Archive for 2020
December 13, 2020
FOR ALL MANKIND: a Cinematic Tone Poem of the Apollo Moon Landings.
A review of the classic 1989 documentary is online at Ed Driscoll.com.
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I TALKED ABOUT THIS IN MY BOOK, THE NEW SCHOOL. THE SHIFT TO PUBLIC EDUCATION WAS QUITE EXPLICITLY ABOUT CONTROL. The Myth that Americans Were Poorly Educated before Mass Government Schooling.
MICHAEL GOODWIN: Time to call in a special counsel on Hunter and Joe Biden.
A whole lot of CCP collusion to investigate.
THE ANSWER IS 42: New Theory Casually Upends Space and Time.
GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED: When you obviously can’t rely on the process we use to determine the consent of the governed anymore, what does that say about our obligations to temporal authority? Just some of my thinking this Sunday, after reading Roger Kimball’s article that Ed posted earlier.
KINSLEY GAFFE: On PBS, Scarborough Claims He ‘Never’ Cared About GOP.
Although he later contradicted himself by declaring that he used to be “proud” of being a Republican, the former Florida Congressman immediately put distance between himself and the GOP, and admitted that he had actually been down on his own party for a much longer time than just the last few years of the Trump presidency:
“I don’t know. I really don’t care about the Republican party and I never did.I considered myself a small government conservative. I do care about — it doesn’t hurt me that the Republican party has collapsed and, I believe, are going the way of the Whigs, and deserve to go the way of the Whigs.”
As I wrote in 2010 after a year of “We Are Socialist Now” and “The Death of Conservatism” headlines, Whatever Your Ideology, Your Opponents’ Worldview Is Officially Dead.
JACK DUNPHY: Social ‘Justice’ Comes to Los Angeles.
Former New York mayor Ed Koch, on the occasion of his defeat in the 1989 Democratic primary by the late David Dinkins, was asked if he would again seek public office. “No,” he said. “The people have spoken . . . and they must be punished.”
Well and properly punished they were, as things turned out. During Dinkins’s single term as mayor, crime and disorder in New York City reached their horrifying zenith. In 1990, 2,245 people were murdered in the city, one factor among many that earned Dinkins the reputation as the most feckless man ever to occupy City Hall. (Only recently has a challenger emerged.)
Now stepping up to be similarly punished are the voters of Los Angeles County, who in their wisdom have installed George Gascón as district attorney. Gascón is the latest of the so-called social justice prosecutors to win election in some of America’s major cities, following in the path of Kim Foxx in Chicago, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, and Chesa Boudin in San Francisco.
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As should be obvious to all by now, the appending of an adjective to the word “justice,” whether it be social, environmental, economic, or what have you, signals in the user a desire not for actual justice, but rather some bastardized version of it suited to whichever favored group does the appending. George Gascón embodies social justice on stilts, and he owes no small measure of his success to handful of well-heeled leftist donors. George Soros leads the list, with reported contributions to Gascón totaling $2.25 million.
As if L.A. wasn’t getting it good and hard enough already; read the whole thing.
WARP SPEED: US says Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to start arriving in states Monday.
Earlier: Operation Warp Speed: Trump’s End-Run Around The Failure Of Civilian Bureaucracy: New document reveals scope and structure of Operation Warp Speed and underscores vast military involvement. “The military’s extensive involvement in the development and distribution of a vaccine is a departure from pandemics of the past.”
Curiously, in May, NBC was rather skeptical that a vaccine could be delivered by the end of the year:
DEMOCRATS WILL BRING MORE OF THAT: Study: Economic decline, rising inequality breeds polarization.
NO, REVEREND, JESUS WAS NOT A PALESTINIAN: Georgia Democratic Senatorial Candidate Raphael Warnock thinks Jesus was a Palestinian two millennia before Palestinians became a Leftist thing.
JIMMY PAGE: THE ANTHOLOGY AND HIS PREVIOUS COFFEE TABLE BOOK: NONE WILL BE REVEALED.
Over at Ed Driscoll.com, some thoughts on what passes for “autobiographies” from one of the most notoriously tight-lipped interviewees in rock, , if you’re looking for an article that has nothing to do with elections, recounts, coronavirus, or riots.
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STRIKE A POSE, THERE’S NOTHING TO IT:
DEMOCRACY NOT: Dem. Rep. Asks Pelosi to Boot Half of Republicans From Congress.
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF VIOLENCE? One Shot, Four Stabbed in Brawls Surrounding MAGA Protests in DC.
THOSE #METOO TORPEDOES WERE SUPPOSED TO TAKE OUT TRUMP, NOT CIRCLE AROUND AND NAIL OUR PEOPLE! Former aide Lindsey Boylan alleges Cuomo ‘sexually harassed’ her about looks.
ROGER KIMBALL: Is America still a democratic republic?
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I EXPECTED MISSOURI TO BE A MORE SENSIBLE STATE THAN IT’S TURNED OUT TO BE: Police called to respond to drawing of penis found at Missouri State U.
NOT GOOD: Republicans Are Blowing It in Georgia, and We May All Pay the Price.
Which would make Goya’s Employee of the Month exceedingly happy: AOC: Dems Get Liberal Wishlist With Wins in Georgia.
