SINCE WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THIS, check out David Bernstein’s The Right to Armed Self-Defense in Light of Law Enforcement Abdication.
The riots in Kenosha — and many other places — took place because Democratic politicans told law enforcement to stand down. Those politicians should be held liable for the resulting damage.
A two-tier law enforcement system, which we clearly have, is necessarily going to lead to more violence.
Then there’s the press:
FROM THE HOME OFFICE ON MARTHA’S VINEYARD: Ranking Top 10 Most Pathetic Reactions to Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict.
PORTLAND GAME CROWDFUNDING: Virtue Signal game designer William Dalebout is still crowdsourcing for his new upcoming game and is up to 31% of his funding goal. You can check it out here.
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I DON’T THINK PEOPLE SHOULD BE FIRED OR DISCIPLINED FOR THEIR WRITING, ABSENT ACADEMIC FRAUD: Professor Removed from Campus for Writing and Talking About People Who Have Sexual Attraction to Minors.
I agree entirely with Eugene Volokh here. As always, the solution to ideas you don’t like is more speech explaining why they’re wrong. But the left on campuses didn’t like those rules and has made new ones. This is how that’s going to work out for them. Some of us warned them that they were ruining things. We were not listened to.
OUCH: Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliability list. “Among the concerns Consumer Reports had for the Tesla Model S, X and Y lines, according to CNBC, were issues with ‘heat pumps, air conditioning’ and notoriously, misaligned panels. It’s also worth noting that Tesla’s Model X ranked dead-last among all cars for reliability, scoring a 5 out of 100.”
BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: LifeStraw Personal. #CommissionEarned
EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED, EVEN THOUGH THE CHINESE HAVE BRIBED AND BLACKMAILED MANY INTO SILENCE: Matt Ridley: The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger.
JUSTICE IS DONE: Kyle Rittenhouse acquitted of all charges in Kenosha shooting.
This is a big deal not only because of the merits of the individual case, which manifestly shouldn’t have been brought, but because all the effort around it by the left was aimed at establishing the principle that their thugs could riot in the streets, but that normals don’t dare resist. This is a huge setback for that effort.
UPDATE: A friend texts: “Watching the media and lefty pols cover for mostly peaceful douche antifa riots should be interesting. Who knows, maybe at long last they have some shame…” Oh, I doubt that.
I hope the prosecutor in this case will face ethics charges for his disgraceful behavior. There need to be consequences. (Bumped).
ANOTHER UPDATE: Hannah Cox on the prosecution: If this is what they do in a high-profile case, just imagine what goes on when they’ve got a poor defendant with a public defender who is juggling hundreds of cases.
Well, on the one hand absolutely. On the other hand, there was a political imperative to get Rittenhouse that is missing in ordinary cases.
THEY’D EASE HIM OUT FOR KAMALA BUT SHE’S EVEN LESS POPULAR: Slidin’ Biden: “Mostly underwater” in Gallup, Cook shifts key Senate Dem seats to toss-ups.
But at least when people criticize her they can call them racist and sexist, so there’s that.
RULES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Oh my: Fauci caught unmasking at indoor D.C. event this week? “We’ve all been waiting for a sign from the experts that the pandemic is really, truly over and it’s time to get back to normal. I think we’ve found it.”
IT’S A FULL-TIME JOB: Rebutting Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Latest Anti-American Revisionism.
EVERYBODY’S DESPERATE, TRYIN’ TO MAKE ENDS MEET. WORK ALL DAY, STILL CAN’T PAY THE PRICE OF GASOLINE, AND MEAT. Meat prices are soaring as inflation bites U.S. consumers.
TOP SELLER: Clarks Men’s Tilden Walk Oxford. #CommissionEarned
WONDERING ABOUT THE NATIONAL GUARD’S arming orders for Kenosha.
81 MILLION VOTES: Federal indictment alleging Iranian hack further erodes narrative of perfect 2020 election. “Iranians hacked a state voter database, Wisconsin created unlawful instructions, and Arizona found 50,000 disputed ballots. The problems keep mounting.”
