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Archive for 2021
December 8, 2021
EPIC DAILY DEAL: OOU Kitchen Knife Set with Block. #CommissionEarned
RANDY BARNETT USUALLY IS: I feel like quoting the Thoreau adage again — last quoted 10 days ago — “Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.” In this light, Randy Barnett is the majority.
Related: It’s official: Final report from Biden’s court-packing commission a dud.
NEVER AGAIN: The Hypersonic Global Pearl Harbor. “What if China wants hypersonic orbital weapons for a more practical warfighting mission? What if China needs a small number to hit our major ships in port where they are stationary, visible, and most vulnerable? Wouldn’t that prevent America from mobilizing and sending reinforcements to defeat China in the western Pacific?”
DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF DIVERSITY AND TOLERANCE: The Democrats Have a Hate Problem.
Nearly a quarter of college students wouldn’t be friends with someone who voted for the other presidential candidate — with Democrats far more likely to dismiss people than Republicans — according to new Generation Lab/Axios polling.
Why it matters: Partisan divides — as each side inhabits parallel political, cultural and media universes —make a future of discord and distrust in the U.S. all the more likely.
By the numbers: 5% of Republicans said they wouldn’t be friends with someone from the opposite party, compared to 37% of Democrats.
- 71% of Democrats wouldn’t go on a date with someone with opposing views, versus 31% of Republicans.
- 30% of Democrats — and 7% of Republicans — wouldn’t work for someone who voted differently from them.
Bad things happen when you make politics your substitute religion.
WELL:
🚨🚨 New poll from @WSJ shows a seismic shift among Hispanic voters:
☑️ Biden’s approval rating among Hispanics is 12 pts underwater
☑️ For the first time, Hispanics are now evenly split on the 2022 Congressional ballot
☑️ Biden is only +1 in a 2024 rematch with Trump pic.twitter.com/dHX1BPM2M0
— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) December 8, 2021
It would be delightfully ironic if the Democrats’ unflagging effort to boost the number of Hispanic voters bit them in the ass because their woke white activists made the party repulsive to Hispanic voters.
SHE CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH ANYTHING: Top Ten Other Kamala Harris Make-Work Jobs.
“VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS CONTINUES TO LEAD ON MATERNAL MORTALITY ISSUES”: That’s the latest press release from the Democratic Party. They seem to think that the racial disparities in maternal mortality are a top-line issue–one worthy of major legislation–even though maternal mortality itself is very rare. The Commission on Civil Rights did a recent report on the issue, with several of its members blaming racism for the problem. Here is my dissent from that report. If you want more African American mothers to seek medical care early in their pregnancy, telling them that the doctors and nurses are a bunch of racists is a poor strategy.
OH, THAT WAR ON CHRISTMAS: One arrested after Christmas tree set on fire outside News Corp. building.
MARK SIMON ON CHINESE POLITICAL PRISONER JIMMY LAI: I Want to See My Friend, Jimmy Lai. “To give the CCP their due, they know a threat when they see it. From 1997 to 2021 a variety of activists rolled through Hong Kong. But there was one constant, one thing that gave all these activists oxygen and public space. Jimmy Lai. . . . Jimmy Lai is in jail because he believes in freedom, because he believes in a free press, because he believes in religious freedom, because he believes in an individual’s economic freedoms, and most of all because Jimmy Lai believes no man or woman reigns above others.”
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Reps. Greene and Gohmert Finally Met the J6 Political Prisoners: What They Saw Isn’t Pretty. “Several inmates need medical attention. One has a broken finger. A seventy-one-year-old inmate, Lonnie Leroy Coffman, who hasn’t seen a doctor, watched as his lower forearm has turned purple and his thumb turned black. The other inmates suggested that if anyone can be released, it should be Lonnie.”
BLUE CITY BLUES: Security Guard: Denver’s Union Station ‘Being Taken Over’ By Crime & Drugs, Is ‘Major Risk For Patrons.’
On a recent pre-dawn trip to Union Station, CBS4 observed dozens of people sleeping or passed out in the lower-level bus terminal. Others appeared to smoke narcotics on the plazas and inside the bus terminal. Twice, young men accosted a CBS4 reporter who was taking pictures, one threatening to stab or assault him if the videotaping continued. Bathrooms in the bus station section of Union Station are now unsafe, according to Fleming.
“If you want to stay safe, stay away from the restroom. Go where you are going and don’t make eye contact with people and take stairs instead of the elevator,” he recommended.
Fleming said that just an hour earlier, he and his colleagues had revived a young man who had apparently overdosed on fentanyl in the bus terminal.
Last Week: RTD union calls Denver Union Station a ‘lawless hellhole.’
TOP SELLER: What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths. #CommissionEarned
COOL PHOTO: A very wet USAF pararescueman climbs into a helicopter during a combat search and rescue mission exercise in the Gulf of Mexico. Here’s a photo of two HH-60W Jolly Green II “Whiskey” rescue helicopters. The HH-60W is an advanced variant of the UH-60M Black Hawk.
CHINA AND RUSSIA: The Authoritarian-Imperialist Threat To World Peace
What we are witnessing in December 2021 are Russian and Chinese “power cocktails” mixing diplomacy with economic and military power. The cocktail goals: seeding moral weaknesses in democratic nations, exploiting sensational U.S. media, and manipulating the Biden administration.
The wages of weakness: the Afghanistan bugout and debacle exposed the Biden administration as pompous, militarily ignorant and inept.
Beyond December 2021? We will have to confront the troubling, deep history.
Read the entire essay.
BLUE ON BLUE: Matthew Dowd Ends Campaign for Texas Lt. Gov., Suggests Beto O’Rourke Should Also Quit. “Self-proclaimed ‘thought leader’ says ‘white male Christians’ should show ‘integrity’ by removing themselves from diverse Democratic primary fields.”
I WAS TOLD THIS WAS ONLY ABOUT CONFEDERATE GENERALS: Harvard, concerned over visuals that center ‘white men,’ plans racial justice redesign.
WHAT ABOUT THE EVIDENCE? When I was in a public elementary school in Oklahoma City back when Ike was in the White House, I vividly recall being in a Christmas play in which we read aloud Luke 2, the “Christmas story” about the birth of Jesus for an auditorium full of adoring parents.
No, I am not making that up. How times have changed, though, as we all know that any public school that tried to do the same today would soon be burned to the ground by a mob of “progressives” led by Antifa, the NEA/AFT, ACLU, and the U.S. Department of Education.
Even so, the Christmas story remains a prominent part of American culture today, even though prominent skeptics in the entertainment, academic and media worlds delight every year in trashing it during the holiday season, especially the part about the virgin birth.
But Dr. Frank Turek, with an assist from Harvard Law Professor Simon Greenleaf, offers six Es of testimony — “ETs,” if you will — concerning the evidence for the credibility of Luke and the other three Gospel authors, Matthew, Mark and John.
For example: the Gospels include “Embarrassing Testimony” about the authors themselves that they likely would not have included were they simply making up a fairy tale religion. Something to think about as you imagine those shepherds lying in the fields keeping watching over their flocks by night.
IT’S CUTE THAT THEY THINK THIS MATTERS: Law students unhappy they use same legal databases as ICE. Also, I’m sure the “law students” here are a small group that doesn’t speak for anything like a majority.
81 MILLION VOTES: Majority see Biden out by 2024, fear Harris not ‘qualified.’
Recently crushed by reports about staff fleeing her “bullying” management style and a slew of horrible approval rating surveys, Rasmussen Reports said Tuesday that voters are concerned about her taking over for President Joe Biden.
The fear: She’s just not “qualified” for the job.
And that matters because the latest poll previewed by Secrets found that by a margin of 49% to 36%, likely voters believe that something will happen to 79-year-old Biden that will result in Harris being elevated to the top job. That includes 41% of Democrats and 45% of independents.
The Rasmussen findings extend a long streak of surveys showing voters concerned about Biden’s health and longevity, though the White House recently said he did well on his latest physical.
Related: Just 22% Of Americans Want Joe Biden To Run For President Again.
VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT PUNISHED FOR BOOING AT SOCCER GAME. Great news! Virginia Tech has time to go after the “Shirtless Boys” superfans for yelling “what?!” at a ref, because all the other problems on campus have been solved.