They still haven’t come to terms with it.
They probably never will.
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Democrat groans in response to Bloomberg’s defense of capitalism should terrify all of us.
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First link is fixed, sorry.
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The debate was a glorious Wrestlemania.
…and his critics’ derangement syndrome.
Anti-Barr polemics dwell on the parade of horribles that might come from his tenure at Justice, without pausing to consider that a norm-busting violation of the rules targeting a politically inconvenient individual already occurred — it was the abusive FISA surveillance of former Trump campaign official Carter Page.
The supposed institutionalists and civil libertarians who are piling on Barr are more outraged that the attorney general wants to get to the bottom of this abuse — and related 2016 investigatory overreach — than by the abuse itself.
It’s no wonder that Barr has a poorly disguised contempt for his critics, many of whom are so inflamed by their opposition to Trump that they’ve lost any sense of standards. In a peppery speech to a Federalist Society conference last year that is now one of the counts against him, Barr rightly warned that “it is the Left that is engaged in a systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law.”
As has always been the case.
A review from a friend:
***** and I went to the WW2 museum in New Orleans. Brand new, big, still expanding, expensive and boring. The Germans and Japanese were bad; Roosevelt was good; it was all very sad.
Nothing about the Hitler Stalin pact. Nothing about the role the CP played to keep us neutral, until Uncle Joe got attacked. And Roosevelt’s concentration camps? The American people did it, not Roosevelt’s executive order (funny how that works).
It was shallow, not much to look at (the captions and film shorts looked like they were written for Sesame Street), and relentlessly politically correct.
I usually think I will spend an hour or two in a museum, and end up spending the whole day; this time, we payed parking for the whole day, and left after two hours.
Not recommended.But, we had dinner in the Neon Pig restaurant in Tupelo. Best hamburger in the world!
Well, glad he enjoyed the burger.
Time to abolish them both? They’ve both been interfering in domestic politics.
What arms are “common”?
And foreign aid helps the politicians in poor nations.
After almost six decades, they’re finally going to release the documents. This was one of the case studies I did for NASA when I was supporting S&MA at HQ a decade and half ago, but even at that time, questions remained. This may answer them.
Last time I was in DC, a couple weeks ago, I tried to have lunch with Iain Murray, but it turned out that he wasn’t downtown, but was at home writing a forthcoming book.
It seems a little spendy, though, if you want to get young people to read it (which should be the goal). Maybe they’ll also have an ebook.
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If you click here, you’ll tell the publisher that you’d like to see a Kindle edition.
How do we survive it?
…were made for you and me. A (long) book review of a flawed history.