Saturday, March 5, 2022

Michael Shellenberger

The West’s Green Delusions Empowered Putin

While we banned plastic straws, Russia drilled and doubled nuclear energy production.

New York Times

The criminal investigation into the former president crashed amid a disagreement about the merits of bringing a case. The debate pitted a new district attorney against two veteran prosecutors who had pursued a case against Mr. Trump for years.

[Presumed guilty, but for a lack of evidence or witnesses. That's a hell of way to frame this story.]

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Arti Moeni / UnHerd

How Western Elites Exploit Ukraine

Reality is manipulated to strengthen their regime

London Times

Merkel’s legacy is in ruins, and a good thing too

"One of the worst geopolitical miscalculations ever. Putin can hardly have believed his luck, watching Germany close down nuclear power in favor of a gas fix from Moscow. Germany gets 55% of its gas, 45% and 40% of its oil from Russia."

Alex Berenson

A major Florida hospital chain, AdventHealth, just dropped its mask requirements EVEN FOR COVID UNVACCINATED EMPLOYEES outside of patient care settings.


WSJ

Why China’s Banks Won’t Come to Russia’s Rescue

The risk of additional sanctions deters Chinese lenders, while a fledgling payment network relies on the Swift global system

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Andrew McCarthy

Biden Colludes with Russia on a New, More Disastrous Iran Deal

The White House has essentially outsourced its Iran negotiations to Putin’s envoy. Iran appears poised to reap billions.

Daily Caller

The Federalist

Elections Have Consequences, And 2020’s Was War

The weakness and incompetence of the Biden administration was irresistible to a tyrant like Vladimir Putin. And it may be to more tyrants, like Xi Jinping.

Washington Times

Biden’s Misstatement of the Union

President fails to connect Russia's war with his energy policy

Washington Times:  Sleepwalking into a China-style social credit system

Monday, February 28, 2022

Hong Kong finally hit hard by COVID

David French

When the Man Meets the Moment

Why Zelensky matters, in Ukraine and the world.

Jonathan Turley 

Federal Court Declares Diversity Initiative at Thomas Jefferson High School to be Unconstitutional Discrimination Against Asians

Jonathan Turley: Is Russia’s “Meat Grinder” Multiplying War Crimes?



WSJ Opinion

Putin Gambles That the West Is Weak

Both militarily and culturally, we’ve been derelict in our duty to defend our civilization. 

Legal Insurrection

Trump Was Right: Europe's Reliance On Russian Oil and Gas Emboldened Putin

Matt Taibbi

Putin the Apostate


How the West helped create Putin and the oligarchs who stole Russia's wealth

Alex Berenson

Do mRNA shots raise the risk of Covid infection in children under 12?

NBC News

Pfizer vaccine may offer little protection against infection in kids 5-11 vaccine may offer little protection against infection in kids 5-11

Daily Mail

Kremlin 'sends more than 400 mercenaries from private militia into Kyiv to assassinate President Zelensky and his government'

Victor Davis Hanson

The Crowded Road to Kyiv

To retain our deterrence abroad, we must tighten our belts at home, pump oil and gas, start to balance our budget, junk wokeism as a nihilist indulgence, and recalibrate our military. . .

We have no southern border. Nearly 50 million residents were not born in our country—and this challenge at a time when we have given up on assimilation and integration. The woke virus has warped racial and ethnic relations and is destroying the idea of meritocracy. We are in the hold of a Jacobin madness, in a top-down elite race to perdition. To praise America’s past is a thought crime. The ignorant, who have no idea of the date when the Civil War began, nonetheless lecture to the nodding that 1619 not 1776 was America’s real foundational date.