A weekly link roundup from Judith Curry.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Unmasking Antifa
Three reasons it’s a bad idea.
I’m not sure he’s entirely serious.
[Update a while later]
Related: Why Leftists become thugs:
What turns people into wicked punks while they no doubt continue to believe themselves to be decent and good? Bad ideas, that’s what, ideas that give people license to answer words and policies with terror. What’s the bad idea on the left? Control. The notion that the left’s cause is so righteous it needs to pay no mind to liberty but simply deserves to win by any means necessary. Let five judges on the Supreme Court make law and damn the “outdated” Constitution. Give unelected bureaucracies like the EPA the power to regulate people’s lives without appeal or oversight. Give ignoble gnomes like Peter Strzok the wherewithal to criminalize the political opposition. And of course, bring on the socialism: a philosophy that declares a person’s work, his time, his life, his property belong not to him but to the state. Control.
Yup.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sarah Hoyt: The Left misunderstands the Constitution. Again.
[Late-afternoon update]
The power-hungry Left loses its cool. Though “power-hungry Left” is redundant.
[Late evening update]
Glenn has a good point on how Leftists become thugs. Maybe the causation goes the other way.
The Democrats’ (Un)Civil War
It’s the left against the far left. Of course, I always find this sort of thing amusing/infuriating:
A group of moderate Democratic lawmakers sounded the alarm Thursday over the party’s shift to the left, saying the embrace of ultra-liberal policies could endanger their efforts to capture Congress in the November midterm elections and the White House in 2020.
There is nothing “liberal” about them at all, let alone “ultra-liberal.”
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems related somehow: Hillary says that Brett Kavanaugh will bring back slavery. Gee, that’s not hyperbolic and demagogic at all.
So Hillary thinks that Kavanaugh wants to bring back slavery? Is she saying he's a closet Democrat?
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) July 13, 2018
Commercial Crew
Brendan Byrne has a story on the latest nonsense. What does “solidify [NASA’s] risk tolerance process mean”? I guess I have to read the GAO report (as though I don’t have enough to do).
The Frauds Of The Obama Administration
There is too much here for me to write about this right now, but it’s an important read, on many subjects.
The NASA Deputy Administrator
I thought that Bridenstine was a great choice. I am aware of no reason to think that this isn’t a terrible one. It will be interesting to hear the rationale from Trump supporters.
The “Good Populism”
Emulsifiers
Has the crap they’ve been putting in processed food to attempt to replace healthy fat causing many of our health problems?
What a public-health catastrophe.
“Petro-Masculinity”
I’d like to say that this is amazing, but sadly, it isn’t.
Brett Kavanaugh
Trump plays it safe.
That seems a little out of character, but he is keeping a campaign promise. We could have gotten worse, and were guaranteed to, if Hillary had won.