Thursday, April 25, 2024
Biden: My Uncle Was Eaten by Cannibals
Camping Out at Columbia's Commie Coachella
It's not just that college doesn't make you smart about politics...it's that it might just make you dumb...
Biden Reads the Teleprompter: "Four More Years...Pause"
Healthy Skeptic:...Is Getting Fed Up With Vax Safety BS
"Donald Trump's Trial Will Only Help Him"
Ulrich Baer: "What Snowflakes Get Right About Free Speech"
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Climate Discombobulating: Gay Couples Hardest Hit
Council on Foreign Relations Debate: Should We Stop Funding the War in Ukraine?
I was doing something else when listening to this, and shouldn't have been. It required more attention than I could give it. But I came away still not knowing what to think. So the general trajectory of my thinking remains the same: I don't know, but, forced to say something, I'm weakly convinced by Mearsheimer. I'm sort of skeptical of Hitler/WWII analogies. Putin didn't exactly waltz into Ukraine this time. But the history--including the U.S.'s role in pre-invasion Ukraine--is basically opaque (or translucent at best) to me. I just don't know. People who specialize in roughly this topic can't seem to agree. I don't even rise to the level of dilettante here. There's no reason to take anything I say or think about it seriously.
The women on the pro-funding side did make a few really bad arguments IMO. Like the innovation argument. Seems to me that "Ukraine is so innovative! (eg drones and such)" is a pretty weak reason to think they can win--especially if that means: push the Rooskies out. If I'm playing a strategy game I need to win, and I can choose (a) the side with massive numerical and financial advantage or (b) the side that's very innovative...I pick (a).
I continue to think that we raised to cost of this invasion so high that Putin would have to be nuts to try it again--or, God forbid, to invade a NATO country--as the pro-funding side of this debate repeatedly warns about. We could drive the Rooskies out if we wanted to--but it just doesn't seem to be worth it. Defending, say, Latvia or any other NATO member would seem to be a completely different matter.
It's miserably awful that we couldn't (or didn't) coax Putin over toward our side. The last thing we need is what seems to be happening--the emergence of a Russia/China alliance. (Well, really: a Putin/CCP alliance; this isn't so much the fault of the Russians or the Chinese, but of their leaders/governments.)
Bleh.
Confusion.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Biden Admin's Title IX Rewrite: Why You Must Not Vote For Democrats
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
And, on top of everything else, they've turned it into yet another tool for undermining free speech. (Though those provisions will, I believe and hope, be grounds for SCOTUS to overturn this abomination.) I don't use "preferred pronouns," and this won't change that. If my university or anyone affiliated with it wants to try to make me, I welcome it. We'll see what the goddamned courts have to say about it--it's compelled speech. I won't do it and the Supremes won't uphold it.
20 Minutes of Democrats Denying Election Results
Over 20 minutes of Democrats denying and questioning election results.
— Eddie (@ICU1010) August 15, 2023
Hillary et al. calling President Trump illegitimate. Zero indictments! pic.twitter.com/1SigsxtLYK
Biden Administration Rewrites Title IX: "Gender Identity" More-Or-Less Replaces Sex; Free Speech, Due Process Gutted
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Bill Barr Plans to Vote for the Republican Ticket in November (So I Do Too)
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
Defund NPR
Turley: The Trump Trial in Manhattan is an Indictment of the NY Legal System
After an absurd $450 million decision courtesy of Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will bring his equally controversial criminal prosecution over hush money paid to a former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. This week will highlight the damage done to New York’s legal system because of this unhinged crusade. They’ve charged him with everything short of ripping a label off a mattress.
Just a few weeks ago, another judge imposed a roughly half billion dollar penalty in a case without a single victim who lost a single cent on loans with Trump. (Indeed, bank officials testified they wanted more business with the Trump organization).
Now Bragg is bringing a case that has taken years to develop and millions of dollars in litigation cost for all parties. That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations.