Archive for 2020
October 8, 2020
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Riots of 2020 have given the Second Amendment a boost. “Even in normal times, gun owners joke that ‘when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.’ But, sometimes, they’re not coming at all. Sometimes they’re not even allowed to show up.”
AN OPTIMIST’S FORECAST: New York’s Dynamism Will Triumph. Yes, people are fleeing now, but when social-distancing is a distant memory, the city could bounce back: “While smaller cities may have charm and some unique offerings, larger, global cities can do things that smaller ones cannot, such as attracting the finest talent and providing a more diverse array of services. In this way, large cities are a kind of self-perpetuating machine.” Unless, of course, you have a mayor like Bill de Blasio — but he’ll be gone before the virus is.
ONE MORE REASON TO LEAVE CALIFORNIA: The Reparations Racket. California, which entered the Union as a free state, establishes a task force to explore paying reparations to descendants of slaves. What could go wrong?
BUT CLOSING THE SCHOOLS AND KEEPING THEM CLOSED WAS AN IMPORTANT WAY TO POSTURE:
Could children have been our secret weapon against coronavirus? The virus appears virtually harmless for kids, so allowing them to become infected was a golden opportunity to build society’s herd immunity
ST. JOHN’S INVESTIGATING HISTORIAN FOR DOING HISTORY BECAUSE HISTORY HAS SLAVERY IN IT: Not exaggerating, sadly. (Nobody tell “St.” John’s about the history parts in the Bible, they are gonna freak out.) You can let St. John’s, which promises academic freedom, know how you feel at the link, too.
LABOR DEPARTMENT CONSIDERS NEW INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR DEFINITION, COULD BE USED TO FEDERALLY CHALLENGE AB 5. An interview with top Ed Driscoll.com legal advisor, Nina Yablok.
“MANSPLAINING” JUST MEANS WHATEVER THEY NEED IT TO MEAN AT A GIVEN MOMENT:
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Coronavirus Panics After Testing Positive For Trump.
JIM TREACHER: Fauci: ‘Reasonably Good Chance’ Regeneron Worked on Trump. “Okay, well, I guess I’m confused now. You see, Trump is bad and everything Trump says and does is bad. Whereas Dr. Fauci is good and everything Dr. Fauci says and does is good. That’s just science, as the Democrats keep reminding us. So if Trump says Regeneron is good, and Fauci says Regeneron is good, that means…What does it mean? They can’t both be right, because that’s scientifically impossible. It’s a paradox. Regeneron is both good and bad, and also neither good nor bad. It’s null. Science!”
LEARN ANOTHER PLAY: Colin Kaepernick Calls For Abolition Of Police, ‘Roots In White Supremacy.’
Flashback to 2016: Clown Kaepernick Now Wearing Socks Depicting Police As Pigs: “This ass**** is just begging to be cut, which he probably soon will be, so then he can cry racism,” JWF writes, linking to a CBS Sports article that notes, “It appears that over the past few weeks, Kaepernick has been wearing socks that show a pig in a cop’s hat. The quarterback has been wearing them since at least Aug. 10.”
Kaepernick also has a penchant for wearing pro-Castro t-shirts. Who does he think will enforce Castro-style socialist totalitarianism?
Related: From America’s Newspaper of Record: Man Who Agrees With The Media, Universities, Corporations, And Hollywood Thinks He’s Part Of The Resistance.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is The Glaser Safety Slug Good for Self Defense?
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Riots of 2020 have given the Second Amendment a boost. “Even in normal times, gun owners joke that ‘when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.’ But, sometimes, they’re not coming at all. Sometimes they’re not even allowed to show up.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Mike Lee Defends the Republic, Liberty, and Prosperity, Then the Left Goes Lunatic.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Does Twitter attract angry, ignorant people or does it create them?
Answer: Seriously, we’d love to know.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- BLM comes after the suburbs.
- Democrats repel COVID-19, except when there’s a Republican around.
- Can Biden save the world? (Spoiler: No.)
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
MOSTLY PEACEFUL RIOTS: Daylight reveals the damage to businesses and homes after last night’s rioting in Wauwatosa, WI.
GET WOKE… ESPN May Lay Off Hundreds of Employees as Part of Disney Cost-Cutting.
The report says that “ESPN employees who work behind the camera are expected to be hit hardest,” which is sad because they’re not the wokescolds preening for the camera.
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: A Historical Epidemic Has Been Making a Scary Comeback Due to a Bacterial ‘Clone.’
CURIOUSLY, THIS HAS YET TO BE A DEBATE TOPIC. Loss of ICBMs: Biden will almost certainly abolish this indispensable deterrent.
SPIN UP THE MANNSCHENN DRIVE, HONEY, WE’RE GOING EXPLORING: Scientists find promising ‘superhabitable’ planets that may be ‘better’ than Earth.