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July 26, 2019
I’M ROOTING FOR HIM TOO: Why I’m Rooting For Boris Johnson.
I’m rooting for him, hard, as you should, too. And there’s reason to suspect that, this time, the man might be suited for the challenge and the hour.
I’m rooting for him, first, because the alternatives are much worse. Waiting to feast on the entrails of a failed Johnson premiership are, from the left, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn — a man who called for closing down NATO, eulogized Hugo Chávez, and kept company with Holocaust deniers — and, from the right, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage — a man who said he’d get rid of anti-discrimination employment laws because “there should be a presumption for British employers in favor of them employing British people as opposed to somebody from Poland.”
As between (a) an anti-Semitic bigot and (c) an anti-immigrant bigot, I’ll choose (b): Boris, who has even called for amnesty for some illegal immigrants.
I’m rooting for him, second, because Britain needs a successful Brexit, and he may be the only political figure in Britain who can do it.
I don’t think that Nigel Farage is an anti-immigrant bigot, except by today’s amazingly flexible standards, but if Johnson doesn’t succeed you’re as likely to get Farage next — or an actual anti-immigrant bigot, as you are Corbyn.
SO WERE DEMOCRATS: Republicans aware of Mueller ‘frailty’ ahead of hearing.
“There were some House Republicans in our prep sessions patting themselves on the back about that and feeling optimistic about assertions he might not be all there,” the Florida Republican told The Washington Times.
He said he hadn’t believed those colleagues and had warned to expect a razor-sharp Mueller, but “it turned out the rumors we’ve been hearing about his condition seemed accurate.”
“I told my colleagues to expect him to be like a wolverine and they better know every chapter and verse and citation for every question,” he said.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, who wasn’t part of the questioning of Mr. Mueller, nonetheless said he was aware of Mr. Mueller’s frailty ahead of the hearing.
“I know he’s in a weakened condition,” the South Carolina Republican told The Times.
He said the Democrats never should have pressured Mr. Mueller to testify, given “his condition.”
What a nice sendoff Mueller received from House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler.
EXCEPT ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND AMONG DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS: A study from the University of Pennsylvania finds that racism in the U.S. has significantly decreased since President Trump’s election in 2016.
DRAGON LADY ABOVE: A U-2 Dragon Lady overflies the U.S. Air Force Academy, July 10, 2019.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats Turn to Conspiracy Theories for Dud Mueller Performance. “It’s not out-of-character for these lefties to buy into conspiracy theories, we are still living among corporate media and political partisans that maintain President Trump is an agent of RUSSIA. Now comes poor Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.). He says that someone ‘got to’ Robert Mueller, who bombed in his ‘one night only’ performance of the Democrats’ stage production of ‘The Mueller Report: Orange Man Forever Bad’.”
The former British colony, which returned to China in 1997, is embroiled in its worst political crisis for decades after two months of increasingly violent protests that have posed one of the gravest populist challenges to Communist Party rulers in Beijing.
The demonstrations, mushrooming up almost daily, saw the defacement of China’s main representative office last weekend, triggering warnings from Beijing this was an attack on China’s sovereignty.
More protests are expected on Saturday with demonstrators outraged at an attack on Sunday at a train station by armed men who police sources say included some with triad backgrounds. Some 45 people were wounded.
The attack last Sunday just reeked of a provocation sponsored by Chinese Communist intelligence operatives — Beijing would love to have a pretext for a military invasion.
One battle is a clash of national narratives, regionally with suspicious neighbors (including Hong Kong) who resist Chinese expansion, globally as the regime’s most potent international adversary, the U.S., squeezes Beijing economically and cajoles it politically. For example, the U.S. threatens China with legal action and economic penalties for its pervasive theft of intellectual property. China has yet to effectively counter that verifiable charge.
Perceived state diplomatic and economic reliability, systemic credibility and cultural prestige are the stakes in this clash.
The second battle is for the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian self-preservation — in blunt terms, communist elites remaining in power.
The crisis continues and Red China is threatening invasion. Stay tuned.
RELATED: Michael Yon’s July 21 dispatch.
YES, HOWEVER DID THIS HAPPEN? The BBC asks: “How did straws become a Trump culture war?”
WORST PUTIN PUPPET EVER: US flexes muscle in Ukraine dispute, warns of new ‘conflict’ in Europe.
CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL. Should the U.S. adopt an “industrial policy?”
(Classical reference in headline.)
WHY IS CNN SUCH A CESSPIT OF LEFTIST BIGOTRY? CNN’s ‘Jewish pigs’ problem.
WELL, THAT’S A TAKE: National Health Care Is Free.
If we had a national health care plan today, we would spend about . . . $3.8 trillion. The only difference would be in how we pay it. We could make employers pay a head tax. We could take employers out of the picture altogether and pay for it via income tax or a VAT or a payroll tax. Or we could invent some insane Rube Goldberg system of raising the money, which is probably what would happen in real life.
There are, of course, optimists out there who think that national health care would save us money. These people are dreamers. You see, the vast bulk of health care spending goes to providers. This means that the only way to reduce spending is to pay doctors less, pay nurses less, pay drug companies less, and pay device manufacturers less. This will not happen, and anyone who’s serious about national health care would be insane to try. Why put up an enormous barrier to success, after all?
The one thing we probably could do is get rid of insurance companies, which would save a bit of money—probably about enough to make up for the cost of adding the remaining uninsured to the system. So in the end it comes out even after all.
I guess what Kevin Drum is saying here then that it’s somehow better — and cost-free! — if the money travels through Washington on its way from patient to provider.
VIDEO FLASHBACK: Boris Johnson explains how to speak like Winston Churchill.
Under six minutes and a joy to watch.
STRIKE A POSE, THERE’S NOTHING TO IT: House Democrats: We Won’t Rest Until Trump Is Stopped . . . Okay, Time for Six Weeks of Summer Recess.
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Don’t let vegetarian environmentalists shame you for eating meat. Science is on your side.
PROF. JOHN BANZHAF: Fair? Fire Penn U Prof For “Racist” Claims Without Refuting Them.
More than 1000 student groups, and individuals affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, are demanding that Penn law professor Amy Wax be fired for a claim she allegedly made which they have labeled “racist,” harmful to minority students, and antagonistic.
But it appears that neither the protestors at Penn nor Penn itself – which likewise condemned Wax’s remarks without even trying to refute them – have come forward with any evidence even suggesting that her argument is incorrect, much less any proof that it is so clearly false that it cannot even be discussed or debated, says public interest law professor John Banzhaf. . . .
If Penn disagrees with a professor, they should prove her wrong, not simply label what she said as “racist,” and assume that should end all argument and provide the basis for punishment, he says.
The thing about any un-PC statement is that if it’s true, the statement is even more “hurtful” — and hence even more deserving of punishment — than if it’s false. So why bother refuting it?
IT’S LATER THAN YOU THINK. IF NOT NOW, WHEN? This Little Light of Mine.