Thursday, February 15, 2024

CITY JOURNAL: The moral blindness of identity politics.

Long, but worthy.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The mindset of our anti-Semites.
PAYING THE DANE-GELD: Weakness invites aggression.
AMMO GRRRLL: HOW the heck did this HAPPEN?

Had to have been when I wasn't looking....
KURT SCHLICHTER: "The destruction of evil is the only possible moral choice. Anyone who thinks differently needs to grow up."
THEIR 'INVESTMENTS' ARE FROM YOUR INCOME: The ten most insane requirements of the Green New Deal.

From the ten most egregious nutcases in Congress....
PENGUINS REPLY "MOLON LABE": Iran declares Antiartica its property.
POWERLINE: A white coat supremacy reader.
In the pandemic, “... we had entered a frightening new era of medicine, where the training and expertise of one’s physician are secondary to the rigid rules and edicts of government bureaucrats.”
I suggest reading Ward Moore's Caudecus Wild to get some sense of where this 'white coat supremacy' may lead.
MOST DEMOCRATS ARE SURPRISED; MOST NORMALS ARE NOT. We are well beyond hypocrisy.

It's Victor Davis Hanson, so -- as usual -- read it all.
USING THEIR VERY DIM BULBS: "The Harvard-educated elitist geniuses will run the country according to their infinitely brighter intellectual and moral lights."
PROOF THAT KNUCKLEHEADS [THINK THEY] ARE IN CHARGE: Hawaii Supreme Court says the spirit of 'Aloha' supersedes the U.S. constitution's Second Amendment.
THEY'RE LOOKING IN THEIR OWN MIRROR: CNN thinks we're a bunch of sourpusses.
VIA INSTAPUNDIT: Why is there so much military interest in the moon?

I'd suggest reading Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for the answer.
IT'S CALLED 'WOKE': We actually do have an established religion.

And it's not a good one....
NO SHIT SHERLOCK: We are on the razor's edge of many things that soon may blow up.

It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it all.
AND THE END OF EXCELLENCE AS AN ACADEMIC GOAL. The end of history as an academic discipline.
TRUMP SAYS: Illegals will vote in 2024!

Perhaps so, but I'm much more concerned about the longer term. I've been around long enough to know that the 'free stuff' crowd trends strongly Democrat and the illegals are -- or will be -- a significant portion of that group.