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Archive for 2024
March 3, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches first high orbit internet satellite.
AN INCREASINGLY COMMON PROBLEM: Loneliness increases the risk of health deterioration in older adults.
RESULTS FROM THE FIRST NATIONAL SPEECH INDEX, A NEW EPISODE OF FIRE’S ‘SO TO SPEAK’ PODCAST, AND EVEN A (NON-FREE SPEECH RELATED, YES YOU HEARD THAT CORRECTLY) SONG RECOMMENDATION FROM YOURS TRULY. All of that and more in this weekend’s ETERNALLY RADICAL IDEA WEEKEND UPDATE.
READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) Wireless Ear Buds. #CommissionEarned
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA shutters $2B satellite refueling project, blames contractor for delays.
ISN’T THIS OLD NEWS? Naked? With Strangers? In Europe, It’s How You Relax at the Spa.
I thought Americans got over this in the ’70s, though to be fair, the whole country is much more prudish now, and not for the better.
AT LEAST ANDREW CUOMO ISN’T FILLING THEM WITH CONTAGIOUS COVID PATIENTS ANYMORE: Staffing shortages, poor infection control plague nursing homes.
DISPATCHES FROM THE ICE FLOE: Today’s “Dump Biden” Installment. “Just a guess, but I think the word has gone out from the Obama redoubt in Martha’s Vineyard and/or his shadow White House in Kalorama that the New York Times needs to lead the push this week to force Biden out of the race. The Times is doom-scrolling its latest poll showing Biden on his way to certain defeat to Trump. Yesterday’s installment gave the raw numbers—Biden is eroding across the board.”
Flashback: The Democratic Party’s Ice Floe Politics.
PENTAGON WALKS BACK AUSTIN’S GAZA CASUALTY FIGURES:
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress on Thursday that more than 25,000 women and children had been killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7, but the Pentagon later clarified that estimate, saying the figure came from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, not U.S. intelligence.
During a congressional hearing, Austin was asked how many Palestinian women and children had been killed by Israel and Austin replied: “It is over 25,000.”
A few hours later, Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokesperson, said that Austin was citing an estimate from the Gaza health ministry and was referring to total Palestinians killed, not just women and children.
“We cannot independently verify these Gaza casualty figures,” Singh said in a statement.
Back in November, Hot Air’s David Strom wrote in astonishment that the New York Times’ Elizabeth Spiers “didn’t know that Hamas runs the Gaza Health Ministry. Let that sink in. She literally did not know that. She thought it was a conspiracy theory.”
Austin apparently doesn’t know that either — or he doesn’t care.
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: A Man In Uniform. “Those with a taste for condescension and farce will find more of Lieutenant Colonel Fram’s pronouncements here. Among them, a belief that the competence of the US military, and thus the fate of the world, may hinge on whether modern warriors stipulate their pronouns in all of their emails.”
OUT ON A LIMB: Newsweek’s Batya Ungar-Sargon on Biden losing his base Democratic party voters in Michigan over illegal immigration:
Bill Maher was NOT expecting this answer… pic.twitter.com/A08RucdriE
— Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) March 2, 2024
Flashback: Jared Bernstein, member of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors: “One thing we learned in the 1990s was that a surefire way to reconnect the fortunes of working people at all skill levels, immigrant and native-born alike, to the growing economy is to let the job market tighten up. A tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers to get and keep the workers they need. One equally surefire way to sort-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group’s wages go up.”
I HAVE BEEN SPENDING WAY TOO MUCH OF MY TIME HAVING TO FIGHT ACA7: Alas, that means I have almost no time to post. But it’s Saturday evening, so I have a little bit. My problem is that I only know one topic these days.
As loyal Instapundit readers know, ACA7 is another effort to gut Proposition 209, which amended that California constitution in 1996 to say: “The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”
In 2020, our deep-blue legislature floated a referendum to repeal Prop 209. The effort–known as Prop 16–went down in flames with over 57% of voters opposing the repeal (even though my side was outspent more than 14 to 1).
I figure we can win this again at the ballot box if we have to, but I would much rather not have to spend a year of my life on this. Been there, done that twice now–in 1996 and again in 2020.
Part of the reason for my optimism that this can be defeated in the state senate is fact that ACA7’s chief sponsor keeps referring to ACA7 as necessary to effectuate his plans for reparations. That can’t possibly make it popular with California voters. Opposition to reparations (especially in a non-slave state for goodness sake) is very strong. Maybe, just maybe a sufficient number of state senators will see that.
ACA7 is about clearing a path for REPARATIONS. We know that because its chief sponsor has said so—over and over again. Recently, the Black Caucus held a press conference to discuss its “2024 Reparations Priority Bill Package.” During that event, each caucus member was called… pic.twitter.com/mOBQsOdT59
— Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot) March 2, 2024
It will help, of course, if you like and retweet my reparations tweet above. The tagged senators may look ay it more closely if they see that it’s getting attention.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ELIMINATIONIST HATRED? Arizona State U. Latino organization suspended for calling for the death of various groups.
PRIME DEAL: SEHMUA 4G LTE Cellular Trail Cameras 3rd Gen with Live Streaming. #CommissionEarned
YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NSF’S TRACK F: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has so far spent at least $39 million funding research and development by private sector firms and academic teams of automated digital censorship tools based on Artificial Intelligence. Can you guess who these tools are to be used against? Look in a mirror, then go here to my Special Report on The Epoch Times.
REPOSTED.
THIS WEEKEND’S ETERNALLY RADICAL IDEA WEEKEND UPDATE features a piece co-written by me and Angel Eduardo in The Free Press on the recent UC Berkeley riot, a great new piece from FIRE’s Sarah McLaughlin which asks “Why is an Indian court order determining what you can read on the internet?”, and a whole lot more!
INSTEAD OF REGULATION, FIX BANK DISCRIMINATION WITH PRIVATE LAWSUITS FEATURING TREBLE DAMAGES AND FAT ATTORNEYS’ FEES: Coalition warns against giving Democratic regulators more power. “A broad coalition of Republican groups called on congressional leaders on Tuesday to junk banking legislation that would expand the reach and powers of federal regulators who view terms such as ‘Trump’ and ‘MAGA’ and customers of outdoors stores such as Cabela’s as extremist. Led by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the coalition said the proposed regulations sold as the best way to police failing banks go too far and would give federal officials the power to fire Republican executives and track spending by people on guns, ammo, and Bibles.”
Regulation by lawsuit means no entrenched bureaucracy dominated by bureaucrats.