Kristi Noem Shot Her Dog and Political Future in the Head. John Nolte explains the problem better than I did.
Category: Government (Page 6 of 13)
Philadelphia Inquirer: Storming Campuses
I value free speech and celebrate this commentary from an agent of chaos.
They are destroying the American university in order to keep it “safe.” In a week when decades happened, the lowest moments in what became a nationwide assault on college free speech by militarized police veered from shock to tragicomical irony.
Police should always conduct themselves as professionals and use an amount of force necessary to maintain order.
BLM, Occupy Wall Street and any other mob of thugs intending to disrupt lives and seize property should be arrested, charged and have their day in court.
It is a relief to see university and government officials doing their jobs without regard for their own political opinions.
Fox News: Ohio Lawmakers like Pete Rose
This is embarrassing. Ohio lawmakers should have something more productive to do than mettle in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
WSJ: Banning Menthol Cigarettes
WSJ: Banning Menthol Cigarettes
Does Biden want to torture all Americans or does he just want Black folks to suffer?
The Biden administration is reversing course on its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, after the White House weighed the potential public-health benefits of banning minty smokes against the political risk of angering some Black voters in an election year.
Biden is polling poorly with Black voters, and Democrats are worried about losing that demographic. It’s hard to believe anyone would float this idea without understanding it would reduce Biden’s chance of winning.
The proposed ban has generated much feedback from the civil rights and criminal justice movements, said Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. “It’s clear that there are still more conversations to have, and that will take significantly more time,” he said in a statement.
Biden apparently thinks Black folks are too dumb to understand that statement means that menthol cigarettes will be banned early in a Biden second term.
Alternatively, Biden thinks that Republicans are too dumb to capitalize on this authoritarian policy. He may be right about that.
Boston Herald: Pro-Palestinian Protestors
So we are back to this. City and university administration doing as little as possible to maintain order.
These Emerson students should be back on campus, trying to figure out their sexuality. That’s become too political, so they dress in their best grunge outfits and protest for something they don’t understand.
Emerson’s new president, Jay Bernhardt, wrote yesterday that the college supports “our community’s right to express their views through protest. However, they must do so in a manner consistent with the laws of the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
At least administrators and city officials are saying the right things, but they won’t follow through.
A court official released the students on a “promise to return” on their scheduled dates.
Really? A better response would be to charge them with three or four misdemeanors and set bail at a couple of thousand dollars. Tuition at Emerson is $54k. They can afford it.
An Instagram post just before the arrests show a man with a bullhorn instructing the students on how to “form ranks 4 lines thick” and “resist police,” the post states.
It would also be a good idea to find out who that man is, who trained him and who is funding this disruption. Where did the tents come from? None of those chubby rascals look like they spend many weekends hiking around Acadia National Park.
Another solution would be to leave the police out of it and let the townies clear out the malcontents
City Journal: Politics and Physics Collide
The legislature and unelected regulators enjoy magical thinking because the time frames are long, they will never be held responsible and perhaps engineers can meet the goals. Automakers have long been burdened with fleet economy standards that must be met. The Laws of Thermodynamics are problems for engineers, not legislators. Cars became lighter and less safe while also becoming more complex and expensive.
The idea that the United States can quickly “transition” away from hydrocarbons—the energy sources primarily used today—to a future dominated by so-called green technologies has become one of the central political divides of our time.
White House: Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect Union — where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.
This doesn’t make sense. It seems like transgender folks would have a Transgender Day of Invisibility. If a person’s objective is to be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, the intent should be to commit to the role and convincingly deceive the casual observer.
LA Times: Three things might help Biden
The answers fall into three broad categories: Over the next seven months, voters could begin feeling better about the country; a larger share of them could begin to warm to Biden; or the president could win votes from people who disapprove of him.
Compared to the last Trump v. Biden election, Biden doesn’t have much help. Last time, the broad categories of game-changers was more impressive.
Prestigious news organizations like NPR and NYT intentionally suppressed news coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop. They surrendered all of their integrity, but the people on top will land on their feet.
The Obama administration recruited foreign and domestic spy agencies to assist in investigating and impugning a candidate for president of the United States.
Social media companies complied with directives from the federal government to censor and manipulate free speech on their platforms.
With Biden’s frailty and unpopularity, we expect the DNC to pull a rabbit out of it’s hat. It won’t have to be a much of a rabbit, and nobody will ever see the hat, but corporate media will paper over any issues.
NYT: What’s the matter with Ohio?
These East coast elitist dickheads can’t be very bright because they keep trying to win us over with these articles about why we are so dim.
If you aren’t familiar with him, Paul Krugman is the George Costanza of Nobel prize winning economists. Krugman could take the opinion that was the exact opposite of everything he thinks, and he would be more correct and respected.
For many years, Ohio has been thought of as a bellwether state: With rare exceptions, whoever won Ohio in a presidential election won the nation as a whole. But in 2020, Donald Trump won Ohio by about eight points even as Joe Biden led the national popular vote by more than four points and, of course, won the Electoral College vote.
I did not know that.
Ann Althouse explains that the bully pulpit is not a pulpit to bully.
In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt exclaimed: “I suppose my critics will call that preaching, but I have got such a bully pulpit!” First, clearly, he was using “bully” — as he often did — to mean very good or excellent. And he used the word “pulpit,” because he knew he was preaching, that is, proclaiming righteous opinions in public.
This comes up due to legal issues resulting from the Biden administration’s manipulation and coercion of social media platforms to suppress free speech.