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“Have you seen the Muslims with their turbans and their djellabas? You can see they are not French. Try to integrate oil and vinegar. Shake the bottle. After a moment they separate again. The Arabs are Arabs, the French are French. Do you think that the French can absorb ten million Muslims who will tomorrow be twenty million and after tomorrow forty? … My village would no longer be called Colombey-les-deux-Eglises but Colombey-the-two-Mosques.”
Charles de Gaulle, March 1959
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The last time the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series you could get 12 8-track tapes for only a dollar through The Gorman Thomas Tape Club®.
Flashing red light for the GOP, especially looking ahead to what’s likely to occur next year if Democrats control the House
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Even if you disregard all the initial text messages, you still have Jane Doe’s sworn statement *a month later* when she’s had time to process what happened and decided it was very bad, and her detailed account of the night still doesn’t include anything that constitutes sexual assault—this is the ultimate flaw in the case and most media coverage and advocacy pretend that it doesn’t exist.
You can assume everything in that statement is truthful and correct, and you still don’t get a rape case.
If Jane Doe’s case against seven members of a Cornell University fraternity goes to trial, prosecutors will show “a mosaic,” that may include the text messages Doe sent to at least two of the fraternity members accused of sexual assault, CBS News legal analyst @CarolinePolisi says.
Polisi breaks down the “textbook trauma response” Doe exhibited in some of those text messages, and what could come next as the legal process continues to play out.
More than 275k views on this video about Ilhan Omar’s family background and potential immigration fraud
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It’s amazing how the fervor around the Cornell 7 case is growing even as the evidence increasingly points to a debauched, consensual encounter that would have ended it she had walked out or said “no”
New: Cornell University said on Tuesday that it's suspending all parties and social events held by fraternity chapters through the end of the academic year as it studies "whether and how" frats can safely continue. chroni.cl/47h5gYk
As if young adult males growing up in the contemporary United States have never been told about sexism before, or these cluster of issues aren’t an obsession of academia and the broader culture
Opinion | Teaching College Men About Inequality, Power & Sexism Shouldn’t Be Optional
The Cornell case shows why universities should make sustained education about gender, power & sexism part of every undergraduate’s education. By Marcos Viveros Cespedes: bit.ly/4yPGavI
ALT The McGraw Tower looms over the Olin Library on Cornell University's campus.
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If you want to know why America is polarized, it’s the fault of the media.
Yesterday, the Free Beacon, a conservative outlet, caught Abdul Sayed in a lie when Abdul denied his family had a connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. The FB showed a tweet by his own sister saying their mother belonged to the MB.
The revelation that Abdul lied about his family ties to a radical Islamic terrorist group was ignored by NBC, ABC, CBS’s nightly news shows. The NYT and WP haven’t covered it.
This should be a screaming front page story. Instead, the MSM runs cover for Abdul.
The American people just want to know the truth about their politicians. Instead, the media are helping Abdul cover up the truth.
Abdul has a lot to hide. It’s a tragedy the MSM is part of the team helping him hide it.
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Consensual hookup culture often feels predatory to women because... it is. It preys on women's desire for monogamy and coupling and love, which many believe there's a chance of receiving even after casual sex. Frat bros around America are indebted to Alex Cooper for trying to convince so many women they can and should have sex like men. It's led to men having a lot more casual sex because women choose to have it. That norm is great for dudes, but women often end up feeling preyed upon and exploited because they experience sex differently and just can't — on average — have casual hookups so easily.
Cooper preyed on women to make millions by convincing them it was normal to see sex more like men see it. Men who mislead women into having casual sex by dangling the prospect of monogamy prey on women. It doesn't mean women are helpless! And it doesn't mean non-consensual sex is anything short of horrifying and criminal. It just means there's a predatory culture swirling around even consensual hookups too, and it's really dangerous for women.
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For my bi-weekly home at @nro, I note in some detail that there is no epidemic of "US lynchings" and explain why.
Takes?
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I wrote for @NRO about the mysteriously absent “no” in the Cornell 7 case :
“The end result of liberal sexual ethics writ large — according to which women seldom say no and they can be, or should be, every bit as debauched as men — has not been a joyful bacchanal but a minefield. It’s a two-tiered system for the sexes.
Female sexuality is practically unlimited, but it’s not coupled with an expectation of responsibility or agency, or even the minimal requirement to know and clearly communicate one’s own mind. On the other side of the ledger, male sexuality is maximally constrained. In a reversal of biological fortune, men are now expected to be the brakes on sex, even when women directly advertise that they are eager and open to all comers. In the face of “free p****,” to quote one defendant’s vulgar chat message, they must either be rapists or monks…
Feminists understandably balk at the idea that women ought to be at all times under the supervision and control of the men around them. Yet they now claim that “no” is so difficult and so beyond women’s ability that we need to reinvent the old patriarchal structure, this time made more insane by the fact that it’s no longer a woman’s father or husband — who at least presumably love her and have her best interests at heart — who is responsible for controlling or curtailing her sexual escapades, but random fraternity brothers instead.
Conservatives have always had moral reasons to oppose the sexual revolution, wisely suspecting that “free love” wouldn’t bring the bliss promised. But irresponsible “sexual liberation” for women and legal puritanism and punishment for men may be the worst of all worlds. If we women do not wish to return to the days of legal chaperones, we must relearn how to deploy the simple no.”
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I almost literally cannot think of a worse idea than paying college women tens of thousands of dollars to make Cornell-quality rape claims.
NYS lawmaker pitches bill to give sex assault victims tuition reimbursement in wake of Cornell 7 case trib.al/0nFdk1o
They want Sophie Cunningham out of the league, so they can focus all their effort on hating Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark officially finished 4th in the MVP voting.
Never mind the 22.5 pts and 8.3 assists per game (unprecedented marks for a WNBA guard)
Never mind generating the most points in WNBA history (breaking her own record.)
Never mind setting a litany of WNBA marks and records.
Never mind that she did all of this with the worst whistle of all-time on both ends and a coach that appeared to be actively sabotaging her.
4th in MVP voting.
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After @hughhewitt -v- Il Papa on MLB playoffs, I'm ornery but, thanks to @RichLowry, high energy today on our pod: political theater masqueraded law -- the Cornell 7 & death penalty aesthetics. Iran in the middle ... and in the UK. Hope you'll tune in. nationalreview.com/podcasts/…
The Cornell 7 case has all the hallmarks of a collective hysteria on par with Ferguson, Missouri—“I am Jane Doe” is the equivalent of “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
In this case, just like in Ferguson, the most fervent advocates don’t know the facts of the case and don’t care to know them, lest they complicate a narrative condemning a group of people as a class—the police back then, fraternity members now.
To dissent from the orthodoxy is, once again, considered a hateful act. It was all but forbidden back then to suggest that Michael Brown got shot because of what he himself did (assault a police officer), and the mob this time has no tolerance for the idea that Jane Doe should bear responsibility for own conduct and decision-making.
Brown was considered *inherently* a victim, and so is Jane Doe.
This is not the way to think about such cases in a rational society. Now, there is much that still hasn’t been made fully public in the Cornell 7 case, but what we’ve seen of the evidentiary record clearly points to consensual acts that Jane Doe came to regret (and to the abysmal conduct of almost all of the young men involved).
But the facts are irrelevant if they don’t align with the ideological narrative, and if in the fullness of time, this case proves to have been a hysteria and witch hunt, it won’t matter—all the celebrities, Democratic politicians, influencers, advocates, and journalists will move on, unchastened, to the next thing, just like they did with “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
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This week’s College Gameday featuring Caitlin Clarkwas its most-watched episode this season & most-watched October episode EVER
The Caitlin Clark Effect
There are obviously things that Trump says that are genuinely outrageous, but the fake outrage is so tiresome and has the opposite effect that Democrats and the media hope for
And so the effort to drum Sophie Cunningham out of the league begins in earnest
From @TheAthletic: If the Indiana Fever ever wants to go back to being a basketball team, Sophie Cunningham has to go, our columnist writes. "Cunningham is too combustible, her takes too turbulent to be paired with Caitlin Clark." nyti.ms/4eiBPJ0
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No, it is about politics.
Letitia James wants to be governor more than she wants her next breath and she’s quickly being surpassed in terms of importance to progressive voters in New York. She wanted this
🚨NEW: Andrew Miltenberg, attorney for one of the Cornell 7 has shared this statement with our team about the appointment of @NewYorkStateAG to oversee the investigation into the alleged Cornell gang rape
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I have a serious concern about Attorney General James personally leading this investigation, and I want to be precise about what that concern is—and what it is not.
This is not about politics. It is not an attack on Attorney General James, nor is it a suggestion that allegations of sexual assault should be treated with anything less than the utmost seriousness. They should be.
The issue is narrower.
Before Attorney General James was appointed to investigate these allegations, she publicly stated that what this young woman had “been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable,” and told her, together with “all survivors,” that “we stand with you.”
Three days later, she was placed in the position of determining what actually happened.
There is nothing improper about expressing compassion for someone who reports a sexual assault. But there is an important difference between supporting a person who makes an allegation and appearing to accept the factual premise of that allegation before conducting an investigation.
That distinction becomes especially important when the person who made those statements is subsequently charged with determining whether a crime occurred and whether anyone should be prosecuted.
I am not suggesting that Attorney General James does not believe she can be fair. The concern is whether the public can have confidence that the investigation begins without any predetermined view of the facts.
Indeed, independence and public confidence were among the reasons a special prosecutor was appointed in the first place. If those principles justified replacing the original prosecutor, they should also matter in determining who leads the replacement investigation.
Attorney General James has now said that this process will be guided by “the facts and the law.” I take her at her word. But given her prior public statements, I believe the better course—for the complainant, for the accused, and for the integrity of the investigation—is for Attorney General James personally to step aside and allow senior prosecutors in her office who have made no public statements concerning the merits of these allegations to conduct the investigation.
That would not weaken the investigation. It would strengthen it.
Whatever conclusion ultimately emerges—whether charges are brought or not brought—should be one the public can trust because the prosecutors making that decision entered the case without having publicly aligned themselves with either factual narrative.
Attorney General James is an experienced prosecutor. Precisely because of that experience, she should recognize the difference between believing one can remain personally fair and recognizing when prior public statements have created an avoidable question about the appearance of impartiality.
The simplest way to remove that question is for her personally to recuse herself and allow an uncommitted prosecutor within her office to lead the investigation.