Archive for May, 2023
17th May 2023
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17th May 2023
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Imagine if, after the Supreme Court’s racial integration decision Brown v. Board of Education, the segregationist advocacy groups and Southern senators had showed up outside the Supreme Court to announce legislation to change the number of justices. Or if, after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore, the Democrats had tried to change the outcome by adding justices to the court in hope of achieving a different result.
There’d be justifiable outrage at interference with judicial independence, and with outcome-based disappointment driving process-based changes. And there’d be understandable skepticism about whether such court-packing would lead to a never-ending cycle of each new Congressional majority changing the rules to add justices who agreed with them to the high court, eviscerating the judiciary’s constitutional role as a check and balance to the other branches of government.
On Tuesday, Senators Markey and Warren of Massachusetts and Tina Smith of Minnesota, along with representatives Jerrold Nadler, Hank Johnson, Cori Bush, and Adam Schiff, Democrats all, introduced the Judiciary Act of 2023, which would add four justices to create a 13-member Supreme Court.
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17th May 2023
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The latest example was served up on Monday, as two families brawled just beyond Disney World’s entrance gates, in a fight that reportedly arose from a family’s desire to take a photo at the iconic location.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to emergency calls at 2:30pm. Reportedly, one family asked another family to move so they could take a group photo at a spot that has the Magic Kingdom train station as a backdrop, along with Mickey Mouse topiary and, this year, a sign calling out the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company.
Tempers flared, and violent impulses prevailed as a member of one family reportedly punched a member of another in the face. Things then quickly devolved into the kind of messy, co-ed slugfest seen with increasing regularity as American society steadily unravels — and companies like Disney set out to destroy the values that once bound it.
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17th May 2023
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In Israel, Inga Avramyan, 80 years old, died under a collapsing ceiling. The elderly immigrant from Armenia heard the sirens warning of an Islamic terror strike, but did not reach the bomb shelter in time because she was trying to help her disabled husband make it along with her.
Sergei, Inga’s husband, had lost a leg in a car accident and needed a wheelchair to get around. The rocket smashed through the side of the building, the ceiling collapsed and Inga was killed.
Four days before the Islamic Jihad rocket killed Inga, Senator Bernie Sanders helped host an event promoting Islamic Jihad in the Senate building.
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17th May 2023
North Dakoka State University.
Window condensation and other moisture problems are likely in a weatherized home without air exchangers. This is a problem for both people and the home structure. Bringing in outside air and exhausting indoor air (ventilation) dilutes or removes the indoor pollutants and moisture. The question is: How do you remove the moisture and pollutants while retaining the heated or cooled air? An air-to-air heat exchanger will solve that problem. Air exchangers transfer the thermal energy of the indoor air to incoming fresh air, allowing the moisture and pollutants to be vented but retaining the heat. This publication describes reasons to use air-to-air heat exchangers, technology of exchangers, the cost advantages of installing them and some tips on choosing a heat exchanger that is right for your home.
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17th May 2023
Freethink.
UC Davis researchers have created part-natural, part-artificial “cyborg” cells that might one day be engineered to do everything from fight cancer to clean up the environment.
Synthetic bio 101: Mother Nature is an excellent engineer — the human body alone contains about 200 types of cells, each precisely designed to serve a specific function while also working in harmony with all the other types.
When you add in all the other cells found in the 1.2 million identified species on Earth, you end up with a lot of perfect little biological machines — and a goal of synthetic biology is to put those machines to work.
One way to do this is by genetically engineering cells to have new abilities — this could mean modifying the single-celled organism E. coli to convert plastic waste into useful vanillin, or engineering cancer patients’ immune cells to recognize tumors.
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17th May 2023
ZMan dispels the fog.
The overused cliché about the truth being the first casualty of war is an overused cliché because it is so obviously true. Wars are the result of rulers on both sides seeing advantage in the suffering of their people. That means producing a story to explain to the people why they must sacrifice for the ruler. The war in the Ukraine is no exception, but it may be the first war to be turbocharged by the narrative industrial complex through the internet.
For several months, the usual suspects have been promoting a narrative framework with regards to a Ukrainian counter-offensive. Tens of billions of Western arms have been shipped to Ukraine, along with plane loads of cash. This has been done to great political fanfare in every Western capital. Slowly, the story evolved into the great spring offensive in which a newly formed Ukrainian army using Western super-weapons would smash through the Russian lines and send them fleeing.
The explanation for how this would work or why it should be attempted was never provided, but a good story is worth skipping over the details. Russia has about half a million men in Ukraine at the moment. They have air superiority, and they have a growing advantage in firepower. How a seventy-thousand-man attack force could smash through their lines was left to the imagination. That is where people like Edward Luttwak filled the void with serious sounding plans for the attack.
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17th May 2023
Scott Johnson at Power Line.
Catching up with last week’s hard copy Wall Street Journal, I was struck by the numerous uses of “militants” in lieu of “terrorists” or “jihadists” to describe members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Take the headline of the May 9 story by Dov Lieber, Aaron Boxerman, and Anas Baba, for example: “Israeli Strikes Kill Senior Militants, Civilians in Gaza.”
Query what you have to do to become a “senior militant.” Does anyone read this stuff or pause to reflect how utterly inane it sounds? But I digress.
The story reported in the opening sentence: “Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinian militant commanders and 12 others who were mostly civilians in a surprise attack in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Israeli military and Palestinian officials said, threatening a new round of escalating violence.”
Going back to May 2, Lieber and Baba also reported the story “Gaza Militants Fire Rockets at Israel After Palestinian Hunger Striker Dies.” You have to be pretty “militant” to fire rockets at civilians.
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
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17th May 2023
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17th May 2023
The Antiplanner.
Crime, on-line shopping, telecommuting and exorbitant rents are all contributing to the decline of downtowns, observes an article on CNN Business. But the real reason downtowns are declining, according to the article, is that people don’t live in dense enough neighborhoods.
“To reinvent downtown retail,” asserts the article without any room for debate or citation of evidence, cities need “denser neighborhoods with a broader mix of affordable housing, experiential retail, restaurants, entertainment, parks and other amenities.” Where have I heard that before?
How are denser neighborhoods going to solve crime and homeless problems? How are they going to fill office spaces when people are working at home? How will they get people to stop shopping on line? How will they make rents more affordable when higher densitis increase land values?
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17th May 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
The global liberal movement is trying to destroy modern, scientific agriculture. Liberals want organic farming–no intensive nitrogen fertilization–along with an end to animal husbandry and banning of pretty much all effective herbicides and pesticides. All great ideas, if you don’t care about billions of people dying. Just ask anyone in Sri Lanka or the Netherlands.
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16th May 2023
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16th May 2023
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16th May 2023
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16th May 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill banning DEI initiatives in public colleges (NPR)
DeSantis curtails diversity, equity & inclusion programs at state colleges (CBS News)
DeSantis signs bill banning funding for college diversity programs (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
DeSantis bans state funding for diversity, inclusion programs at Florida public universities (Fox)
CNN Dismayed DeSantis Would Defend NY Marine from Lefty D.A.
Rudy Giuliani made antisemitic remarks about Jews’ genitalia, mocked ‘freaking Passover’ observance, new lawsuit claims (The Forward) The Forward is an explicitly Marxist newspaper for Jewish Red Diaper babies.
Online Reviewers Are Being Absolutely Brutal About Josh Hawley’s ‘Manhood’ (Daily Beast) They mean left-wing reviewers of course–are there any other kind?–like the Daily Beast.
Woman sues Rudy Giuliani, saying he coerced her into sex, owes her $2 million in unpaid wages (Associated Press)
Haley’s financial disclosure report shows lucrative speaking engagements (CNN) Although not as lucrative as Hillary’s.
Paul Gosar’s Staffer Is a Neo-Nazi (The New Republic) Uh, not quite.
Protesting Homes of SC Justices: Free Speech or Intimidation?
‘Anti-Homophobia’ Event Disrupted by Muslim Students
Study: Taxpayer-Subsidized PBS Whacks GOP with 85% Negative News
DeSantis’s celebration of vigilantism is a new low in MAGA extremism (Washington Post) MAGA is the New Nigger. Greg Sargent feels Philip Bump encroaching on his turf.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Media Malpractice: Russian Hoax Confirmed by the Durham Report
Inside Tucker Carlson’s Battle to Trade His $20 Million Fox News Salary for a Twitter Show (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety) Yeah, as if Variety has any clue as to what Tucker is doing. (In the Narrative media, EXCLUSIVE means they just made it up.)
After breaking itself, Congress tries to break the rest of government, too (Washington Post) By ‘Congress’ they mean House Republicans, and by ‘breaking the government’ they mean ‘trying to put the brakes on Democrat attempts to buy votes with taxpayer money’.
The Republican Embrace of Vigilantism Is No Accident (N.Y. Times) There is, of course, no ‘Republican embrace of vigilantism’, merely Republican defense of citizens who act in self-defense and defense of their fellow citizens; which is what all this hand-waving is attempting to obscure.
Who Is Leonard Leo’s Mysterious Dark Money King? (The New Republic) I’m guessing it isn’t George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, or any of the billionaire Hollywood moguls and tech bros that fund Democrat PACs.
Conservative pundits are increasingly open about who they think should be killed (Media Matters for America) Proglodytes, by contrast, have never hidden their hit lists.
John Durham Owes the American People an Apology for Wasting Their Money (Daily Beast) Yeah, only Democrats are allowed to waste the American people’s money.
GOP Highlights Attacks on Pregnancy Centers, Pro-Lifers Under Biden Admin
House Democrat introduces resolution to expel Santos (CNN) I’m surprised it took this long.
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16th May 2023
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16th May 2023
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16th May 2023
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16th May 2023
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A California city may lose out on a new restaurant from world-famous chef José Andrés because of its ban on natural gas.
The owner of the mall where Andrés was set to open his Mediterranean restaurant Zaytinya is threatening to sue Palo Alto over the ban, which starting this year prevents new buildings from having natural gas connections.
The restaurant relies on “traditional cooking methods that require gas appliances to achieve its signature, complex flavors,” said Anna Shimko, a lawyer representing the group that owns the Stanford Shopping Center where Andrés leased space for the restaurant. Palo Alto city council members discussed the letter behind closed doors on May 8 but took no public action.
Shimko said the building’s plans were approved by the city in 2019, years before the gas ban was imposed. She added that some of the appliances the restaurant staff needs “do not have electrically powered equivalents.”
“Without a gas connection and appliances, Zaytinya would be forced to alter its signature five-star reputation,” Shimko said, adding that if the ban is enforced, “Zaytinya will likely choose not to locate within the city.”
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16th May 2023
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U.S. agencies under President Joe Biden have proposed restrictions on deli meats and are considering a ban on chocolate milk in school cafeterias.
The Department of Agriculture is “considering a ban on flavored milk—including chocolate, strawberry, and other varieties—in elementary and middle schools when it adopts new standards for school meals,” the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. While supporters say flavored milk contributes to childhood obesity, opponents say the ban “will lead to children drinking less milk.”
“We want to take a product that most kids like and that has nine essential nutrients in it and say, ‘You can’t drink this, you have to drink plain’?” asked Urban School Food Alliance executive director Katie Wilson.
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16th May 2023
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Eight states have enacted new education choice policies or have expanded existing ones so far this year, including Indiana, Montana, and South Carolina earlier this month alone.
Of the eight, four states—Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, and Utah—enacted school choice policies that will be available to all K-12 students, joining Arizona and West Virginia in making every child eligible for education savings accounts or ESA-like policies that allow families to choose the learning environments that align with their values and work best for their children.
Indiana came close by expanding eligibility for its voucher and tax-credit scholarship policies to about 97% of K-12 students statewide. South Carolina’s new ESA is limited to low- and middle-income families, while Montana’s new ESA will expand education options for students with special needs.
More states have adopted robust education choice policies this year than ever before—and several state legislatures are still in session. This week, three state legislatures are making progress toward adopting new education choice policies or significantly expanding existing ones.
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16th May 2023
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The head of the Satanic Temple in Austin, Texas, is set to give an invocation before Tuesday night’s city council meeting in San Marcos, Hays County.
No surprises here. San Marcos is one of the blue urban pustules on the otherwise rosy red cheeck of Texas.
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16th May 2023
The American Mind.
According to a recent report in the New York Post, many members of Gen Z (Zoomers) are lousy employees. A majority (65 percent) of employers say that they’ve had to fire them more often; one out of eight Zoomers were fired from their jobs in the first week; and three out of four employers “say Gen Z is hardest to work with.” Most of the challenges of working with Zoomers are attributed to their general lack of professionalism, excessive sense of entitlement, and most of all, their addiction to smartphones. Apparently, the Zoomers struggle more than the millennials (my generation), who are usually the subject of such generational criticisms: “even Millennials and prior generations understood that you come to work and you do what your employer asks of you.”
Who would’ve guessed that a culture that abhors character development, celebrates mediocrity, and encourages screen addiction from an early age would produce a generation of incompetent young adults who can’t function in the workplace? Who could believe that indoctrinating them with identity politics would make them overly sensitive and impossible to work with? How is it possible that so many people who grew up in broken homes, never had a father, lost their innocence at an early age, had poor mental health, and never practiced religion could be so moody, flaky, and inconsistent?
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16th May 2023
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A 12-year-old and a 20-year-old are both facing a murder charge after a restaurant employee was gunned down during an altercation with a customer Saturday night in Keene.
Flowers and a cross now stand outside the Sonic Drive-In on Old Betsy Road in Keene. It’s a growing memorial to Matthew Davis, a 32-year-old employee and father who was shot and killed while on the job Saturday night.
According to a statement from Keene Police, the shooting happened at about 9:40 p.m. Angel Gomez, 20, went to the Sonic with several passengers and was acting “disorderly” in the parking lot when Davis confronted him for urinating in the parking lot, Keene Police Chief James Kidd said.
The confrontation turned physical and a 12-year-old who was in Gomez’s car pulled out an assault rifle and fired six rounds at Davis, Kidd said.
Gomez? Obviously a Neo-Nazi white supremacist.
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16th May 2023
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16th May 2023
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Last week witnessed the first tremors of what could be a welcome revolution: the resignation en masse of the forty-strong editorial board of NeuroImage magazine — regarded as the leading publication for brain-imaging research in the world. The board, whose members include very senior figures in the world of brain science, is protesting what it sees as the publisher Elsevier’s greedy and unethical behavior.
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16th May 2023
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I’ve been interested in comments made by various public health officials reflecting total amnesia about events during Covid. The canard, actively promoted by the officials and known to be fictitious, that the vaccines prevented transmission, was a dagger in the heart of an already fragile social cohesion. And now these officials are pretending to be mystified by the suggestion that they had anything to do with lockdowns, mandates, contact tracing, school closures, etc.
The people at Grabien have compiled a helpful retrospective to keep actual events and media perspectives from being memory-holed. Worth watching.
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16th May 2023
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Special counsel John Durham, in a widely anticipated report Monday, condemned the Justice Department and FBI for their conduct in the “Russian collusion” investigation of Donald Trump.
Durham’s investigation looked at the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the name of the FBI probe of whether Trump or his 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russians to win the election.
The investigation was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, after Trump was elected president. Mueller’s team concluded there was no evidence of conspiracy or collusion between Trump or his campaign and Russia.
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15th May 2023
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15th May 2023
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15th May 2023
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15th May 2023
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15th May 2023
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15th May 2023
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15th May 2023
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15th May 2023
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The following video (originally in Arabic with French subtitles) was recorded by a “Belgian” man talking about how wonderful it is for Moroccan Muslims in Brussels. What he says about the ethnic and demographic changes in Belgium would be labeled “conspiracy theories” if white people were to make the same assertions.
Note that he says the process has been underway since at least the 1970s. In other words: it was planned a long time ago and has been implemented gradually ever since.
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15th May 2023
The Spectator.
Never before has a generation of males been solely responsible for the gathering and preparation of their own food. Historically, women played a crucial role in deciding what families would eat. And since many women now (especially those on the leading edge of nutrition influencing) gravitate more toward “plant-based” diets, it makes sense that men would look for alternatives to meal plans primarily comprised of soy and beans. With no sensible women to help them, it is unsurprising that men on a mission to eat meat might go a little crazy and avoid eating any plants at all.
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15th May 2023
The American Mind.
As a conservative AP English teacher and AP Exam reader, I have something of a love-hate relationship with College Board.
On one hand, I love the rigor and standards of Advanced Placement classes. For students willing to work hard and make the most of their time in high school, AP classes are a great option that will challenge them and offer them a chance at earning college credit. Moreover, they find their community in AP, something especially critical in otherwise rundown public schools where the world outside the AP bubble is mired in crime and mediocrity—for all its cheesiness today, the eighties film “Stand and Deliver” actually captures this reality pretty well. Both as a student and teacher, I’ll always be grateful that AP was there for the kids who needed it.
On the other hand, the leftist bias in the curricula, along with progressive pedagogy that emphasizes skills over content, has tarnished the luster of College Board. In history courses, which seem to receive a makeover every few years, these problems are especially pronounced. In English, there’s been a noticeable shift toward diverse ethnic or racial voices, and there’s certainly a relativistic approach to texts featured in these courses (for example, students were asked to analyze a portion of Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir to demonstrate their knowledge of rhetoric). I do encounter teachers, usually from very progressive states, who take a progressive approach in their classes and score exam essays with this prejudice, but indoctrination isn’t implicit in the course curriculum itself.
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15th May 2023
The American Mind.
With the recent irresponsible bank bailouts by the U.S. government and culture war over Bud Light, American capitalism seems to have gone off the rails. However, there’s a method to the madness. These shenanigans are symptoms of an underlying malady. It goes by various names—crony capitalism, ESG, woke capital—but its essence is simple: cool, calculating deals between elites to maximize wealth and power.
Standard economics provides the interpretive key. All we must do is take the toolkit economists use to analyze “private” choice, such as exchange in markets, and apply it to “public” choice, namely politics. Collective action is absolutely a forum for exchange. Representatives from Podunk and Decadentapolis logroll to get each other’s bills passed. Bureaucrats from the Department of Mission Creep and the Micromanagement Agency trade influence and favors to acquire larger budgets. It’s exchange all the way down. Crony-wokeism is no exception.
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15th May 2023
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If you want your murder to matter, you need to be shot, not stabbed. How much coverage did the four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in their apartment last year get? Even though theirs was the first murder in Moscow, Idaho in 7 years, you probably didn’t hear about it.
Mass stabbings don’t have the same sexy cachet as mass shootings. Unlike the UK, no one responds to mass stabbings by proposing to ban chef’s knives. (Yet.)
But not all guns are equal.
If you really want people to notice your murder, you had better arrange to be shot by an AR-15 or some mean-looking gun that Democrats want to ban as a “weapon of war”. Handguns are used in 78% of mass shootings. Like the kind that happen every weekend all over Chicago. And you don’t want to be just another statistic among the “15 shot over a bloody Sunday afternoon”.
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15th May 2023
Washington Post.
At the Nation’s Gun Show in Chantilly, spirits seemed high. People wandered from booth to booth, and the scent of popcorn filled the air. It could have been mistaken for a state fair or weekend flea market were it not for the rows of weapons and accessories — gun parts, AR build kits and body armor — laid out on every surface. It was easy to overlook the one common emotion underlying the event: fear.
Here were weekend shoppers intently inspecting tools of death: moms testing the heft of handguns and fathers stocking up on ammo. When I asked attendees and sellers what gun ownership meant to them, most replied with the same word: “protection.”
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15th May 2023
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Buried long into an interminable New York Times thumbsucker about intergenerational wealth transfer and racial inequality comes this sentence: “The president’s latest budget proposes largely offsetting spending on social programs with revenue from a minimum 25 percent annual wealth tax on households with a net worth of $100 million or more.”
I follow this stuff pretty closely and somehow I missed Biden proposing a “25 percent annual wealth tax.”
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15th May 2023
New York Times.
In Paraguay, the Colorado Party has held power for seven decades. On Election Day, it rounds up Indigenous people and pays them for their votes.
Much the same way Democrats do ‘ballot harvesting’ in urban slums.
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15th May 2023
The Spectator.
New York City seems like a gag that’s gone too far. “First, we’ll release all the criminals because too many black bodies are in prison! Then we’ll denounce the police as Nazis and refuse to prosecute any suspects they arrest. The city will be overrun with violent criminals — raping robbing, assaulting and killing at will… But if anyone steps up to protect the citizenry from the mayhem that’s been intentionally inflicted on them, well, gentleman, then we’ll prosecute the hell out of that douchebag.”
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15th May 2023
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Guess who stood for the national anthem? Starting in 2020, WNBA start Brittney Griner said she and her teammates would protest the national anthem. Previously, “During a game between the Phoenix Mercury and the Los Angeles Sparks, the two teams walked off the court while the National Anthem played. Interestingly enough, Griner mentioned that this will not be the last time she would walk off the court.”
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Fast-forward to her return to freedom in the United States and her first competitive game since her release, in a preseason Phoenix Mercury against the Los Angeles Sparks game, which took place Friday…
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15th May 2023
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15th May 2023
Joel Kotkin.
We will soon be leaving the first quarter of the 21st century behind us. But in the minds of our transportation planners, the punditry, and some real estate interests, the way forward is actually to step back to the glories of the 19th century. At the state level, and most significantly in Washington, we are about to pour an unprecedented $20 billion more into transit, especially subways and other trains. This is folly: changing demographics and geography, as well as new technologies, suggest a very different future for how most of us get around. We are simply not going to become a nation of train travelers, and it would be pointless—not to say destructive—to try.
There’s nothing new here. Much of the national media, in chorus with urban political and economic leaders, have been pushing these train-focused approaches since the days of Jimmy Carter. The stated aim is usually to move Americans away from their supposedly evil and pernicious love of the private automobile. Americans drive not because they irrationally love cars—although some do—but because it is simply by far the best way to get around.
Trains take you from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be. That was fine when the alternative was horses or bicycles, but we have moved beyond that now.
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15th May 2023
Gates of Vienna.
A culture-enricher attacked gendarmes with an iron bar and a knife in the town of Mornas in southeastern France. He shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during his close encounter with law enforcement, but the authorities say they have no clue as to his motive.
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
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14th May 2023
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14th May 2023
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