Althouse sounds off:
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Christopher Bedford
One Year Ago, Big Tech Declared Open War On America
Big Tech hates us, and they aren’t going to stop.
Friday, January 7, 2022
Pat Buchanan
Why the Left Cannot Let Go of Jan. 6
The left cannot let go of Jan. 6. Indeed, it has fixated upon, exploited and exaggerated the riot to discredit and destroy the Trump presidency in the history books and to prevent Donald Trump from ever running or being elected president again.
Question: If the left is so terrified of Trump it feels it must prevent him from even running again, by imposing a criminal conviction, what does that say about the left’s belief in American democracy?
What does that tell us about the left’s trust in the people?
Victor Davis Hanson
Who Are The Real Insurrectionists?
We are in a dangerous revolutionary cycle. But the threat is not from loud, buffoonish one-day rioters on Jan. 6. Such characters did not for 120 days loot, burn, attack courthouses and police precincts, cause over 30 deaths, injure 2,000 policemen, and destroy at least $2 billion in property — all under the banner of revolutionary justice.
Even more ominously, stone-cold sober elites are systematically waging an insidious revolution in the shadows that seeks to dismantle America’s institutions and the rule of law as we have known them.
via Althouse (with video)
"Ted Cruz grovels to Tucker Carlson over Jan. 6 'terrorist attack' remark"
Althouse: "We need and value our protesters in America. Yes, sometimes, some protesters go too far. They get violent. They break into buildings. But big protests are not terrorist attacks. I can understand the motivation to pressure people to stay home and not even appear in a protest lest they be deemed to participate in terrorism. That's a contemptible motivation."
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Glenn Greenwald
The Histrionics and Melodrama Around 1/6 Are Laughable, but They Serve Several Key Purposes
As Kamala Harris compares 1/6 to 9/11
and Nancy Pelosi introduces the cast of Hamilton to sing about democracy,
today's inanity should not obscure its dangers.
The number of people killed by pro-Trump supporters at the January 6 Capitol riot is equal to the number of pro-Trump supporters who brandished guns or knives inside the Capitol. That is the same number as the total of Americans who — after a full year of a Democrat-led DOJ conducting what is heralded as “the most expansive federal law enforcement investigation in US history” — have been charged with inciting insurrection, sedition, treason or conspiracy to overthrow the government as a result of that riot one year ago. Coincidentally, it is the same number as Americans who ended up being criminally charged by the Mueller probe of conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election, and the number of wounds — grave or light — which AOC, who finally emerged at night to assure an on-edge nation that she was “okay" while waiting in an office building away from the riot at the rotunda, sustained on that solemn day.
Alex Berenson
Has Covid vaccine efficacy turned negative?
Data from highly vaccinated countries suggests strongly that the answer is yes; vaccinated people are at higher risk of infection from Omicron.
Jonathan Turley
What Ever Happened to the Prosecution of Donald Trump for Incitement?
The fact is that Trump never actually called for violence or a riot. Rather, he urged his supporters to march on the Capitol to express opposition to the certification of electoral votes and to support the challenges being made by some members of Congress. He expressly told his followers “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard". . .
Moreover, if Trump is not legally responsible for the riot, he is not legally responsible for waiting to call for the rioters to stop. What the Committee would need is evidence that Trump actively withheld resources or obstructed efforts to quell the riot. Thus far, the record shows that refusal of a large national guard deployment was refused on Capitol Hill and not at the White House.
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
'A national emergency'
More adults between 18 and 45 died of fentanyl overdoses in 2020
than COVID-19, motor vehicle accidents, cancer and suicide
Joel Hirschhorn
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ivermectin
Shame on the medical and public health establishments
Victor Davis Hanson
The Truths We Dared Not Speak in 2021
At the end f this terrible year, we are left only with ironies.
Monday, January 3, 2022
Frank Miele via Althouse
When half the people are considered by the other half to be malignant, prevaricating miscreants, there is no hope for true democracy — rule by the people. The best you can expect is demi-democracy, rule of the people by half of the people. That may be the hope of the liberals, but they should be careful what they wish for. Despite their frantic attacks on the Deplorables, it is not yet certain who will prevail in the war they have unleashed. Not a war of weapons, but a war of words and a war of ideas.
Sunday, January 2, 2022
WSJ: Cloth masks may not protect against omicron
The Mayo Clinic is now requiring all patients and visitors to wear surgical masks, N95 or KN95 masks
Glenn Greenwald
NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi
to Urge Assange's Extradition, Hiding His Key Role
The most dangerous, and under-discussed, development in corporate media is the spate of ex-security state agents now employed to deliver the "news."
When Figliuzzi speaks — or when John Brennan or James Clapper or Andrew McCabe do — the lips of these media outlets are moving but the CIA and the FBI and the DOJ are the ones actually speaking. That has been true for decades, but at least they had the decency to maintain the pretense. That security state agencies have now dispensed with the formalities and control these news outlets so directly reveals the utter impunity with which they now operate, particularly in establishment liberal circles.
Jonathan Turley
Calling Biden's 2021 “scandal free” is not merely an example of blinkered commentary, it is an exercise of willful blindness.
This is why magicians often make audience members part of the illusion. Houdini did not actually make his 10,000 pound elephant Jennie disappear. It was there the whole time but the audience did not want to see it. That’s the trick.
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