{"id":28379,"date":"2014-12-11T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T01:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=28379"},"modified":"2014-12-11T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T01:10:23","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-december-10th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=28379","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, December 10th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, December 10th, 2014&#8230;but before we begin, our brief thoughts on two news events, the details of which inquiring minds already know. \u00a0First, one of the last gasps of Senate Dimocratics desperate to divert attention:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Spooks of the Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/spooks-of-the-senate-1418170941\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Spooks of the Senate<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Spooks of the Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/spooks-of-the-senate-1418170941\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">The report on CIA interrogations is a collection of partisan second-guessing.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zRFI-Xrg1XI\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The question isn&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>why<\/em><\/span> Feinstein released this patently partisan report, but why <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>now<\/em><\/span>?!? \u00a0The answer&#8217;s simple: Liberals are desperate to focus America <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anywhere<\/em><\/span> but on their multitudinous failures. \u00a0And there is nothing&#8230;<em>absolutely <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOTHING<\/span><\/em>&#8230;Dimocrats won&#8217;t do, and no one&#8230;<em>absolutely<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NO ONE<\/em><\/span>&#8230;they won&#8217;t sacrifice to gain or maintain even the merest shred of power. \u00a0And this includes our national security and the lives of innocent Americans; as this utterly disgraceful, even treasonous display proves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, meet the pride of MIT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Forrest Gump, Ph.D.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/forrest-gump-ph-d-1418171139\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Forrest Gump, Ph.D.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Forrest Gump, Ph.D.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/forrest-gump-ph-d-1418171139\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Jonathan Gruber goes to Congress.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/animalhouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/animalhouse.jpg\" alt=\"animalhouse\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/animalhouse.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/animalhouse-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Maybe it\u2019s easier to get tenure at MIT than we thought. At least that\u2019s our reaction to the Forrest Gump routine put on Tuesday before Congress by MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, who sounded for all the world as if he knew nothing more about politics and health care than the lovable bumpkin who always showed up when history was being made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That wasn\u2019t the way Mr. Gruber sounded in his now famous videos\u2014including in a University of Pennsylvania appearance last year\u2014when he credited the enactment of ObamaCare to a \u201clack of transparency,\u201d the gaming of Congressional rules intended to measure the law\u2019s fiscal impact, the \u201cstupidity of the American voter,\u201d and a lack of Democratic candor about the redistribution of wealth embedded in the new insurance scheme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But on Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Gruber distanced himself from his remarks <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>while refusing to say if they were true<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> He apologized for the tone, arrogance, glibness and the inappropriate nature of his remarks. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But his response to substantive questions suggested that he is mainly sorry for getting caught on tape.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>He even insisted on Tuesday that ObamaCare had been debated and passed in a transparent manner. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">But this position is 180 degrees from the one he expressed on tape.<\/span> So he simply dismissed his taped remarks as \u201cconjectures\u201d about a political process <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he now claims not to understand<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forget Forrest Gump; Gruber&#8217;s more like Prissy in <em>Gone With the Wind<\/em>: &#8220;I don&#8217; know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nuttin<\/em><\/span>&#8216; &#8217;bout birthin&#8217; &#8216;Bamacare!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words&#8230;GASP!&#8230;he lied like a rug; which is to say he&#8217;s on a par with every other Liberal in the country. \u00a0As with almost every other Dim in the country, we wouldn&#8217;t piss on Gruber and Feinstein were they engulfed in flames.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Picking up where we just left off, here&#8217;s <em>Hope &#8216;n Change<\/em>&#8216;s hilarious take on The Obamao&#8217;s hospital hiatus:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Hard-to-SwallowSm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Hard-to-SwallowSm.jpg\" alt=\"Hard to SwallowSm\" width=\"450\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Hard-to-SwallowSm.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Hard-to-SwallowSm-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Although it hasn&#8217;t been mentioned in any of the official press releases, many are speculating that the actual cause of Mr. Obama&#8217;s throat problems is his incessant cigarette smoking.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Okay, many are <i>actually<\/i> speculating that he too frequently enjoys a vigorous throat boning, but <i>Hope n&#8217; Change<\/i> has far too much dignity to print such an accusation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Anyway, if smoking is to blame then it&#8217;s also possible that there&#8217;s <i>something more serious going on <\/i>than simple gastric reflux &#8211; which would help explain the unusual step of subjecting the president to a CAT scan instead of simply tossing him a roll of TUMS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In any event, <i>Hope n&#8217; Change<\/i> would like to offer the president some advice to help with his sore throat. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Drink plenty of fluids, rest, and try not to talk.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>For at least another two years<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/He-Already-Gave-Up-Loosies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/He-Already-Gave-Up-Loosies.jpg\" alt=\"He Already Gave Up Loosies\" width=\"450\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/He-Already-Gave-Up-Loosies.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/He-Already-Gave-Up-Loosies-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on to the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>&#8220;What Does He Take Us For&#8230;?!?&#8221; segment, courtesy of <em>The Blaze<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Police in Small Wisconsin City Want Residents to Volunteer to Have Their Homes Searched for Guns<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/toygun12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/toygun12.jpg\" alt=\"toygun12\" width=\"400\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/toygun12.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/toygun12-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Police in Beloit, Wisconsin, want residents to volunteer to let officers search their homes for firearms as part of a new initiative that officials believe will help reduce gun violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Beloit Police Chief Norm Jacobs told Wisconsin Public Radio that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>officers will mostly be looking for guns in homes that residents might not even be aware of<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That\u2019s really what we\u2019re looking for<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Maybe we\u2019ll find a toy gun that\u2019s been altered by a youngster in the house<\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and we know the tragedies that can occur there on occasion<\/span><\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Jacobs also told WPR that \u201cgun violence is as serious as the Ebola virus.\u201d <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The home searches, he argued, are similar to a vaccine to strengthen the city\u2019s immune system, the report stated.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, he&#8217;s from the government, and he&#8217;s here to help! \u00a0Yeah&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/yeahright.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/yeahright.jpg\" alt=\"yeahright\" width=\"240\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of law and order,\u00a0<\/strong><b>Thomas Sowell rhetorically asks&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Is Law Optional?\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/thomassowell\/2014\/12\/09\/is-law-optional-n1929109\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Is Law Optional?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/democracy-v-republic_thumb3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/democracy-v-republic_thumb3.png\" alt=\"democracy v republic_thumb[3]\" width=\"404\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/democracy-v-republic_thumb3.png 404w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/democracy-v-republic_thumb3-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>If grand juries are supposed to vote on the basis of what mobs want, instead of on the basis of the evidence that they see &#8212; and which the mob doesn&#8217;t even want to see &#8212; then we forfeit the rule of law and our freedom that depends on it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>If people who are told that they are under arrest, and who refuse to come with the police, cannot be forcibly taken into custody, then we do not have the rule of law, when the law itself is downgraded to suggestions that no one has the power to enforce.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>For people who have never tried to take into custody someone resisting arrest, to sit back in the safety and comfort of their homes or offices and second-guess people who face the dangers inherent in that process<\/em> &#8212; dangers for both the police and the person under arrest &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is yet another example of the irresponsible self-indulgences of our time<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which incudes overpaid professional athletes with the education and intellect of&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1390005760_8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1390005760_8.jpg\" alt=\"1390005760_8\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1390005760_8.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1390005760_8-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Jethro Bodine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, courtesy of <\/strong><strong><em>PJMedia<\/em>, Victor Davis Hanson describes what he sees as the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"first_headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/ferguson-ripples\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Ripples of Ferguson<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ferguson_police_tape_12-7-14-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ferguson_police_tape_12-7-14-1.jpg\" alt=\"ferguson_police_tape_12-7-14-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ferguson_police_tape_12-7-14-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ferguson_police_tape_12-7-14-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Instead, in the world that Al Sharpton envisions, the rules of police and citizen conduct that unleash popular furor would be something like the following. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Of all the many racial and firearm-related violent scenarios \u2014 armed blacks shooting armed or unarmed blacks or whites; unarmed blacks attacking armed or unarmed blacks or whites; armed whites shooting armed or unarmed blacks or whites \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only one merits national, even global outrage<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Whatever the circumstances of the confrontation or the level of prior violence inflicted, armed whites, either private citizens or law enforcement officials, <em>must not under <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any<\/span> circumstances shoot unarmed blacks<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>\u00a0Again, that is an empirical observation, not one of judgment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Note well that last week a Bosnian immigrant was beaten to death by young African-American and Latino teens. Other such black-on-white cases are said to have preceded and followed the murder. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The usual official bureaucratese followed the shooting: that such targeted violence had nothing to do with race, that it could not be a hate crime, and that it was not associated with Ferguson, etc.<\/strong><\/span> Was there rioting or a Justice investigation over the unwillingness of authorities to cite this as a hate crime? Certainly, two messages were implicit about the killing of Zemir Begic: had he been African-American and his assailants white, Ferguson-like violence may well have followed; and had he had a gun and shot his hammer-welding attackers, he might well have found as bleak a future as did George Zimmerman or Darren Wilson for shooting and killing an attacker who did not wield a firearm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>By racializing crime and the reactions to it, and by dismissing facts in lieu of racial stereotyping, the Al Sharpton school of racists has more or less redefined both race relations and criminal justice itself.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In a blink of an eye, we have gone from Barack Obama citing Ferguson at the United Nations; to the father-in-law of Michael Brown, in front of a crowd on the verge of rioting, screaming into a mike \u201cburn this bitch down\u201d; to Louis Farrakhan all but calling for a race war: \u201cBut when we die and they die, then soon we gonna sit down at a table and talk about \u2013 we tired. We want some of this earth. We tear this God damn country up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Just as the ethics reformer in the White House has left a legacy of unprecedented presidential scandal, so too the racial healer has presided over the greatest erosion in racial relations in the last half-century.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That<\/em><\/span><em> is the lesson of Ferguson<\/em> \u2014 <em>and the Fergusons to come<\/em> \u2014 <em>and the backlash outrages to the Fergusons to come<\/em> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and on and on and on<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Meanwhile, as reported in the <em>New York Post<\/em><\/b><strong><em>&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/12\/07\/eric-holder-believes-all-cops-are-racists-targets-unconscious-bias\/\">Eric Holder believes all cops are racists, targets \u2018unconscious bias\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/n-ERIC-HOLDER-BANKS-large570.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/n-ERIC-HOLDER-BANKS-large570.jpg\" alt=\"US-POLITICS-RIGHTS-HOLDER\" width=\"400\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/n-ERIC-HOLDER-BANKS-large570.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/n-ERIC-HOLDER-BANKS-large570-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Did <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I<\/span> do dat?!?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Take the Seattle Police Department, which Justice alleged engaged in a \u201cpattern and practice\u201d of discrimination toward blacks. The feds based their findings largely on \u201cimplicit bias,\u201d arguing cops \u201csubconsciously\u201d discriminated by making \u201cdisproportionate stops of non-whites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cBiased policing,\u201d Justice explained in its findings letter to the Seattle PD, \u201cis not primarily about the ill-intentioned officer but rather the officer who engages in discriminatory practices subconsciously,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>adding that even a well-meaning cop can violate the civil rights of black suspects by operating \u201con implicit biases that impact that officer\u2019s behavior or perceptions<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The department said \u201cmany in the community perceive that pedestrian stops are overused and target minorities.\u201d <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It admits it couldn\u2019t verify the accuracy of the complaints and never bothered to get the cops\u2019 side of the story<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In a 2012 consent decree, Holder ordered Seattle to soften its use-of-force rules and train brass and rank and file alike in \u201cbias-free\u201d policing that recognizes and eliminates \u201cimplicit bias,\u201d while disciplining any conduct tied to it.<\/span> The rules, which fully went into effect this year, have led to \u201cde-policing.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The result? Crime is up in the Emerald City. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Since Holder stepped in, crime is up 13% overall in Seattle<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #993300;\">But it\u2019s not just minor infractions.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It\u2019s the biggies<\/em><\/span> \u2014 <em>aggravated assaults up 14%, car theft up a whopping 44% <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and murders up 21%<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, Holder&#8217;s with the government, and he&#8217;s here to help.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He&#8217;s here to help alright; but as Ryan Lovelace details at\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>, the only help Holder provides is in sowing discord, division, disinformation and discontent:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The Department of Social Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/394165\/department-social-justice-ryan-lovelace\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"article_title\" style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">The Department of Social Justice <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The Department of Social Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/394165\/department-social-justice-ryan-lovelace\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #993300;\"><span class=\"article_subtitle\">Federal officials lectured Ferguson residents about \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/white-privilege.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-28322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/white-privilege-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"white-privilege\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/white-privilege-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/white-privilege.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>No&#8230;just a healthy work ethic!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The DOJ\u2019s Community Relations Service arrived in Ferguson purportedly to lessen the tension between protesters and city officials. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But sources who attended the DOJ\u2019s private gatherings with Ferguson residents tell NRO that the Justice Department also sought to educate and question the community about the issues of white privilege and racism.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>The political nature of the Justice Department\u2019s intervention in\u00a0Ferguson may not be exclusive to its interactions with residents; it also might have affected its ongoing investigations into the Ferguson Police Department and officer Darren Wilson<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s like Sean Aland notes in his <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"The Band of Useful Idiots Plays On Read more at http:\/\/patriotupdate.com\/articles\/band-useful-idiots-plays\/\" href=\"http:\/\/patriotupdate.com\/articles\/band-useful-idiots-plays\/\">posting<\/a><\/em><\/span> at\u00a0<em>Patriot Update<\/em>:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>So you have to ask, where is the media attention or the band of five that claim to be the champions of the oppressed in the black community when it comes to the real violence being committed by blacks and Planned Parenthood against the black community? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>They are nowhere to be found <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as their claims of racism only exists in their mind and on their agenda<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>In other news from the world of Useful Idiots, <em>PJMedia<\/em>&#8216;s Roger Simon offers his assistance in&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"first_headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/rogerlsimon\/2014\/12\/07\/hillarys-sympathy-for-the-devil\/\">Explaining Hillary\u2019s \u2018Sympathy for the Devil\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sympathy_for_hillary_12-7-14-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sympathy_for_hillary_12-7-14-3.jpg\" alt=\"sympathy_for_hillary_12-7-14-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sympathy_for_hillary_12-7-14-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sympathy_for_hillary_12-7-14-3-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>For Hillary, the problem is she no longer knows <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>what<\/em><\/span> she thinks \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>an absolute prescription for filling a void with \u201cgaseous new-age rhetoric<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0These days, it\u2019s the first thing that comes to mind. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>You can almost see the wheels grinding when asked a question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>What did I think in the days of Saul Alinsky? \u00a0What did I think back in Little Rock? What did I think when Bill was president, first term, second term? Should I bake cookies? Why did Monica keep that dress? \u00a0How could I have left those billing records in the White house? \u00a0Is this good in Ohio? What did I think when senator? \u00a0When do the Watergate\u00a0hearings start? What did I think when secretary of State? Is this a war zone? Am I under fire? What did Sergei Lavrov do with that reset button? Will Lanny Davis back me up on Fox? Why does Putin always show off his pecs? \u00a0<em>Is my old friend Suha\u00a0still at the Bristol? \u00a0I should ask Huma.\u00a0<\/em>What did Obama say? \u00a0Should I be separating from him on this one or not?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>TILT<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yes, like a pinball player, you can only handle so much. <\/span>\u00a0With all those different personas, opinions and rationalizations racing around in the brain, the machine overloads. And in Hillary\u2019s case that machine is long overfilled, like one of those computer hard drives we\u2019ve all junked. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>What\u00a0we have here is not a \u201cfailure to communicate.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We have someone quite literally with nothing left to say \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>except perhaps \u201cElect me! \u00a0Elect me! \u00a0Elected me<\/em><\/span>!\u201d<\/span> \u00a0<em>Oh, and by the way, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I\u2019m a woman<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So is half the rest of the human race. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they<\/em><\/span> all get to be president?<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not a chance; for, particularly when it comes to Marxists, be they male or female, Black or White, in the end&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sqcLjcSloXs?start=7\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>If you don&#8217;t believe us, just ask Vince Foster!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on the subject of spiritual wickedness in high places, i.e., the Dimocratic Party and the Art of Lying With a Straight Face, we turn to <em>NRO\u00a0<\/em>and another brilliant bit of expository commentary from Andrew McCarthy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Obama Administration Releases Illegal Aliens with Terror Ties, Blames It on a \u2018Judge\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/393876\/obama-administration-releases-illegal-aliens-terror-ties-blames-it-judge-andrew-c\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"article_title\" style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Obama Administration Releases Illegal Aliens with Terror Ties, Blames It on a \u2018Judge\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Obama Administration Releases Illegal Aliens with Terror Ties, Blames It on a \u2018Judge\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/393876\/obama-administration-releases-illegal-aliens-terror-ties-blames-it-judge-andrew-c\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"article_subtitle\">The DHS secretary needs to answer some questions.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1410998939852_wps_9_Department_of_Homeland_Se.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1410998939852_wps_9_Department_of_Homeland_Se.jpg\" alt=\"1410998939852_wps_9_Department_of_Homeland_Se\" width=\"350\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1410998939852_wps_9_Department_of_Homeland_Se.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1410998939852_wps_9_Department_of_Homeland_Se-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;H<\/span>omeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson gave some peculiar testimony in a House hearing Tuesday about two men tied to a designated terrorist organization who, he says, fled to Canada after \u201cthey were released by the judge\u201d in an immigration hearing. Representative Jason Chaffetz pressed Secretary Johnson on the matter but appears either to have run out of time or not known what to ask. He and the committee should follow up promptly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Johnson\u2019s testimony suggested that there was nothing much DHS could have done because a \u201cjudge\u201d had released the two PKK-tied Kurds. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">But the bail decision was actually made by an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>immigration judge<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who works for the Justice Department not the federal judiciary<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>The decisions of an immigration judge can be appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which is also part of the Justice Department. Those decisions, in turn, <em>can be reviewed by the BIA\u2019s superior, the attorney general<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>That is to say, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> decision an immigration judge makes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can be reversed by Eric Holder<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Or&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/obama-grinning-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/obama-grinning-1.jpg\" alt=\"obama-grinning-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Holder&#8217;s boss. \u00a0Yeah&#8230;about the same time he releases he scholastic transcripts!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20141208-Hillary20141208051801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20141208-Hillary20141208051801.jpg\" alt=\"Foden20141208-Hillary20141208051801\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20141208-Hillary20141208051801.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20141208-Hillary20141208051801-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/payn_c12559520141206120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/payn_c12559520141206120100.jpg\" alt=\"payn_c12559520141206120100\" width=\"462\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/payn_c12559520141206120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/payn_c12559520141206120100-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-120414-cigarettes-WS-wide-IBD-OP-ED-147.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-120414-cigarettes-WS-wide-IBD-OP-ED-147.gif\" alt=\"RAMclr-120414-cigarettes-WS-wide-IBD-OP-ED-147\" width=\"462\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mrz120614dAPC20141205114809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mrz120614dAPC20141205114809.jpg\" alt=\"mrz120614dAPC20141205114809\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mrz120614dAPC20141205114809.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mrz120614dAPC20141205114809-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/payn_c12565720141208120100.jpg\" alt=\"payn_c12565720141208120100\" width=\"462\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/payn_c12565720141208120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/payn_c12565720141208120100-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg120814dAPC20141208064543.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28342\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg120814dAPC20141208064543.jpg\" alt=\"bg120814dAPC20141208064543\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg120814dAPC20141208064543.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg120814dAPC20141208064543-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mrz120714dAPR20141205114801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mrz120714dAPR20141205114801.jpg\" alt=\"mrz120714dAPR20141205114801\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mrz120714dAPR20141205114801.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mrz120714dAPR20141205114801-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/holb_c12565920141209120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/holb_c12565920141209120100.jpg\" alt=\"holb_c12565920141209120100\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/holb_c12565920141209120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/holb_c12565920141209120100-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1209cd20141208093801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1209cd20141208093801.jpg\" alt=\"lb1209cd20141208093801\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1209cd20141208093801.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1209cd20141208093801-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gv120714dAPR20141208014510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gv120714dAPR20141208014510.jpg\" alt=\"gv120714dAPR20141208014510\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gv120714dAPR20141208014510.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gv120714dAPR20141208014510-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12_15710220141206104012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12_15710220141206104012.jpg\" alt=\"12_15710220141206104012\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12_15710220141206104012.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/12_15710220141206104012-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these three beauties courtesy of Balls Cotton:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image0011.jpg\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"435\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image0011.jpg 435w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image0011-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image008.jpg\" alt=\"image008\" width=\"480\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image008.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image008-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image012.jpg\" alt=\"image012\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image012.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image012-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image012-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with the Professionally Sensitive segment, as\u00a0<\/strong><strong>James Taranto reports on&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>A Malpractice Suit Waiting to Happen<\/strong> <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/721332077_common_sense3_answer_1_xlarge.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/721332077_common_sense3_answer_1_xlarge-300x271.jpeg\" alt=\"721332077_common_sense3_answer_1_xlarge\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/721332077_common_sense3_answer_1_xlarge-300x271.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/721332077_common_sense3_answer_1_xlarge.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cColumbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams,\u201d PowerLineBlog\u2019s Paul Mirengoff reports. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>He quotes a memo in which Robert Scott, the dean, explains that \u201cfor some students,\u201d the outcomes threaten \u201cto undermine a sense that the law is a fundamental pillar of society designed to protect fairness, due process and equality\u201d:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><em>In accordance with these procedures and policy, students who feel that their performance on examinations will be sufficiently impaired due to the effects of these recent events may petition Dean Alice Rigas to have an examination rescheduled.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mirengoff seems to think this is ridiculous; his post is titled \u201cNot a Parody.\u201d We\u2019d say Columbia\u2019s action is reasonable and prudent. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Someone who\u2019s traumatized by a legal process probably should be kept away from clients to the extent possible<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which reminds us,\u00a0Q: What&#8217;s the difference between a good lawyer and a great lawyer? A: A <em>good<\/em> lawyer <em>knows the law<\/em>. A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>great<\/em><\/span> lawyer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>knows the judge<\/em><\/span>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, December 10th, 2014&#8230;but before we begin, our brief thoughts on two news events, the details of which inquiring minds already know. \u00a0First, one of the last gasps of Senate Dimocratics desperate to divert attention: Spooks of the Senate The report on CIA interrogations is a collection of partisan second-guessing. &nbsp; The question isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28380,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28379\/revisions\/28380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}