50-100 YEARS AGO WE DIDN’T PRODUCE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO SLAUGHTER SCHOOLCHILDREN. NOW WE DO. WHY? Sorry, Joe, But Gun Control Laws Aren’t Preventing Mass Shootings In Other Countries.
Who has been the engine of cultural change over the last many decades?
BUT BETO IS A MORON WHO’S INCAPABLE OF SHAME: Uvalde mayor: Beto should be ashamed of himself.
READER FAVORITE: Garage Light – LED Garage Light 2 Pack. #CommissionEarned
LIKE LOU GEHRIG DYING OF LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE, IT WAS PRETTY MUCH BOUND TO HAPPEN: ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ Writer Convicted of Murdering Husband.
LIVE AT 4PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Coffee: How Many Cups Is Enough?
Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke to the white courtesy phone, please!
IN DEFENSE OF THE LSAT: “In fact, by one reckoning, the poor benefit significantly from the fact that the LSAT is such a heavily weighted portion of the application calculus. Rather than hiring a cavalcade of tutors for each class or making time for a mountain of extracurriculars, limited resources can be focused on a single, highly important test. Moreover, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) periodically analyzes various methods of LSAT preparation. LSAC’s data show that among the most effective is the organization’s own $99 prep material. Sure, that’s an expense, but it’s hardly out of reach for most applicants. And sure enough, LSAC—which administers the LSAT—notes that doing away with the test has been shown to work against minorities and the economically disadvantaged.”
Perhaps that’s the goal.
FASTER, PLEASE: Chesa Boudin’s soft-on-crime policies will doom him. Although, to paraphrase Whoopi Goldberg, ultimately, it’s not really doom-doom, when Boudin will likely fail upwards: “Boudin’s public glow will not dim with a June 7 defeat. Powerful associates in the US and abroad will help him land on his feet. A high-visibility post in the Department of Justice or State Department could lie ahead. Should San Francisco voters dump Boudin — which now seems almost certain — his political visibility and influence will persist.”
GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Is Amazon Sabotaging a Pro-Trump Kids’ Book?
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Are Catfish in Sweden Living as Long as Humans?
GINNING UP A WITCH HUNT AT DUKE. In response to email about mandatory diversity training, Duke professor Bryan Cullen wrote, “My initial reaction is I refuse to engage in left-wing Maoist political propaganda workshops.” As if by magic, past, politically based grievances appeared on social media. Will my alma mater be wise enough to stick with its comment so far, which was that it has “nothing to add on this matter?” Time will tell…
HMM: Texas Gunman Was In The Room For ’30 Minutes’ Before Tactical Team Breached. Why Did Cops Not Breach Sooner? “There are inconsistencies between different accounts of the timelines of the day, including whether shots were fired when an officer attempted to stop the gunman from entering the school, and questions remain about why law enforcement did not engage him sooner, according to various media reports. One witness told the Associated Press that onlookers had urged police officers to charge the school during the shooting, but to no avail.”
NO, BUT THEY’RE CENSORING ANY CORRECTIONS: Media outlets labeled the Buffalo shooter a right winger. Was that accurate?
Here are five ideas from the Buffalo supermarket shooter’s writings that are not mainstream Republican ideas viewers find on Fox News:
The writings indicate that the shooter is a fan of “green nationalism,” which he calls “the only true nationalism.” Radical green ideas are far more popular on the left than on the right.
The documents also attack libertarianism and beloved right-leaning thinkers such as Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman.
Though the media attempted to tie the shooter to Tucker Carlson, the killer’s alleged postings mention Carlson exactly zero times. He cited Fox News just once — in an anti-Semitic infographic claiming the outlet is controlled by Jews.
The rants support “worker ownership of the means of production,” which is an idea straight out of Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engel’s “Communist Manifesto.” It is most certainly not something espoused by a typical Fox News viewer.
The published screeds also explicitly say he is not a conservative. The posts rip conservatism as “corporatism in disguise” and declare he wants “no part of it,” blaming Republican ideology for “the ever-increasing wealth of the 1%.” That rhetoric is a common refrain of the left, not the right.A full reading of the words attributed to the Buffalo supermarket shooter make it clear that whatever his views might have in common with Tucker Carlson’s, his warped ideology is complicated by ideas that are commonplace among Democrats and often found on liberal media outlets.
David Mastio of Straight Arrow News reports: “Instagram and Facebook both refused to host the video – Instagram took it down and sent us a nastygram saying our video promoted violence.”
Narrative uber alles.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Behold: The comprehensive list of all The Babylon Bee prophecies that have come true (so far!).
In accordance with the prophecy.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Shards of the Planet Mercury May Be Hiding on Earth.
IT’S JUST ANOTHER WEAPON IN THE WAR ON NORMALS: Does Anyone Really Believe in This Transgender Stuff?
MAKE IT BETTER, PLEASE: New research reveals how the heart repairs after a heart attack.
ORIGINS OR CONSEQUENCES IN ID/EVOLUTION DEBATE: Instapunditeer Paul Murphy read through HillFaith’s recent reprint of Discovery Institute biologist Casey Luskin’s 12-part series on Intelligent Design and came away asking a deeply perceptive question that advocates on both sides of the debate ought to consider.
WE ARE ALL NATIONAL SOCIALISTS NOW: WaPo senior editor reminds us that the AR-15 was ‘invented for Nazi infantrymen’ in the late 1950s.
More details here: The Washington Post Invents A New History For AR-15s.
A 2018 Washington Post article about AR-15s is recirculating today after senior editor Marc Fisher tweeted it out in the wake of the Texas elementary school shooting. In it, he contends that the AR-15 was “[i]nvented for Nazi infantrymen” and “is a descendant of the machine guns Nazi infantrymen used against Soviet forces in World War II.” The piece is brimming with the customary fearmongering, but as I’d written a chapter about the AR-15/M-16 in my cultural history of guns, the claim piqued my curiosity.
In researching the origins of the Armalite company, reading every book and contemporaneous information I could get my hands on, never once do I recall running across any mention of the AR’s inventor Gene Stoner being influenced by “Nazi” firearms, much less basing his famous rifle on a German assault rifle. Armalite, in fact, was the first company to successfully hybridize American technological advances of World War II airplane design, plastics, and alloys, with small arms. So, I’d love to find out which Wikipedia page Fisher pulled this information from.
Comrade Ogilvy used one, but I forget if it was in the Eastasia or Eurasia campaign?
(Classical allusion in headline.)
UVALDE: Where the Hell Were the Police? “Parents were pleading, ‘Give me the vest, I’ll go in there!’ but some ended up in handcuffs instead of vests.”
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