HMM: Godfather of Color Revolutions: Is George Soros the Most Dangerous Man Alive? “Ever wonder why urban terrorists can burn down cities with no consequences but the McCloskeys are prosecuted for defending their home against the same? The answer is George Soros, his money, and his influence. . . . If your DA decides that the local band of looters are actually peaceful protesters, they won’t ever see the inside of a courtroom. Similarly, if the local DA isn’t a fan of the right to self-defense, one must consider this when choosing whether or not to pull your firearm if a mob of them shows up on your lawn. George Soros understands this and has been quietly funding a campaign to place district attorneys amenable to his agenda across the United States.”
Archive for 2021
July 3, 2021
TO BE FAIR, “EQUITY” IS MOSTLY BULLSHIT: Study: More than half of state COVID-19 vaccine plans lack ‘equity’ component. It’s a term chosen because it sounds like equality, which is popular, but is actually about treating people unequally, which isn’t, but which our Gentry Class urgently wants to do.
I CERTAINLY HOPE SO: Has Xi Jinping overplayed his hand?
SEEN AT HELEN’S PAGE: The perfect film for this 4th of July weekend: Sons Of Liberty.
Also at Helen’s Page: American Flag artwork for sale.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Economics professor praises Stalin as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century.
We should treat Marxists like white supremacists.
LAY OFF THE PRESIDENT: it’s a holiday weekend, man! “Today the last of the US forces stationed at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan were making their final departure, as the Biden administration began the handover to a fragile alliance. But who really needs to answer questions from the press on that kind of monumental foreign policy decision when there is a giant cooler of 16-cent hotdogs waiting in the yard in Delaware? You could almost see the outlines of Biden’s board shorts under his pressed slacks on this, the first Friday he hasn’t left Washington in…well, he can’t remember. The President was so ready for his Fourth of July party to start that he snapped at fearless reporters, who dared use the holiday occasion to question the commander-in-chief about Bagram. ‘I want to talk about happy things, man,’ he clapped back. Happy things like our racist anthem, our racist flag and our very problematic gatherings over this weekend, according to the new Uncle Sam himself, Anthony Fauci?”
DEFUND HIGHER ED: VIDEO: College students NOT proud to be American.
IT SMELLS LIKE . . . VICTORY! NCLA Celebrates Perfect Six for Six Amicus Record Over Administrative Power at U.S. Supreme Court. “As the U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2020 Term comes to a close, the New Civil Liberties Alliance is celebrating an unblemished 6-0 record for the amicus curiae briefs we filed in defense of civil liberties. The high court’s administrative power cases produced several unlikely majorities, including two NCLA amicus wins in the form of unanimous opinions written by Justice Sotomayor and Justice Breyer. Justice Gorsuch even quoted from NCLA’s amicus brief in his separate opinion in U.S. v. Arthrex.”
This is no small achievement for a new, libertarian, legal nonprofit. (Bumped).
JUSTICE THOMAS, AND NOW JUSTICE GORSUCH, ARE CALLING FOR THE SUPREME COURT TO REVISIT LIBEL LAWS. Jonathan Adler says the Court could learn from me.
Note also my longer piece, Rethinking Libel for the Twenty-First Century.
THEY KEEP TRYING: Byron York: A New Get-Trump Committee?
A congressional investigation is a fact-finding enterprise. The members aren’t neutral finders of fact — they are Republicans and Democrats who often fight over the subject and scope of the investigation. But the idea is to find facts.
Now take a look at the new Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, created this week in a nearly party-line vote in the House. Even before the investigation begins, the chairman of the committee, Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson, has already found all the facts he needs to find former President Donald Trump guilty of incitement. We know because Thompson has said so, over and over again, in a lawsuit blaming Trump for the riot.
The report has already been written. They’re just going to assemble hearings to support the already-written conclusions.
THIS SORT OF THING ONLY ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO HAVE DOUBTS: Big Tech cracks down on Robert Malone, mRNA vaccine pioneer who warns about their risks.
Malone announced his removal several hours after sharing his LinkedIn post on Health Canada’s response to concerns raised by him and others about the “spike protein” on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
He appears to be referring to the regulator’s new heart-inflammation warnings, directed toward younger male adults and adolescents, on the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.
“This is certainly a big step forward in my opinion — particularly in contrast to the communication (or lack thereof) and denial from the US and other governments,” according to an incomplete archived version of his LinkedIn post. “At least we are now discussing the merits and limitations of the scientific data.”
It’s the latest allegation of Big Tech suppressing contrarian views on COVID from highly credentialed scientists, even as medical and legal experts call attention to reported risks of mRNA vaccines for younger people, including college students and active-duty military men.
Twitter locked Harvard Medical School epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff out of his account for a month in response to his stated skepticism of the protective power of masks. He took to LinkedIn to share his thoughts and has continued to do so after Twitter reinstated him.
Kulldorff told Just the News that LinkedIn’s action against Malone was “disturbing” but didn’t answer how it would affect his own use of the professional social network. Malone is retweeting followers sharing screenshots of their LinkedIn account cancelations.
“Open debate is especially important during a public health emergency when many important public health question[s] do not yet have a known answer,” Kulldorff wrote in an email. “To censor and silence scientists under such circumstances can lead to many unnecessary deaths,” which is why LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube should “restore all suspended accounts.”
Related: LinkedIn Deletes Account of mRNA Vaccine Pioneer Who Questioned Risks of COVID-19 Shots.
When you go out of your way to silence people, it doesn’t suggest that you have nothing to hide. Responding to scientific arguments with scientific arguments, not censorship, is the only scientific way to respond to criticism.
THAT’S BECAUSE THEY BASICALLY APPROVE: ‘Squad’ Falls Silent on Rabbi Stabbing in Boston: Ilhan Omar said Jewish colleagues not “partners in justice.”
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Forbes: Should We Tax Rather Than Subsidize Yale?
What sort of oversight is there of this highly favored institution? How transparent is its decision making process? Recent articles by two fine graduates of the Yale Law School (typically rated as the nation’s finest), Lanny Davis (Wall Street Journal) and Glenn Reynolds (New York Post) suggest the governance of Yale probably more closely resembles that of, say, Belarus, than it does of a typical U.S. governmental body or publicly traded U.S. corporation. . . .
A key question: who “owns” and ultimately determines major personnel and policies for colleges and universities? Is it right at so-called “private” schools generously subsidized by taxpayers for a few individuals to not only run the university, but have a stranglehold on determining future leaders and policies? Some private schools act more like the British House of Lords than like modern institutions amenable to change and responsiveness to the communities for which they serve.
It’s a small, closed club. And a highly subsidized one.
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE:
WE’RE GOING TO FIND THAT EXTENDED LOCKDOWNS DID MORE HARM THAN GOOD: Did Pandemic Policy Make Americans More Aggressive? “Data from the CDC show a sharp increase in the number of Americans experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression. Are many breaking under the stress?”
People need to be more aggressive in responding to bureaucratic bullshit.
Related: Lockdown killed my mother — and thousands like her.. “‘It’s cruel,’ she would say, over and over again, in the painful phone calls from her care home.”
Question: Will there be any accountability from public health bureaucrats for the harm done?
Answer: Ha, ha, of course not. Accountability is for the little people.
July 2, 2021
PROBABLY SMART, BUT A BUMMER FOR THE OWNERS: Remaining part of Surfside condo to be demolished, mayor says. “She said she’s certain the building won’t be demolished before the arrival of Hurricane Elsa, which may strike the area in the coming days. The mayor said that teams are ‘monitoring the storm very closely,’ and that it is unclear if it will pause search and rescue efforts.”
SHADES OF CINDERELLA FINISHING SCHOOL V. FTC: Amazon seeks new FTC chair’s recusal from antitrust investigations. Is she the 21st Century’s Paul Rand Dixon?
MYSTERIES ABOUND: Sudden Shift in COVID-19 Lab Leak Narrative ‘Mysterious’: Evolutionary Biologist. “The sudden shift in narrative over the possibility that COVID-19 could have emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China, is mysterious and contingent to ‘just how corrupt our system has become,’ according to evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein.”
OPEN THREAD: The waitress looks tired. The bartender too. It’s down to me and you, and the skeleton crew.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Can America save its national dish? Americans invented the dessert we call pie. Why are we letting it die?
I like pie, but it’s true that you seldom see actual pie at a restaurant anymore. And if you do, it’s some godawful baroque “our chef’s interpretation of a classic pecan pie” or something that tastes nothing like — and is far inferior to — the original. I always thought this was just overthinking, but maybe it’s to cover for an inability to produce the genuine article well.
Recipes at the link, though it’s WaPo so you may or may not make it through the paywall depending on past reading. I almost never link WaPo for that reason, but this is a great article.
