FOOT-VOTING: The great exodus out of America’s blue cities.
This is why GOP donors should get behind my Welcome Wagon idea, where transplants are met with explanations of why the places they left suck, and why they shouldn’t support the same policies in their new homes.
MAKE THE U.S. NAVY GREAT AGAIN: It is imperative that America’s fleet reach 355 ships within the next ten years. There is, in fact, a path to achieve this goal that is both achievable and affordable.
A longer article, but this part stands out:
From a naval perspective, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is pursuing a mix of high-end and low-end ships and submarines. This strategy would allow the PLAN to spread out across the vast Pacific Ocean in sufficient numbers to locate and interdict U.S. ships. At the high end, China is investing in aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines and large surface combatants equipped with advanced radars, surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and surface-to-surface missiles. While China’s high-end ships are designed to go toe to toe with their American counterparts in battle, Beijing is unlikely to close the United States’ technological head start. Therefore, China is aiming to close the capability gap by fielding mass quantities of low-end ships.
While the United States will not start buying frigates until the 2020s, China is building a new frigate every six weeks. Vast numbers of these low-end ships will increasingly patrol China’s expanding front lines in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean regions. Backed by a growing arsenal of longer-range and more sophisticated air and missile weapons, the Chinese navy will have a highly capable and numerically larger maritime force by the middle of the next decade. If this situation comes to fruition, it could make the projection of U.S. naval power cost prohibitive in the western Pacific, undermining the credibility of our alliance commitments. Indeed, China currently calculates that western Pacific nations — South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and perhaps even Australia — may ultimately align with the Middle Kingdom.
Wealthy maritime trading nations maintain powerful navies, or they don’t remain wealthy maritime trading nations.
CHANGE: Boom: Treasury kills 305 regulations, IRS hammered. “It has also set up a plan to change or eliminate up to 20 other key IRS rules.”
NEITHER VICTOR NOR VICTORIA COULD BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: ‘Drag Kings’ Hope to Detoxify Masculinity by Dressing Up as Men (Who Act Like Women). “Peacock’s idea is that, because actual men have all been socially conditioned to be ‘toxic,’ we need actual women to pretend to be men to show us what men could be like if they weren’t all so darn toxic.”
Hating men for being men is a perfect example of toxic anti-femininity.
FOR ANYONE WHO’S CLAIMING THAT THERE’S NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GOP CONGRESS, SAD AS IT IS, AND A DEM-RUN CONGRESS: Democratic Majority Would Act Quickly on Guns, Dreamers, Infrastructure, Pelosi Says. They’ve also said raising taxes is a top priority.
“THIS MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I WANT TO PUNCH THE NEXT ASIAN PERSON I SEE IN THE FACE”: That was California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia’s reaction to Asian opposition to the proposed repeal of California’s Proposition 209. Nasty.
SIGH. I NEVER GOT TO BUMP OFF STALIN IN CLASS. SOME STUDENTS HAVE ALL THE LUCK, AND BOGART THE TIME-MACHINES: Overheard in the Halls: Part 11.
HOUSE REPAIRS CAN KILL: Ladders are Evil.
KIM DU TOIT GETS BLUNT (AND YES, THIS IS YOUR ONE AND ONLY LANGUAGE WARNING IF THE TITLE ISN’T ENOUGH.): F*cking Leftist Bullsh*t.
LEFTISM MUST STOP BEING THE DEFAULT POSITION: Easy Rhetoric is Easy.
OH LOOK, IT’S THE KENNEDYS! Horny monkeys that will sleep with anything have created a new species.
NEWS YOU CAN USE — BUT DO THEY FOLLOW THEIR RULES? Facebook reveals long-secret rules it has used to police its site.
FAMILY “FRIENDS” ACCOUNT FOR ONE THIRD OF THESE: More than 1 million kids had their identities stolen in 2017.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO DO THIS (YOU ASK ME, IF ANYONE IS GETTING SHOT IT SHOULD BE THE HUSBAND): Love triangle ends in murder-suicide when wife ambushes romantic rival: cops.
WELL, THIS IS AWKWARD: Opioids might not be useful for injured workers in the first place.
GREAT SPECIAL ELECTION, KID — BUT NO ONE SHOULD BE COCKY IN THIS ELECTION CYCLE: ‘Blue Wave’ Fizzles as AP Declares Republican Debbie Lesko Winner of Arizona Special Congressional Election.
IN CHINA? SHOCKING! (DOES BERNIE KNOW?): Chinese government, tech industry under fire for ‘men only’ job ads.
IT’S OBAMA’S LEGACY: Weaponizing the Government for Leftist Political War.
AT AMAZON, Spring Savings on Bras. Also, Men’s Shoes.
REMEMBER, DEFER TO THE EXPERTISE OF THE EXPERTS: Top Foreign Office Official Apologizes For Mistakenly Calling Sikh Temple A “Mosque.”
SARAH HOYT: In Which The Guardian Wishcasts.
The Guardian – aka teh Grauniad – in homage to their amazing spelling, is nothing if not consistent. The domain of international socialists, they continue the project the socialists started, after WWI, of convincing the west that it should be “post nation-state” or that in fact the “nation state is obsolete.” What they fail to adduce is, in fact, anything that would convince those of us not of their persuasion to believe the same.
They start, mournfully by telling us that populist victories in a lot of countries are making it look like there’s a resurgence of a nation state, but they use language that assures us it’s no such thing, including referring to the Brexit as a national nervous breakdown – instead of a sane defensive measure to separate oneself from a Europe being eaten from within by unassimilated minorities – and resorting to the laugh line of referring to Germany as a bastion of European stability.
Seriously. I laughed out loud. Germany. Which has only been a country since the mid-nineteenth century, and which in that century and a half has been the fulcrum of two world wars, and had been broken in two for fifty years.
Like Sheldon Cooper, I’m sure teh Grauniad finds the Germans to have always been a comforting people.
ROD DREHER: Who Are The Marginalized? “It is outrageous than any company would expect its workers to be involved in any political or cultural advocacy outside of their employment. But that’s what’s happening here. Obviously I don’t know the inner workings of this company, but given where this company is located, it sounds to me more like a tribal sorting ritual. The company, consciously or not, is trying to smoke out Those Who Are Not Like Us. The reader who wrote me understands that taking a stance on conscience against this internal company activism would mean preparing to be fired on spurious ‘hostile workplace environment’ grounds (because to refuse to engage in this activism would be construed as bigotry).”
I recommend a lawsuit, bad publicity, and PR strategies designed to bring personal discomfort for the people running the company. As one of our recent moral paragons advised, get in their face and punch back twice as hard. I’m not as good a Christian as Rod Dreher, I guess.
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