ESTABLISHING A NORM: 20 States Now Have Constitutional Carry. “The number of states joining those with constitutional carry has grown quickly in 2021. On Feb. 18 Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed House Bill 102 into law, allowing constitutional carry for state residents. Iowa became the 19th state to enroll on April 2. The measures become effective June 1 and July 1, respectively. The other 17 states with constitutional carry laws are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah (effective May 5), Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. The merits of similar or nearly identical measures are currently being considered by a number of other state legislatures.”
Archive for 2021
April 28, 2021
WITCH HUNT: Federal Agents Raid Rudy Giuliani’s NYC Apartment Looking for ‘Lobbying’ Crimes.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A friend texts: “Speaking of investigations of dealings with Ukraine, where’s the one on Hunter and Big Guy stand?”
THE GRIFTERS: DC Pastor Allegedly Used Coronavirus Relief Funds To Buy 39 Cars And A House. “Brooks also allegedly used the PPP funds to buy 39 use[d] automobiles, including a 2017 Mercedes Benz S Class, two 2017 Infinity Q50s, a 2015 Cadillac Escalade, a 2005 Bentley Continental, a 2018 Tesla Model 3, a 2014 GMC Yukon XL and several older model luxury vehicles.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Says He Will Sign Constitutional Carry Bill.
DENNIS PRAGER: Affluence + Secularism = Boredom = Leftism.
PORKULUS II: THE REVENGE. Biden Aides Talking With GOP Senators About Infrastructure Bill. “Dollar-wise, the two sides probably aren’t very far apart. There has been talk about funding an infrastructure bill since the Obama administration. But Biden’s $1.8 trillion monstrosity has little to do with ‘infrastructure.’”
RANDALL KENNEDY & EUGENE VOLOKH: THE NEW TABOO: QUOTING EPITHETS IN THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND.
Short excerpt here.
2+2 ONLY SOMETIMES EQUALS 4, COMRADE: Media Hungry Health Advisers Now Support The Same Masking Policies That Scott Atlas Was Ousted For Promoting.
JIM TREACHER: WaPo Shuts Down Presidential Fact-Checking Database Because Biden Is Just Too Honest.
One hundred days into the Biden administration, The Washington Post is calling a lid on the presidential fact-checking database.
Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer of the Fact Checker, tweeted late Monday that the team would continue to fact-check President Biden “rigorously” but would no longer maintain the database started under former President Trump…
The Post reported that Mr. Biden had 67 “false or misleading statements” in his first 100 days versus 511 for Mr. Trump, although the former Delaware senator makes far fewer public appearances and pronouncements than did his Republican predecessor.
When a newspaper announces, via its then-sister publication, that “We Are All Socialists Now,” they’ve rather given their game away.
DISPATCHES FROM THE HOUSE OF STEPHANOPOULOS: ABC wonders: Why haven’t we seen a dramatic drop in COVID-19 cases yet? Update: What about deaths?
This is utter nonsense. It’s true that the seven-day average sits at just over 55,000 cases a day. It’s also true that it peaked at 247,000+ cases per day as the vaccination campaign began. The CDC charts this on an ongoing basis, and it’s tough to look at this chart and not see a “dramatically” decreased daily case load:
THE DEEP STATE STRIKES BACK: Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan Apartment Raided in Federal Investigation. “Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, is the subject of a probe related to his activities in Ukraine during the 2020 election cycle.”
IN A ONE-PARTY STATE, PARTY MEMBERS DON’T HAVE TO BE VERY GOOD OR EVEN VERY SMART: Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Clueless Reaction to His Recall Officially Going to Voters Explains Everything.
AT HELEN’S PAGE: A Man-Cave bar set: “A stunning set for your bar, your man cave, or just for display. Offered here is a 1935 Paden City Glass bar set cut in the Glades pattern. Buyers from Helen’s Page qualify for a 10% discount.”
REALLY, NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE: Vaccinated Americans don’t need to wear masks in small outdoor gatherings, CDC says. Follow the science, guys!
A CONSERVATIVE IS A LIBERAL WHO’S BEEN MUGGED BY REALITY: People in Brooklyn Center feel differently about riots and looting than people in DC. “The respondents closest to the “unrest” aren’t very tolerant of the idea that riots and looting are acceptable forms of protest. In fact, they suggest the people who are doing those things are outside agitators and opportunists. Meanwhile, the folks who answered in DC repeatedly defend rioting as the last means of expressions for groups trying to make a point.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): And note this bit:
The subtext here is that most of the respondents in Brooklyn Center, the ones who aren’t rioting fans, are black. “When something like this goes on the opportunistic people come out and they try to dehumanize this,” a man wearing a “veteran” cap said.
Meanwhile, most of the respondents in DC, the ones defending riots, are white women.
Is anyone really surprised by this?
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: College Kids of Color Oppressed by Racist Soap Dispensers.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When you have to find racism in soap dispensers, have you ever found any serious racism anywhere?
Answer: No. Next question?
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- They’re cracking down on Antifa in… Portland?
- High school athlete breaks record, nearly breaks neck at finish line from wearing a mask
- Re-introducing the modern leftists even a conservative can work with
Bonus Sanity: There’s still one business in the business of running their business without poking into everybody else’s private business.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
REVIVING OBAMA’S IRAN “NUCLEAR DEAL” MEANS WAR, NOT PEACE: But Slow Joe seems Hell bent on reviving Obama’s so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA).
Incorporating “comprehensive” in the JCPOA’s name was reprehensibly dishonest, for the Obama deal was not comprehensive. Follow the JCPOA’s timeline and you discover the Obama administration gave Tehran’s bad guys billions in cash before they officially agreed to the slimy deal.
The ayatollahs used Obama’s payoff cash to wage war in Yemen and Syria.
In May 2018, I wrote that the JCPOA failed to penalize the Iranian regime’s violent troublemaking and its criminal operations, a grievous flaw. I wrote that column a week after Israel released an information trove documenting the regime’s failure to comply with key JCPOA nuclear weapons development provisions.
The economic sanctions imposed by the Trump administration frustrated Iran’s ability to finance war and terror. Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA was the predicate action that made the Abraham Accords possible — Nobel Prize-worthy peace treaties between Israel and the UAE and other Arab states.
It’s my latest Creators Syndicate column.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF AUTHORITARIANISM AND ABUSE? Linfield University fires professor who spoke out against sexual misconduct, raised allegations against president.
STRATEGYTALK: Warships With Problems. It seems a lot of new warships have problems, including design, mechanical and crew training issues. In this latest StrategyTalk podcast StrateyPage editor James F. Dunnigan and associate editor Dr. A. A. (Al) Nofi discuss the problems many countries are having with their new warships. They also mention some successes. Dr. Nofi is one of America’s top naval historians. He also worked for several years as the Center for Naval Analyses. The link goes to the youtube version. If you like what you hear, please subscribe. (The webmaster tells me we need 120 more youtube podcast subscribers.) If you want an MP3 download, go here.
StrategyPage’s archives are packed with updates on navies and warships from around the world. One of the U.S. Navy’s most troubled warships is the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Its nickname says it all: Little Crappy Ships. Here’s a Surface Forces update from 2016 that includes commentary on the LCS concept, history and flaws. Understand the USN deploy two different variants (types) of Littoral Combat Ships. Here’s a photo of the USS Fort Worth, a Freedom-variant. Note the ship has a standard monohull. This next photo shows the USS Gabrielle Giffords, an Independence-variant LCS. This type has a trimaran hull.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: NYC Father Moves Daughter to Florida to Escape Critical Race Theory Curriculum.