OLD AND BUSTED: “Insurrection!”
The New Hotness? Politico: Biden Admin Will Be “Embarrassed” When Most Capitol Hill “Insurrectionists” Receive No Jail Time.
Archive for 2021
April 1, 2021
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Border Patrol Rescues Infant Thrown Into Rio Grande by Cartel Smugglers.
NEVER TOO WOKE: ‘Obama Is Another Oppressor’: Immigration Activists Protest School Name Change. “I will not be part of renaming a school after someone who did not and does not represent the undocumented community.”
ROGER SIMON AT THE EPOCH TIMES: “The blog revolution at the beginning of this century is one of the alternative structures that has lasted, although it has morphed in various ways. So it shouldn’t be surprising that my friend Dr. Helen Smith—PhD psychologist, prize-winning documentarian, and wife of ‘Blogfather’ Glenn ‘Instapundit’ Reynolds—is the latest, very welcome entrant in the world of alternative structures…..alternative sites like Dr. Helen’s, small as they may be, become all the more necessary. You know what they say about little acorns….”
There isn’t even an attacker in the headline. The only human beings in the headline are the “authorities” and the “Asian American woman.” The evildoer disappears. There’s no attacker, only an “attack.” But if there are hate crime charges, then the human mind is all important. “Attack” stresses the outward action. “Hate” requires a hater. There is a shadow of a person in the word “hate,” the gesture at a mind.
But this person is depersonalized — depersonalized because he is black. If a white man had stomped on an old Asian-American lady, he’d get full recognition in the headline. Is that racist?
Yes, yes it is. And in fact, it’s part of a journalistic scheme for reporting crime that is designed to stir up hate, and in a particular direction.
FASTER, PLEASE: Conservatives Mobilize to Break the Stranglehold of Woke Capital.
There’s nothing “woke” about a regressive authoritarian oligarchy.
AS USUAL, THEY DENOUNCE WHAT THEY’RE GUILTY OF: Ivy League schools accused of anti-Asian discrimination condemn anti-Asian hate.
ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER: Biden to let Trump’s H1-B visa ban expire in win for tech companies.
Easy call: Those wage gains enjoyed by the bottom 50% under Trump before the unnecessary COVID recession was engineered? Yeah, they’re over.
STACEY LENNOX: Dems Are Not as United Behind Federalizing Elections With HR-1 as They Would Have You Believe. “ Manchin is not the only one with objections. According to The New York Times, other Democrats spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid pressure from activist groups. Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus are concerned independent redistricting commissions required in the bill will break up their majority-minority districts. Pretty telling. Some in the Democrat establishment worry that public financing of elections could energize more far-left primary challengers like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).”
COOL. NOW DO PEOPLE: Scientists develop new drug that can regenerate lost TEETH in mice and ferrets.
WANT AN ADVANCE LOOK AT VACCINE PASSPORT AMERICA? Check out this report by The Epoch Times’ Daniel Teng on the list of 5,000 foreigners tracked by China’s pervasive internal surveillance system. The lead photo of dozens of surveillance cameras on a beam in Hangzhou is chilling.
COWARDS, CROOKS OR COMPROMISED: That’s the question asked by The American Thinker’s Andrew W. Coy. I’m not sure if any of those three descriptors applies. That said, the Supreme Court remains in Alexander Hamilton’s famous formulation “the least dangerous branch” of the federal government.
Yet, it also remains the only one that can declare acts of either of the other two unconstitutional and thereby illegal. So why has the five-member conservative majority on the present Supreme Court so resolutely refused to accept any cases having to do with the 2020 presidential election and claims that it was rife with fraud? Coy is anything but in making his assessment clear.
AZ HIRES FOUR FIRMS TO AUDIT 2.1 MILLION BALLOTS: It’s getting virtually no coverage in the MSM, but the Epoch Times reports Arizona’s state senate is moving ahead with an audit and recount of Maricopa County’s 2.1 million November 2020 ballots. What happens if they confirm something was stolen?
IT’S EASTER WEEK, DO YOU KNOW WHY THE TOMB WAS EMPTY? If the Resurrection of Jesus actually happened, it’s the central event of history. If it didn’t, and there are many claimed explanations for why it couldn’t have, then it matters little to anybody today except as an historical curiosity. But ask yourself this question: If it’s true, why on Earth did Jesus allow it to happen?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: LOL Words Don’t Mean Anything and Everything Is Racist Now. “I’m convinced that America’s dumbest bartender doesn’t know the meanings of half of the words she uses. Fortunately for her, the people who vote for her are even dumber than she is. All she has to do is steal somebody’s Word of the Day calendar and she can dazzle them with nonsensical things like it’s not a surge because they’re not insurgents. I wouldn’t be shocked to find that they toddler-proof the electrical outlets in her office.”
INDUBITABLY. Vaccine passports are white supremacist. “This does not require a long explanation, so let’s get straight to the point: poor people are much less likely to be vaccinated than higher-income persons, such as in these states. But racial demographics are not spread evenly across income deciles. . . . Intent has nothing to do with systemic racism. The fact is that, ‘Black and Latino people are far more likely to live in poverty than white people, and despite having died at higher rates throughout the pandemic, they are receiving fewer vaccines than white people.’ That’s the metric that matters.”
Inescapably, a reliance on vaccine passports means that poor and minority people will be disproportionately barred from the places that require them. Indeed, the discrepancy for vaccinations is likely to be much greater than for driver’s licenses.
ELON MUSK IS ALREADY DOING THIS AND WITHOUT ADDING ANYTHING TO THE DEBT OR INCREASING TAXES: Biden plans to connect every American to broadband in new infrastructure package. “ The long-awaited infrastructure and jobs package contains funding for broadband expansion, semiconductor manufacturing, and slew of other interests like public transportation and helping consumers purchase electric vehicles. On a call with reporters Tuesday, an administration official said that the package would be paid for by changes to the corporate tax rate.”
Spoiler: No, it won’t be.
TERMS OF SERVITUDE: A fresh lesson in the un-American cost of chilling online political speech.
FROM M.C.A. HOGARTH: Mindtouch.
Seersana University is worlds-renowned for its xenopsychology program, producing the Alliance’s finest therapists, psychiatric nurses and alien researchers. When Jahir, one of the rare and reclusive Eldritch espers, arrives on campus, he’s unprepared for the challenges of a vast and multicultural society… but fortunately, second-year student Vasiht’h is willing to take him under his wing. Will the two win past their troubles and doubts and see the potential for a once-in-a-lifetime partnership?
FLUSHING THEIR PUBLIC TRUST AND MILITARY COMPETENCE: From Soft Liberalism to Iron-Fisted Leftism in Today’s U.S. Military.
In retrospect, encouraging advanced degrees as a step toward promotion was a mistake. Letting the enemies of your civilization educate your children and your soldiers turns out to be a bad move.