| Mike Flynn's RNC speech didn't age well! Vic Berger helps us remember a simpler time, when rhetoric was rhetoric and you didn't have to worry about the pesky special counsel. Have We Been Lied To About The Kate Steinle Case? That's what Sarah Rumpf asks over at RedState, and it is really worth your time since nobody tends to pay close attention to the particulars of cases. Rumpf's point is: The main issue is that the defense was able to present a credible case that the shooting was an accident, and the prosecution aggressively overplayed their hand. Add in a misguided police interrogation strategy and you have reasonable doubt: You should read the whole thing, because while Garcia Zarate belongs in jail (and could, in fact, spend more time there), we're still a country based on rule of law. Sometimes, the outcome isn't what we'd like, but it's the best system there is. Disney, meet the First Sale Doctrine. Mickey, Inc. isn't happy with Red Box, a purveyor of point-of-sale DVD anf Bluray rentals. Why? You know those digital download codes you get when you buy a movie on disc? Red Box, ingeniously, is selling them and Disney is suing. After all, what do they need with 25,000 digital downloads of Frozen? Red Box seems confident in its actions, per the First Sale Doctrine. Opportunists gonna opportunist. You may have seen Ethan Epstein's item today on Ted Cruz's absolutely awful interview with Neil Cavuto. Becket Adams over at the Examiner also agrees about Cruz's awful interview being awful, but also observes that (potential 2020 Democratic candidate) Kirsten Gillibrand is also being as calculating and hypocritical as Cruz is. What's the old saying? When Donald Trump closes a door, Ted Cruz opens his own windows. Sorry, Vic & JVL, the kids hate Jersey. Disco Fries notwithstanding, City Lab takes a look at why America's Future™ doesn't want to live in the Garden State. The answer? They're what Sonny Bunch might refer to as "garbage millennials." Unsurprisingly, New Jersey’s Millennials are just like Millennials everywhere else: They gravitate toward dense, mixed-use, walkable areas. Across the 118 places that scored well on all three smart-growth metrics, Millennials are 25 percent more prevalent than they are statewide. Conversely, they are 19 percent less likely than the general New Jersey population to live in the places that scored badly on all three metrics. The problem is a lack of Millennial-friendly environments. Of the state’s 565 municipalities, only 183 scored well on two or all three smart-growth metrics, and according to the study, only 111 of those places are popular with Millennials. This imbalance may increase competition for housing in the high-scoring municipalities, which prices Millennials out of the neighborhoods where they want to live most. Or, could the answer be a bit simpler? “I can tell you that Millennials are [moving away], but I can’t tell you why they’re doing it,” said Tim Evans, director of research at New Jersey Future, and the lead author of the report. “My first guess would be because they can’t afford to live here.” Bingo. When 20,000 American Nazis Descended Upon New York City. There's been lots of talk about the NYTimes story about the Ohio Nazi. Last month The Atlantic released this horrifying video showing 20,000 American Nazis at a 1939 rally in New York City. “The footage is so powerful,” continued [documentary film maker Marshall] Curry, “it seems amazing that it isn’t a stock part of every high school history class. This story was likely nudged out of the canon, in part because it’s scary and embarrassing. It tells a story about our country that we’d prefer to forget.” Let's not forget that so many of our countrymen sided with such evil. —Jim Swift, Deputy Online Editor Please feel free to send us comments, thoughts and links to dailystandard@weeklystandard.com. -30- |
