QUIET REVOLUTION SPARKED BY JANUS GOES ON: It gets little coverage, but Benito Casanova’s Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court is the latest step in the war against public sector unionism made possible by the landmark 2018 decision.
Archive for 2020
July 15, 2020
SENSIBLE NEW YORKERS NOT ENJOYING LIFE UNDER MAYOR BANE: Black Leaders Call on NYPD to Bring Back Anti-Crime Unit as Shootings Spike.
Earlier: Beyond City Council Chambers and Newsrooms, Americans Still Back the Blue.
READ THIS INSTEAD OF ‘WHITE FRAGILITY:’ Mark Hemingway, Book Editor of The Federalist, provides a lengthy but absolutely essential guide to navigating the perilous paths created by the Left’s army of purveyors of Critical Race Theory and, in the words of liberal Matt Taibbi, “Hitlerian race theory. Along the way, Hemingway provides handy definitions of such terms as “do the work” and the “Kafka Trap.”
WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY? College Dems national president resigns after accusations of ‘racism and classism.’
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Give Up Hope, All Ye Who Entered 2020—The Year Is Dead. “I watched my first baseball game of the year yesterday so you’d think I’d be more upbeat. Sure, it was just an intrasquad Dodgers game, but it was baseball. What I think will probably happen is that they’ll start playing, a few guys will test positive, and then MLB pulls the plug on the season. Same with the other sports.”
DISPATCHES FROM SEATTLE’S SUMMER OF LOVE: Seattle Just Passed a New Tax on Jobs in the Middle of an Economic Crisis—But Exempted Government Workers.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is too much hope being put into a coronavirus vaccine?
Vaccines are hard to develop, and can be dangerous. This is a vaccine for a disease where 40% (at current estimate, up from 35% before) have no symptoms, and where only about .4% die. It’s also a widespread disease — this isn’t Ebola where you could vaccinate 50,000 people and bring an outbreak to an end. You’d have to vaccinate a billion or more. When you vaccinate huge numbers of people for a disease that isn’t very dangerous, your vaccine has to be very safe to be better than the disease. That doesn’t go well with a rushed development effort.
UPDATE: Related: Merck CEO says raising COVID-19 vaccine hopes ‘a grave disservice’ – report. “If you’re going to use a vaccine on billions of people, you better know what that vaccine does.”
Like I said. . . (Bumped).
LET’S GET BACK TO WORK: Most PPP recipients expect to run out of money by August, study finds.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Absolutely’ reopen schools: 5 of 5 pediatricians would send their kids back to class.
Personally, I favor abolishing the public schools and just giving parents vouchers. Probably better for public health, too.
SHE’S RIGHT, OF COURSE: Ivanka Trump: College isn’t the only job path; ‘Find something new.’
I mean, you could write a book on it.
GREAT MOMENTS IN JOURNALISM AS WOKE PERFORMANCE ART: LA Times op-ed mocked for calling to replace ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ with ‘Lean on Me.’ ‘It’s almost like they’re trying to reelect Trump,’ one critic said.
TRYING TO SAVE THE BONNIE: An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter combats a fire aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard.
HOLLOWING OUT SILICON VALLEY: Tech companies are ending leases and consolidating offices as remote work is here to stay.
STOP DEFENDING, START ATTACKING:
THE HAGUE COURT’S 2016 DECISION EXPOSED COMMUNIST CHINA’S PREDATORY WAR ON WORLD ORDER:
Four years ago this week, the Chinese Communist Party declared war on international order in the form of a blunt rejection.
My latest Creators Syndicate column.
WHEN YOU CAN’T TRUST THE NUMBERS: Florida’s recent record day for COVID-19 might not have been quite that high: More than 7,000 positive cases reported were traced to a single testing processor. “Wolfson says if there isn’t already a mechanism in place to flag what appear to anomalies in data reports, there should be. He says he understands the department of health is overwhelmed, but that the accuracy of data being published has to be among their highest priorities.” Indeed.
THE NEW ‘MODERATE’ LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD ‘RADICAL’: Joe Biden Releases $2 Trillion ‘Climate Agenda’ Inspired By Green New Deal.
VIACOM-CBS ENDS DECADES-LONG RELATIONSHIP WITH NICK CANNON OVER ANTI-SEMITIC STATEMENTS:
ViacomCBS is ending its decades-long relationship with Nick Cannon after the actor and TV host propagated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on his podcast.
“While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism, and we are terminating our relationship with him,” the media conglomerate said in a statement. “We are committed to doing better in our response to incidents of anti-Semitism, racism, and bigotry. ViacomCBS will have further announcements on our efforts to combat hate of all kinds.”
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In a June 30 episode of his podcast “Cannon’s Class,” Cannon interviewed Professor Griff, a rapper who had been part of the group Public Enemy until he was fired in 1989 for saying that “Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world.”
In the interview, Cannon praised Griff and the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and promoted conspiracy theories about the Rothschild banking family and claims that people of African descent are the “true” Jews. “You can’t be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people,” he said.
After a video of the interview started attracting criticism, Cannon published defensive tweets, claiming that he had “no hate in my heart nor malice intentions,” but did not apologize for offending Jewish people.
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Cannon is also the host of Fox’s “The Masked Singer.” Fox has so far not made a statement about Cannon’s recent comments.
