Archive for 2020

FELLOW KNOXVILLIAN VICTOR ASHE IS RUNNING FOR A SEAT ON THE YALE CORPORATION. (For non-Yalies, that’s basically the Board of Trustees of Yale.) If you’re a Yale alumn, please sign his petition. The place could use a little adult supervision.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Who or What Exactly Is Running Against Trump? “The inner-Biden at 77 is turning out to be an unabashed bigot in the age of ‘cancel culture’ and thought crimes that has apparently declared him immune from the opprobrium reserved for any such speech.”

Related: Deroy Murdock dubs Biden “a Left-wing Archie Bunker, the stereotype-spewing lead character of the brilliant 1970s comedy series ‘All in the Family.’ Producer Norman Lear’s top-rated show was a high-water mark for ethnic humor, which was how Americans once cheerfully addressed and overcame racial differences, unlike today’s corrosive techniques of in-your-face confrontation and Maoist re-education. Like Archie Bunker, Biden is White, seems vaguely blue-collar and routinely says racially disturbing things, but without the legendary writers who made Bunker’s remarks hilarious. Anything funny that Biden says on race is strictly unintentional.”

THE POLITICS OF ENVY: Dan Mitchell asks what would happen if America introduced a wealth tax. I suspect you know the answer, but Dan has the analysis.

IN SHORT, SHE’S NO MODERATE: Hans Bader: The Progressive Media Mislabels Kamala Harris. Anyone who isn’t the favored candidate of the woke far left (in this case it was Liz Warren) is now a moderate.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Kamala Harris Got the Nod, Biden to Get the Knife?

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Could Biden have made a worse Veep selection?

Answer: Only in theory, since neither Zombie Stalin nor Vampire Hitler fulfill certain constitutional requirements.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• The gaslights are turned up to 11.

• Liberty is racist.

• Those who don’t learn range safety are doomed to… well, you’ll see.

And so much more, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

HANNAH COX: Kamala Harris built her career on injustice. “Kamala Harris’s career ascension was built with the bricks of injustice, misfortune, and the corruption of the prison industrial complex. . . . In between advocating for harsher penalties (including some truly bonkers repercussions for truancy), privacy violations like familial DNA searches, and civil asset forfeiture, Harris even found time to block new DNA evidence from being tested for a potentially innocent death-row inmate, Kevin Cooper. It should not go without comment that California’s justice system is one of the biggest hot messes in the country, highlighting the fact that Harris’s policies were both punitive and unsuccessful at producing better public safety outcomes. They also greatly harmed communities of color.”