…is feeling pushed toward Trump. Even though I’m not religious, I agree with much of this.
[Update a few minutes later]
A momentous election:
Donald Trump may be an odd ambassador of freedom. His motley may not pass muster in the salons and drawing rooms of our lords and masters. But Joe Biden is but a gibbering front for a vanguard that would destroy America as traditionally conceived—America, I mean, as a crucible of ordered liberty, limited government, and individual freedom.
Yes.
Well, I survived it. I’m not going to discuss it, but the most amusing thing that happened was a screw up by his lawyer. He asked me if Michael Mann had ever done anything to me personally. I sat there for a minute, unable to believe that he’d actually asked me that, but then responded, “Counselor, I am sitting here today because your client filed a lawsuit against me eight years ago. It had my name on it. I’m pretty sure it was personal.” It cracked everyone up, including him, because he knew he’d screwed up. He then asked the question he meant to ask, modifying it with “…before you wrote the article?”
A call to action from Sarah Hoyt.
…is looking very authoritarian.
And there is no constitutional exception for pandemics.
An interesting interview with a conservative trans woman who has been doing so.
…in the face of abdication of law enforcement: A paper.
A reminder that the purpose of police is not to protect the public, but rather to protect the criminals from the inevitable vigilantism in their absence.
[Monday-morning update]
More thoughts at Captain’s Journal.
What if one of them dies before January 20th?
It could be an even bigger mess than we already expect.
There is a battle to preserve it; donate if you can. California’s insanity too often spreads to the rest of the country.
…created a nightmare in Venice for my friend Amy Alkon.
Has Garcetti really been LA’s terrible mayor for seven years? Time flies when you’re having fun. And yes, the thought of him being HUD secretary under Biden should be terrifying.
A disturbing history, with frightening parallels with what is happening today in America.