KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor, Jr., The Campus Rape Frenzy

*BUMPED.*

At Amazon, KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor, Jr., The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities.

Elizabeth Warren Cut Off from Speaking Against Jeff Sessions Because She Violated Senate Rules

Heh.

From Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "THE TRAIL OF (CROCODILE) TEARS FROM THIS WILL BE ENDLESS."

ADDED: At USA Today, "Why Elizabeth Warren was accused of 'impugning' Jeff Sessions."

Alexa Ray Joel for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (VIDEO)

She looks pretty good.

At SI, ".@SeaBrinkley's daughters on body-shaming and insecurity before SI shoot: 'I grew up not loving how I looked'."

And she's on Instagram, "Twas a most humbling and rewarding HONOR to be a part of your February issue!"

Also at London's Daily Mail, "Christie Brinkley's daughters Sailor and Alexa plead for women to accept their bodies after starring in SI."

And watch, "Christie Brinkley, 63, Is Back In Her Bikini With Her Daughters | Sports Illustrated Swimsuit."

Kate Upton's 'Extravagant Demands' May Have Cost Her This Year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover

Look, she rocked the breast modeling world this last few years, so if she's got "diva-level" demands, can you blame her?

She's still pretty spectacular.

At London's Daily Mail:

Kate Upton's 'extravagant demands may have cost her a Sports Illustrated cover this year' https://t.co/YIwsqKrZvI pic.twitter.com/z5x1HIfa8U

— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) February 8, 2017

Berkeley's Descent to Victimology Hothouse

From the awesome Heather Mac Donald, at the Los Angeles Times, "U.C. Berkeley’s descent from place of learning to victimology hothouse":

UC Berkeley’s descent from place of learning to victimology hothouse https://t.co/sWdeo1CVG3 pic.twitter.com/pPulRc1FtK

— L.A. Times Opinion (@latimesopinion) February 6, 2017

Even before its students rioted in the streets, distressed that right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos would dare to open his mouth in their presence, UC Berkeley presented a visual illustration of the academy’s decline from a place of learning to a victimology hothouse. Within walking distance on the Berkeley campus are emblems of both a vanished academic world and the diversity-industrial complex that ousted it.

Emblem 1: In Bauhaus-era typography, a quotation from Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo adorns the law school’s otherwise brutalist facade.

“You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. You will study the life of mankind, for this is the life you must order, and, to order with wisdom, must know. You will study the precepts of justice, for these are the truths that through you shall come to their hour of triumph. Here is the high emprise, the fine endeavor, the splendid possibility of achievement, to which I summon you and bid you welcome.”

No law school today, if erecting itself from scratch, would think of parading such sentiments, first uttered in 1925, on its exterior. Cardozo’s invocation of “mankind” is alone cause for removal, but equally transgressive is his belief that there is wisdom in the past and not just discrimination. He presents learning as a heroic enterprise focused not on the self but on the vast world beyond, both past and present. Education is the search for objective knowledge that takes the learner into a grander universe of thought and achievement.

Stylistically, Cardozo’s elevated tone is as old-fashioned as his complicated syntactical cadences; his exhortation to intellectual mastery is too “masculinist” and triumphal for today’s identity-obsessed university.

His celebration of the law overlooks the teachings of critical race theory, which purports to expose the racial subtext of seemingly benign legal concepts. And he fatally omits any mention of “inclusion” and “diversity.”

There’s not a trace of the heroic on the Berkeley law school’s website today; the closest it comes to any ennobling inspiration is the statement: “We believe that a Berkeley Law degree is a tool for change, both locally and globally.”

But this bland expression of progressive ideology is positively Miltonic compared with the bromides on display just meters away from the law school .

Emblem 2: UC Berkeley’s Division of Equity and Inclusion has placed vertical banners across the main campus reminding students of the contemporary university’s paramount mission: assigning guilt and innocence within the ruthlessly competitive hierarchy of victimhood. Each banner shows a photo of a student or a member of the student-services bureaucracy, beside a purported quotation from that student or bureaucrat. No rolling cadences here, no exhortations to intellectual conquest. Instead, just whining or penitential snippets from the academic lexicon of identity politics.

“I will acknowledge how power and privilege intersect in our daily lives,” vows an Asian female member of the class of 2017. Just how crippling is that intersection? The answer comes in a banner showing a black female student in a backward baseball cap and a male Latino student, who together urge the Berkeley community to “create an environment where people other than yourself can exist.”

A naive observer of the Berkeley campus would think that lots of people “other than yourself” exist there, and would even think that Berkeley welcomes those “other” people with overflowing intellectual and material riches. Such a misperception, however, is precisely why Berkeley funds the Division of Equity and Inclusion with a cool $20 million annually and staffs it with 150 full-time functionaries: It takes that much money and personnel to drum into students’ heads how horribly Berkeley treats its “othered” students.

A member of the student-services bureaucracy reinforces the message of continual oppression on her banner. “I will be a brave and sympathetic ally,” announces Bene Gatzert of University Health Services. Cardozo saw grandeur in the mastery of the common law; today’s campus functionary sees herself in a heroic struggle against the ubiquitous forces of white-male heterosexual oppression...

Still more.

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Democratic Gains May Remain Elusive in 2018

To the ever burning frustration of radical leftists.

Fuck 'em.

See, from A.P., "For Trump foes, Democratic gains may remain elusive in 2018":

Passionate protests against Donald Trump's presidency have swelled the ranks of Democratic activists, but their new enthusiasm faces a hard reality: Republicans remain well-positioned to retain their grip on power in the 2018 elections.

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years. That means they must play defense against Republicans, especially in 10 states that Trump won.

In the U.S. House, Republicans will be aided by favorable district boundaries that were drawn to maintain GOP political dominance. In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican-leaning seats.

"Democrats are extremely fired up right now," said Sam Wang, a Princeton University neuroscientist and statistician who has developed a statistical model for analyzing partisan gerrymandering.

But for Democrats to win back Congress, Wang said it "would take an extreme event. The question is, are we seeing something that's headed towards that?"

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting 59 Republican-held House seats in 24 states as it builds toward the next election. Those include 23 districts where Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defeated Trump and various others that Republicans took away from Democrats in recent years...

More.

Rise of Anti-Semitic Incidents in the U.S. (VIDEO)

Perhaps there's an increase in anti-Semitic attacks, but it takes a Republican in office to have leftist outlets take them seriously. When far-left jihadists call for the annihilation of the Jews in Israel --- "From the desert to the sea, Palestine will be free..." --- it's crickets.

At CNN:

Berkeley Republican Describes Night of Terror, Says Agitators Were Trying to 'Burn Us Alive'

At Instapundit, "AS KURT SCHLICHTER SAYS, THE LEFT HATES YOU, AND WANTS YOU DEAD."

Roger Stone, The Making of the President, 2016

Well, it's supposed to be "in the tradition of Theodore White's landmark books," which is an awfully good pedigree.

At Amazon, Roger Stone, The Making of the President, 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution.

Why is Popular Culture So Incredibly Vulgar?

It's Paul Joseph Watson:

Patriots Super Bowl Win Sparks Torrent of Racial Hate

God, that's horrible.

At Blazing Cat Fur, "Social media erupts with racially charged rage at Belichick, Brady: ‘I hate seeing white people happy’."

PREVIOUSLY: "I Didn't Realize the Super Bowl Was So Politicized."

Chrissy Teigen Post-Baby Body (VIDEO)

For Sports Illustrated:

Nonie Darwish, Wholly Different

Out February 27th.

At Amazon, Nonie Darwish, Wholly Different: Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values.

Evelyn Taft's Wet Weather Forecast

Lots of rain today, and continuing through the morning.


Here's the lovely Ms. Evelyn, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

Super Bowl Commercials

Disgusting politicization of sports.

At London's Daily Mail:

Anti-American leftist corporations troll #PresidentTrump with stupid pro-diversity commercials. #SuperBowl https://t.co/zzSs06F4K6

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 6, 2017

Mike Lofgren, The Deep State

*BUMPED.*

I picked up a copy.

Check it out, at Amazon, The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government.

Remember to always read widely and know your enemy. (Plus, you know me: I love all the crazy leftist theories these days. There's never a dull moment, lol.)

I Didn't Realize the Super Bowl Was So Politicized

Really.

I seriously didn't know the Super Bowl had become a site of contestation in the polarization wars.

Apparently, as a big Trump supporter, I was supposed to be backing New England. The only problem? I hate the Patriots, and have so consistently for 15 years, after the "Tuck Rule Game" at Foxboro Stadium, January 19, 2002.

On Twitter last night:

A #SuperBowl Awash in Politics, on Social Media and Off the Field. #SB51 #Patriots https://t.co/TesD1Qbtjj

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 6, 2017

First Trump.
Then the Senate and House.
Now the Patriots.
Democrats now be all like: pic.twitter.com/5Hu5RNmCMI

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 6, 2017

pic.twitter.com/f8Pvv3TXib

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 6, 2017

Kellyanne Conway on Hannity's (VIDEO)

The left really has the guns out for Ms. Conway. CNN reportedly rebuked the White House regarding a Sunday Conway appearance on the network, which is weird, since the same folks were moaning two weeks ago that she wouldn't come on. Now they're considering "a permanent ban." What's happened is degenerate leftists have fixed on attacking Ms. Conway's "credibility," obviously because she's so freakin' good at deflecting debased radical left smears.

At Memeorandum, for example, "That MSNBC Interview Was Not the First Time Kellyanne Conway Referred to the “Bowling Green Massacre”."

And at Twitchy, "PUH-LEASE! CNN of ALL outlets has the nerve to question Kellyanne Conway’s credibility?!"

She'll be back on CNN before you know. Watch.

Tom Brady Celebrates with Wife Giselle and the Kids

At Drunken Stepfather, "MORNING HANGOVER DUMP OF THE DAY."

She was really into that Pats win.

Find yourself someone who loves you like Giselle loves Tom pic.twitter.com/OrJGInqUIO

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) February 6, 2017

BONUS: "Steplinks of the Day."