We hate you, whoever you are
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, revealed the left for the hypocrites many are when he photographed the fill-in-the-blank signs many liberal protesters were sporting at the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
The signs featured the printed word "Stop," then a blank line that was filled in by marker with the name "Gorsuch," President Trump's nominee for the vacant associate justice seat formerly held by the late Antonin Scalia. In other words, they wanted to stop whoever Trump put forward, regardless of his or her credentials or appropriateness for the high court.
"Went to the Supreme Court to talk to the protesters," Sasse tweeted along with a photograph of the sign. "But it turns out to be a Mad-Lib protest."
He also tweeted a little forewarning to those who might think about trying to stop the qualified Gorsuch.
"By the way, protesters," he wrote. "Among those who were in the Senate when Gorsuch was last unanimously confirmed: [Barack] Obama, [Joe] Biden, [Hillary] Clinton & [Chuck] Schumer."
On that occasion in 2006, the Colorado jurist was appointed to the 10th Circuit Court by President George W. Bush.
Hair today, story tomorrow
When the Beltway media couldn't figure out how to stop Republican President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, its members wrote articles about how he must be coloring his hair.
That strategy has returned.
Last week, a senior political reporter with The Washington Post's blog wrote a 611-word article titled "President Trump Appears To Have Purposefully Hidden His Use of a Hair-Loss Drug."
This journalism bombshell by Aaron Blake, based on a New York Times report of the drugs the president allegedly takes, says he also takes a prostate drug meant to combat hair loss.
What horror! And the article goes on to say the use of the drug "has not been publicly known," or, it adds, "was deliberately hidden."
Trump had every chance to disclose the drug when he was interviewed on a television show last September by Dr. Oz, Blake said, but chose not to.
Haters are going to hate the president, perhaps with good reason from their perspective, but this isn't one of them. If it's even true.
What's in your child's book bag?
Students in a class at Paige Elementary School in the Schenectady (N.Y.) City School District recently were given a flier that asked readers to "shield our students and schools from [then] President-elect Donald Trump."
Naturally, the public school district called it an accident, but parents were not happy about it. A district spokeswoman went so far as to say the teacher didn't know what it was when she gave it to students to take home. Allegedly, it had been placed in teacher mailboxes by a representative of the Schenectady Federation of Teachers. And, apparently, teachers were supposed to hand the fliers directly to parents when they dropped off or picked up their children.
In addition to the anti-Trump sentiment, the flier also called for opposition to Betsy DeVos, the president's nominee for secretary of education. The note said the two "will attempt to destroy public schools" with policies "that will only serve to line the pockets of corporate profiteers at the expense of our students." That is, of course, different than the present, where teachers unions line the pockets of the Democratic Party.
"I was shocked that there was material being handed to my kid that blatantly creates division between my son and his president - in his eyes," parent Jolene Damian told the Daily Gazette. "My 6-year-old just saw a big headline at the top that he needs to be shielded from his president."
Who's privileged?
A black University of Pennsylvania student says he had a "mental breakdown in the classroom" because his professors wouldn't acknowledge their "white privilege."
Sophomore James Fisher, who is listed as a communications major, spilled his guts to the Daily Pennsylvanian student newspaper.
"Last semester was honestly the worst semester I've had at Penn so far," he complained. "And all because of one thing: the white professors I've had at Penn. It appears that the term 'privilege' does not apply to them. Nor do they care to learn what it is."
By not uttering racist comments, Fisher said, they think "they are doing good." But such a halfhearted attempt only contributes "to the oppression I experience in my predominantly white classrooms."
One white professor "from the suburbs," he said, had the audacity to show "images of slaves on plantations" and didn't bother to acknowledge his "privilege." The professor, further, allowed "students to say ignorant comments in class" and "wanted to protect the voices of the white students who benefit from black oppression."
The article did not delineate whether Fisher had to withdraw from school because of his "breakdown."