Maine Supreme Court locks in transgender student bathroom rights « Hot Air

Maine Supreme Court locks in transgender student bathroom rights « Hot Air: "The focus on bathrooms is misplaced. In CA, a girl with a penis will have to be allowed to use the girl’s locker rooms and allowed on female sports teams, and vice versa.

It used to be that to have a sex change officially recognized, you had to undergo counseling and obtain a court-ordered change of birth certificate. That at least brought some structure to this very sensitive issue.

No more.

GLAAD advocates assert this will reduce bullying. Alas, I think the opposite is true."



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Watch Gov. Steve Beshear throw Kentucky under the bus « Hot Air

Watch Gov. Steve Beshear throw Kentucky under the bus « Hot Air: "This all certainly seems very convenient for Governor Beshear in terms of cozying up to the White House and getting a high profile shout out at the SOTU. And it may just land him a job further down the line. But what happens to the people of his state who are left behind? They get stuck with the wreckage of Obamacare and more jobs leaving the state as the EPA decimates the energy industry there.

The leopard seems to be changing his spots rather quickly here. Keep this name in your Google search drawer and remember this if he shows up with a plush new job in the Obama administration."



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Report: Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead of apparent heroin overdose « The Greenroom

Report: Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead of apparent heroin overdose « The Greenroom: "Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead Sunday of a possible heroin overdose in his Manhattan apartment, a police source said. Police said they were investigating a death at the actor’s home on Bethune St. They were alerted to the death around 11:15 a.m. A source said Hoffman was found alone with a needle in his arm in the bathroom of his apartment. Sources said the actor used heroin."



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MSNBC Guest Suddenly Gets Fiscally Responsible, but Only When it Comes to Protecting the Border | Mediaite

MSNBC Guest Suddenly Gets Fiscally Responsible, but Only When it Comes to Protecting the Border | Mediaite: "To demand fiscal austerity be applied to border protection while, at the same time, demanding an expansion of social welfare programs not mandated by the Constitution is simply not a credible argument and reduces the stature of the individual making it. Enforcement is a prerequisite for a pathway to citizenship or legal status for Republicans. Even if one believes that is unnecessary, it would be logical to support border protection as a concession to Republicans in order to convince them to support legal status for the nation’s undocumented immigrants.

That is, it would be logical if the ultimate goal was to reform the nation’s immigration system. If the goal is really to preserve an electoral cudgel with which to batter Republicans as uncaring and racially insensitive brutes ahead of the 2014 midterms, you just might argue against border enforcement with the aim of scuttling an immigration reform plan.

But why would anyone do such a thing?"



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Keystone XL foes react to State Dept report: Unleash the protesters. « Hot Air

Keystone XL foes react to State Dept report: Unleash the protesters. « Hot Air: "On Friday, the State Department released their final environmental impact review of the proposed extension of the already-operational Keystone XL pipeline that would help connect Canadian oil sands and North Dakotan shale to a network reaching the Gulf Coast’s refineries, and the State Department essentially concluded exactly what they did in their previous versions of the report: That oil from Canada’s oil sands does emit marginally more greenhouse gases than that from conventional crude, but that the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline is a non-issue in net climate-change consequences because Canada will develop those resources with or without it."



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Progressivism Kills | National Review Online

Progressivism Kills | National Review Online: "There are many horrific stories to be told about the implosion of Detroit, once the nation’s most prosperous city, today its poorest. There is the story of its corrupt public institutions, its feckless leaders, its poisonous racial politics, its practically nonexistent economy, the riots that have led to its thrice being occupied by federal troops. The most horrific story may be that of the death of its children."



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Venezuela’s toilet-paper shortage oddly worsening, despite Maduro’s “new economic order” « Hot Air

Venezuela’s toilet-paper shortage oddly worsening, despite Maduro’s “new economic order” « Hot Air: "When will President Nicolas Maduro finally free Venezuelans from the tyrannical shackles of supply and demand ruining their lives? Despite his best efforts at establishing price caps, government rationing, currency controls, and stationing troops at places of business in order to prevent the collusion of greedy profit-seekers and American imperialists in their “economic war” against him, the mass shortages of basic goods plaguing Venezuelans persist. Indeed, since parliament granted Maduro his requested “emergency decree powers” in the weeks before the country’s municipal elections and he promised to impose a “new economic order” of fairness and equality, the shortages, the rampant inflation, and the black-market exchange rate of more than ten times the official rate all seem to be getting even worse. It just doesn’t make any sense, amirite?"



(Sarcasm.)



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