Latest version of “You can’t quit, you’re fired.”

Later: Make that “You can’t fire us, we quit,” per Wall St. Jnl’s “Trump’s Business Councils Disband After CEOs Defect” in today’s paper.

(Subscribers only , but lede ‘graph makes the point)

Free speech under fire

Unless you don’t like what VDare says and therefore want to stop it.

And there’s a lot of that going on these days, isn’t there?

Well, we should ask two die-hard Dems about this.

. . . . That is, unless you’re a racist.

Or if you are one and are desperate for flowers and willing to perjure yourself.

Gutsy, focused, armed to the teeth.

(HT/ Stephen Green.)

Clear as glass. If he were one of those other guys, he’d be hired.

Rick Morrissey, sports writer with inclination to preach, says Kaepernick is a great f-ball player, but:

. . . he doesn’t have a job, almost surely because he knelt during the national anthem last year in protest of what he thinks is the poor treatment of African-Americans in U.S. society. Apparently, this is much more frightening to NFL teams than the garden-variety league issues of domestic violence and assault and battery. A fist to the face is better than a knee on the ground. That seems to be the mindset.

Difference here escapes Morrissey, namely that domestic violence, as bad as it is, is done privately. But the national anthem business is done publicly. Insult the flag and the country privately, you keep your job. Do it before an audience of millions in team uniform with intent to gather political support, you know what you are doing and you pay a price. So it seems.

Google Fires Employee Who Wrote Memo Criticizing Diversity Initiatives – WSJ

Mr. Damore published an internal memo last week that criticized Google’s efforts to increase diversity at the company, arguing the program discriminated against some employees. He said men were generally better at engineering jobs than women and a liberal bias among executives and many employees made it difficult to discuss the issue at Google.

Nipped in the bud, you might say — but not too loudly, ok?

Case of stopped clock right twice a day? This from CNN:

(CNN)Last month, when President Donald Trump was asked by The New York Times if special counsel Robert Mueller would be crossing a line if he started investigating the finances of Trump and his family, the President said, “I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia.”

The President is absolutely correct. Mueller has come up to a red line in the Russia 2016 election-meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing.

Former federal prosecutor whom CNN gives time, space too periodically, has his say, more of which here.

The end game:

These columns have lamented the Justice Department’s assignment of a prosecutor to investigate the president without specifying a crime or the factual basis for a criminal investigation.

We’ve also observed that no indictable crime is required to trigger impeachment proceedings. Neither, we now note, is a provable crime a prerequisite for the issuance of a grand-jury report.

Thus, the question arises: Is Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s impaneling of a new grand jury in Washington step one in the impeachment of President Donald Trump?

Fair question, that. McCarthy expatiates.