WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Beaming Solar Energy From Space to Earth Could Soon Be a Reality.
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August 15, 2023
THE FAILURE OF THE ELITES IS WIDELY APPARENT: Oliver Anthony Strikes A Chord Where The Right And Left Agree: Our Failed Elites.
It’s not that they refer to meat and cheese plates as charcuterie or that we have elites, Gabriel notes, but that the quality of our current crop has gotten so poor. “Elites of previous eras won world wars, established lasting peace, raised prosperity around the globe and transformed a backwater set of colonies into a global hegemon,” he adds. “Today’s crew can’t defeat third-world foes, police our cities, pay their bills, or keep the power on.”
I’d add they can’t even do corruption right. The elites used to be competent when it came to greasing their pockets, maintaining plausible deniability, and the illusion of playing by the same rules as everyone else. Now, every representative who plays Wall Street is a wizard and the White House can wave away obvious influence-peddling schemes with “well, everyone does it.” Long gone is any sense of circumspection or noblesse oblige, which is something that people without special privileges tend to notice.
Our tastemakers in the media and D.C. can pretend that people’s natural responses to those changes is an act of faux outrage at those new truths. They can howl about how only they get to be the populists’ rebel musicians, speaking truth to power. Or they can acknowledge that they’re not very good at being elites and that failure invites such populist sentiments as those Anthony articulates.
Don’t expect them to, though.
They’re awful, and so full of themselves at the same time.
ORAL HEALTH ISN’T JUST ABOUT TEETH: New Research Reveals: Taking Good Care of Your Teeth May Be Good for Your Brain.
SCIENCE: Semen ‘Is Good For Your Health And Helps Fight Depression.’
I’ll stick with beer, thank you. Call me a science-denier if you like.
WELL, ONE IS A REAL IMPACT AND THE OTHER IS NOT: NY Times revelation: People are more interested in saving money than saving the planet.
SO WE’VE POSTED THE FINAL MANUSCRIPT TO THE ARTICLE I COAUTHORED WITH BRANNON DENNING: Retconning Heller: Five Takes on New York Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen. It will be appearing soon in the William & Mary Law Review.
So a guy pushing the Trump Russian collusion story was colluding with the Russians. Why am I not surprised?
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JUST DON’T EAT THEM: Don’t Throw Away Those Silica Gel Packets! Here Are 14 Smart Ways to Reuse Them.
JASON WHITLOCK: Michael Oher is every bit as broken as the media members selling his Blind Side lie.
The 2009 movie “The Blind Side” does not state or imply that the Tuohy family adopted Michael Oher. Neither does Michael Lewis’ 2006 book that inspired the film that won Sandra Bullock an Oscar.
In 2011, when Michael Oher published his first memoir, “I Beat the Odds,” he stated directly that the Tuohys secured a conservatorship when he was a senior in high school. He wrote that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy insisted that he maintain a relationship with his biological mother and 11 siblings. Oher wrote that his mother participated in the procedures necessary for the Tuohys to become conservators.
Somebody’s attended the Colin Kaepernick School for racial grievances and financial shakedowns.
CHRISTOPHER RUFO: Bring on the Counterrevolution.
America is trapped in the loop of 1968. The politics of that fateful year have set the patterns and bounds of our national life for decades.
It’s as though we have lived an endless recurrence: the Black Panther Party reappears as the Black Lives Matter movement; the Weather Underground pamphlets launder themselves into academic papers; the Marxist-Leninist guerrillas trade in their bandoliers and become managers of an elite-led revolution in manners and mores. The ideology, narrative, and aesthetics of the left-wing social movements of that earlier time, though now often degraded through cynicism and repetition, have maintained the position of a jealous hegemon.
The cultural revolution that began a half-century ago, now reflected in a deadening sequence of acronyms—CRT, DEI, ESG, and more—has increasingly become our new official morality. Many conservatives have made an uneasy peace with this transformation of values, even as the culture around them has, in many places, collapsed.
This attitude no longer suffices. It is time to break the loop of 1968. We need a counterrevolution.
This is the word that haunts the revolutionary mind. The French Revolution fell to the forces of Thermidor; the Revolution of 1848 fell to the empire of the bourgeoisie; the Bolshevik Revolution fell to the democratic-capitalists, the imperialist-backed juntas, and the forces of global capitalism. Marx himself viewed counterrevolution as an overwhelming threat. “Every important part of the revolutionary annals from 1848 to 1849 bears the heading: Defeat of the revolution!” he lamented.
The urgent task for the political Right today is to comprehend the dynamics of revolution and counterrevolution and to create a strategy for dislodging the New Left ideology of 1968, which has solidified control over the most fundamental structures of American society. The challenge must be met not solely in the realm of policy debate but on the deepest political and philosophical grounds.
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YOU CAN ONLY LOSE SO MUCH MONEY TAINTING SO MANY PROPERTIES BEFORE PEOPLE START TO NOTICE: Mouse House Getting Nervous as Disney Shutters Lucasfilm Studio in Singapore.
LIBERAL GETS MUGGED BY REALITY: How Eric Adams became an immigration restrictionist.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: The 2024 Aston Martin DB12 Volante Is Predictably Gorgeous.
MATT MARGOLIS: Trump Attorneys Blast Latest Sham Indictment, DA Fani Willis.
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Here are five straight minutes of Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams denying the results of her 2018 election loss pic.twitter.com/oRYMeZR6vQ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 15, 2023
Where’s her grand jury?
JUST ONE OF MANY HEADLINES LIKE THIS: $278 billion and 170,600 jobs: How Biden’s landmark climate bill changed the economy.
The press jumped right on board the Biden cabal’s rebranding of the Inflation Reduction Act as a kind-of jobs-and-climate-change law. That tells me inflation is probably gearing back up as another trillion or two in funny money starts working its way through the economy.
Meanwhile: Not So Fast With The CPI Celebrations: Rents Are Surging Again And Back To Record Highs. “In other words, not only are surging commodities about to blow away hopes for moderation in headline CPI, but economists are once again dead wrong, and instead of looking at the moderation in YoY rents – which they correctly see as indicative of a slowdown in the CPI basket-heavy OER index – what they should be looking at is the real-time actual rental index, which has been rising for 6 months now and is about to take out all time highs at a time when the Fed is supposedly pausing its rate hikes and if anything, is already planning its next easing cycle.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Lockheed Martin plans to make its most powerful military laser yet.
THIS DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE: “White flight” is a myth. Everyone flew.
BUYING THEIR VOTES WITH YOUR MONEY: Biden Moves Forward With Plan to Cancel $39 Billion in Student Loan Debt.
HMM: Strange Patterns Discovered on the Red Planet Offer Tantalizing New Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars. “Rapin and the research team say these salt deposits are the first direct fossil evidence of an ongoing cyclical Martian climate where both wet and dry seasons occurred in its ancient past, although previous research had already suggested changes in the seasonal environment on the planet would be capable of providing conditions perfect for the formation of complex compounds that form the building blocks of life.”
WHEN POSTURING ISN’T FREE ANYMORE: The Bill Comes Due for Blue Sanctuary Cities.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s $985 million Psyche mission to all-metal asteroid nears liftoff.