Archive for 2020
February 22, 2020
COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Couple in car runs two Trump-supporting boys off the road.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: South Korea confirms huge rise in cases.
South Korea coronavirus infections surge past 430.
Judge temporarily halts transfer of coronavirus patients to quarantine facility in California city.
‘We’re in a Petri Dish’: How a Coronavirus Ravaged a Cruise Ship. “In all, it took Japanese officials more than 72 hours to impose a lockdown after they were first notified about the case connected to the ship. The delay by the Japanese government, along with slapdash and ineffective containment measures during the two-week isolation period, would help turn the Diamond Princess into a floating epidemiological disaster.”
China reports fall in new coronavirus cases but concerns grow over rising global spread.
Samsung Electronics confirms coronavirus case at phone factory complex in South Korea.
Coronavirus incubation could be as long as 27 days, Chinese provincial government says.
Coronavirus update: U.S. health officials prepare for spread at home.
Towns in Italy Under Lockdown as Coronavirus Cases Surge in Southern Europe and Middle East.
Iran Reports Fifth Coronavirus Death, Most Outside Far East.
Health experts warn life-saving coronavirus vaccine still years away.
Houston genetic engineering company claims it created coronavirus vaccine.
The Virus Is Interrupting Supply Chains From Watches to Lobsters.
Strategists: Supply chains are going to have massive disruptions if outbreak continues to build.
UPDATE: Trent Telenko: A Biological Chernobyl? I hope so. Chernobyl’s death toll was comparatively tiny.
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Pigeons with ‘Make America Great Again’ hats glued to their heads released in Las Vegas.
Of course, leave it to the Bee, America’s Newspaper of Record, to actually see this story through to its conclusion:
BOTS OR JUST PAID SHILLS? Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation.’
THE DEMOCRATS’ STRATEGY AGAINST THE TRUMP RECOVERY: SCHIZOPHRENIA.
It is extremely difficult if not impossible to defeat an incumbent president when the economy is doing well. Just ask 1984 Democratic nominee Fritz Mondale, or 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole.
In the case of Donald Trump, the economy isn’t just healthy; it’s reached unprecedented milestones. America is enjoying the longest expansion in history. Unemployment reached and remains near a 50-year low. Nearly 7 million full-time jobs have been generated under Trump, including nearly a half million manufacturing jobs, after two decades of serious manufacturing decline widely viewed as irreversible.
There are two tacks from which to choose in confronting this politically. Democrats can argue that our prosperity is grossly exaggerated. Or they can claim they deserve the credit for the Trump economy.
Which of these strategies, both decidedly dubious in their chances of success, have the Democrats picked?
Both.
They chose . . . poorly.
OUT ON A LIMB: Feds Notify Bernie Sanders That Russia Is Trying To Help His Campaign. “Sanders has a long history of being cozying up to Russia, including when he was the mayor of Burlington.”
Related: The Democrats are fracking insane. The threatened ban is yet another gift to Trump.
As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added in December. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
After the Democratic presidential candidates’ apocalyptic-themed “climate change” town hall on CNN in September, Bryan Preston wrote, “If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela. Thank you, CNN, just for letting these people talk. Do it again next week? Please?”
MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE SWAMP: Former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst pleads guilty to passing Top Secret information to journalists.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE…, ACTUALLY PRETTY CONSISTENT FOR THE GRAY LADY:
● Shot: The New York Times Goes All In on Flawed 1619 Project.
—Mark Hemingway, Real Clear Politics yesterday.
● Chaser: “The New York Times is still all in on its Walter Duranty, Pulitzer-winning non-coverage of the Holodomor.”
—Joel Engel tweets, linking to Hemingway’s article. (Here’s a good video primer from Roger Simon on Duranty’s fabulism, in case you need it.)
● Hangover:
That Kennedy was killed at the hands of a Communist should have had a clear and direct meaning: “President Kennedy was a victim of the Cold War.” Everyone had reasons for averting their gaze from this fact. For Lyndon Johnson, it would have carried frightful implications for foreign policy if it turned out that Lee Harvey Oswald had links to Castro or the KGB (which Piereson suggests is remotely possible). Liberals didn’t want to dwell on this fact for a mix of other reasons. In the early hours after JFK was shot, we didn’t yet know of Oswald’s Communist background, and the media jumped to the conclusion that Kennedy’s killing must have been the work of right-wing extremists. The day after the assassination, James Reston wrote in the New York Times that the assassination was the result of a “streak of violence in the American character” and that “from the beginning to the end of his administration, [Kennedy] was trying to tamp down the violence of extremists from the right.”
This “meme,” as we would say today, so quickly took hold that it could not be shaken, even after Oswald’s noxious background began to come out. Indeed, the notion of collective responsibility would be repeated five years later after Robert Kennedy was murdered by a Communist Arab radical who professed deep hatred for America.
—Stephen F. Hayward: Review of James Pierson’s Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism, History News Network, August 22, 2007.
● The D.T.s: NY Times Published an Op-Ed by Taliban Leader. Liz Cheney Has Some Questions.
—Rick Moran, PJ Media, yesterday.
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76! Biden’s Losing His Faculties: Says His Son ‘Was Attorney General of the United States.’
Related: “Biden recently said, ‘I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto’ trying to see Mandela. Not how the UN ambassador from the ’70s remembers it.”
Earlier: Biden Rules Out Second Term If He Loses ‘Energy And Mental Acuity.’
THE REST ARE BY NPCs: A quarter of tweets about climate change are written by Twitter bots, says study.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: “I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.”
—Clint Eastwood to USA Today, January 25, 2004.
Chaser: Libertarian Clint Eastwood endorses anti-gun-stop-and-frisk-sugar-cop Mike Bloomberg.
—Twitchy, tonight.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Well, that’s a disappointment. Hope it cost Little Mikey a bundle, at least.
UPDATE (FROM ED): Elsewhere in the world of Hollywood royalty veering far left in their dotage: ‘Age doesn’t matter’: Dick van Dyke, 94, endorses Bernie Sanders, 77, and calls on the older generation to vote because it’s ‘the most important election since World War II.’
But then, isn’t every election “The Most Important Election In The History Of Mankind (This Time We Really Mean It!)?”
(Updated and bumped.)
February 21, 2020
AND THE MEN WHO SPURRED YOU ON, WILL SIT IN JUDGMENT OF YOUR WRONGS: You Bernie Suckers Are Going to Get Fooled Again.
HOW ANGRY WAS BERNIE SANDERS?: Bernie Sanders Calls Out MSNBC Over Campaign Coverage.
This angry:
WELL, BERNIE’S TOO COMMUNIST TO RUN TODAY’S RUSSIA: Bernie Sanders briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign.
As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” I noted in December. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
OPEN THREAD: Do your best work.
OUR CURRENT LEVEL OF PREPARATION SEEMS . . . INSUFFICIENT. Scientists Warn That We Must Prepare For The Next Global Viral Outbreak Now. In particular, we need better antiviral drugs and techniques for rapid development and production of vaccines — in weeks instead of months.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why the IRS may be knocking on your door during tax season this year.
ALL IN THE FAMILY: Amy Klobuchar had MSNBC’s Chuck Todd as a landlord.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: South Korea Confirms a Jump in Coronavirus Infections: The new figures give the country the second largest number of confirmed cases outside mainland China.
China curbs optimism as coronavirus cases rise in South Korea.
U.S. coronavirus cases reach 34, and more are expected.
Italy’s novel coronavirus cases rise to 17 as cluster emerges.
Coronavirus Outbreak Deepens Its Toll on Global Business.
Cramer: Bad coronavirus news out of China is affecting American markets.
Coronavirus fears spoiled a solid earnings season and will further dominate markets ahead.
DuPont ramps up safety suit production as coronavirus causes shortages in China.
UPDATE: Bill Quick: Don’t Be Stupid, Be Prepared. And if you haven’t, check out his Emergency Preps forum.