Archive for 2021

WELL, GOOD:

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Did Bill de Blasio inflame the Rittenhouse unrest in New York City? “There is a long list of liberal politicians who quickly jumped into the pool after the Rittenhouse verdict was delivered, providing some of the more destructive virtue-signaling that we’ve seen in a while. The same people who lecture us endlessly about the need to support the system and not question the results of elections lest we imperil democracy were quick to throw the concepts of trial by jury and innocent until proven guilty under the bus. And the higher-up and louder those voices were, the more likely they were to fan the flames of a fire that was already threatening to burn out of control… again.” They like riots. They want riots. Their behavior has made that clear again and again.

THIS REALLY DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE: Kyle Rittenhouse: ‘I support the BLM movement.’

Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who was acquitted of murder last week after shooting and killing two people in Kenosha, Wis., during civil unrest there last year, said he supports the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

“I’m not a racist person. I support the BLM movement,” Rittenhouse said during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a portion of which is slated to air on Carlson’s program on Monday evening.

“I support peacefully demonstrating,” the teen told Carlson, according to a transcript of the interview. “I believe there needs to be change. I believe there’s a lot of prosecutorial misconduct, not just in my case but in other cases. It’s just amazing to see how much a prosecutor can take advantage of someone.”

Earlier: Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery: a tale of two trials.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Free States Must Defend the Right to Self-Defense.

The motive behind the atrocious shredding of our social contract represented by these charges and the lying prosecutors is clear. The idea is to neutralize citizen pushback against leftist stormtroopers, to make us afraid to do what we have an inalienable right to do and defend ourselves. Right now, no matter how clearly justified you are, no matter that the rap sheet of the scumbag you defended yourself against includes burglary, domestic violence, and/or the anal rape of little boys, you must weigh the potential of losing your livelihood and freedom against defending yourself and others. At best, you might face years of legal nightmares (criminal and civil) and media crucifixion.

This is exactly what they want, and the purpose is to stop you from exercising your right to self-defense. But there is no reason that anyone in one of the free red states should ever have to worry that saving your own or others’ lives will ruin yours. The criminals and rioters started this. We have a right to finish it and then to go on with our lives thereafter in peace.

Where Republicans are in power, they must act decisively to lift the fear from citizens and put it back on the criminals, where it belongs. If the GOP can’t do this, if they can’t or won’t secure our ability to not be murdered, what the hell use are they?

Always a pertinent question.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Get woke, empty the pews. “This is the sort of left-wing nonsense that the ELCA spews on a regular basis. It is not coincidental that the ELCA is a failing denomination. The ELCA had over five million members when it was formed out of a merger of three Lutheran churches in 1988. As of the end of 2020, it had shrunk to 3.3 million, with no end in sight. Why is the ELCA failing? One obvious reason is that it has made clear that Christians who are not hard-core liberals–that is, the overwhelming majority of the population–are not welcome. Many of my friends have left the ELCA, unwilling to support its ill-informed leftism.”

UP, UP AND AWAY: Mars helicopter, set to fly again, defies lifespan projections. “NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity, originally expected to make five flights during 30 days on the Red Planet, has outlasted all projections for the length of its mission, which now is nearing seven months and a 16th flight.”