JUST NBC A NEWS NETWORK BLAME THE VICTIM FOR HIS MURDER: Decapitated French teacher warned not to show Prophet Muhammad images before ‘Islamist’ attack.
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October 18, 2020
I AM NOT SURPRISED: More prostate cancer cases diagnosed at later stage, study shows. “Why the spike in advanced prostate cancers? Dr. Anthony D’Amico, a professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said the increase was an inevitable consequence of a 2012 recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force against the routine use of prostate cancer screening with the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, test.”
Flashback, 2011: “Many people are concerned that the new ‘science’ that has led to a sudden about-face on testing, coincident with the passage of ObamaCare, is driven by costs rather than patient welfare.”
TWITTER LOCKS ACCOUNT WITH 1.8 MILLION FOLLOWERS: Twitter refuses to unlock New York Post account unless Hunter Biden posts deleted.
Related: By Censoring The NY Post, Big Tech Is Begging For Big-Time Reform.
As Peggy Noonan wrote last year, “Overthrow the Prince of Facebook…Break them up. Break them in two, in three; regulate them. Declare them to be what they’ve so successfully become: once a pleasure, now a utility. It all depends on Congress, which has been too stupid to move in the past and is too stupid to move competently now. That’s what’s slowed those of us who want reform, knowing how badly they’d do it. Yet now I find myself thinking: I don’t care. Do it incompetently, but do something.”
Somebody should write a book about this stuff.
NAZI ROCKET MONKEYS! Okay, the title of historian Mark Felton’s latest video is pure clickbait, but the video itself is a fascinating look at how the Americans captured 80 or so V2 missiles at the end of WWII, and then set about using them to send the first animals into space as part of the first steps towards manned spaceflight:
ROGER KIMBALL: Liberal Education and the Recovery of Culture.
When exactly does the Great Relearning that Tom Wolfe promised us in the late 1980s actually begin?
MICHAEL YON: Dispatch 24: Return to America: Drugs, Drugs, Homeless, Drugs. He’s in Oregon and Washington State.
HOWIE CARR: Fear and loathing in the Biden Crime Family.
“I have no response.”
That was Dementia Joe Biden’s response Friday when he was finally asked about the devastating expose of his son Hunter’s emails and so much more.
Those revelations included the crack-addled Hunter whining to one of his daughters that he has to pay 50% of all the cash he collects to “Pop,” and that as part of a shady Chinese deal, the so-called “remuneration package” would include “10 held by H for the Big Guy.”
“I have no response,” the Big Guy told a CBS reporter. “It’s another smear campaign, right up your alley.”
But he didn’t deny it.
Read the whole thing.
“PUBLIC HEALTH” HAS BECOME A JOKE: Boston University exempts Black Lives Matter events from COVID size limits.
SEATTLE GOT WOKE, GOING BROKE IS THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP: Federal Judge Allows 21 Businesses to Sue Seattle Over Harms Caused by CHOP.
WHICH IS WEIRD, SEEING AS HOW UNLIKE OBAMA HE HASN’T STARTED A SINGLE WAR ON HIS WATCH: Profs compare Trump to Ted Bundy, claims he ‘wants’ Americans to die.
THE ELECTION WILL BE DETERMINED BY HOW MANY PEOPLE LIKE THIS ARE OUT THERE: I Didn’t Vote For Trump In 2016, But I’d Crawl Over Broken Glass To Vote For Him Now.
STACY MCCAIN:‘Allahu Akbar’: Muslim Immigrant Decapitates French Teacher.
Notice that when “right-wing” or “white supremacist” violence occurs, the motive becomes the most important thing about the story, and every politician is expected to denounce the motive, per se. By contrast, when violence is perpetrated by left-wing extremists, by Muslims, or by any protected minority group, the media will never generalize these crimes as representing the collective sentiment of a group, nor is there any political pressure to denounce the attacker’s motive.
Flashback: “British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow’s Train Bombing.”
—Mark Steyn in 2006 quoting one of Tim Blair’s blog commenters in a post at Steyn Online.com headlined, “Tomorrow’s Civilizational Cringe Today.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Biden Emails Prove Impeachment Was A Sham.
Related: John Hinderaker: How Do We Know the Hunter/Joe Biden Documents Are Real? Well, for one thing the Biden campaign hasn’t actually denied it.
Also: “I guess WaPo is conceding that the Hunter Biden material really did come out of his computer.”
LEFTIST THUGGERY:
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF HOLLYWOOD INTERRUPTED AND RADICAL CHIC:
Earlier, from Christian Toto: Hyper-political Hollywood gives us little reason to return to theaters.
(Classical reference in headline.)
It’s pretty apparent that Weiss wrote the piece to appeal to those Jewish Democrats who can hear her and who might not know what’s been going on with the left and what it signifies. And that’s fine. But by demonizing Trump (which perhaps she must do, not only because she believes what she says but also because she thinks the readers to whom she’s appealing believe it, too), she is cutting off the only avenue to buy time for any kind of reversal of the dangerous and alarming trends on the left that she sees and describes so well.
Weiss does not see her own blind spot. Voting for Trump is a bridge too far and she cannot get there – although some people (such as Dave Rubin, for example) have. But I submit that, for now, it’s the sole option open to her and to other “liberal” Democrats.
And time’s a-wasting.
CLARIFICATION AND ADDENDUM:
I want to be very clear: the phenomenon that Weiss describes is neither specific to Jews nor limited to them. It is rife among virtually all liberal Democrats today. Weiss is primarily addressing Jews in her article, but Jews share her sentiments only insofar as they are liberals. American Jews trend liberal, particularly secular and Reform Jews, but Orthodox Jews vote majority Republican, and the more extreme Orthodox groups are more likely to vote Republican. The recent voting behavior of Jews in presidential elections has been at a ratio of a bit more than 2:1, Democrat/Republican.
Read the whole thing. As Dennis Prager has written, “Despite their secularism, Jews may be the most religious ethnic group in the world. The problem is that their religion is rarely Judaism; rather it is every ‘ism’ of the Left. These include liberalism, socialism, feminism, Marxism and environmentalism. Jews involved in these movements believe in them with the same ideological fervor and same suspension of critical reason with which many religious people believe in their religion. It is therefore usually as hard to shake a liberal Jew’s belief in the Left and in the Democratic Party as it is to shake an evangelical Christian’s belief in Christianity. The big difference, however, is that the Christian believer acknowledges his Christianity is a belief, whereas the believer in liberalism views his belief as entirely the product of rational inquiry.”