BROTHER THOMAS AT THE PULPIT: Clarence Thomas Reading His Epic Takedown Of KBJ’s Affirmative Action Dissent Left Her “Visibly Angry”.
Archive for 2023
June 30, 2023
IT’S NEVER WORKED: ‘It’s Worked Before’: Biden Defends Economic Agenda In Chicago Speech.
BAH. HERE’S YOUR PREDICTION: THEY’RE GOING TO GET US IN A WAR BY MARCH 2024, IF THEY HAVE TO BOMB ONE OF OUR CITIES THEMSELVES: Tucker Carlson Makes Chilling Prediction About 2024.
That is chilling. I’m also convinced it’s almost guaranteed.
IS SHE MENTALLY SLOW? SHE HAS TO ASK THAT? ‘It Smells Bad’: Nikki Haley Asks Whether Biden Loves Hunter More Than He Loves America.
The Bidens would sell out America for a used condom and a pack of Twinkies. Arguably they already have.
THE MAIN WORK THEY HAVE TO DO IS STOP THE D*MN FRAUD: New Poll Shows GOP May Have Work to Do in Key Swing States in 2024.
TO BE FAIR, HE’S DEMENTED, BUT HE WAS ALWAYS THIS STUPID: Biden Blunders Again, Says Putin ‘Clearly Losing The War In Iraq’.
OH! ARE WE PRETENDING WE HAVE CLEAN ELECTIONS? Pennsylvania Poll: Trump Edges Out Biden, Leads GOP Field by Double Digits.
What leads to this, admittedly charming, illusion?
WHAT OTHER TECHNOLOGY WOULD IT USE? Report: Chinese Spy Balloon Employed U.S. Technology.
WELL, THE COUNTRY IS NOT THRILLED WITH BIDEN: Biden Not Thrilled With SCOTUS’ Affirmative Action Ruling.
June 29, 2023
DEMOCRATS NEVER ENFORCE LAWS THEY DISAGREE WITH: ACLU, KNEA tell schools to ignore Women’s Bill of Rights law.
TODAY’S AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OPINION: THE BIGGER PICTURE. I have some thoughts over at Substack.
UPDATE: From the comments over there:
It used to be that adults that were high school graduates wanted their children to go to college, get an education, and better themselves. Based on my circle of friends, that is no longer true. It appears that the only parents I know pushing college to their kids, now, are the college graduate parents. And not all of them. This is a huge change from 20 years ago and a significant indicator of just how much colleges and universities have turned themselves into clowns and can’t even see it. As Glenn notes: “With 57 genders, coloring books and crying rooms for election results, endless crusades against ‘whiteness and “h’eterosexism,’ and the like” …. and the Hollywood admissions scandal and all the other intellectual scandals … who actually thinks that higher education is serious anymore? Especially with annual attendance costs double what a liberal arts major can earn in their first year. The value of the education is rapidly approaching zero and the cost is rapidly approaching infinity. So, the clowns expect deference to their position that affirmative action is the best method of creating more clowns.
Yep. (Bumped).
OPEN THREAD: Friday’s coming.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Unwell-Looking Joe Biden Tells on Himself in SCOTUS Comments During Trainwreck MSNBC Interview.
At the end of the interview, something awkward happened. After Wallace thanked him for being on the show, Biden got up before the segment went to commercial break and as the cameras continued to roll:
Bathroom run?
Biden gets out of his seat before the commercials start and awkwardly walks off-set. pic.twitter.com/Ne9BAuXo0t— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 29, 2023
I wrote yesterday that I felt Biden wasn’t fit for another term based on his declining health and mental fitness. But it’s not just that. Comments like the ones he made today in response to the ruling are dangerous and do in fact undermine the legitimacy of the court by design, regardless of what he says about packing the court.
He has once again demonstrated his fair weather tendencies on “respecting our institutions” not to mention his rank hypocrisy on the matter.
2024 cannot come soon enough.
If Biden can’t handle the softest of softball interviews without glitching, he has no business pretending he’s still (p)resident.
And it really was a softball interview: Nicolle Wallace Fails to Ask Biden About His Son Hunter’s Guilty Plea During 20-Minute Interview.
MARK JUDGE: The New York Times wants you to read banned books — just not conservative ones.
New York Times critic A.O. Scott is concerned about America’s reading crisis. “Across the country,” he wrote in a recent Sunday edition of the Times, “Republican politicians and conservative activists are removing books from classroom and library shelves, ostensibly to protect children from ‘indoctrination’ in supposedly left-wing ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and history.”
Scott has fallen for the fake story that conservatives are banning books, when in reality school parents are simply requesting that books with sexual content be subject to parental approval, educational, and only available to the proper grade level. Scott selling this lie is a shame, because his piece also makes a rousing defense of reading, which he rightly describes as a transformative activity that can steer its practitioner away from leftist politics as much as towards them.
New York Times critic A.O. Scott is concerned about America’s reading crisis. “Across the country,” he wrote in a recent Sunday edition of the Times, “Republican politicians and conservative activists are removing books from classroom and library shelves, ostensibly to protect children from ‘indoctrination’ in supposedly left-wing ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and history.”
Scott has fallen for the fake story that conservatives are banning books, when in reality school parents are simply requesting that books with sexual content be subject to parental approval, educational, and only available to the proper grade level. Scott selling this lie is a shame, because his piece also makes a rousing defense of reading, which he rightly describes as a transformative activity that can steer its practitioner away from leftist politics as much as towards them.
To me, reading has always meant reinforcing or rediscovering deep truths about the human person, while also delving into edgy, challenging, and countercultural books that are deemed dangerous or offensive. I read and loved The Lord of the Rings, C.S. Lewis, and the Bible, but also Henry Miller, Hunter S. Thompson, and The Killer Inside Me by pulp fiction master Jim Thompson. I always figured that’s how it should be — this is America, we can read what we want.
Until we can’t: The Woke Bell Tolls for Ernest Hemingway.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Sierra Space describes long-term plans for Dream Chaser and inflatable modules.
KINSLEY GAFFE: “For First Time, Majority of Americans and Democrats Think Pandemic is Over,” says Gallup. Good to see the polling firm separating the two groups out:
Gallup has asked Americans whether they think the COVID-19 pandemic is over since June 2021, and until now, found less than half saying it was. This includes a 49% reading in February. Since then, the percentage of Americans who think the pandemic is over has jumped 15 percentage points to 64%, while 36% say it has not ended yet.
Although Americans across party lines increasingly believe the pandemic is over, Democrats’ views have changed the most since February. For the first time in Gallup’s trend, a majority of Democrats, 51%, now say the pandemic has ended, marking a 23-point increase since earlier this year. At the same time, Republicans’ (84%) and independents’ (65%) views of the pandemic’s demise have grown by nine and 10 points, respectively.
These changes may be due, at least in part, to a series of official announcements about the pandemic nationally and globally. In April, President Joe Biden signed a congressional resolution to end the nation’s state of emergency, and in May, both the U.S. and global declarations of a public health emergency ended.
Still though, there’s at least one hardline elderly socialist not willing to part with her masks and Purell:
She's gone insane https://t.co/ByHK3cly1F
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) June 26, 2023
NO FUN FOR YOU, CALIFORNIA! Some July 4th Fireworks Shows Got Canceled Thanks To Environmental Activists.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:
EXCLUSIVE: Berkeley Law School dean Erwin Chemerinsky explains how he has secretly enacted a policy of racial discrimination in faculty hiring—which is illegal in California.
"If I'm ever deposed, I'm going to deny I said this to you." pic.twitter.com/GYgtNZfhtb
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 29, 2023
TOP NIH OFFICIAL ADVISED COVID SCIENTISTS THAT HE USES PERSONAL EMAIL TO EVADE FOIA:
A top adviser to Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health admitted that he used a personal email account in an apparent effort to evade the strictures of the Freedom of Information Act, according to records obtained by congressional investigators probing the origin of Covid-19. The official also expressed his intention to delete emails in order to avoid media scrutiny.
“As you know, I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly,” wrote David M. Morens, a high-ranking NIH official, in a September 2021 email, one of a series of email exchanges that included many leading scientists involved in the bitter Covid origins debate. “Stuff sent to my gmail gets to my phone,” he added, “but not my NIH computer.”
After noting that his Gmail account had been hacked, however, he wrote to the group to say that he might have to use his NIH email account to communicate with them instead. “Don’t worry,” he wrote, “just send to any of my addresses, and I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”
That’s not shifty at all.
I’M NOT WORRYING UNTIL SOMEBODY NAMED BUTLER DECLARES A JIHAD: ‘Godfather of AI’ Issues New Warnings Over Potential Risks to Society.
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Binge drinking increased with home delivery of alcohol during pandemic.
The last five years have been a double-whammy: They not only made alcohol easier to get, they gave people more reasons to drink.
THIS SEEMS LIKELY TO BE CORRECT: CBO projects federal debt to soar over next 20 years.
THE INTERNET IS SAVING AMERICA. AGAIN. Hunter Biden by Gaslight