Archive for 2019

ONLY IF THE DEMOCRATS GET THEIR WAY: Roger Simon: Election 2020: Will America Be the New China? “That is why it is no accident you see Democrat proposals on the 2020 campaign trail that could have been taken from Lenin’s playbook. They are just part of this metastasizing zeitgeist. That these ideas have failed over and over is of no consequence. They sound good.”

Well, to idiots. But then, the Democrats are playing to their base.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy the long weekend.

SO HERE ARE MORE STUDIES ASSOCIATING AN OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK WITH LONGER LIFE. But can you really just choose to be optimistic? And regardless, is an “optimistic outlook” really just a marker for being at some level healthier to start with?

AS ARE MOST OF CHINA’S DREAMS: China’s Space Dream is America’s Nightmare. “In fact, as you will see throughout this piece, China’s space ambitions are expansive, compelling, and a direct (and enduring) threat to the United States. For, it is not only in the area of space mining that China envisions becoming the dominant player. China also seeks to acquire true military parity with the United States in orbit of Earth; by building the capability to damage or destroy vulnerable American satellites and by potentially placing weapon systems—disguised as civilian systems—in orbit.”

BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY: Sacrificing Too Much For Diversity. “Mr Harvey said he was frustrated by super fund executives and their boards, so-called corporate governance experts and fellow travellers in the social corporate responsibility industry who were pressuring him to change his business practices, saying if he followed their ­guidelines Harvey Norman would ‘go backwards’. Rival ­retailers such as Myer and David Jones had slavishly adhered to the corporate governance orders laid down by these groups, he said, but their businesses were now paying the price, with his own Harvey Norman ‘beating the shit out of them’. . . . Last year businessman and company director Chris Corrigan unleashed his own withering attack on the corporate governance industry and its push for gender targets for women on public company boards, accusing advocates who foisted gender equality on companies of bullying.”

THESE ARE THE VOYAGES: I have the first of three articles reviewing Marc Cushman’s trilogy of books documenting the making of the original Star Trek’s three seasons. Beam over to Ed Driscoll.com to check it out. Part II goes up next week, same bat-time, same bat-channel. (Apologies for mixing 1966-era TV series references there.)

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