IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Daily coffee linked to lower risk for heart failure.
Archive for 2021
February 10, 2021
INSTITUTIONALIZED FAILURE: 2020 Election Fiasco Favored Democrats, So Now Congress Is Working To Make Sloppiness Permanent. “A new congressional bill seeks to grant Democrats the power to overhaul state election processes and impose new regulations on political advertisements and donors, granting Congress ‘ultimate supervisory power over federal elections’.”
They must think the GOP will never take Congress back.
LITERALLY EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT: Uh Oh… Dem Impeachment Manager Tried to Block Electoral College Votes in 2017
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Op-Ed: Today’s Youth Simply Don’t Have The Work Ethic To Build The Gulags Needed For Their Communist Ideals.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Utah Axes Gun-Permit Requirement. “Governor Spencer Cox (R.) will sign legislation into law this week to eliminate the permit requirement, his spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday. The act will allow any law-abiding person over the age of 21 to carry a gun under his or her clothes while in the state.”
N95 VS. KN95 MASKS: What’s The Difference?
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? MI6 recruiting foreign-born spies for first time to improve diversity.
NOW THAT MSNBC IS CALLING FOR DRONE ATTACKS ON REPUBLICANS I’M NOT SURE I APPROVE: New Drone Software Handles Motor Failures Even Without GPS.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: San Francisco Schools Chief On Erasing Lincoln: He ‘Is Not Someone I See As A Hero.’
Flashback: The Ghost Of John C. Calhoun Haunts Today’s American Left: The irony of the New York Times’ 1619 Project is that it embraces the critique of the American Founding espoused by the leading defender of Southern slavery, Sen. John C. Calhoun.
As Victor Davis Hanson has written, that’s also true of the left’s see-no-evil view of illegal immigration:
The apparent principle of sanctuary cities is akin to roulette. The odds suggest that most illegal aliens detained by officials are not career felons and thus supposedly need not be turned over to ICE for deportation. On the chance that some of their 10,000 released criminals will go on to commit further crimes in the manner of Juan Lopez-Sanchez, officials then shrug that the public outcry will be episodic and quickly die down, or will at least not pose political problems as great as would come from deporting aliens.
Yet the idea of a sanctuary city is Confederate to the core, reminiscent of antebellum Southern states picking and choosing which federal statutes they would abide by or reject. Even before the Civil War, the Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 pitted South Carolina against a fellow southerner, President Andrew Jackson, as the state declared that federal tariff laws were not applicable within its confines. Jackson understood the threat to the union, and promised to send in federal troops before South Carolina backed down.
Why are coastal Democrats partying like it’s 1859?
THAT SOUNDS PROMISING: Oral Ketamine Experiment Reduces Suicidal Thoughts in Over Two-Thirds of Patients.
AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME? Immodest Proposal: Tax The Homeless. “Want to pitch a tent under a state overpass? Fine. then you can pay $10 a night for the privilege. That’s still cheaper than renting an apartment, but no longer free, and it helps to offset the considerable expense of cleaning up those homeless camps. But contrast, designated homeless areas like Camp RATT in East Austin would remain free, theoretically providing incentives for the homeless to take up legal residence elsewhere.”
YES, BUT IT’S NOT ALL THAT “NEW.” Joel Kotkin: Environmentalism Is the New War on the Working Class.
There should be a real liberal party in this country, and I don’t mean a crackpot professional one.” – Harry Truman.
John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s new climate czar, took a private jet to accept an environmental award in Iceland in 2019. “It’s the only choice for somebody like me, who is traveling the world to win this battle,” he unironically told a reporter when asked about it.
If this sounds like a clueless joke, it’s not. President Biden’s chief environmental officer took the least carbon-efficient means of travel known to man because it was “the only choice” he could think of for a member in good standing of the indulged upper classes.
But this is no anomaly when it comes to liberal climate activism; it is a perfect encapsulation of what it has become: a vanity project of the jet set that directly harms working-class interests. And it’s this green agenda that directly threatens the working class that Biden has prioritized as he has taken command of the federal government.
In his 2014 history of the American left, The Revolt Against the Masses, Fred Siegel wrote, “The best short credo of liberalism came from the pen of the once canonical left-wing literary historian Vernon Parrington in the late 1920s.‘Rid society of the dictatorship of the middle class.’”
The Anointed understand that it’s for their own good, of course.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH PEOPLE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE TO TRUST THEM ENOUGH TO TAKE THEIR VACCINES: Scientists urge for investment now in highly potent vaccines to prevent the next pandemic.
GEORGE KORDA: Questioning the military’s loyalty: Who in uniform qualifies as ‘extremist’?
Nothing says “return to normalcy” like calling all your opponents seditionists and conducting loyalty evaluations in the military.
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: ‘This is Sparta’ but not in a good way, helot. “The idea of a global elite ruling over the world for its own good is a gratifying one until you realize you may be canceled from inclusion.”
Which is a given, since the Left’s favorite meal is eating its own.
HARSH, BUT FAIR:
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Ilhan Omar Accused Of Appropriating Alabama Culture By Marrying Relative.