May 1, 2024

UM… HOW?

What did Commies use before outhouses? Toilets.

Posted at 5:20 pm by Stephen Green

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, frat guys respond to a Palestinian rally with a flag-waving crowd.

Plus:

Posted at 5:08 pm by Glenn Reynolds

VIDEO: 90% Of Chinese Factories To Close? “At the start of the year, there were almost no new orders. The old customers who used to order every month also significantly reduced their orders. The entire industry had fewer orders than during the 3 years of the epidemic.”

Nine out of ten factories closing seems more than a little extreme. But scenes like this one are becoming more common: Apple’s iPhone factory shift has left a ghost town behind in China.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Related flashback to November of 2019: How to Conduct Business with Chinese Companies That See a Dark Future.

Posted at 3:51 pm by Stephen Green

GOOD QUESTION: Hey, if Secretary Mayorkas got away with ignoring/flouting/selectively enforcing the law, what’s to keep more presidential appointees from doing the same? Check out my news report on a disturbing Capitol Hill panel hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Mark Tapscott

FINALLY, A TRUE ALTERNATIVE TO AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION IS NOW AVAILABLE: Iran University Offers Scholarships to Expelled US Students.

The head of a university in Iran is reportedly offering scholarships to students in the U.S. who have been expelled for taking part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campuses.

Mohammad Moazzeni, head of Shiraz University in the southern region of Fars, extended his proposal to those protesting Israel’s actions in its war against Hamas, following clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement across America.

He said: “Students and even professors who have been expelled or threatened with expulsion can continue their studies at Shiraz University and I think that other universities in Shiraz as well as Fars Province are also prepared [to provide the conditions],” he said, according to Irainian state-owned outlet Press TV.

U.S. students have been facing arrest or expulsion following their actions in support of a ceasefire in Gaza and the divestment of their universities from companies which support Israel.

A couple of words of warning; the keg parties are going to be pretty lousy, and unlike Columbia, the university is really strict about the dress code: Iranian woman, 22, dies ‘after being beaten by morality police’ over hijab law.

With those caveats in mind, note that discounted transportation options are available to interested students:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

KURT SCHLICHTER: Will Jewish Voters Stop Voting for the Democrats Who Want to Kill Them?

Jewish Americans are going to have to make a decision – the famously Democrat-leaning minority has a big problem because many of its fellow Democrats want them dead. That’s not an exaggeration – the chant of the Democrat’s left wing is not, “From the river to the sea, the Chosen People should be happy, safe, and free.” Kind of the exact opposite. These scumbag commies are so promiscuous with lies about the Jewish people like “apartheid” and “genocide” they ought to hand out rhetorical condoms on the many college quads these loathsome heirs of the Nazis have infested.

Yet Jews in America overwhelmingly vote Democrat. You know, this might be a good time to rethink their traditional leftist voting habits, but that conundrum represents a conflict in human nature – the conflict between self-preservation and self-identity. I don’t know which one is going to win out, but I know what’s going to happen if the Hamas-huggers win out.

I’m not in the business of telling any particular ethnic group how to vote, and I don’t think any particular ethnic group should vote in any particular way. The whole idea of ethnic voting is stupid. But other people seem to have other opinions. Some groups vote as a bloc. Black Americans almost always vote Democrat – something like 90%, though this time Donald Trump seems to be earning a better percentage. Similarly, Jewish Americans are famously liberal voters, with the vast majority supporting Democrats in the past. But things have changed. The position of the Democratic Party is aligned with the far left, which pretty much wants to kill all the Jews. And Biden really, really wants to win the states with large number of Muslims like the despicable Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, whose daughter/niece was recently suspended from the University of College for her hate crimes. The Democrats are not show about excommunicated groups they find to be no longer useful to their goal of attaining power. They famously dumped the white working class in recent decades. Guess we know who’s the next to get the boot.

Think of the dilemma that all voters will face in November!

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden Speaking on Camera about Columbia Is Too Much to Ask, Huh?

If Biden feels so strongly that forcibly taking over a building on campus is absolutely the wrong approach, is it too much to ask that Biden step to the podium and say so on camera? Apparently so. The only event on President Biden’s schedule today is a “digital town hall campaign event” that occurred at 3 p.m.

We’re six months from Election Day. It’s Tuesday. Biden had no public events yesterday or Sunday. Biden’s lone public event on Saturday was the White House Correspondents Dinner. His lone event on Friday was his interview with Howard Stern.

He’s an 81-year-old man and he’s maintaining the schedule of a retiree.

While Trump became infamous for his “bad tweets,” are there enough scheduled tweets by John Gill’s comms shop to get him over the finish line in November?

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Mesha Mainor Discusses Her Quest for Justice and Accountability in Fulton County. “On Tuesday, we brought you the news about Georgia State Rep. Mesha Mainor (R-56th District) filing a lawsuit against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and others over the failure of Willis’ office to prosecute a stalking case against Mainor. PJ Media received the video of Mainor’s press conference, and the statements from that video reveal more about the suit and the problems that plague Fulton County’s legal and law enforcement establishment.”

Posted at 1:15 pm by Stephen Green

NO, CRIME ISN’T DOWN: Enduring Lawlessness in Our Cities. Crime continues to plague the American urban core at much higher levels than before the pandemic. Jeffrey H. Anderson, a former director of the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, rebuts the claims of Biden and the legacy media that the crime wave is over.

Posted at 1:05 pm by John Tierney