Progressive prosecutors always have the courage of their convictions as long as they’re just gasbagging about their lofty aspirations for society . . . which is to say, right up until their abstractions about “equity,” “systemic racism,” and the need to “reform” our “broken system” crash into the reality of violent, recidivist crime that destroys the lives of flesh-and-blood Americans.
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Glenn Greenwald
The Cynical and Dangerous Weaponization
of the "White Supremacist" Label
In dominant elite discourse, no evidence is needed to brand someone a "white supremacist."
The belief that it will produce political or personal gain suffices.
The term is still needed as a tool to fight actual racism, but those who most vocally and flamboyantly proclaim themselves solemnly devoted to that cause have rendered that tool virtually useless, thanks to their self-interested misuse and abuse of it.
Julie Kelly
Newsletter Peddlers Offended By Real Journalism Quit
Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg, despite their promise to provide “fact-based reporting and commentary . . . informed by conservative principles,” are not interested in the truth.
They are invertebrate frauds who got ahead of their imminent firings by swindling an all-too-eager corporate media system into believing they, not Tucker Carlson, hold the moral high ground and fealty to facts.
Hayes and Goldberg now end their careers at Fox as washed-up has-beens, slinking off into a political Siberia where their only future relevance will be to serve as a cautionary tale on how to squander what little talent or connections one ever had to take a parting shot at a far more influential rival while giving cover to an abusive regime hellbent on destroying the audience that helped elevate them to fame.
Former Pro Calls For "Investigation" After Another Soccer Player Suddenly Collapses
"[T]here has been a “5-fold increase in sudden cardiac deaths of FIFA players in 2021.”
Friday, November 26, 2021
WSJ Editorial Board
Biden’s Covid Death Milestone
More Americans have died of the virus in 2021 than in all of 2020.
"It would seem that Mr. Biden has done no better than Donald Trump in defeating Covid despite the benefit of vaccines, better therapies, and more clinical experience."
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post
A common thread in Waukesha tragedy, Kenosha shootings: Government failure
When is a racial hate crime not a racial hate crime?When it doesn’t advance the left’s, and the Democrats’, narrative.
When white teenager Kyle Rittenhouse shot three white men who were violently assaulting him, it somehow got treated by the press and politicians as a racial hate crime. President Joe Biden (falsely) called Rittenhouse a white supremacist, and the discussion of his case was so focused on racial issues that many Americans mistakenly thought that the three men Rittenhouse shot were black.
But when a black man, Darrell Brooks, with a long history of posting hateful anti-white rhetoric on social media drove a car into a mostly white Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring dozens, the press was eager to wish the story away. (The New York Times buried it on page A22.) Even when a Black Lives Matter activist connected it to the Rittenhouse verdict, observing “it sounds like the revolution has started,” the media generally downplayed it.
Matt Taibbi
Thanksgiving is awesome!
In the space of a generation America has gone from being a country brimming with undeserved over-confidence, to one whose intellectual culture has turned into an agonizing, apparently interminable run of performative self-flagellation. . .
But the historical self-mortification has gotten out of hand. American exceptionalism used to mean 300 million yahoos being so convinced they were a unique force for good in the world that history before 1776 was irrelevant. We’re now living through the moronic inverse: America is such a unique evil, we’re told, so much the standard-bearer for the oppression of innocent peoples everywhere, that human suffering before 1776 is hardly worth mentioning. Or before 1492, as it were, since a lot of the current fashion stems from our pseudo-intellectual class being unable suddenly to handle the revelations of one decades-old book.
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Bret Stephens/NYT via Althouse
Can Liberals Survive Progressivism?
"Last year’s protests often devolved into naked criminality, to which many progressives, including those in the news media, closed their eyes...notoriously including those 'fiery but mostly peaceful protests' in Kenosha, Wis. Opportunities for thoughtful police and justice-system reform were squandered in the rush to defame, defund, diminish or abolish. It may be that serious urban leaders like incoming mayor Eric Adams of New York can reverse the trend.... But progressive misgovernance has now tattooed the words 'soft on crime' on Democratic necks, and the country has noticed. It will take years to erase. And who has been helped the most by all this, politically speaking? Donald Trump and his mini-mes. The country won’t be safe from them until a more serious Democratic Party can set itself free from ideas that embarrass it and endanger us all."
Jonathan Turley
What Elephant? The Media Again Buries A Hunter Biden Scandal on Foreign Deals During the Biden Vice Presidency
[T]he disclosure of Biden’s role in securing one of the world’s largest cobalt mines for China (a key component to electric battery production) has been ignored by the major networks and many other print outlets. Once again, ABC. NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and other media just cannot see the elephant.
Ben Shapiro
Reality Always Wins
Reality with regard to criminality isn't all that complicated: when you free criminals unjustifiably in a misguided attempt to achieve "group equity," innocents suffer. When you take cops off the street, freeing criminals to work their will, innocents suffer. When you refuse to prosecute crime, criminals spot an opportunity.
Voters can either continue to deny reality and pay the price, or they can wake up to the simple fact that reality always wins. Until they do the latter, the criminals – and the politicians who enable them – will be the only winners.
Former U.S. Atty Andrew McCarthy
Progressive Prosecutor Project Strikes Again
(in Waukesha)
Charlie Hurt
Kyle Rittenhouse Exercised God-Given Rights When Attacked by Lawless Vigilantes
The eternal question of our time: Are the media evil or stupid?
The case of Kyle Rittenhouse is the latest example to expose the dishonesty and/or stupidity of the media in America today. Every step of that tragedy was encouraged, poisoned, hyped, or distorted by the media.
Monday, November 22, 2021
Liberal retired UW law prof, Ann Althouse:
"The government — in failing to maintain order in Kenosha — deserves blame for the Kyle Rittenhouse incident."
"Evers is at fault and so is the leadership of Kenosha."
Alex Berenson
If you like heart problems, you'll love the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines
So says a report on almost 600 patients presented last week at the American Heart Association's annual conference
Sunday, November 21, 2021
The Hill
US COVID-19 deaths in 2021 surpass last year's total
Unlike 2020, these deaths are not the fault of the president.
Protests erupt over virus limits in Austria, Italy, Croatia
Demonstrations against virus restrictions also took place
in Switzerland, Croatia, Italy, Northern Ireland and the Netherlands
Drew Holden
A summary of the lib media's outrageous pre-trial coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse
And, of course, defenders of Rittenhouse did so without evidence.
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