Out of control. Rodney Allebach: Can you...

Harriett Lublin - Out of control. Rodney Allebach
"Can you imagine a situation where plastic cups imported from China must be labeled ‘this country has a one-child policy,’ or gas from Russia must be labeled, ‘This is gas from a country that illegally occupies Crimea,’ or products from the United States require the labeling ‘the U.S. engages in capital punishment and is building an illegal border wall?’ 

Product labels will have become political billboards depending on the whims of EU politicians, and every EU importer will shoulder a liability for not complying with arbitrary labeling laws.

Personally, I think the rest of the world should just immediately stop sending goods and services of any kind to the EU to avoid offending them."

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European Union Poised to Put Warning Labels on Jewish-Made 

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The European Union is poised to mandate that Israeli products made in contested territories carry consumer warning labels.

Democratic Senators Threaten SCOTUS: Do As We Say, Or Else...

Democratic Senators Threaten SCOTUS: Do As We Say, Or Else...
"...I think the extraordinary nature of what's happening here needs to be highlighted repeatedly.  
In an effort to bully the Supreme Court, a group of Senate Democrats are warning that if the conservative justices refuse to "heal" the court -- in this case, "healing" constitutes declining to take up a specific gun rights case -- the Court will face a "restructuring."  
This is nothing less than a threat against the independent judiciary by hardcore partisans:

Several high-profile Senate Democrats warned the Supreme Court in pointed terms this week that it could face a fundamental restructuring if justices do not take steps to "heal" the court in the near future. The ominous and unusual warning was delivered as part of a brief filed Monday in a case related to a New York City gun law. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., referenced rulings by the court's conservative majority in claiming it is suffering from some sort of affliction which must be remedied. "The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it," the brief said. "Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be 'restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.'"

The short-term goal here is to prevent SCOTUS from even taking up a Second Amendment-related matter..."

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Missing the Point of Gun Ownership

Missing the Point of Gun Ownership:

It still has not occurred to the Left that gun laws only impact the law-abiding. Criminals break these laws all the time but politicians continue to ignore the fact that good people with guns prevent more mass shootings than gun-free zones. In fact, gun-free zones only place targets on the backs of the innocent humans there.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were still mainstream journalists who knew how to research the truth when it comes to guns and the Second Amendment? I’ve written several columns on gun control and readers know that I’ve always abhorred and feared them.

Clarice!-----Epstein and the Public Loss of Faith

Epstein and the Public Loss of Faith
"...It’s curious that our universities are chocked to the brim with brainwashed students and fourth-rate professors and administrators who hate the U.S. and its Constitution while in Hong Kong people their age are risking their lives for freedom, waving American flags, and wishing they had a Second Amendment right to defend themselves against brutal tyranny.

As curious as that is the fact that our press, which should by now have lost all credibility, continues to destroy itself with propagandizing foolishness to assist the failing Democrats.  
Take the gaslighters at the New York Times, where this week a leaked transcript of its editor and his staff shows that despite having earned two Pulitzer prizes for promoting the Russian Collusion hoax, the paper is throwing in the towel on that one and is now promoting a new fairy tale, that the President is a “racist.”

New York Times chief outlines coverage shift: From Trump-Russia to Trump racism

Baquet used the gentlest terms possible -- "the story changed" -- but the fact is, the conspiracy-coordination allegation the Times had devoted itself to pursuing turned out to be false. Beyond that, Democrats on Capitol Hill struggled to press an obstruction case against the president. The Trump-Russia hole came up dry.

Now, Baquet continued, "I think that we've got to change." The Times must "write more deeply about the country, race, and other divisions."

"I mean, the vision for coverage for the next two years is what I talked about earlier: How do we cover a guy who makes these kinds of remarks?" Baquet said. "How do we cover the world's reaction to him? How do we do that while continuing to cover his policies? How do we cover America, that's become so divided by Donald Trump?" [snip] Baquet vowed a transition to a new "vision" for the paper for the next two years. "How do we grapple with all the stuff you all are talking about?" he said to the staffer. "How do we write about race in a thoughtful way, something we haven't done in a large way in a long time? That, to me, is the vision for coverage. You all are going to have to help us shape that vision. But I think that's what we're going to have to do for the rest of the next two years."

What impels this shift?..."
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Millennial has meltdown when boss corrects her spelling of ‘hamster’ - DC Clothesline

Millennial has meltdown when boss corrects her spelling of ‘hamster’ - DC Clothesline
"Carol Blymire is an adjunct professor of public relations and journalism at Georgetown University.

...In a series of tweets on July 12, 2019, Blymire recounted a story she overheard of a millennial “in her late 20s” in Washington, DC, getting feedback on something she had written from her boss, who is also female:

"In office space near a client, a young woman was meeting with her boss. 
She was (by my estimation) in her late 20s.
The boss (also a woman) was giving her feedback and reviewing edits she had made on something this young woman wrote.
They had been speaking in low tones, but their volume got louder toward the end of the conversation because the young woman was getting agitated about a particular edit.
That particular edit was correcting the spelling of “hampster” to “hamster”. Apparently she had used the phrase “like spinning in a hamster wheel” in this draft (presumably) speech or or op-ed.
The young woman kept saying, “I don’t know why you corrected that because I spell it with the P in it.” The boss said (calmly), “But that’s not how the word is spelled. There is no P in hamster.”
Young woman: “But you don’t know that! I learned to spell it with a P in it so that’s how I spell it.”
The boss (remaining very calm and professional), let’s go to https://t.co/n2ZU5Uuuy3 and look it up together. (mind you, this is a woman in her late 20s, not a 5th grader)
The young woman insists she doesn’t need to look it up because it’s FINE to spell it with a P because that’s HOW SHE WANTED TO SPELL IT.
The boss says, “Let’s look over the rest of the piece so I can explain the rest of my edits.” They do, and I can see the young woman is fighting back tears. The boss is calm, cool, and handles this with professionalism and empathy.
Boss says, “I know edits can be difficult to go over sometimes, especially when you’re working on new kinds of things as you grow in your career, but it’s a necessary process and makes us all better at what we do.”
Boss gets up from table and goes to her office and the young woman can barely hold it together. She moves to another table in the common workspace area, drops all her stuff loudly on the table top, and starts texting. A minute later, her phone rings.
It was her mom. She had texted her mom to call her because it was urgent, and I’m sure her mother maybe thought she was in the ER or something. She then … PUTS HER MOM ON SPEAKERPHONE. IN THE WORKPLACE.
She bursts into tears and wants her mom to call her boss and tell her not to be mean about telling her how to spell words like “hamster”.
The mother tells her that her boss is an idiot..."
This story appears not to be isolated case. 
Blymire continues...
...Indeed, the “hampster” millennial is far from being unique.
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Feel-good of the day-----He awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Then he shot and killed the person who broke in. | 11alive.com

He awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Then he shot and killed the person who broke in. | 11alive.com
"An armed homeowner shot and killed a home invader Friday morning after waking up to the sound of breaking glass.

South Fulton Police Lt. Derrick Rogers said that as soon as he woke, the man "grabbed his weapon and started toward the area" where he heard glass breaking.

It was there that he encountered the home invader and "gun shots rang out between the homeowner and the subject" Rogers said.

The home invader was killed..." 

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Judge Orders FBI To Search For Additional Christopher Steele Records | The Daily Caller

Judge Orders FBI To Search For Additional Christopher Steele Records | The Daily Caller:

A federal judge ordered the FBI on Friday to search for records of any contacts with dossier author Christopher Steele after the bureau cut ties with him as a confidential human source in November 2016.
Judge Christopher Cooper issued the ruling in favor of Judicial Watch, which sued the FBI and Justice Department for all of its records on Steele, a former British spy who investigated the Trump campaign on behalf of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.

1877!-----6 Forgotten Tips from America’s Oldest Public School | Intellectual Takeout

6 Forgotten Tips from America’s Oldest Public School | Intellectual Takeout

• Would the practices of the Boston Latin School help restore order and rigor to today’s classrooms?

"6 Forgotten Tips from America’s Oldest Public School
...But there’s something we may not have considered. 
Is it possible that the path to fixing American education may not be found in the latest and greatest education theories? 

Could our history instead hold the answer?
I thought of this when I ran across an 1877 article from the American Journal of Education. 
The article described the educational practices used by Boston Latin School – the oldest and longest operating public school in America – when it was under the leadership of Francis Gardner in the mid-1800s.
During Gardner’s time at Boston Latin, the school offered a six-year course of study to which students ages 10 to 16 could attend after successfully completing grammar school. 
Some of the methods which stand out include:
1. Memorization – According to Gardner, one of the first lessons a student was given was in Latin Grammar. This lesson was to be thoroughly memorized. Memorization was required because it was efficient and “because [the memorized words] express the ideas to be conveyed better than the pupil can give them in his own language….” Fear of memorization without understanding was groundless, Gardner noted, because future oral examination of the student made “it impossible for the learner to acquire mere words without ideas.”
2. One Class – Today’s high school students move from one class to the next by the sound of the bell – a process which John Taylor Gatto once claimed was hindering learning and simply training students to obey rather than think. The Boston Latin School of Gardner’s time seems to have agreed with Gatto’s reasoning, for it had an entire class study every subject with one teacher for the entire year. The reason? “This arrangement is found to produce better results than when frequent changes are made….”...
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History for August 18

History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com
Merriwether Lewis 1774, Caspar Weinberger 1917, Shelley Winters 1920

   

Roman Polanski 1933, Robert Redford 1937, Martin Mull 1943


1963 - James Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi. He was the first black man to accomplish this feat.


2004 - Donald Trump unveiled his board game (TRUMP the Game) where players bid on real estate, buy big ticket items and make billion-dollar business deals.

Tucker And Patel: The American Tragedy Our Leaders Don’t Want To Talk About | The Daily Caller

Tucker And Patel: The American Tragedy Our Leaders Don’t Want To Talk About | The Daily Caller:

Nobody really believes this is about Trump or about assault weapons. If only it were that simple. Our problems go far deeper. What’s the real diagnosis? Author James Howard Kunstler, one of our wisest cultural observers, summed it up this way: “This is exactly what you get in a culture where anything goes and nothing matters. Extract all the meaning and purpose from being here on earth, and erase as many boundaries as you can from custom and behavior, and watch what happens, especially among young men trained on video slaughter games.”
He’s right. Young men are the problem. Many of our boys are living in what Kunstler describes as an “abyss of missing social relations” with “no communities, no fathers, no mentors, no initiations into personal responsibility, no daily organizing principles, no instruction in useful trades, no productive activities, no opportunities for love and affection, and no way out.”

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Here’s How Bad the TSA Is Failing at Airport Security. It’s Time for Privatization. | The Heritage Foundation

Here’s How Bad the TSA Is Failing at Airport Security. It’s Time for Privatization. | The Heritage Foundation
"This year, the Department of Homeland Security carried out covert tests on TSA security, and the results weren’t pretty.

The results of the tests showed that the TSA screeners failed to detect weapons, drugs, and explosives almost 80 percent of the time..."

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