Today’s cartoon by Eric Allie is apt as usual:
European Union – A Massive Expansion of Top-down Powers: thus insuring that the 21st century will not be the European Century.
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The Price I’ve Paid for Opposing Donald Trump: this is one of my many misgivings about possibly voting for Trump. These cretins don’t need any access to political power.
Sure looks like this girl’s townhall question to Hillary was staged: if her interviews are all scripted and staged, why wouldn’t the town halls be?
National Security Workforce to Address ‘Intersectionality’: do you ever get the sense that you’re in a waking nightmare? Money quote from the memo: “Our greatest asset in protecting the homeland and advancing our interests abroad is the talent and diversity of our national security workforce.”
Students cancel annual ‘Speedo Hike,’ say it’s not inclusive enough to all body sizes : “…heavily swayed in the direction of outdoor—and otherwise—privilege…” What the hell is going on in colleges!
The most baffling moments from Donald Trump’s Washington Post ed board interview: he’s incoherent. If his speaking is reflective of his thinking—and I think it is—he has no business being in politics and he’s a business success in spite of his muddled mind.
Deputy FM Cautions US to Remain Loyal to Nuclear Deal: that’s from the state news agency of Iran and warns that if the United States imposes sanctions on Iran then Iran will renege on the deal. As they violate the deal by testing ballistic missiles. {via}
Security Logs of Hillary Clinton’s Email Server Are Said to Show No Evidence of Hacking: said by the former aide who just provided them to the FBI. “Mr. Pagliano told the agents that nothing in his security logs suggested that any intrusion occurred.” And that gets reported as “Security logs of Clinton email server show no evidence of foreign hacking” without a mention of who vouched for the lack of evidence.
Political correctness devours yet another college, fighting over mini-sombreros: this is how free speech dies.
Last Week Tonight on Donald Trump: bit long, but great takedown of the Trump mythos. In a more rational political environment, this would have killed his presidential campaign. I’m not sure it’ll make any difference.
A Responsibility I Take Seriously: nominee must be “without any particular ideology or agenda” and have “a keen understanding that justice is not about abstract legal theory, nor some footnote in a dusty casebook.” I sure hope the Republicans can hold the line on his nominations.
BEWARE THIS MAN – State College President Bans Breitbart’s Shapiro: good for them. It’s another example of withdrawing the sanction of the victim.
Trigger Warnings in Annapolis: I’m not sure why I expected the service academies to be bastions of academic freedom, but I did. It’s much worse than the universities since they’re far more hierarchical.
Charles Koch – This is the one issue where Bernie Sanders is right: I continue to be impressed by the Kochs. They have done much for liberty, and the left vilifies them for it.
Taking North Korea at its word: this is a possibility I hadn’t even considered. {via}
Triumph the Insult Dog Visits College to Invade Students’ Safe Spaces: vulgar, as expected. But funny!
Supreme Court Puts Obama’s Clean Power Plan on Hold: wow, I did not see that happening. I figured CPP would become a fait accompli by the time the Court ruled.
Tell the truth about benefit claimants and the left shuts you down: the preening about loving science is a ruse. The left has huge swaths of contemplation that are entirely off limits. {via}
A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt: free speech is under serious assault. Haidt, a leftist, is on the forefront of shining a light on this.
Announcing the Twitter Trust & Safety Council: this is within their rights, of course. Given the leftist leanings of the company and its assembled Council of Goodspeech, I suspect that some groups will get a pass and some will face suppression. Chilling at any rate.
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Coincidentally, the Left loves the fact that Hitler is commonly regarded as being “extreme Right-wing”. What a wonderful roomate for your enemy.
Hitler was a version of Right-Collectivism or Right-Leftism. This version of collectivism was discredited after WW2. But Left-Collectivism or Left-Leftism has never been discredited and in fact is still considered an ideal as in “Communism was good in theory but flawed only in practice because the right people never were in charge.”
“But Left-Collectivism or Left-Leftism has never been discredited and in fact is still considered an ideal”
It has been discredited as a path to material prosperity. (Communism was originally touted as pro-industry.) But as long as economic collectivism is considered a moral ideal, practical concerns will continue to be swept aside, or else reworked to coincide with the moral theory. Hence the anti-prosperity gospel of environmentalism.
The Communists were smarter than the Nazis, because they understood the importance of propaganda — not just in the nations that they ruled, but also worldwide across a span of decades. The Nazis made the gambit of trying to win everything by force in one swoop; and when they failed, they had no benevolent-sounding pretexts or excuses for their naked brutality.