF STATISTICS: Passive Aggression and Selective Statistics.

A MEDIA CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE. “[A] realization within mainstream media that all their melodrama about Trump hasn’t worked and is incredibly tiresome to normal people who might still retain shreds of the old the habit of reading serious news.”

Study confirms: #FakeNews travels faster than real news

BIAS BY OMISSION: Media Intensely Interested in Right-Wing (Allegedly) Anti-Semite That Draws Crowds of Less Than 50; But Not At All Interested in Left-Wing Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan Who Draws Crowds of 10,000, and Has High-Profile Democrats Like Barack Obama Courting.

GUESS WHAT’S MISSING FROM THIS STORY: Federal Agency Courted Alcohol Industry to Fund Study on Benefits of Moderate Drinking.

If it had happened in 2017 instead of 2014, it would be “Trump Administration” not “Federal Agency.” You know I’m right.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME: Image of Venezuela’s Right-Wing Violence Wins World Photo Award.

The photo is amazing, but characterizing protests against Venezuela’s hard-left socialists government as “right-wing violence” is just… well, on reflection I guess it’s to be expected.

STEPHEN KRUISER: Paul Holds Up Budget Vote and Bette Midler ‘Jokes’ About Finding His Neighbor. “It’s OK to assault wrong-thinkers.”

CULTURE OF HATRED: Journalist calls for profs to drown conservative students.

THEY’LL QUIT WHEN IT QUITS WORKING, AND WHEN THERE’S A PRICE: Kurt Schlichter: Progressives Must Stop Using Terror To Try And Intimidate Conservatives.

REPORTER BECKY GRIFFIN: FEWER MASS SHOOTINGS IF MORE BABIES WERE ABORTED.

You went full eugenicist; never go full eugenicist.

● Old and busted: The wrong political clip art can get people killed.

● The new hotness: “Democrats should fight dirty, play dirty, beg, borrow, steal, do whatever it takes. ‘When they go low, we go high’ doesn’t work. Playing nice got us to this point with President Trump.”

STAY CLASSY LEFT:  Teen Vogue Columnist Tells Billy Graham to “Burn in Hell”.

YOU’RE GONNA LOVE THE NEW RULES: The “Revolutionary Student Front” at UT-Austin revealed Wednesday that its Twitter account was suspended for “promoting violence against a group of people [capitalists].”

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Now There’s a Play Called ‘Kill Climate Deniers,’ Because Why Not.

I’LL BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THAT Bruce Wayne is a Yale Law alumnus.

A One-Page Provision About Minor League Baseball Shows How Broken Congress' Legislative Process Is

 

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Let’s Repeal All the Amendments.

related ... my favorite:  FORGET ALL THIS REPEAL-THE-SECOND-AMENDMENT TALK. Whatever happened to repealing the Seventeenth Amendment?

 

DAN MCLAUGHLIN: The Supreme Court Proves It Didn’t Mean What It Said in King v. Burwell.  Read the whole thing.  I’d just add that for all the charges against Trump for incivility, it was Obama who all-but-threatened a political war with the Supreme Court to force decisions he wanted on his namesake health insurance law.

MICHAEL WALSH: WHAT FRIGHTENS THE LEFT MOST? THE CONSTITUTION.

 

THE BELIEF THAT THE FUTURE WILL JUSTIFY WHATEVER ATROCITIES YOU COMMIT TODAY HAS NEVER ONCE BEEN JUSTIFIED:  The Right Side of History.

THE LEFT’S DECONSTRUCTION OF THE GOOD WAR CONTINUES APACE. Actual Salon headline today:

Rosie the Riveter isn’t a universal icon: “That was a white woman’s story”

“It simply had nothing to say to me,” says WW II Home Front park ranger Betty Reid Soskin.

Flashback to 2012: VJina: Feminist Website Declares Famous WWII Kiss, Between Sailor and Nurse, a “Sexual Assault.”

How long before FDR statues start getting pulled down?

COLLUSION: Flashback: The Fix was in: Journolist e-mails reveal how the liberal media shaped the 2008 election.

WELL, HE DID FOUND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Students call Thomas Jefferson ‘icon’ of white supremacists.

SMASH ALL THE THINGS! AIRBRUSH ALL THE HISTORY! First it was Confederate monuments. Now statues offensive to Native Americans are poised to topple across the U.S.

“Is there a difference between honoring McKinley and Robert E. Lee?” the mayor [of Arcata, CA], Sofia Pereira, who was part the majority, said in a recent interview. “They both represent historical pain.”

When do the FDR and JFK statues get toppled?

Part II: Why Students at Ottawa’s Carleton University Are Trying to Have a Statue of Gandhi Removed.

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS AND EDITORS: The New York Times Book Review’s “Long View column on March 18 misstated the circumstances surrounding the Trojan horse in Greek legend. It was the Trojans who allowed the horse within the gates; it was not the Greeks, whose soldiers were inside the horse.”

Read on; it gets worse.  Shouldn't they just KNOW this stuff?

IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS …  Scott Pruitt slammed for spending less on travel than Obama’s EPA chiefs.

FLASHBACK: Bill Clinton’s Census Asked About Citizenship.

Related: Why The Left Is Going Gonzo Over Asking Citizenship Status On The Census: The question affects the number of seats in the House of Representatives, and the number of presidential electors allocated to each state.

Plus, Why Democrats Really Don’t Want To Reinstate The Citizenship Question On The U.S. Census: A simple question on the U.S. census has sent Democrats into a tizzy to obscure their political advantages of not knowing citizenship status.

NLPD: NON-LIBERTARIAN POLICE DEPARTMENT: Enjoy that New Yorker parody of hypothetical libertarian policing from a few years ago, that’s once again making the rounds of social media? Consider the absurdities of actual non-libertarian policing, which aren’t very funny.

RATS ON THE WEST SIDE, BEDBUGS UPTOWN: “De Blasio’s rat-killing demonstration is a complete disaster.”

City officials in Encinitas, California, have fined Peabody's Bar and Grill $3,000 after catching people dancing to live music performed there. Owner Brie Cardosa says she was surprised. She says she doesn't run a dance club but sometimes the natural reaction to music is to move around.

DAVID HARSANYI: You Can Try To Repeal The Second Amendment, But You Can’t Repeal History.

“WHAT IS THE HALF-LIFE ON THE LEFT DEVOURING ITS OWN THESE DAYS?” The BBC asks, “Is the new movement against gun violence that is sweeping America too white and too rich?”

KURT SCHLICHTER: Every Word Liberals Say About Guns Is A Lie.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. “The AR-15 … is used less times per year to kill people than hammers and fists are used to kill people.” -Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv.

“NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY”: Louisiana Democratic Party Chair Suggests Repealing the Second Amendment.

THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE:  Words or Deeds.

THIS IS SO SURPRISING FOR LEFTISTS.  WHERE IS THAT SHOCKED FACE?   Obama Regs on For-Profit Colleges, Finance, Railroads, and Airlines All Profited His Best Friend.  Not funny.  Those regs cost me the best job I ever had.

IT’S LIKE THEY’RE JUST BEING EXPLOITED FOR SUBSIDIES AND TUITION MONEY: The Growing College Graduation Gap. “The surge in poorer students going to college hasn’t led to any meaningful change in the number of college graduates from poorer backgrounds.”

ACCOUNTABILITY: A Kansas bill could make schools liable for shootings if they don’t arm teachers.

WE DON’T NEED NO THOUGHT CONTROL: Seventh-Grade Assignment: Write Letters to Lawmakers Begging for Gun Control.

IT’S A POLITICAL-CLASS MELTDOWN: Democratic fundraiser Matthew Lieberman charged with racially motivated gun crime in St. Louis.

TOLERANCE: Nancy Pelosi to California Republicans: ‘You Don’t Belong Here.’

CLIMATE OF FEAR: Leftists Dox FCC’s Ajit Pai on Facebook, Urge Insane People to Defecate on His Lawn.

AND SCALISE REPLIES: Maestro of Obama’s Echo Chamber, Ben Rhodes, Speaks Darkly of Wishing for the Obituaries of Pence, Ryan, and McConnell.

MISANDRIST AND PROUD:  Auld Lang Syne: HuffPo Feminist Writer Resolves to “Kill All Men” in Hateful Tweet.

DON SURBER: “Barack Obama’s refusal to lead his party to a peaceful transition of power a year ago has inspired an increasingly violent ‘resistance’ both within and without the government.”

SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Terry McAuliffe says he’d punch Trump: ‘You’d have to pick him up off the floor.’

WHY, IT’S AS IF THE LEFT’S TOLERANCE FOR DIVERSITY IS JUST SO MUCH SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Kevin Sorbo Banned from East Coast Comicon Because He’s ‘Pals with Sean Hannity.’