Month: March 2015

The Activist Left’s sympathy for Adam Mark Smith is worth its weight in gold.

Quick background: Adam Mark Smith, as you almost certainly will not remember until I remind you, was that daft idiot who not only filmed himself harassing a Chick-fil-A drive-through cashier over her employer’s social conservatism, he did his best to make the video (air quotes) ‘go viral.’  It did. He then lost his job.  Now Mister Smith is on food stamps*.  And I’m told that various groups and sites out there have gotten kind of worked up about it** in the last few days… sorry, what’s that?

“Who cares?” That’s a very good question. And the answer is, of course, “Nobody on our side.”  Which is a good thing for Adam Smith, right?  After all, this entire thing happened in 2012. I had forgotten about this guy.  So did the rest of you, probably. I don’t think that any of us really gives a… ah, it’s no skin off of our collective noses if he works or not***.  So why didn’t anybody in the Activist Left just quietly give Mr. Smith a job about a year or so ago and be done with it? Continue reading The Activist Left’s sympathy for Adam Mark Smith is worth its weight in gold.

San Francisco cop accused of running inmate fight ring.

If this is true: …what the Hell? “San Francisco sheriff’s deputy Scott Neu is accused of leading a ring of corrupt jail guards who coerced prisoners into gladiatorial combat with threats of rape and violence.” I mean, what the pluperfect Hell?  Is civilization optional in California, or something?

More here, including a defense attorney making a lot of noise about how all of this is untrue.  For for the benefit of Western society, let’s hope so. Just don’t… count on it.

Via Instapundit.

Moe Lane

PS: Seriously, can we have this one be BS? Pretty please, with sugar on top? – Because that would be spiffy, thanks.

The banking industry does Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D, MA) a favor.

She will probably send them all fruit baskets:

Four major banks are threatening to withhold campaign donations to Senate Democrats in anger over Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) attacks on Wall Street.

Representatives from financial powerhouses Citigroup, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America recently met in Washington and discussed the growing hostility towards big business within the Democratic ranks, according to a Reuters report Friday.

Continue reading The banking industry does Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D, MA) a favor.

The Federalist brings out its A-Game in trolling over the RFRA.

I say that with nothing but respect in my voice: it was masterfully done.  In fact, it was so masterfully done that I originally thought it came from the Washington Free Beacon, not the Federalist.  And that’s also meant as a compliment:

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I especially love the way that they’re essentially daring Bill Clinton to complain about this one. Any official response to it at all will only highlight the fact that Bill Clinton had a remarkably comprehensive bunch of nice things to say about the RFRA; and that Hillary Clinton is almost certainly going to be campaigning on being… the anti-Bill Clinton, I guess.  And not in a good way.  As I said, masterful trolling, here.

Via

https://twitter.com/Neal_Dewing/status/581434315206180865

Sen. Harry Reid (D, Nevada) cuts and runs.

But… my birthday is tomorrow.

Mr. Reid, 75, who suffered serious eye and facial injuries in a Jan. 1 exercise accident at his Las Vegas home, said he had been contemplating retiring from the Senate for months. He said his decision was not attributable either to the accident or to his demotion to minority leader after Democrats lost the majority in November’s midterm elections.

See also the Weekly Standard, which has Harry Reid’s remarkably tin-eared attempt to spin his retirement into something that would be helpful for Democrats retaking the Senate. Only in the sense that Harry Reid will no longer be around to blight the long-term careers of red-state Democratic politicians: his tenure has had a remarkable amount of churn in that regard.  Also, Nevada just shot up the rankings on the Big Board: and if Governor Brian Sandoval decides to run for Senate, it pretty much goes off of the Big Board completely. Continue reading Sen. Harry Reid (D, Nevada) cuts and runs.

Well, so much for John Kasich for President.

Sure, the Obamacare/Medicaid expansion thing was and is horribly problematical. That was known. But then there’s this:

Kasich’s opening remarks, which were followed by a question-and-answer session, focused on his fiscal record as a congressman, where he chaired the House Budget Committee, and as governor of Ohio, where he has eliminated an $8 billion deficit without raising taxes. He also talked about the need for a renewed bipartisan spirit on both sides of the aisle, citing Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill, and Jack Kemp and Charlie Rangel, as models for contemporary lawmakers to emulate.

(Bolding mine.) Charlie Rangel?

Um.

NO.