Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 18, 2019
UNLESS YOU BELIEVE AS HE DOES, THAT JIM ACOSTA IS THE COUNTRY: It’s Been Six Months Since Trump Ended the White House Press Briefings—and the Country Is Fine.
OF COURSE THEY DO: Arizona Dems to Censure Senator Sinema for Not Being Crazy Enough.
PRIVACY: Millions of Americans’ medical records are out in the open on the internet. “Some servers with medical data in the US aren’t even protected by a password.”
THAT WOULD EXPLAIN A LOT, ACTUALLY: Just Admit It, Democrats: You Want to Lose Next Year.
JUST WHAT WE NEED: A TV Sequel to ‘Hogan’s Heroes.’ “The new show isn’t a cynical attempt at rebooting a classic. It isn’t even a cynical attempt at making a sequel. The new ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ seems more like a cynical attempt at stretching a beloved brand thin enough to cover something almost entirely unrelated. Boomers are probably getting too old now to care about this stuff, so I think what’s going on here is an attempt to tug at Gen X nostalgia for the reruns we watched as kids. Sheesh, we couldn’t even get a ‘Family Ties II: Family Tighter’.”
MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS: New Women’s March Board Member Hates Israel, Claims FBI Recruits For ISIS.
HAVING CHILDREN IS THE ULTIMATE CONFIDENCE VOTE ON THE FUTURE: Number of abortions in US falls to lowest since 1973.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Hollywood Ignores Avalanche of Pro-Kavanaugh Facts.
There’s been a lot of that going on, hasn’t there?
THE COLUMN KRUISER WAS BORN TO WRITE: NY Times Completes Its Long Journey Down the Toilet With ‘Women Poop’ Article.
WEIRD, HUH? Snopes Fact-Checkers Strangely Silent on NY Times’ Kavanaugh Smear.
Then again, why bother fact-checking a party organ like the NYT, when there are weightier publications to dissect like the Babylon Bee?
REALLY, HE’S FINE: Joe Biden says his child care tax credit would put 720 million women back into the workforce.
Video at the link.
My favorite part might be where he follows that up with, “I don’t want to sound like a wonk here.”
Trust me, Mr. Biden, you don’t.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Hillary Gets Drunker, Dems Try to Cancel God. “The most galling aspect of Hillary’s post-2016 political wandering in the desert isn’t that she keeps offering untruthful versions of why she isn’t president, it’s that she does it completely unchallenged by anyone in our brave media.”
BUY IN BULK AND SAVE: Extra-Long Sustainment Contracts Are Lockheed’s Latest Bid to Cut F-35 Costs.
MADURO’S NEW ECONOMIC POLICY: Venezuela Quietly Loosens Grip on Market, Tempering Economic Crisis. “The easing of controls is a risky move for a government that has publicly championed its state-led, socialist economic model as the country’s only salvation from greedy capitalists. But the measures are giving some life, even if limited, to the economy Mr. Maduro controls, despite a raft of U.S.-led financial sanctions and dozens of nations deeming his leadership illegitimate.”
A little bit of capitalism can pay for a whole lot of socialism, but the capitalists are always suckers in the end for thinking the controls won’t come back just as soon as the regime thinks it can get away with it.
(Classical reference in the headline.)
THAT WOULD BE NICE: The Navy Wants 3 New Virginia-Class Submarines Every Year.
The previous status quo had been for the Navy to drop from building two Virginia-Class boats per year to one in the early 2020s when construction of the new Columbia-Class nuclear armed submarines begins. The service then moved to a plan to build two Virginia-class submarines and one Columbia-class submarine concurrently, according to findings from a Navy assessment.
The proposed idea now, currently being explored by the Navy, is to jump up to three Virginia-class per year when Columbia-class production hits a lull in “off years.”
“I do believe there is a capacity to get to three a year in the off years for Columbia construction. We have gotten up to two per year and that is sustainable. There is capacity in the yard and as we negotiate this upcoming multI-year, we will look at pulling options in to add more submarines,” James Geurts, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development & Acquisition, told lawmakers at a Congressional House Armed Services Committee Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee.
As things stand now, the older Los Angeles-class attack subs are being retired faster than the Virginia-class boats can be brought into service, leading soon to a years-long “submarine gap” between service requirements and fleet size.
WELL, THAT’S A TAKE: The US blames Iran for the Saudi Arabia oil attacks, further escalating tensions.
When a bully sucker-punches your friend, you’re “escalating tensions” if you point it out.
Vox link, so click at your own risk.
September 17, 2019
EVERYTHING OLD IS STILL OLD: There’s another Battlestar Galactica reboot coming.
KYLE SMITH: The Real Reason for That Kavanaugh Smear. “Call it the asterisk strategy. This is a coordinated, full-on effort to undermine the legitimacy of Brett Kavanaugh’s work on the Supreme Court. The reputations of news outlets are so many eggs that must be broken in pursuit of this omelet.”
The Left is happy to taint or destroy any institution they can’t seize control of.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: FBI Arrests Chinese Official for Visa Fraud. “Arrest marks first legal counterattack on Beijing’s ‘Thousand Talents’ technology theft plan.”