MIRANDA DEVINE: Kyle Rittenhouse shooting a clear case of self-defense. “Rosenbaum, 36, was a pitiable figure who never should have been on the streets. He was a convicted pedophile with bipolar disorder who had just been released that day from a psychiatric ward in a Milwaukee hospital after a suicide attempt. He appeared deeply unwell, carrying a heavy chain in one hand, swearing, using the N-word and looking for trouble. He already had twice threatened to kill Rittenhouse and his group.”
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November 11, 2021
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Record Number of Ships Stranded Outside California Ports. “One-hundred-eleven container ships are waiting to unload at ports such as Los Angeles and Long Beach, breaking the previous record of 108 ships set on Oct. 21, according to Business Insider. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, ships almost never waited to dock. A spike in demand combined with a shortage of dock workers and truckers has caused the jam.”
SHE’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH, SHE’S NOT SMART ENOUGH, AND GOSHDARN IT, PEOPLE JUST DON’T LIKE HER: Say goodbye to Kamala Harris being Plan B to an aging Biden.
Related: New Dem Mission: Dump Harris? “There’s a reason for her invisibility — Harris is terrible at her job.”
Demographics aren’t enough.
GREAT MOMENTS IN MORAL EQUIVALENCE: Pentagon Says Climate Change, China ‘Equally Important’ Threats.
THE DEMOCRAT PLAYBOOK SINCE AT LEAST 1968: The Kyle Rittenhouse Prosecutor’s Case Comes Down To Rioting Good, Self-Defense Bad.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: His team’s trying to hide it, but de Blasio’s bungling has parents fleeing NYC schools.
J CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Censoring Claims of Voter Fraud Is More Dangerous Than You Think. “We are all familiar with the big stories of cancel culture. Something more insidious is emerging, where ideas and people are canceled on the margins. Twitter is placing obstacles in front of the spread of conservative ideas.”
STACEY LENNOX: Biden Blames the Country’s Mood on Problems Created By His Administration and Americans Agree. “Biden has a pretty good idea what some of the problems are, but according to registered voters, he is taking all the wrong steps to fix them.”
FROM VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. #CommissionEarned
WORST POSSIBLE TIME, OF COURSE: His Fraudulency’s vaccine mandate for federal workers could leave the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) without hundreds of much-needed agents, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
THAT’S NOT FUNNY! ‘Daily Show’ Ratings Plummet to Shocking New Lows.
Late night comedians appear lost of late.
Their writing staffs don’t have President Donald Trump to kick around anymore, although they keep trying to bring him back into the conversation.
Even worse? They’re reticent to mock the current Commander in Chief, his low-rated Vice President or any of Biden’s foot soldiers.
Maybe there’s just nothing mock-worthy about an incontinent and gaffe-prone archetypal example of the Peter Principle.
GOTCHER INSTITUTIONAL RACISM RIGHT HERE: Wisc. professors, public school leaders to help host two-day ‘white privilege symposium.’
REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Medical Research Rapidly Adopts ‘Systemic Racism’ as Undisputed Truth, Risking Scientific Credibility.
Lysenko smiles. Science!
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Harvard created ‘exclusive space’ for ‘Black-identifying audience members’ by basing theater admissions on race.
THE PANDEMIC IS BASICALLY OVER: The Fading Covid Voter: Recent polls show that the pandemic’s effect on elections is declining.
HAVING AN IGNORANT AND MALLEABLE POPULATION IS THE POINT: Grading for equity: What if kids don’t learn?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Joe Biden Is Too Far Gone To Know That He’s the Problem. “It’s a bit rough when critically dealing with this president. There are cognitive issues that a lot of us deal with in our aging families. We set emotional boundaries of critique that satisfy us. The parameters of criticism change when the subject is the President of the United States, however.”
AGE OF DISCOVERY 2.0: Episode 4 of a six-part podcast series I’m co-producing that looks at the past and future of human exploration: How Lessons From U.S. History Will Help Space Colonies Be More Like Star Trek and Less Like Blade Runner.
The human race is about to go to the stars. Big rockets are being built, and nations and private citizens worldwide are planning the first permanent settlements in space.
When we get there, will we know what to do to make those first colonies just and prosperous places for all humans? How do we keep future societies from becoming class segregated, neo-feudal dystopian nightmares (like Blade Runner), and instead become havens of equality and material abundance for all (like Star Trek)? Believe it or not, American colonial history provides us with an example of each one.
Today’s guest is Robert Zimmerman, author of “Conscious Choice,” which describes the history of the first century of British settlement in North America. That was when those settlers were building their own new colonies and had to decide whether to include slaves from Africa.
In New England, slavery was vigorously rejected. The Puritans wanted nothing to do with this institution, desiring instead to form a society of free religious families, a society that became the foundation of the United States of America, dedicated to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
In Virginia, however, slavery was gladly embraced, resulting in a corrupt social order built on power, rule, and oppression.
Why the New England citizens were able to reject slavery, and Virginians were not, is the story with direct implications for all human societies, whether they are here on Earth or on the far-flung planets across the universe.
You can listen here, and via the various podcast-collection services.
IT’S A MESS: Supply Chain Update. “Not only is inflation bad, it’s about to get much worse. Unprocessed goods are up 56% from a year ago. ‘At the current rate of increase, regular unleaded gasoline will hit $6/gal (National Average) by Easter.'”
If there’s any good news in all this, it’s that China seems to be getting whacked even harder than we are.
WHEN TRUTH IS TREASON: Obama accused Ronny Jackson of ‘betrayal’ for talking Biden decline.