Greg Abbott wants it in Houston.
Of course he does. Let’s put the HQ of one of the services in a place that gets slammed by hurricanes and floods on a semi-regular basis.
Vandenberg would be a good location, other than earthquakes, but Colorado Springs, the current home of Space Command, is probably best, both in terms of centrality and low risk of natural disasters (other than fire). It could even share the service academy with the Air Force.
It’s not much of an improvement on National Brotherhood Week, but everyone still hates the Jooz. And so the saga continues. It won’t end well.
Jonah’s latest “news” letter.
"You can't say 'all lives matter' when we say black lives matter! That's raciss!" — some people
"We can't condemn anti-Semitism without condemning all the 'ism's!" — same people
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 7, 2019
[Afternoon update]
The Democrats’ resolution on anti-Semitism has gone from impotent to totally worthless. I have to confess to going through a lot of popcorn watching the latest racist meltdown of the Left.
[Friday-morning update]
The old Democrat Party is new again:
I think we have crossed a Rubicon of sorts. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and the Congressional Black Caucus–which supported Omar unanimously, as best one can tell from news reports–are in the driver’s seat. Anti-Semitism is now accepted by the Democratic Party.
Nothing new, really. The Klan hated Jews, too.
[Bumped]
[Update a few minutes later]
“If hating Israel is wrong, we don’t want to be right.”
[Update a few more minutes later]
Anti-Semitism: It’s all the rage.
[Update a few more minutes later]
An inflection point in American history. Plus this.
Over the past couple of decades, the Democrats have been quite deliberately assembling a coalition containing a lot of antisemites. It is thus unsurprising that the party is becoming openly antisemitic.
American Jews have largely identified with the immigrants the Democrats have sought to encourage, seeing them as akin to their ancestors who fled to America. In fact, they’re more like the people those ancestors were fleeing from.
Fascists gonna fascist.
And more links over at Instapundit.
[Update late morning]
Omar and her allies won this battle.
[Update a few minutes later]
The clarity accompanying the takeover of the House by Democrats.
I can viscerally understand the Never Trump motivation, but I have been shaking my head at insanity from former conservatives in thinking that putting the Democrats in charge wouldn’t be diving into the fire from the frying pan.
[Update a few minutes later]
Aaaaaaand (once again) Paul Krugman beclowns himself.
It’s not really acting. They have been left behind.
But, while I like Sandy, this kind of thing continues to drive me crazy.
Oh, Sandy. Is there anyone out there who thinks it's at all important to end our dependence on Putin to get our astronauts into space? https://t.co/dv1IhziJQc
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) March 7, 2019
Is America already in one? In many ways, yes. It’s a Cold Civil War (for now), but one regardless.
…is about to get a long-overdue overhaul for the 21st century. It takes too long, and costs too much. I haven’t had a clearance in over a quarter of a century, and lack of one has probably limited my income opportunities.
I listened to some of it, but I really, viscerally hate listening to Trump for long. But Nick Gillespie (!) was impressed:
All in all, it was, in the words of Daniel Dale, the Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, “one of the least-hinged speeches Trump has given in a long time.” It was indeed all over the place but like the weirdly wide-ranging and digressive speech in which he declared a national emergency, it was also an absolute tour de force, laying out every major point of disagreement between Republicans and Democrats (abortion, the Second Amendment, and taxes, among other things) while tagging the latter aggressively as socialists who will not only end the private provision of health care but take over the energy sector too. Those charges take on new life in the wake of the announcement of the GND and comments, however short-lived, by Democrats such as Kamala Harris, who at one point recently called for an end to private health care. And over 100 House Democrats have signed on to a plan that would end private health insurance in two years. For all the biting criticism and dark humor in today’s speech, Trump has mostly ditched the “American Carnage” rhetoric that marked his first Inaugural Address, pushing onto liberals and Democrats all the negativity and anger that used to surround him like the dust cloud surrounds Pigpen in the old Peanuts cartoons. “We have people in Congress right now who hate our country,” he said. “We can name every one of them. Sad, very, very sad.”
At moments, he seemed to be workshopping his themes and slogans for 2020. “We believe in the American Dream, not the socialist nightmare,” he averred at one point. “Now you have a president who finally standing up for America.” The future, he said “does not belong to those who believe in socialism. The future belongs to those who believe in freedom. I’ve said it before and will say it again: America will never be a socialist country.” That’s a line that may not work forever, but it will almost certainly get the job done in 2020.
As previously noted, the media is going to re-elect Trump. Because they still don’t understand how they got Trump.
Could the U.S. face it in the Trump era?
The Obama FBI and DOJ were certainly acting like secret police.
…in color.