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Category Archives: Political Commentary
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More reporting on Bridenstine’s announcement from last week, from Ken Chang at the NYT, and from Jonathan Callaghan at Forbes, the latter of which contains several quotes from Your’s Truly.
Maduro And Cuba
He used their doctors to manipulate the population with scarcity of medical supplies.
It’s what socialists always end up doing.
[Via Instapundit, who notes: “This totally won’t happen here if we give the Democrats the power they want.”]
Climate Change
No, The New Republic, it’s not this generation’s Vietnam War.
College Children
What a societal disaster.
[Monday-morning update]
Are parents robbing children of their adulthood?
Yes. This is one of the things that drove the “keep your ‘child’ on your health insurance until he’s 26.”
Meanwhile, what happens when all of childhood becomes college prep. In this formulation, the kids are being robbed of their childhood. In some sense, both things are happening.
[Bumped]
Jewish Voters
…are furious at Democrats’ defense of Omar.
Meh. Let’s see what they actually do about it.
Beta O’Dork
He’s the candidate for vapid morons.
That seems a little harsh. It’s true of pretty much the entire field, if not the party itself.
Meanwhile, Zogby says Trump will be hard to beat in 2020.
Yup. Can’t beat something with nothing.
[Update a few minutes later]
Beta’s gafftastic day.
The Shooter In New Zealand
An analysis.
The media wasted no time in blaming Trump, but I blame them, for at least two reasons:
First, while the shooter didn’t think that Trump was a great leader, he did admire him “a symbol of renewed white identity.” Why would he do that? Because that is how the media repeatedly portrays him, reality aside.
Second, in their continual calls for gun control, they encouraged him to think that his act would be the straw that finally broke the back, and allow them to finally implement it, resulting in the new American civil war that he claims to seek.
Free tip to Fox News, and conservatives. Start pushing the narrative that it’s the media’s fault, not Trump’s. Put them on the defensive for once.
And of course, this was big news, because one of their favorite victim groups, Muslims, were the target. Let’s see how much play they give the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria, or the shooting in Utrecht. By Muslims.
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems related: America’s race problems are mostly caused by the soft bigotry of guilty white virtue-signaling leftists (who falsely call themselves “liberals”).
[Update a while later]
Thoughts on the “elites” in the last link from Ann Althouse.
Patrick Moore
…has been airbrushed out of Greenpeace history.
But don’t call them Stalinists!
[Monday-morning update]
Google does evil to Patrick Moore.
Evil is as evil does. #DontBeEvil
The New Zealand Massacre
I see that the media and the Left (but I repeat myself) wasted no time in blaming Trump for it, because his name appeared in the manifesto. But we also see the left eating its own, with the attack on Chelsea Clinton. But maybe they have a point.
[Update a while later]
Radicalization and degeneration:
It seems clear to me that it in no way requires one to endorse Tarrant’s vile crimes to recognize that like splitting the atom, the unwinding of Western civilization is going to release some extreme energies. It already is.
Yes. And more thoughts, from Richard Fernandez, on the tribal score settling that has infected the West.
[Update a while later]
From the last link:
The old devils are on the loose and the problem is what to do now. One option is to deliver even higher doses of political correctness and demographic replacement. But perhaps the absolute worst thing politicians can do is respond by collecting guns, imposing hate speech restrictions, and announcing open borders. In the current atmosphere of distrust toward authority, such actions can destroy the only asset a state faced with ethnic conflict has: the public belief that it is above the fray and won’t sell anyone out. That quantity can itself run out and therein lies the danger.
And that was the gunman’s stated goal in his manifesto: To drain the public of trust in its own government, and set off a civil war.