NO, HEALTHCARE PRICE CONTROLS DON’T WORK: Ross Marchand of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) explains why in such simple and straightforward language that even Members of Congress and journalists can understand.
Archive for 2020
August 22, 2020
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Torturing Murderer Rewarded With DNC Speaking Slot.
FACT-SHAMING MICHELLE OBAMA’S DNC SPEECH: “It must be nice being adored by the media, who will never challenge former first lady Michelle Obama no matter what she says. But someone should, just to set the record straight.”
MASS INDOCTRINATION: EXCLUSIVE: A look inside a mandatory ‘anti-racism’ course. As a friend on Facebook noted, “anti-racism” is like “anti-fascism” and anti-matter — just the same thing with the charges reversed.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: A Sort-of Goodbye to Germany?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to be furious. She claims the redeployments will “weaken the (NATO) alliance.” German commercial interests chimed in that the troop withdrawals will hurt their decades-old businesses serving U.S. bases.
Perhaps, but Merkel surely cannot be surprised. Six years ago, all NATO members pledged to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense. Yet only eight of 29 so far have kept their word.
Germany spends only about 1.4 percent of its GDP on defense. As NATO’s largest, wealthiest, and most powerful European member, it sets the example for the rest of the alliance.
Merkel’s reneging on her 2014 pledge helps explain why less wealthy and influential NATO members also see no reason to meet their obligations.
Germany surely knows that 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, and the 29th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall — the symbolic end of the Cold War.
Will there be any point in the future when Europe is confident enough to be a full defense partner with the U.S. rather than an eight-decade client?
No. Next question? It’s VDH, so read the whole thing.
IF I WERE THE GOP, I’D JUST RUN CLIPS OF THE DNC DURING THE RNC: ‘Fact check: True’: Trump’s approval rating surges during Biden’s convention.
CASHING IN ON 33,000 DEAD NEW YORKERS: Andrew Cuomo’s Book Deal and Why the Worst Rise to the Top in Politics.
I HOPE IT WAS WORTH IT FOR MIKE: That dreary Bloomberg speech cost him $18 million.
WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF MISOGYNY, SEXUAL ABUSE, AND EXPLOITATION? As Governor, Steve Bullock Paid Women Less Than Men: The Montana governor previously took an ‘equal pay pledge.’
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: Why Was Governor Steve Bullock Soliciting Chinese Investment in Montana?
THE DOCTOR IS IN. Hypocrite hector: Anthony Daniels (aka the Good Dr. Theodore Dalrymple) takes a chain saw to White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.
Perhaps the most interesting question raised by these books is why, when they are so badly written, self-indulgent, and intellectually nugatory, when they are so plainly written in the spirit of what Karl Popper called reinforced dogmatism, they should be so popular among the Western intelligentsia. Let us hope that this is not a question for an Edward Gibbon of the next millennium to answer.
Definitely read the whole thing.
WEIRD HOW MORE PARENTS ARE ABANDONING THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: When Teachers Call the Cops on Parents Whose Kids Skip Their Zoom Classes.
BUT THE DIVERSITY TRAINING IS UP TO DATE, WHICH IS THE IMPORTANT THING: 3 years after the Fitzgerald and McCain collisions, the Navy’s surface warfare community shows few signs of change.
August 21, 2020
“HE DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS A PROUD FEMINIST.” Democratic candidate, 19, wins primary after admitting to past revenge porn and blackmailing girl for nude photos.
More here: “One young woman who says she was among his victims says she later attempted suicide.”
ALTHOUGH THEY’RE DOING A NICE JOB OF GETTING OUT THE VOTE FOR TRUMP, BLACK LIVES MATTER AND ANTIFA ARE DANGEROUS, DESTRUCTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: “Unity” Event Canceled Due to Threats of Violence. “We wrote here, here and here about a shameful incident that occurred in Hugo, Minnesota, when a group of Black Lives Matter thugs led by a Democratic candidate for the Minnesota legislature, John Thompson, besieged the home of the head of the Minneapolis police union, screaming obscenities and threats at the officer’s family and at random neighbors, and beating an effigy of the officer’s wife with a stick. The incident was mostly covered up by local media and became known only because a reporter from Alpha News was present. In response to that debacle, a group that included State Senator Roger Chamberlain planned a ‘unity rally’ to take place in Hugo tomorrow. Unfortunately, due to threats from Black Lives Matter Democrats, the politicians who had planned on participating in the ‘unity rally’ have withdrawn from the event.”
Maybe they don’t want unity. In fact, America was pretty damn unified after George Floyd’s death, and the “activists” rushed forward to make sure it didn’t stay that way, or take any constructive action. At some point, you have to presume that people intend the obvious consequences of their actions.
OPEN THREAD: Take it easy baby, make it last all night.
THE SCRAMBLE FOR LUNA: U.S. military eyes a role in the great power competition for lunar resources.
WHY CAN’T BLUE CITIES MANAGE VOTING? Michigan election officials call Detroit’s primary voting problems ‘appalling,’ ‘alarming.’ “When it comes to absentee and Election Day precincts, the percentage of Detroit’s precincts with out-of-balance totals was 46%, according to the county data.”