Author Archive: Stephen Green
March 12, 2021
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Mouse House Has Become A Cathedral Of Smiling Hate. “You cannot be a champion of diversity and inclusion while you actively discriminate against Americans purely on the basis of viewpoint and political participation. Joe McCarthy would be very proud of Disney CEO Bob Chapek and former CEO Bob Iger, but that’s hardly something that Disney would wish to tout. The great irony is that their actions are demonstrating that Gina Carano’s concerns were entirely justified. That’s also the great evil.”
GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS ARE USUALLY WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM: India’s punishing new social media rules could be a nightmare for the tech giants. “The new legislation requires internet platforms like Facebook and Twitter to quickly take down content that the Indian government says is ‘unlawful’ — and could have a chilling effect on its citizens’ free speech.”
Less a “nightmare” for Big Tech than for the Indian people.
I like Poland’s solution.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Becerra’s Wife Sits on Board of Nonprofit That Pushed His Nomination “The foundation stands to benefit from a Department of Health and Human Services charged with expanding the Affordable Care Act’s health care policy.”
HE’S ALSO A GRANNY-KILLER: Will the Gov. Get Arrested? Police Alerted to Latest Sexual Assault Claim Against Cuomo.
THE TEACHERS UNIONS AND PLENTY OF TEACHERS CERTAINLY AREN’T: When It Comes To School Reopenings, We Are Not All In This Together.
Instead of accepting the science and data suggesting a safe return to classrooms can happen now, Bedford said, teachers unions are “demanding ransoms from communities” by manipulating the pandemic circumstances, families, and school districts to get what they want.
“A lot of the teachers unions are pushing back, saying, ‘We don’t care about the test scores, we don’t care about being your babysitter,’ and they are demanding ransoms from communities like in California, where [the state] awarded them $6.6 billion in order to return to jobs,” Bedford said. “Most of the country has” returned to work.
Bedford said public school teachers are exploring their political connections to stay at home while many private school teachers and other essential workers around the nation went back to work before they were vaccinated.
It’s difficult to continue believing in public education when public educators obvious don’t.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The COVID Panic Porn Freaks Need to Be Shamed and Silenced. “Even the states that have experienced the most onerous lockdowns are beginning to open up. Sure, New York and California are only doing it because their governors are both neck deep in trouble, but it’s still happening. What’s stunning to those of us on the pro-freedom side of things is that so many people still want to be miserable.”
THE NEW ANTI-RACISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM: A woke professor is ranking law schools by their “Total Whiteness.” Let me explain to you how that works and what it means. “Being ‘less white’ is only partially about skin color. It does include using forced racial quotas instead of merit, but it goes so much farther than that.”
March 11, 2021
GONE WITH THE WIND: Texas Energy Outage Postmortem. “The race to add in renewables pushed out more reliable forms of energy and kept new reliable energy from being built. That resulted in the buffer in our electric grid being stripped out—going from more than a 20% surplus years ago to single digits in the last couple of years.”
A GENUINE RETURN TO NORMALCY: Play Ball! Texas Rangers Become First to Allow 100% Capacity in the Stands for Opening Day.
UPDATE (From Ed): Cowboys owner Jerry Jones wants 100% capacity at AT&T Stadium for 2021 season.
(Updated and bumped.)
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF ISN’T EVEN IN COMMAND OF HIS OWN FACULTIES: For National Security Reasons, Let’s Keep Biden In The Basement And Off TV. “Maybe it’s not great for us if foreign adversaries see him too much in his weakened state. Save him for when he is alert and able to handle the pressures of public speaking.”
THE FORGOTTEN WAR: Medal of Honor recipient, a chaplain who died in captivity, identified among Korean War remains.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of Chaplain (Capt.) Emil J. Kapaun, a Medal of Honor recipient who died as a prisoner of war in Korea.
Kapaun was identified on Mar. 2, the DPAA announced Friday. His remains were among the 867 buried as “Unknowns” at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, according to a DPAA news release.
Also known as the “Punchbowl,” the NMCP is the final resting place of many servicemembers’ unidentified remains. The Korean War Disinterment Project, initiated in 2018, is a seven-phase plan to disinter and identify all of the Korean war remains in the Punchbowl.
“After 70 years Chaplain (Capt.) Kapaun has been accounted for. His heroism and resilient spirit epitomized our Army values of personal courage and selfless service,” said acting Secretary of the Army John E. Whitley.
Indeed.
MATT MARGOLIS: Senate Republicans Are Failing Us… Big Time. “How did Fudge get sixteen Republicans to vote for her confirmation? And How did Garland get twenty?”
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ANALYSIS: TRUE. Don’t look now but we’re raising an entire generation of Harry and Meghans. “Harry and Meghan are a metaphor for millions of young people spitting on the tradition they’ve inherited, knowing neither its worth nor what they owe it.”
HE’S ALSO A GRANNY-KILLER: The Latest Allegations Against Cuomo Just Got a Whole Lot Worse.
JOANNE JACOBS: Researchers say school closures endanger children. “Children are no more likely to die Covid-19 than they are of seasonal flu, write Dr. Tara O. Henderson, Dr. Monica Gandhi, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg and Dr. Daniel Johnson. They are much more likely to die of suicide, in some cases ‘driven by school closure’.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Savage ABC News Boils Biden’s Bunny.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is ABC News like Alex Forrest from Fatal Attraction?
Answer: When they’ve been ignored by their one-time fling.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Revealed: Another pandemic panicmonger who sent his kids all the way to Austria to go to school
- S.E. Cupp brings you yesterday’s news — tomorrow!
- China makes Trump one with everything
Bonus Sanity: Black Pro Soccer Player Will Not Kneel for BLM Anymore.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
CANCEL CULTURE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND: ACLU Under Fire for Helping to Destroy Lives of Smith College Workers Falsely Accused of Racism.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Predictable Train Wrecks on Crime and Immigration.
The most consequential effect of open immigration and lax criminal enforcement is to undermine the safe, stable environment law-abiding citizens need to go about their lives, free from predation. Providing that environment — and signaling clearly that you intend to provide it — is the first responsibility of government.
That means punishing crimes. The goal is not vengeance. Nor is it solely to provide justice for the victims, important as that is. It is also to send a strong message to would-be criminals: Don’t do it. It’s not worth it. Right now, we are sending the wrong message and, by doing so, we are encouraging law breaking on a massive scale.
That encouragement is the unifying theme behind these policy disasters, one on the border, the other in our cities. The other unifying theme is their justification under the fashionable rubric of “social justice” and “equity.” What those feel-good arguments ignore is that our criminal laws are democratic efforts to preserve personal safety and community integrity. Failing in those responsibilities harms all law-abiding citizens.
Mission accomplished.