Apparently, American Nazi Richard Spencer got punched out the other day. And, apparently, this became some huge Internet meme without my being aware of it. Maybe I need to spend more time on Facebook or Twitter or 4chan so I can keep up.
Anyway, Ken White has written up why punching Nazis is a Bad Idea. It’s definitely worth reading. After you finish that, read up on Vidal Sassoon and the 43 Group.
Women’s March on Washington 1-21-2017 (photo by Matrix)
Ken White helps you become a more critical reader, while showing the defects in the recent NY Times article on Rick Perry.
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Customs and Border Protection agents have been invasively questioning Muslim-Americans at U.S. border crossings about their political and religious beliefs, asking for their social media information, and demanding passwords to open mobile phones, according to a set of complaints filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Source: The Intercept
US employment under Presidents since Eisenhower (Source: Wall Street Journal 1/7/2017)
Looks to me like the employment situation gets better under Democrats, but not by a whole lot.
According to the Wall Street Journal (1/27/2016), the student loan market is starting to heat up.
It’s good news for big financial institutions, which expect to make a mint when Trump lets the private sector take over a larger portion of the student loan biz.
Of course, we’re already on the hook for about a trillion dollars in loans — money that we’re unlikely to ever see again.
Part of the cause is that, when the government throws money at something — like college tuition — prices inevitably go up. Just like housing prices rose during the 2001-2005 housing bubble (thanks largely to Bill Clinton. Andrew Cuomo and George W. Bush’s policies of promoting home ownership by minorities).
While I’m waxing eloquent on economics, I’ll explain why the housing bubble burst: The Federal Reserve raised its interest rate from mid-2004 to mid-2006. In 2006, housing prices started to decline. That led to the subprime mortgage crisis. By December 2007, we were in the midst of a recession. Q.E.D.
Calling the recent allegations against Russia a “witch hunt,” Trump told intelligence chiefs that their investigations of Putin were distracting them from “America’s real enemy.”
. . . The President-elect also complained that, under President Barack Obama, actresses have been allowed to operate with impunity. “Barack Obama is basically the founder of actresses,” he said.
Source: Trump Urges Spy Agencies to Lay Off Russia and Focus on Threat Posed by Actresses – The New Yorker
The stinger gets stung. A left-wing political group released a new video Monday of a counter-sting that has uncovered evidence of right-wing activists trying to sow chaos at Donald Trump’s inaugural ceremony, an effort to portray critics of Trump who march against him as violent fringe figures.
Hurting Breitbart is an attractive idea, I suppose. But Breitbart is scheduled to be replaced by the White House Press Secretary anyway, so why bother.
Source: Gamergate Showed How to Kneecap a Website. Now This Group Is Trying to Do the Same to Breitbart.
A city website to keep track of snow plow service is a blizzard of inaccurate information, a peeved councilman charged Sunday.
Bad news: the website sucks.
Good news: it cost the City hundreds of millions less than it would have under Bloomberg.
Source: NYC website to track snow plow service uses inaccurate data