Archive for 2019
September 6, 2019
CONSEQUENCES: Fitch Downgrades Hong Kong Over China’s Stronger Hand. “The move will make it more expensive for Hong Kong and many companies closely tied to its fortunes to borrow money. But more broadly, the downgrade signals the growing belief within the financial world that the barriers between Hong Kong and mainland China are weakening, a development that could threaten the city’s longtime status as a global financial hub. Fitch, which is based in the United States, is the first of the three major credit rating firms to downgrade Hong Kong’s creditworthiness. It is also the first time Fitch has downgraded its rating on Hong Kong since 1995.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: CNN Is the GOP’s New Best Friend. “CNN may be trying to destroy President Trump and the Republican party along with him, but they have become such a rabidly ideological clown show that they may now be helping.”
When I say that “all the Democrats have to do is not act crazy,” that includes apparatchiks at places like CNN.
WHO NEEDS A REPUTATION WHEN THERE’S A NARRATIVE TO PUSH? Newspaper Embraces Crappy Fiction for Climate Change ‘Reporting.’
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: “It’s been 52 hours since [Bloomberg Law’s] attack on Leif Olson was posted, and Bloomberg’s defense of the story is inexcusable. It remains a disingenuous hatchet job top to bottom…Is [Bloomberg Law] asleep at the wheel? Maybe. Let’s walk through the article, which is wrong about much more than the headline.”
A Twitter thread from Frank Bernarz of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute.
THE LEFT WANTS THE RIGHT TO SHUT UP. THE RIGHT WANTS THE LEFT TO JUST . . . KEEP TALKING. CNN’s 7-Hour ‘Climate Change’ Town Hall was a man-made disaster for Democrat presidential candidates. “It’s AOC’s party now: A self-parody of what Green New Deal woke totalitarianism sounds like, with an abnormal focus on meat.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Secret Presidential Searches And Faculty Fury.
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE MUSSOLINI TREATMENT DECADES AGO: Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95.
Flashback, 2005: Black Zimbabweans nostalgic for era of white rule:
An elderly peasant in another village, Makupila Muzamba, said that hunger today is worse than ever before in his seven decades or so, and said: “I want the white man’s government to come back. Even if whites were oppressing us, we could get jobs and things were cheap compared to today.”
His wife, Mugombo Mudenda, remembered that as a younger woman she used to eat meat, drink tea, use sugar and buy soap. But now she cannot even afford corn gruel. “I miss the days of white rule,” she said.
Nearly every peasant I’ve spoken to in Zimbabwe echoed those thoughts.
But he was never demonized by the Western media the way say, Augusto Pinochet — who brought freedom and prosperity — was.
VIDEO COMMENTARY: 737 Max Delays: “A loss of trust.”
Hat tip to Mike Perry who adds, “Boeing is still building them. They’re parking them in Eastern Washington and hiring hundreds of techs to keep them up. This is costing Boeing a lot.”
COMEDY ISN’T PRETTY (OR FUNNY): Colbert Lets Biden Lie, Deflect and Spin.
President Barack Obama’s tag team partner is running for the White House, again, and doing so badly. His gaffes are coming at a steady clip. His handlers are trying to keep him out of the public eye whenever possible.
And, at 76, the whispers he’s too old for the gig rise up with every jaw-dropping mistake – like forgetting his old tag team partner’s name.
Good thing Colbert had an ace in the hole. Biden’s a Democrat, so all he need do is prop the vice president up for a good 10-plus minutes, avoiding reality as long as possible.
And that’s precisely what happened Wednesday night.
Christian Toto always turns bad TV into good write-ups.
BOSTON HERALD EDITORIAL: Call ugliness and violence what it is: Mob rule has no place on Boston streets.
Large scale intimidation and thuggery was on display on the streets of Boston this weekend as antifa and other extreme leftists bullied and harassed anyone they deemed divergent from their groupthink. They spit and punched and yelled hateful things at law enforcement and by Saturday night there were 36 arrests and 4 injured officers, according to Boston police. Nine people face charges of assault and battery on police officers.
Our elected leaders need to call out antifa for what they are: a hate group.
They target anyone they’ve determined to be an existential threat — and that is most everyone except their fellow anarchists, socialists and communists. Any Trump supporter in their minds would most definitely be considered a fascist, and would necessarily need to be stopped one way or another from appearing in the public square.
“We’re covered in black so when we attack these guys we can’t be prosecuted,” said Jon Crowley, an antifa member who told the Herald that he felt violence was the only way to deal with the people marching in the parade, which went from Copley Square to City Hall Plaza. “They are fascists, 100%. How else are you going to get them to shut up?”
In an August 2017 rally on Boston Common, antifa and other radical leftists hunted down attendees of a controversial “free speech” rally. There were 33 arrests for disruptive behavior. The mob descended upon a man wearing an Israeli flag. Bottles of urine and rocks were thrown at police.
Last November, antifa converged on Tucker Carlson’s house, vandalizing the dwelling, chanting threats, banging on the door, and spray painting an anarchy symbol on the driveway according to Associated Press reports.
Ted Cruz and his wife got similar treatment when the same group converged upon them in a restaurant.
In June, journalist Andy Ngo who has covered antifa’s violence in Portland, Ore., critically for years was brutally attacked by the group, suffering a “traumatic brain injury,” according to his then-employer Quillette. Ngo is a gay, Asian-American journalist. It is easy to imagine what the coverage would be like if he was pummeled by a conservative mob.
That’s different because shut up.
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL EDITORIAL: Gov. DeSantis proved himself a steady, strong leader in his first hurricane.
NO, BRITAIN IS NOT IN BREXIT CRISIS AND YES, BORIS WILL WIN: Daniel Hannan explains it all in the Washington Examiner. Interesting how their elites are as out of touch with voters as ours are.
WHEN THE LEFT IS LOSING, it’s always because institutions are broken. Now it’s the Supreme Court, we’re told, because it might not support a gun ban. It takes a special kind of chutzpah, though, to approve Democratic threats of court-packing while purporting to stand for “judicial independence.” But lefty academics are up to it!
Related:
Full disclosure: I’m on an amicus brief in this case, in support of gun rights.
UPDATE: Not all law professors:
BRYAN PRESTON: CNN’s #ClimateTownHall Does the Nation a Great Service.
GOOGLE TURNED INTO ANTIFA SO GRADUALLY THAT . . . OH, WHO AM I KIDDING, EVERYONE NOTICED: Senior Google Employee Appears To Have Assaulted Pro-Life Activist Near DC Planned Parenthood.
KAMALA HARRIS: Of course we must regulate how much meat Americans are eating. The meat ration has been increased from 300g to 200g, comrade!
September 5, 2019
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: ‘I tried to punch it in the eye’: 8-year-old boy fights off mountain lion attack with a stick.
This is a long-running tagline on InstaPundit, but David Baron’s book, The Beast In The Garden, remains terrific. And mountain lions that encounter humans should be shot, to encourage them to be as shy and nonaggressive as the propaganda claims.
OF COURSE HE DID: Obama Swept Iran Terror Plot Under the Rug.
THIS IS BAD: American Airlines mechanic in Miami charged with sabotaging plane. It aborted takeoff. “An American Airlines mechanic was arrested Thursday on a sabotage charge accusing him of disabling a navigation system on a flight with 150 people aboard before it was scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport earlier this summer. The reason, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in Miami federal court: Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, a veteran employee, was upset over stalled union contract negotiations.”
FROM LONGTIME NEWSPAPERMAN DON SURBER, A WARNING: Reporters Made Themselves A Target. Act like political operatives, get treated like political operatives.