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July 21, 2022
THE SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS: Anti-plagiarism policies ‘harm Black and Latinx students,’ professor argues.
WATCH: JOE BIDEN HAS INCREDIBLE ‘RULES FOR THEE’ MOMENT DURING CLIMATE CHANGE SPECTACLE.
President Biden on Friday cruised through Rome with an 85-vehicle motorcade — drawing criticism for the poor optics ahead of a global warming summit in Glasgow, Scotland, to which Biden is bringing about a dozen top US officials.
“Biden arriving at the Vatican. His motorcade is lonnnnnng,” tweeted Washington Post reporter Chico Harlan, along with a video of the procession.
“#Decarbonize this,” one person captioned the video.
“America’s Marie Antoinette class is Washington’s elites – and that shows it,” another person responded.
Speaking of which: Climate buster: Biden ‘green czar’ John Kerry’s jet unleashes tons of CO2.
I’d be more willing to believe that the “climate crisis” actually is a crisis, when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act that way themselves, to coin an Insta-phrase. In the meantime, I don’t want to hear another word about Glenn Reynolds’ carbon footprint.
BLOOMBERG HEADLINE: The Earth Wants Biden to Keep Gas Prices High.
While consistently high gas prices would encourage more drilling over the long term — not quite the desired outcome from a climate change perspective — imposing a tax to boost the retail price at the pump would eat into consumer demand without incentivizing further supply. Economists Gilbert Metcalf from Tufts and Jason Bordoff from Columbia proposed a tax along these lines in 2007 to stabilize the price of oil. Today, Metcalf argues, “rather than a price-cap on Russian oil, let’s put a $50 tax on it.” Russia would suffer lower revenues, and oil prices would not fall.
Higher energy prices will eat into consumers’ pocketbooks and slow the economy. What’s important for the president to understand is we have no choice. Fossil fuels must become more expensive. Lacking perfect zero-carbon alternatives that we could switch to cheaply at scale, we must recognize that higher energy prices are an inescapable component of any strategy to mitigate climate change.
Related: Let them pump gas: Elitist environmentalists have contempt for working class.
INDEED: Hey, Joe, Stay Well… Please!!!
NEVER BEND THE KNEE: Minneapolis Venue Bows to Woke Mob, Cancels Chappelle Performance Hours Before Show.
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Republicans Just Might Find a Way to Blow It for November.
AND THE REVIEWS ARE TERRIBLE: When It Comes to U.S. Energy Policy, Progressives Are Running the Show.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: California’s Gun Grabbers Screw Themselves. “In an attempt to subvert the Supreme Court’s clear directions in the Bruen decision, California’s gun grabbing Democrats have actually made their case weaker through their own arguments.”
KURT SCHLICHTER: The Next Republican President Must Fix the Military First.
I was there when the United States military was great, when it inspired fear instead of laughter, when it smashed whole armies in a hundred hours instead of letting a bunch of seventh-century freaks drive it out of a country that would have to work up to join the Third World. The American armed forces had a culture of winning then; it now has a culture of not only losing but of turning on its own, destroying itself through social justice nonsense, and rejecting the warrior ethos. Predictably, the normal, patriotic Americans who traditionally answer the call to the colors are refusing to sign onto an organization that hates them. Unless the boys, girls, and non-binaries of Santa Monica, the Hamptons, and the Gender Studies Department at Wellesley are going to enlist en masse to make up the growing recruiting/retention deficit, we need a military culture that is friendly to the traditional warrior pool of rural and middle America.
My New York Post column that will be out later today says something similar.
DISNEY’S LOVE OF THE CCP ROLLS ON: ESPN Awards Turncoat Chinese Skier Eileen Gu ‘Breakthrough Athlete’ ESPY After She Apparently Gave Up Her U.S. Citizenship.
Flashback: Disney Defends Mulan Filming Near [Uighur] Internment Camps In China.
And then there’s the Shanghai Disneyland itself:
HORRIFYING: Former Clinton Advisor Says Hillary Will Run Again. “I think I speak for everyone here at PJ Media when I say NOOOOOOOOO! in one of those blood-curdling hollers that shakes the stucco off all the houses in the neighborhood.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: Joe Biden: I’m going to ‘shut down the virus’, not the US.
—The Grauniad, October 20th, 2020.
● Chaser: President Biden Tests Positive for Covid-19.
—National Review, today.
● Hangover: Watch: Joe Biden Says He Has Cancer (Updated).
—Paula Bolyard, PJ Media.com, yesterday.
FLASHBACK: Biden: ‘This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated.’
—The Irish Times, January 5th.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: The Top Nightmare Fuel From the Hunter Biden iCloud ‘Leak.’
BREAKING: Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19 (Really).
Doesn’t he get a booster with his afternoon tapioca?
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UKRAINE WAR: ‘We’re Losing’ but Moscow Will Never Admit It, Russian Soldier Says.
“We’re losing now,” the purported soldier says, prompting an indignant response from his female relative, who replies, “Well it’s you guys who are losing there, but they are winning everywhere [else].”
“That’s the picture they paint for you on television, but in reality it’s drastically different here,” he says. “They will never show you this on television, they will never tell you the truth. We’re losing.”
Taken aback by the confession, the woman asks him to explain how Russian troops could be losing—and there seems to be no shortage of answers.
“We should have about 90 tanks left, and you know how many we have left? We have probably 14 tanks left,” the man says.
“You don’t have artillery?”
“We do, but it’s so curved you can measure the [target] misses in kilometers,” he says, adding that “Everything’s sad.”
Take these reports with a grain of salt, viewed through the fog of war.
Russia still holds a lot more of Ukraine than they started out with, but by every decent estimate, at a terrible cost. I think Glenn summed it up best last week: “Can Russia win a Pyrrhic victory in Ukraine? Maybe, though personally I doubt it. Can it win a non-Pyrrhic victory? Nope. That window has already closed.”
HMM: Republicans Who Oppose a Convention of States Are a Fringe Minority. “Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States Action, says that 81.3% of Republicans supporting a Convention of States is not surprising.”