Archive for 2025

#JOURNALISM:

THIS IS NO TIME TO GET LAX:  Security.

READ THIS:  The Lost Boys and Girls of October 7. On the Nova massacre.

William Lehman sent it to me with this:

Read this. Just take the three or five minutes it takes and READ the damn thing. It will be hard. You will want this to just end. You will say to your self, NO MORE. You should not stop. You owe it, not to your self, but to future generations, to read and to UNDERSTAND the wrong, and the pain, the surprise and the injustice, the horror and the evil. Then never forget. Never forgive. Damn them to the outer cold, where warmth never penetrates, and they wander in the dark forever.

WAYS TO FIGHT IT:  Paying Danegeld.

PEOPLE TRYING THIS ARE LIKELY TO WIND UP DEAD:  The Neolithic Flex.

IT NEEDS BURNED TO THE GROUND AND RESTARTED FROM SCRATCH:  Health incentives.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

STACY MCCAIN: Typical Democratic Voter Inadvertently Explains the Great Mystery of Our Time.

Did you ever wonder how the Democratic Party got so crazy? For example, how is it that the governor of Illinois is inciting violent mobs against federal immigration authorities and meanwhile, in Virginia, every Democrat is rallying to the defense of Attorney General candidate Jay Jones, who openly fantasized about murdering political opponents?

To summarize briefly: Bad causes attract bad people.

To understand the symbiotic relationship between toxic political movements and their toxic supporters, my advice is to first read Eric Hoffer’s 1951 classic, The True Believer, especially Part 2: “The Potential Converts.” Next, you should read Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, focusing on Chapter 10, “Why the Worst Get on Top.” Among the personal experiences that led me to comprehend this phenomenon was being swarmed by a mob of “Occupy” protesters in 2011. If you ever had the misfortune to be in close proximity to a zombie horde like that, you would never doubt that the fundamental problem of the Democratic Party is that its grassroots “base” is composed of dangerous lunatics.

Read the whole thing.

#RESISTANCE: