THE RULING CLASS KNOWS IT CAN’T WITHSTAND CRITICISM, SO IT WANTS TO BAN IT: Writers and Academics Applaud Brazil’s Censorship in Open Letter: The worldwide erosion of support for free speech continues.
And of course, it’s been easy to find leftist intellectuals who will support leftist tyranny. Stalin knew it, Chavez knew it, Lula knows it.
SO MUCH FOR RUSSIA’S NUCLEAR CARD: Remember Russia’s nuclear threats? Neither does anyone else. At this point I’m not convinced the bombs would even work if used.
NO, BUT THAT’S NOT THE GOAL: Will Cutting the BAC Limit to .05 Really Make Our Roads Safer?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Skill of the Week: Gird Up Your Loins.
ABUSE OF POWER:
Worth noting that Zelenskyy was flown to Pennsylvania on an U.S. Air Force C-17.
The Biden-Harris admin is using military assets to fly a foreign leader into a battleground state in order to undermine their political opponents. https://t.co/OSebVUuBEg pic.twitter.com/biMGTfAc1J
— Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸 (@dandcaldwell) September 23, 2024
A very high risk strategy from Zelensky. Should the Trump/Vance ticket win in Nov., these type of remarks could very well come back to haunt him. https://t.co/rRZUyb4pJp
— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) September 23, 2024
I wonder what threats or promises the Biden people used to get him here?
CHANGE: FDA approves FluMist for upcoming flu season. “The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday an approval of a new self- and caregiver-administered nose spray against the flu. The FDA said FluMist, which can be used for children 2 to 5 years old, does not need to be administered by a physician.”
THOSE “CONCERNS” SHOULD LEAD TO PUNISHMENT OR THEY DON’T MATTER: Quad Summit leaders note ‘serious concerns’ over China’s maritime violations in Indo-Pacific.
GET IN THEIR FACE. PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Take back the public square: Why silence won’t slow polarization. “Are you among the silent majority? I once was. With polarization plaguing public discourse, I saw no point in engaging. But then I began to wonder if my silence was part of the problem.”
MORE CRUSHING OF DISSENT: School calls cops on parents wearing ‘XX’ wristbands to protest male player on girls team: Superintendent: bands were ‘threatening, harassing, intimidating.’
Leftists love to pretend that disagreement is somehow violence. As a friend says, anyone who thinks words are violence has never been punched in the nose.
WHY BRITAIN HAS STAGNATED. “These are not just disconnected observations. They highlight the most important economic fact about modern Britain: that it is difficult to build almost anything, anywhere. This prevents investment, increases energy costs, and makes it harder for productive economic clusters to expand. This, in turn, lowers our productivity, incomes, and tax revenues.”
We’re in the same situation, just not quite as far along.
CDR SALAMANDER: How do You Say “Frog Soup” in Mandarin? “Taiwan’s military has registered a record 2,076 PLA incursions this year into its air defence identification zone.”
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: ‘Climate Literacy’ in Schools Replacing Actual Literacy.
GOOD GRIEF:
Kamala: “I’d like another debate. I hope the former Vice President would agree to that.”
Which Vice President is she talking about here?
pic.twitter.com/H8JhwYICNc— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 22, 2024
KAMALA PRETENDS TO BE A GUN PERSON, CONGRESSMAN TIM BURCHETT (R-My District) REALLY IS:
Always good to visit with the good folks at Top Dollar Pawn. pic.twitter.com/CplXzACH1l
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) September 21, 2024
MARK PULLIAM HAS HAD thoughts on jury nullification, which he sent me in response to my podcast interview the other day.
LOL, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS HURTING EVERYBODY: Chicago gangbangers rage against newly arrived Venezuelan migrants as Tren de Aragua moves in: ‘City is going to go up in flames.’
It’s going to go from “defund the police” to “build that wall” overnight . . . .
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
ICYMI: MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Amid Brazil’s battle to muzzle Musk’s X, Elon eyes tech triumph in free-speech wars.
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