WELL, WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A FLAMETHROWER? Science reporter and old pal Elizabeth Lopatto asks the question and more. She looks like she’s having fun.
Not like that wuss from the New York Daily News who claimed to get PTSD after firing an AR-15. Once.
FISH APPARENTLY DON’T LIKE BEING CALLED WET: Cultural-Marxist Left Doesn’t Like Term ‘Cultural Marxism.’
NEO-NEOCON: The trouble with talking about the uptick in suicides as a reflection of trouble in our culture.
Read the whole thing.
COMING NEXT: WOKE PEDERASTY. “If you don’t want the Third Reich, don’t welcome the Weimar Republic.”
True, but Weimar America arrived long ago, and preventing it (if even possible), would have involved those who brought it to you stopping to ask along the way, “Are we the baddies?”
GREAT MOMENTS IN INTERSECTIONALITY. Civil War on the Left, Part 61: Identity Politics Dilemmas.
Related: “Gavin Newsom is an oil slick on the crest of the so-called ‘Blue Wave’…Californian Democrats will anoint the straight, white progressive prince of the San Francisco Bay as their chosen one.”
MAKING THEM AN OFFER THEY CAN’T ACCEPT: Trump Will Ask Anthem Kneelers to Recommend Subjects for Presidential Pardon.
The proposal won’t go anywhere, which is exactly what Trump expects. His effort to “reach out” to protesting players may or may not be genuine, but it puts the protesting players on the defensive. Trump has made the first move. If the players, as expected, spurn his advance — and probably call him all sorts of names in the process — the players look small and petty while Trump looks large and magnanimous.
Saul Alinsky, call your office.
(Classical reference in headline.)
TRUMP NAILS TRADE HYPOCRISY, John Hinderaker writes at Power Line:
President Trump’s participation in the G7 conference in Canada focused on trade. Once again, he made it clear that he wants our trading partners’ tariffs and other barriers to U.S. imports to come down. This gave the American press the vapors, but why? Our president certainly should try to reduce obstacles to sales of American goods.
Read the whole thing.
SALENA ZITO: How suicide became my ‘family secret’ — and shaped who I am.
Related: American Suicide — Why are so many more of us killing ourselves?
A GIRL’S KILLING SHAKES GERMANY’S MIGRATION DEBATE:
It was a gruesome murder: A 14-year-old girl was raped and strangled, her body buried under brushwood in a secluded area near the railway tracks near her hometown in western Germany.
But the fact that the chief suspect is an Iraqi asylum seeker has turned a terrible crime into political dynamite.
On Friday, the case dominated the German news media and became the latest cudgel for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s opponents and, some predicted, a potential turning point in the migration debate in a country where some 10,000 asylum seekers still enter every month.
Maybe it’s just me, but I always get a little nervous whenever Germany undergoes one of its periodic “fundamental transformations,” to paraphrase Mr. Obama.
WHY ARE DEMOCRATIC-MONOPOLY INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF CORRUPTION? Manhattan DMV office ‘mired in corrupt practices’ after clerks dismissed tickets for cash, state probe reveals.
THE PASSWORD IS SCHADENFREUDE. George Soros Complains: ‘Everything That Could Go Wrong, Has Gone Wrong.’
LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT HYSTERIA: A Census Bureau memo warns that the inclusion of a citizenship question will hurt the “quality” of the 2020 count.
Just think of the media as being Democratic operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.
SCORCHED WORTH DEPICTS HOW SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES WAS EXTORTED BY FEDS, STATE:
This is a story about extortion — a crime that happened right here in the north state.
Worse yet, this is a story about the federal and state government extorting millions of dollars of cash and land from north state company Sierra Pacific Industries.
This is also a book review of “Scorched Worth” by Joel Engel. It’s the story of the Moonlight fire, a wildlands fire that started on Labor Day in 2007. I highly recommend reading this book but be warned: By the time you finish it you will be convinced that we live in a Banana Republic.
That wouldn’t take much (particularly given California), but read the whole thing.
GOOGLE TO CONTINUES TO DEPLATFORM THE GUN INDUSTRY: YouTube Deletes Brownells Channel Without Warning.
OF COURSE THEY DO: BigInternet openly works with SPLC.
MAKES LIFE SO SO MUCH EASIER: Three (Orderly) Cheers for Protocol.
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: More Trump-hating lovebirds: Ali Watkins and the rise of casting-couch journalism.
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