Archive for 2021

HERE’S WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE BLOOD LIBEL AGAINST JEWS: The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz explains why the weeks leading up to the Passover holiday are often the most dangerous of times for the Jewish people around the world.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Once Held Hostage By Teachers’ Unions, West Virginia Just Passed The Nation’s Broadest School Choice Law: For a state that couldn’t pass a modest measure on Education Savings Accounts just two years ago, it’s a breathtaking turnaround. What changed?

Apparently people aren’t scared of the teachers’ unions anymore, possibly because they’ve blown all their credibility and goodwill on self-serving behavior during the pandemic. “Public opinion polls confirm a major surge last year in support for measures to fund students directly. Remarkably, although these bills are almost exclusively advanced by Republican lawmakers, public support for school choice appears to be evenly distributed across the political spectrum. Last week, one Democrat lawmaker in Kentucky reluctantly crossed the aisle to vote against union interests on school choice, citing overwhelming support from his constituents. . . . Rucker believes the unions’ unyielding stance against school reopening has eroded their support among teachers as well as parents.”

Homeschooling is way up, too. Fund kids, not institutions.

SLAVEHOLDERS ALWAYS VIGOROUSLY ATTACK CRITICS OF SLAVE LABOR: Nike Offers Mild Criticism of China’s Ghastly Policies, Faces Intense Backlash in China. “Back in China, any company that voices disapproval of that country’s systemically racist and abusive practices — the practices are imposed by the Han majority and target the nation’s Uighur minority — can face severe backlash. This is despite however woke the same company may be in the United States; Nike is among the most woke of them all.”

Plus: “Whether the Biden administration wants it or not — going by Hunter Biden’s lucrative deals with Beijing, it does not — a decoupling of U.S. brands from communist China may be underway. The Dow reacted negatively to the Nike backlash, as it may signal more trade difficulties ahead between the planet’s two largest economies and military powers.”

THE REVOLUTION WITHIN THE IDF:

In the February 26 edition of the Maariv supplement, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Hasson Hasson stated that the Iranians are already “at the gates.” This unsettling assessment leads to troubling conclusions. Israel could be surprised by a rocket/missile barrage that destroys vital strategic facilities. Its likely response to such an assault could incur further heavy barrages of all kinds, including simultaneous multi-arena fire of long-range, highly accurate rockets and missiles. Those rockets and missiles that are not intercepted or demolished at their launching points could destroy additional strategic facilities such as power stations, hospitals, and economic hubs in addition to vital military targets.

The IDF itself has contributed not a little to the emergence of this nightmare scenario. In the first place, it grossly underestimated enemy rocket/missile arsenals and the threat they implied, promising that those weapons would “rust in their storerooms.” And in the second place, under the influence of the Oslo “peace process” and the “end of history” atmosphere, it replaced its traditional doctrine of victory, which was based on rapid physical defeat of enemy forces, with a doctrine of “psychological victory,” which does not entail enemies’ physical defeat.

This peculiar shift brought Israel into long wars of attrition in 2006 and in 2014 in which the enemy did not conform to Israel’s expectations and was not deterred. The wars, which were devoid of significant military achievements, did not end in significant agreements. The result: Lebanon and the Gaza Strip have become forward extensions of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. They are swords whetted on Israel’s neck.

What would Moshe Dayan say?

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Suppose POTUS Threw a Presser and Nobody Cared?

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Will Presidentish Joe Biden throw the best-ever press conference since Barack Obama graced Washington with his presence, or will it be the best-best-ever because reasons?

Answer: Don’t worry your pretty little head over it — let the media make the call!

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

  • Insurrection comes to Los Angeles
  • A few unkind words of uncommon sense for soccer shill Megan Rapinoe
  • Join us for a thrilling game of Gross Civic Pride

Bonus Sanity: Former CNN producer calls out Don Lemon for scaremongering.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

TRAGIC AND UNNECESSARY: ‘They sit and stare.’ “Even the college-bound students in his high-level class have forgotten how to be students.”