Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

IF ISRAEL TREATS GAZA LIKE THE ALLIES TREATED DRESDEN OR TOKYO, HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL REALLY CARE?

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I think these reactions are basically a go-ahead.

A FRIEND WRITES:

I have to assume Kash Patel is taking all precautions to keep himself from being set up by the premier set-up law enforcement agency on the planet.

Anything from straight-up assassination to some kind of golden showers child porn fakery, whatever.

You know they aren’t just thinking about it. Someone’s working on it.

You’d be crazy to think otherwise at this point. But I think Kash knows that better than we do.

OPEN THREAD: Happy Thursday.

EVERY DAY IS CHRISTMAS (CONT’D):

EVERY DAY IS LIKE CHRISTMAS: Feel Good Story of the Day: He Was Suspended for Helping DOGE; Now He Runs the Agency. “Leland Dudek learned that lesson the hard way: he decided to work with DOGE despite his boss’s opposition, and he was suspended for doing so. But a funny thing happened in Trump’s federal government: Dudek wound up with the top job while the bosses who were impeding him were shown the door.”

CUTTING OVERHEAD PAYMENTS ISN’T “CUTTING FUNDING FOR SCIENCE.” IT’S FREEING UP MORE MONEY FOR SCIENCE INSTEAD OF BUREAUCRACY. Cutting funding for science can impact economy, U.S. technological competitiveness.

And this has nothing to do with funding science: “Trump’s first wave of executive orders caused chaos at science agencies as they struggled to interpret the directives. Much of the anxiety involved excising language and programs relating to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.”

NATURE IS HEALING: RFK Jr. issues guidance on ‘restoring concept of biological truth’ of 2 sexes. “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday issued guidance ‘restoring concept of biological truth’ of two sexes after President Donald Trump’s executive orders defined two sexes as male and female and only allows biological females to participate in the gender’s sports. The directive supports ‘defending women and children.'”

FLASHBACK: Time for Consequences: The “Cabal” who bragged about rigging the 2020 election stuck us with an incapable president at a time of crisis. Examples need to be made. “I would like to see some accountability for the election of 2020. A cabal of insiders colluded to control the outcome, through all sorts of underhanded tactics. (Tech companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story broken by The Post, and retired intelligence officials falsely claimed it was fake, Russian disinformation). The press allowed Biden to campaign from his basement, covering up the truth that he was already unfit for office.”

FLASHBACK: The Clock Strikes Thirteen. “What happened? It’s like a spell broke. Since November’s election (re-election?) of President Donald Trump, the woke is going away, and all sorts of problems are resolving themselves. In law we talk about the proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock, which is not only wrong in itself, but which calls into question everything that has come before. Most of our institutions have been chiming thirteen for quite a while, and people have noticed.”