COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM AND THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Violent BDS activists assault Israeli film festival attendees in Berlin.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 9, 2019
KAROL MARKOWICZ: Save us from the pointless burdens of the TSA.
The Transportation Security Administration was established in the wake of 9/11, when Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. Before that, private security agencies hired by the airlines handled security at the airports.
After the attacks, people demanded the government “do something” — and “something” is exactly what it did: It took over the role of airport security and bloated it to its current size, with more than 50,000 employees and a budget of more than $7 billion.
It’s now fully 18 years after 9/11. Perhaps it’s time to rethink our airport-security system and realize that what we implemented in our most fearful moments no longer serves us well.
For one thing, it doesn’t seem to work.
Well, government.
WOW: The Trayvon Hoax That Divided America Is About to Be Exposed.
Having written a book on the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin — If I Had a Son– I have been following Gilbert’s progress with interest. In fact, I introduced Gilbert to George Zimmerman, the man who shot Martin. Those who have followed the case know that not since the Scottsboro boys has any ordinary citizen endured the kind of malicious and conspicuously false reporting Zimmerman has. My hope was that Gilbert would set the record straight.
Gilbert has done that and more. In the course of his relentless research into the shooting and subsequent trial, I can say without risk of overstatement that he has unearthed a legal fraud the likes of which I know no parallel. Not only has Gilbert discovered it, but he has also proved it six ways from Sunday, including DNA and handwriting analysis.
Read the whole thing.
THERE’S NO MENTION OF PAPER BALLOTS, SO THIS IS ALL FOR SHOW: Democrats make renewed push for election security.
HARD TARGET: We can stop mass shootings without restricting Second Amendment liberties.
It’s time to adapt to the era of mass shootings. Every school, every church, every large retailer and every government facility should have armed, obvious guards at all entrances. We don’t need to force teachers to take up arms, we simply need ever-present, trained, armed security in schools. This is now the cost of protecting our children and of protecting the public.
It would take some getting used to, but seeing an armed guard at the entrance to Wal-Mart would not be a sign of a totalitarian police state. It would be an example of free people self-organizing to create new institutions to protect public safety.
A larger armed security profession would also create career opportunities for young professionals answering the call to protect their fellow citizens as well as for retired military and law enforcement.
And for those who might balk at the expense of additional security, try getting into an office building on K Street in Washington without running a gauntlet of security. We’ve already decided that our elites and lobbyists’ lives are worth protecting. Why haven’t we made the same choice for students in schools and shoppers in department stores?
Once we have secured our public and private spaces against the deranged, we can start trying to address root causes. Every civilization has developed means and institutions for reining in the impulses of boys and disciplining them into responsible men, but we’ve lost ours.
When you label something as toxic, eventually people will behave that way.
THEY WERE JUST HOLDING IT FOR A FRIEND: Iranians Can’t Explain to the IAEA Why There are Traces of Uranium at Secret Warehouse.
UNEXPECTEDLY? China’s exports fall unexpectedly in August, as trade war continues to slam industrial economy.
Furthermore, the much-reported 3.8 per cent depreciation of the yuan in August failed to stop the decline in exports – despite Washington’s fears that it was being used to give China’s exporters an unfair advantage.
It is a far cry from the double-digit expansion that characterised the export machine that powered the Chinese economy for more than two decades.
The weak export figures will put further pressure on China’s already slowing economy. The central bank on Friday said it would cut the amount of cash banks must hold as reserves to the lowest level since 2007 in a bid to inject liquidity into the economy and stimulate demand.
And that’s with American businesses front-loading their orders from China in the weeks before the new tariffs kicked in.
I’d also add that the consumer-driven economy China needs to develop to replace slowing export growth requires a kind of consumer-driven country which Communists have a hard time delivering — and over the long run, an impossible time accommodating.
NO, IT SHOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE: Should it be harder to label a building historic when its owner disagrees?
If you want to preserve a building, buy it.
BUT THE NARRATIVE! Global Economy Forecast: Not As Bad For The U.S. As Headlines Imply.
FISHING EXPEDITION: DOJ Demands Apple And Google Reveal Names Of 10,000+ Users Of Gun Scope App. “It’s called the Obsidian 4 app, and it’s used to connect cell phones to ATN rifle smart scopes to calibrate them and allow live streaming and videos. A motion filed by the Department Of Justice Thursday demands that Apple and Google turn over the estimated10,000 plus names and identifying data of users. The motion revealed by Forbes Magazine sent ripples through the 2nd amendment community and should send shivers through anyone who believes in the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal search and seizures.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Hater Hits Wall St. Statue With Banjo Edition. “Mark Sanford is the latest Republican who hopes to get a book deal, along with an invite to a Trump-hate threesome with Joe Scarborough and Mrs. Morning Joe by issuing a primary “challenge” to the president.”
September 6, 2019
BUSINESSES ACTUALLY JUST TAKE THE EXTRA MONEY, CHOP IT INTO TINY PIECES, AND WHIP IT INTO ICE CREAM: Ben and Jerry’s Co-Founders Say Tax Cuts Don’t Help Businesses Expand: ‘It’s a Lie.’
A LONELY NATION ROLLS ITS EYES AT YOU: Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz abandons 2020 presidential ambitions.
I NEVER DID: Don’t believe the lie of zero-emission cars.
OLD MAN YELLS AT BABY: Bernie Sanders Tells Baby to Keep It Down at Campaign Event.
Either the “democratic” socialists think Trump is such a goner next year that they’ll be able to get away with virtually anything, or they understand they have little chance against him and are playing footsie with the big check-writing progressives.
Or maybe they really are just crazy.
TAMMY BRUCE: Eric McCormack and Debra Messing tweets expose totalitarian instincts of liberals. “From Rep. Maxine Waters calling for personal direct harassment of Trump supporters, to Mr. Castro, who released the names and employers of Trump donors in Texas, and now for these two sitcom actors calling for a list of political heretics, the point is to frighten, intimidate, bully and threaten people into silence and retreat.”
Shut up or else, they explained.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Florida Man Friday: The Hurricane Dorian Prepper Edition.
It’s safe to laugh now that the worst has passed, but some thoughts and prayers for folks in the Carolinas might be nice.
WE DON’T NEED NO ‘DOCTRINATION: High School Assignment Forces Kids to Disclose Sexual Orientation, Reveals Massive Political Agenda.
THEY’LL USE THE DATA COLLECTED FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES WORTH FAR MORE THAN $10 MILLION: Facebook Just Announced $10 Million ‘Deepfakes Detection Challenge.’