Andrew McCarthy
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022
Peggy Noonan
Biden’s Georgia Speech Is a Break Point
He thought he was merely appealing to his base. He might have united the rest of the country against him.
Glenn Greenwald
Senate Democrats Use the Jim Crow Filibuster to Protect the Kremlin
Indeed, few episodes have revealed what utter propagandists and unhinged conspiracy theorists the corporate media are more than the controversy over Nord Stream 2. At exactly the same time these media outlets were insisting that Trump was little more than a treasonous, subservient tool of Putin — controlled through Moscow's blackmail — Trump was doing everything possible to sabotage this pipeline, arguably the most vital interest of Russia (it competes for that title only with Ukraine, which Trump, infuriating the Russians, swamped with lethal arms after Obama largely refused to do so). Trump was threatening, cajoling, and trying to coerce Germany into buying U.S. natural gas rather than from the Russians, arguing that U.S. expenditures on NATO and on Germany's military protection obligated Berlin to buy from the U.S. instead. The Trump administration used sanctions regimes and other tools to prevent completion of that pipeline — an extremely odd act for a Russian-controlled asset, to put it mildly.
Worst U.S. Inflation is Huge Underestimate
Government's CPI says the cost of shelter rose 4% but housing prices are up 20%
AP
Omicron wave prompts media to rethink which data to report
The Associated Press has recently told its editors and reporters to avoid emphasizing case counts in stories about the disease. That means, for example, no more stories focused solely on a particular country or state setting a one-day record for number of cases, because that claim has become unreliable.
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Matt Taibbi
Vaccine Aristocrats Strike Again
As yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, reports of yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Bloomberg: EU Warns Repeat Boosters Could Weaken Immune System
Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/repeat-booster-shots-risk-overloading-immune-system-ema-says
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Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Pat Buchanan
Where Does NATO Enlargement End?
It is easy to understand why these nations would want the U.S. obligated to fight on their behalf. What is not understandable is why the U.S. would issue such war guarantees. Why would we commit to risk war with a nuclear-armed Russia on behalf of nations no one has ever regarded as vital interests of the United States of America?
Monday, January 10, 2022
Victor Davis Hanson
What Makes Riots, Conspiracies, Cabals, and Insurrections ‘Good’ or ‘Bad’?
"There is only the left-wing desire through any means necessary to obtain, increase, and use power to alter the Constitution and our long-held traditions and customs of governance, especially when the majority in a constitutional republic opposes such efforts. The lesson then is that all means are justified to obtain morally superior ends—with the caveat that only leftists can be morally superior."
Robert Malone
From Wikipedia:
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever(EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses.[1] Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after becoming infected with the virus.[3] The first symptoms are usually fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches.[1] These are usually followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash and decreased liver and kidney function,[1] at which point, some people begin to bleed both internally and externally.[1] The disease kills between 25% and 90% of those infected—about 50% on average.[1] Death is often due to shock from fluid loss, and typically occurs between six and 16 days after the first symptoms appear.[2]
Heather Mac Donald
Insurrections and Double Standards
Reveling in the anniversary of the Capitol riot, Democrats and the media dubiously brand it a right-wing “insurrection”—while ignoring the urban anarchy that began in May 2020.
The real consequence of January 6 is rather the excuse that the riot gives the Left to go after conservative causes and conservative speech, all in the name of fighting an imaginary white supremacist threat. And to ensure that the pretext remains vital, leaders from Biden on down are peddling distortions and unctuous, newly found patriotism. . .
But the crime and riots that the Democrats alternately tolerate and justify also have the potential to unravel democracy. If law enforcement is delegitimated and hindered from doing its job, if property is not secure, if civilians fear being held up at gunpoint, pistol-whipped, or shot when they enter the public square or even in their homes, then there is no more security and no conditions for prosperity. The George Floyd riots also took aim at the symbols of government—courthouses, prosecutors’ offices, police stations, City Halls, and squad cars. The cop hatred that they amplified has proved far more lethal than the January 6 convulsion. Far more people have participated in the George Floyd riots and in the ongoing assault on law and order than breached the Capitol. The events of January 6, 2021, do not meet any legal definition of “insurrection.” But if Democrats and the mainstream media insist on the term, then the violence of the last two years has also been an insurrectionary force.
Legal Insurrection:
Mass Formation Psychosis.
The Madness of Crowds.
And The End Of Progressive America.
Hope in the midst of despair. But first, things will fall apart, so get ready.
Roger Kimball
Trump in 2024? Maybe
What’s certain is not too many Americans will be willing to hand over the honor of choosing the next president to Liz Cheney and her smug, entitled, and repellent confrères.
There might be some positive good achieved if the Left and the NeverTrump neither-Left-nor-Right were to suspect that they might themselves be the object of the sort of hysteria they have visited upon their opponents. There might be something salutary in making that sort of intimidation reciprocal. It’s worth pondering.
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Jonah Goldberg
Transformers: Less Than Meets the Eye
The smartest thing for either party to do is engage in a serious campaign to simply make government do the stuff it’s supposed to do.
The quasi-religious obsession with making government an engine of social transformation is a direct byproduct of the government’s inability or unwillingness to do the simple, normal, work of government. Talking about “transformation,” “making America great,” fighting Frankfurt School Marxism, white supremacy, structural racism, the deep state, and all the other abstract hobgoblins that consume our imaginations is what you get when politicians don’t know—or don’t care—about doing their jobs.
Sarah Isgur
It's Time to Amend the Constitution
With Congress incapable of legislating, Constitutional amendments are now the country’s best way to tackle its biggest problems.
Dr. Marty Makary
Universities' Covid Policies Defy Science and Reason
Parents and students should challenge dogma with data.
Jonathan Turley
Federal vaccine mandate enters 'major question' land
The major-questions doctrine maintains that courts should not defer to agency statutory interpretations when the underlying questions concern “vast economic or political significance.”
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