Archive for 2022
October 4, 2022
STACEY LENNOX: The GOP Must Capitalize on the Huge Opportunity in Front of Them With Hispanic Voters. “Biden is almost 10 points underwater on border security and immigration with Hispanic voters. Twenty-five percent of Hispanic voters put those issues in their top two. When asked about them separately, 59% say border security is their most important issue. Another 43% have cost of living among their top two issues, with 35% selecting jobs and the economy. Biden is -13 on the economy and -25 on the cost of living. The GOP needs to take a wild guess that these are the most important concerns in the community as a whole and not some vague, separate category based only on ethnicity. Only 11% put healthcare in the top two issues, and 14% selected abortion.”
REALCLEARINVESTIGATONS: Why Greens Can’t Keep Angry Farmers Down on the Farm, in the Netherlands or Globally.
LITTLE KIM WANTS ATTENTION: North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan.
THE ROTTEN ‘FRUIT’ OF REGRESSIVE PROGRESSIVISM: Writing on Townhall.com, Victor Davis Hanson captures the current state of affairs as American civilization plunges into the Abyss. What is so utterly frustrating about it is that it doesn’t have to be, and yet here we are … and there we will be if things don’t change dramatically and soon.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Once Glorious California Is Now a Fascist Lunatic Asylum. “Gavin Newsom is a full-on fascist. I was fortunate to end my time in California before he became governor. The thought of him in the White House is petrifying. He comes from the same San Francisco political toilet that’s given us Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi. People from the most radical part of an already radical state keep rising to power.”
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THEY WANT YOU TO SUFFER: Woke Portland mayor LAUGHS at woman’s safety concerns over growing homelessness.
THE WAR ON PARENTS IS TURNING AROUND: Glenn Youngkin-style parent-first movement wins 89% support. “The pro-parent movement that became a national political battle after the recent defeat of former liberal Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s call to kick mothers and fathers out of schools has been overwhelmingly embraced by the nation, even liberals. In an unusual survey about what goes on inside America’s schools, Rasmussen Reports said that 89% of voters believe that it is important for public schools to ‘fully inform parents’ about what is being taught to their children in classrooms.”
IF YOU’RE IN ONE, I’D ADVISE YOU TO GET OUT: On Leaving Professional Organizations.
THE BIG QUESTION ABOUT JANUARY 6: If it was a plan for an armed rebellion, why weren’t the protesters/revolutionary using arms?
RECESSION? BITE YOUR TONGUE. Nike will offer major discounts on shoes, apparel following a report of excess product. “Consumers who are sick of the ongoing impacts of inflation are soon to experience a bit of relief following an announcement from Nike which plans to liquidate some of its products following a recent flood of inventory. . . . Nike wants to get rid of excess products sitting on its shelves and fast. Many sneakerheads have noted a variety of Jordan shoes and other Nike shoes that normally sell out quickly, collecting dust on shelves. Photos of these normally highly sought after shoes were posted on social media in an attempt to show the impacts of the ongoing economic downturn.”
MEDIA COVERAGE OF HURRICANE IAN: They are unsure of the problem, just that Ron DeSantis is to blame. “There is little surprise there would be hurricane response second-guessing in the aftermath of Ian since last week we saw the first-guessing when the press wanted to blame Governor Ron DeSantis for hurricane failures – before the storm even arrived. And the blame has arrived in full force. It is noteworthy that when a Republican is in the White House, the president is responsible for any failings in natural disaster response. When it is a Democratic president, we are learning that all criticism falls on a GOP governor…even when it is unclear what to blame him about. One local political outlet pretends that DeSantis was inactive ahead of the storm, something his communications team was quick to unravel.”
Plus: “DeSantis makes the clear point that the majority of the networks had staged in Tampa because they were assured that it would become ground zero. This was based on the projections of the federal agencies, which the governor was following. But now, he is to be blamed for not predicting the very late easterly turn of the storm that even the hurricane experts at the National Weather Service had not indicated could happen.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: In Latest Sign of Recession, US Manufacturing Growth Plummets to Two-Year Low.
BIG TECH’S CHICKENS, coming home to roost. “Just to remind us why everyone hates Big Tech’s content practices, we do a quick review of the week’s news in content suppression.”
CLAIRE BERLINSKI: Tannenberg Revisited.
The Russian plan—to seize Kiev with thunderclap suddenness, deposing the Ukrainian government and replacing it with a puppet regime—misfired. And as the weeks passed with Russian troops bogged down north of Kiev, it came to be realized that Putin’s legions were far less battleworthy than previously supposed. Confronted with the spirited resistance of the Ukrainian Army and people, the invaders faltered and recoiled. There were episodes of panic and rout. The Ukrainian countryside became littered with abandoned, burned-out tanks and vehicles: tangible, humiliating evidence of the Russian Army’s surprising incompetence.
It was tangible evidence as well of the faulty judgement of the aforementioned Western observers, many of whom lay a claim to military expertise. In the six months since the Russian Army’s defeat in the battle of Kiev became obvious, that evidence has continued to pile up. Stubborn resistance to the idea that Russia is losing the war may reflect a natural reluctance to admit that one’s judgement was at fault. Among the so-called nationalist conservatives, for whom V. Putin’s histrionic Russian nationalism touches a chord, it no doubt reflects ideological embarrassment: Their narrative of the Russo-Ukrainian War has been falsified. Others, perhaps the majority, may simply find it impossible to believe that a major world power, armed to the teeth, can be defeated in war by a much smaller country.
To all such prognosticators I would simply say, as I said at the time of the Battle of Kiev: Remember Tannenberg.
History buffs will want to read the whole thing.
WAR ON MEN: Why American boys are failing at school—and men are losing in life.
Sounds like something the Insta-Wife would write.
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Matt Margolis: Kari Lake Proves She’s a Force to Be Reckoned With. “Lake didn’t bother waiting for the media to do their homework. She laid out her opponent’s radical abortion views, such as supporting abortion up until the moment of birth and opposing protecting babies that survive an abortion attempt.”
Ryan Ledendecker: Biden Just Landed in Puerto Rico, and We Know the Real Reason Why. “If you haven’t already guessed, I’ll let one of the New York Times’s latest tweets be the big reveal.”
Yours Truly: Ron DeSantis and Hurricane Ian: a Category 4 Media Fail. “So what was the media doing this weekend, while honest workers were helping Florida heal?”
AS THEY SHOULD BE: Wisconsin Voters Opposed to “Green” Agricultural Restrictions.