Maggie's Farm

How we live, some of the time, or too much of the time. Via Scott Adams

Decides spontaneously to shake hands will every graduating cadet, for 90 minutes. His enthusiasm increases as it goes on. Well, he is only 72 years old.

If you judge people by their mistakes, you will hate everybody.

Scott Adams, who adds that the way people handle their mistakes is the important piece 

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

Naval Ravikant. Good advice: redefine what you do until it works.

 Donald Trump makes good on a promise but Dems cry ‘coverup’:

The president is going nuclear.

Democrats who thought control of the House gave them control of the agenda now will face stiff competition. Their expressions of outrage will seem tired next to the sensational revelations about the actions of Jim Comey, John Brennan and ­others.

Based on what we already know, it is highly likely those revelations will prove the White House, FBI and CIA engineered the greatest scandal in American political history by unjustified spying on Trump and by trying to tip the election to Hillary Clinton.

Predictably, Dems are furious at Trump’s decision, with many on the left launching personal attacks on Barr. He’s not getting Brett Kavan-augh-level smears yet, but give them time.

RESTORING THE LOST CONSENSUS  (not a video)

If Halper is the best spy we have, I am worried: Former FBI Deputy General Counsel: The Carter Page FISA Application Was Approved in a Non-Standard Way; Rather Than Letting Me First Review the Application, Andrew McCabe and Assistant Director of the DOJ Sally Yates Bypassed Me and Signed It Themselves

"Set up like a bowling pin
Knocked down, it gets to wearing thin
They just won't let you be..."

This via Althouse on another topic:

Watch the video at the article. 

"For what?"

"We'll figure out something, because Orange Man Bad. We can find something on anybody."

 Pelosi Says Trump Engaged In 'Cover Up' As Impeachment Pressure Grows

Is this good for the country? 

Update:  President Trump Tells Reporters After Pelosi’s Attacks and His Meeting with Her: “I Don’t Do Cover-Ups” and “You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves”

Al Smith was called, by FDR, "the happy warrior of the political battlefield."  It applies to this guy. From yesterday - just having fun. 

Why, in the US, do Asians show higher levels of achievement than native whites?  Why do African-Americans achieve less, on average, than whites?  And why do immigrant blacks achieve at a higher level than US-born blacks?

I wish that we in the US would just stop categorizing people by race and, if social "scientists" want to study things like  achievement, they would apply their time to studying the cultures and subcultures in which individuals develop.

It's an open secret that there are far more whites living in poverty in the US than blacks. That's culture too. Murray's Coming Apart portrays it well. Not everybody has either bourgeois values or conventional aspirations.

Glenn Lowry has written a report: Why Does Racial Inequality Persist?Culture, Causation, and Responsibility

Free range, organic, low carb, all natural. h/t Ace

Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing reveal Brennan was the mastermind of the Russia hoax

Scott Adams thinks:

Comey and Brennan paper trail…THEY colluded with Russia?

Is the evidence overstated, where’s the counter-narrative?

Cognitive blindness prevents the left from seeing the obvious?

Exculpatory unknown evidence is possible…but WOW

Not an elitist. Closest thing to Andrew Jackson, an excellent president whose style was also disparaged by the elites.

Trump as folk hero. 

Via Powerline (with the nice photo)

It's all about political posturing. I do not think these people believe what they are say.

If NYC evaporated today, it would have zero impact on the planet. But it would make me sad.

Equal treatment means equal. Why treat women as if inferior? It's not Sullivan's proposal, but it makes sense to me

From a commenter:

I understand the problems in incarcerating large numbers of people. I understand the politics and how easy it is to make a social issue out of this if we hold them. But what I don't understand is why the laws apply to citizens but non-citizens especially illegal aliens don't have to face consequences of breaking our laws. I don't understand why it is I have to fill out an I-9 to get a job and only certain state or federal ID is satisfactory and illegals have zero requirements in fact the government goes out of their way to make it easier for them. I don't understand why the TSA can make me take my clothes off and feel me and my family up at the airport but 100,000 non-citizens from god knows where can cross our border freely, get a hot meal, an airplane ride to U.S. cities and a briefing on how to apply for welfare and housing. WTF is wrong with my government???

"It was a long, cold winter in Wisconsin and I have a cute husband,” she said. What can I do?”

Excellent justification, not that any was needed. Cute.