LINCOLN BROWN: The Left’s Vigilantes. “The ‘right-thinking’ people of the Left would never sully their hands in dealing with their enemies directly. Even if they do not explicitly encourage burning car dealerships, looting stores, attacking police stations or beating up unsuspecting people on the street, they know that their rhetoric inspires and encourages it. They know that they have an army of angry, under-educated or willfully uneducated group of people, highly vulnerable to the power of suggestion — people who will burn down a city while Leftist leaders and media mavens gather at the Kennedy Center or the Met Gala to sip champagne as their colleagues and errand-runners try to convince us that a building engulfed in flames is a sign of a peaceful protest.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
November 24, 2021
THE WAR ON WOMEN: New Olympic Committee Rules Essentially End Women’s Sports. “The new rules are couched in ideas of anti-discrimination, but they are only about not discriminating against gender-nonconforming biological males who identify as transgender and use female pronouns, and in so doing, they directly discriminate against women.”
MATT MARGOLIS: Psaki Doubles Down on Biden’s Rittenhouse Smear. “But refusing to acknowledge that Biden falsely called Rittenhouse a white supremacist doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Top Republican Pushes Congressional Witnesses To Disclose Foreign Influence.
Rep. Jim Banks (Ind.) on Tuesday introduced legislation that would require experts slated to give congressional testimony to disclose whether their employers accept foreign money. The proposal largely targets universities and think tanks, which provide a steady stream of expert witnesses for congressional foreign policy hearings.
While the bill would cover donations from all countries, Banks focuses on China, given the Communist regime’s significant funding for prominent Washington-based think tanks. The China-United States Exchange Foundation, an arm of the Chinese Communist Party, has in recent years donated millions of dollars to the Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress, the Carter Center, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. CIA director William Burns, the former president of Carnegie, testified this year that he cut ties with the Exchange Foundation because of its efforts to malignly influence American policymakers.
I’d suggest bringing back the House Un-American Activities Committee, except that so many in Congress are already un-American.
READINESS: The US Navy Is Rusting Away.
Last month I visited Naval Station Norfolk, headquarters of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. What I saw horrified me and reminded me of stories of the rusting Russian navy in the days following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The streaks of rust symbolized the decay of our naval shipyards due to decades of neglect and budget misallocations combined with an inadequate workforce.
Ships such as the nine-year-old USNS Medgar Evers, named for the slain civil rights leader; the USS Arlington, an amphibious warship named in honor of those killed at the Pentagon on 9/11; and a Ticonderoga-class missile cruiser whose hull number was obscured sat rusting at the piers. They weren’t the only ones, but they were the most noticeable as I toured the base.
I’m not the first to notice this problem.
A friend and Navy veteran told me that he too had visited the base a few weeks prior and had seen what I saw. It infuriated him.
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Our pronoun training is up to date, though.
BIDEN’S WAR ON AFFORDABLE ENERGY IS A GENUINE ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’: Oil, Oil Everywhere But Not a Drop of Sense. “With great fanfare from the press and a shrug from the markets, Presidentish Joe Biden announced his plan to basically do nothing about the high price of oil and gas.”
NO ONE EVER ACCUSED HIM OF BEING TERRIBLY BRIGHT: :Biden Wants Lower Oil Prices and Lower Oil Supply.
NO ONE BUT KAREN IS STILL LISTENING: Fauci Prepares to Move the Goalposts — AGAIN.
GO ON AND LAUGH, BUT SLIDE RULES DON’T GO DOWN AND CAN’T BE HACKED — AND DO OUR PILOTS KNOW HOW TO USE ONE IN A PINCH? Ruling The Skies? Astonishment As Russian Fighter Pilots Use Slide Rules In Mach 2 Jets.
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Matt Margolis: Great News For Republicans in Arizona. “Without a doubt, Sinema is the Arizona Democratic Party’s best shot at holding onto the seat. Arizona is a reddish/purple state, and Sinema can’t afford to be a left-wing radical. Unfortunately for her, Arizona Democrats don’t understand this yet and may end up nominating someone who would have a much more difficult time winning in a general election instead.”
Megan Fox: Maybe Suing Everyone Isn’t the Best Idea for Kyle Rittenhouse. “The media destroyed his reputation and Sandmann has been filing (and winning) lawsuits against the media companies that did it for the last three years. So what’s the problem? Watch a few seconds of today’s Sandmann.”
Yours Truly: Panic Attack! POLITICO Warns Democrats Their ‘Entire Brand’ Is a ‘Wreck.’ “Either the White House is completely tone-deaf or they honestly have no clue about what real Americans have experienced since Biden took office (with the accent on ‘took’).”
WE NEED MORE CHIPS: Samsung To Build $17 Billion Fab in Taylor, Texas. “America has lots of tech hubs: Silicon Valley, Seattle, the North Carolina triangle, greater Boston, etc. But nobody is building cutting fabs in those areas. Central Texas has rapidly expanding software, hardware and silicon industries.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats’ Statue Removal Fetish Is Clinically Insane. “Democrats and other left-leaning types are forever looking for empty secular and political affectations to make them appear to be virtuous. They have to do this because there is nothing inherently virtuous in Godless leftism. Pretending that you’re a decent human being because you foot-stomped over a political issue is so much easier than actually being a decent human being, after all.”
WELL, YEAH, THAT’S WHERE THE MONEY IS: Warning: Biden Still Wants Your Bank Account.
THINK OF IT AS THE PEDOPHILE PROTECTION ACT: Biden’s Dept. of Education Wants To Strike Down Efforts to Document Teacher Sex Crimes.
November 23, 2021
OH: BLM Activist on Waukesha: ‘It Sounds Like the Revolution Has Started.’
Previously: “Back in the summer of 2020, at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, a federal agency, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, ruled that BLM was not political or partisan, and therefore federal employees could express support for the movement while on duty.”
OFFICIAL LAWLESSNESS: On ObamaCare, Democrats Defy the Supreme Court.
The multitrillion-dollar tax, climate and entitlement spending bill the House passed last week cuts funding for hospitals that treat uninsured patients. It likely violates the Constitution in the process by punishing states that have declined ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion.
Seven states, including expansion and nonexpansion states, still use uncompensated-care pools to reimburse providers for charity treatment. Section 30608 of the Build Back Better bill contains two separate provisions that would apply solely to nonexpansion states. The first would reduce by 12.5% their Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital payments, which offset the costs of hospitals that treat high numbers of uninsured patients.
The Biden administration has already attempted to use the uncompensated-care pools as leverage to dragoon states like Florida, Texas, Tennessee and Kansas into Medicaid expansion. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in April revoked an extension of Texas’ 1115 waiver, a decision that a federal judge struck down in August. The language in the House bill would give CMS new grounds to reject, or at minimum scale back, the nonexpansion states’ uncompensated-care pools.
While the new subsidies authorized under the bill would expire in 2025, the reductions in Medicaid payments—which the Congressional Budget Office estimates at approximately $4 billion a year—are permanent.
That clearly violates the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius, which declared ObamaCare’s mandatory expansion of Medicaid unconstitutionally coercive on states.
Coercion and lawlessness are right on-brand.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Introducing Joe Biden’s Weapons-Grade IRS.
Plus:
- MSN is even worse news than you thought
- Get ready for (yet another) Democrat war on domestic oil production
- Celebrating George Floyd as Jesus (really)
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
IF THANKSGIVING IS RACIST AND EVIL AND I’LL HAVE MY EVIL AND RACISM WITH EXTRA GRAVY: It’s Woke Time: Thanksgiving Is Inherently Racist And Evil.
WHEN PRESENTED WITH ACTUAL TERRORISTS, THE PRESS IS SILENT: ‘I Hope You Die’: The Murderous ISIS Jihadi From New York City You Heard Nothing About.
COLORADO: Front Range passenger train a looming boondoggle.
The pandemic has made people reluctant to climb aboard any form of mass transportation. But it hasn’t stopped the state of Colorado from planning an idiotic Front Range passenger train that is proposed to connect Fort Collins and Pueblo, with Denver in between. In June, Governor Jared Polis signed a bill creating a taxing district to pay for the train’s inevitable losses. Last week, the Colorado Transportation Commission agreed to spend $1.9 million on a viability study (whose total cost will be twice that).
The Denver Post, which was a major cheerleader for Denver’s $4.9 billion FasTracks plan until it became the $7.9 billion FasTracks plan, by which time it was too late, is now a major cheerleader for the Front Range passenger train plan. It claims that an Amtrak train between Chicago and Milwaukee “shows what it could be.” Yes, because Fort Collins (population: 170,000) and Pueblo (population: 112,000) are just like Milwaukee (population: 577,000), and Denver (population: 715,000) is just like Chicago (population: 2.75 million).
Yes, but all the correct palms will get greased.
Was this tweet another one of the Squads’ in-kind donations to the GOP’s mid-term elections?