Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (the Visegrad Group)are securing their own borders against the migrant invasion. Now they're working with Macedonia and Bulgaria to seal off Greece's northern border. Months ago, EU honchos loudly and constantly ridiculed Hungarian PM Viktor Orban as a xenophobic extremist. Then the EUrocrats suddenly shut up, because it dawned on them that, the more they derided Orban, the more people in Europe learned about what Hungary was doing and said "Orban's approach makes sense to me!"

One has to read all the way to the end of this AP article for the real message:

Dariusz Kalan, an analyst at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, said he doesn't believe that the Visegrad group on its own can destroy European unity but says Orban's vision is winning adherents across the continent in far-right movements and even among mainstream political parties.

"It's hard to ignore Orban," Kalan said. "People in Western Europe are starting to adopt the language of Orban. None are equally tough and yet the language is still quite similar."

http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_anti-migrant-force-builds-in-europe-hurting-merkel-ques_412400.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/17/montana-quarterback-receives-245k-settlement-for-universitys-unfair-and-biased-rape-investigation/?hpid=hp_no-name_morning-mix-story-b-duplicate%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

"But Paul Liebman, UT’s chief compliance officer, said that the school should not be expected to follow criminal procedure."

Stolen quote about the "trigger warning" crowd:

These people need to wear Trigger Warnings on themselves so we can ostracize them, shun them, and humiliate them into shame-eating until they all die of insulin shock.

Yippeeee! nature's Slurpee and snow cone at Yosemite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2CX0x_lGw4

This is so cool; I want to see this in person. It is now on my bucket list.

But there is a major failure of science going on.

The failure is the lack of transparency and honesty about how feeble these models are and how much we should stake on their all-too-fallible forecasts. Thus the same problem continues: climate science has once again botched a prediction that its models were underequipped to make.

It seems that there can be no moderate and honest discussion of this issue. Skeptics are singled out in creepy enemies lists. Actually, we're now supposed to call them deniers, as though they were disputing the existence of HIV or the holocaust. Numerous scientists, as well as senators, anti-vaccination Kennedys, and clickbait purveyors have even called for the imprisonment and legal prosecution of those who disagree with them.

Climate science acts like it is fighting a holy war. There are only those who are just and those who must be silenced and stopped at all costs. Anyone who mounts reasonable logical, empirical, or skeptical challenges to the orthodoxy must be ruined, not by counterfactual evidence, but by vicious attack.

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/02/climate_models_botch_another_prediction.html

InstaPundit on Facebook: They don’t even pretend not to be evil.

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/226667/

History: a US Supreme Court justice took a year's sabbatical to work the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal.

If the court could manage with eight justices in 1945-1946, when it had a much more onerous workload than it has today, it can manage for a year or so now. There may be good arguments that the Senate should confirm an Obama nominee this year, but the notion I see circulating that it would somehow be unprecedented and dysfunctional to temporarily have only eight justices on the court isn’t one of them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/02/16/justice-felix-frankfurter-temporarily-having-an-eight-justice-supreme-court-is-not-sacrificing-a-single-interest-of-importance/

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the higher minimum wage has cost up to 200,000 low skill jobs - jobs that were not filled because they cost too much.

The standard model of competitive labor markets predicts that a higher minimum wage will lead to job loss among low-skilled workers. The simplest scenario considers a competitive labor market for a single type of labor. A “binding” minimum wage that is set higher than the competitive equilibrium wage reduces employment for two reasons. First, employers will substitute away from the low-skilled labor that is now more expensive towards other inputs, such as equipment or other capital. Second, the higher wage and new input mix implies higher prices, in turn reducing product and labor demand.

Of course, the labor market is more complicated. Most important, workers have varying skill levels, and a higher minimum wage will lead employers to hire fewer low-skilled workers and more high-skilled workers. This “labor-labor” substitution may not show up as job losses unless researchers focus on the least-skilled workers whose wages are directly pushed up by the minimum wage. Moreover, fewer jobs for the least-skilled are most important from a policy perspective, since they are the ones the minimum wage is intended to help.

http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2015/december/effects-of-minimum-wage-on-employment/

The ACLU opposes mens rea reform of criminal law specifically because some Republicans favor it.

Tribes.

Also note the reference to "regulatory crimes". But regulations are just administrative, right?

Can't pay your student loans? Debtor's prison for you!

Video here of a jet making a landing, while continuing to spray chemtrail material:
www.tothedeathmedia.com/watch-busted-pilot-forgets-to-turn-off-chemtrails-while-landing/
It's being guessed that spray operations are sometimes remote-control; pilots have no idea when or if they're spraying. Commercial pilots especially have more important stuff to deal with.

Actually jefe, commercial pilots are nothing more than backup should the on-board computer fail.

Regarding Scalia, what about the cases the Supremes finalized deliberations on before his death? Is his vote vacated?

Also, given the number of cases only heard by eight justices as one had to recuse themselves plus the number of cases that will be heard between now and when one is appointed, what difference does another few month make?

Numerous scientists, as well as senators, anti-vaccination Kennedys, and clickbait purveyors have even called for the imprisonment and legal prosecution of those who disagree with them.

Cool, lets do it. Then climate scientists would be forced to show all such methodologies in open court, as well as various records from satellites and weather balloons which show no increase in warming.

It'll be a modern day Scopes trial

NYPD has been using their stingrays without warrants. A lot:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160213/13430433595/nypd-has-deployed-stingrays-over-1000-times-without-warrants.shtml

Not surprising. What is, tho, is that they're a model of restraint compared to their peers in Baltimore, who have deployed their systems some 4,000+ times.

Apple to court drop dead:

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2016/02/17/apple-to-judge-drop-dead/?singlepage=true

The problem with a backdoor is that it weakens the overall security of the device in question, as one never knows when actual bad guys like cybercriminals
That's not to say that the FBI should be automatically classified as good guys...

Regarding Scalia, what about the cases the Supremes finalized deliberations on before his death? Is his vote vacated?

My understanding:

Anything that hasn't been announced and his judgements will be vacated as if they didn't happen.

In the case of a 4-4 split, the last court's judgement stands, tho the parties involved my refile for the next term.

Cool, lets do it. Then climate scientists would be forced to show all such methodologies in open court, as well as various records from satellites and weather balloons which show no increase in warming.

I don't think that's what they had in mind. More like a campus kangaroo court. See also: Mann v Steyn, et al. which I believe is entering its 3rd or 4th year.

FBI swears they'll only put it in a little.

And if Apple truly loved America she'd let it happen. Besides, all the cool kids are doing it.

Apple has done a lot of work to make sure they can't be forced to crack their phones. Those using an A7 processor and IOS9 the court requested crack wouldn't work. So iPhone 6 and such are 'safe' but iPhone 5 and earlier can be easily broken into (hours to days). In this case it is an iPhone 5C the FBI wants access to.

Even with the iPhone 6 there are more exotic ways (i.e. non-software) to break the encryption. Due mainly to cost those options are not available to most police departments. But the NSA certainly has access to them. Honestly, I don't know why the FBI didn't just go to the NSA instead of mucking about with a court order.

"Honestly, I don't know why the FBI didn't just go to the NSA instead of mucking about with a court order."

Donuts to dollars the NSA has already done it, and the FBI has the data. What's happening here is that the government is using this case to try to establish three precedents that the ruling class very much desires, to wit:

(1) All encryption must be escrowed. They are trying to do through court order what Clinton's administration couldn't get done in legislation.

(2) The Fourth Amendment does not apply to anything in electronic form. All electronically stored data must be available for government search at any time, with or without a warrant.

(3) Law enforcement can compel private citizens to obey any orders they give in the (theoretical) pursuit of criminals. In this case, they are trying to compel Apple to develop software on its own dime and then give that software to the government.

The interesting thing here is that Silicon Valley tech companies are very loyal supporters of the Democratic Party, both monetarily and culturally. However, because Apple has gone off the reservation on this one issue, Tim Cook is now being called every dirty name in the book (the dirtiest being "Republican") by Democrat supporters. I saw a bunch of it on Facebook last night.