What’s the difference in principle between physically preventing your citizens from leaving, taking hostages to keep them around, and robbing them blind to give them second thoughts?
Next thing you know we’ll be needing papers to travel.
What’s the difference in principle between physically preventing your citizens from leaving, taking hostages to keep them around, and robbing them blind to give them second thoughts?
Next thing you know we’ll be needing papers to travel.
Florida bank says it has closed Trump’s accounts: it’s a private corporation and it can do whatever it desires with its property—people are free to boycott the company for its shunning. And it’s conceivable that every bank could similarly refuse to do business with him but he’d still have the option of cash. Every ISP could refuse to provide him Internet service; every grocery store and restaurant could refuse his patronage; and every auto manufacturer dealer could decline to sell him vehicles. All fine, right? But doesn’t that seem un-American? Even if the various levels of government didn’t “un-person” him (or you or me), it’s no longer the America I love.
The Washington Post Memory-Holed Kamala Harris’ Bad Joke About Inmates Begging for Food and Water: that crosses a bright line between “newspaper” and “mouthpiece.” It’s a private entity so it can sabotage its integrity as much as it wants but that’s an excuse to withhold judgement. Judgement is absolutely required; a robust culture of freedom and free speech requires no less.
The Iowahawk Sequence: this is trenchant historical analysis dressed up in comedy.
Cardin, Murkowski, Speier, Reed Announce Bipartisan Resolution to Affirm Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment: umm, the Amendment’s ratification deadline expired in 1979 and was extended—perhaps unconstitutionally—through 1982—so there is no such thing as an ERA to ratify. The linked press release refers to “the law” repeatedly, and one marvels at the incompetence of legislators who grandly showcase their ignorance of it.
Executive Order on Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers: from today’s batch of executive orders. If you’ve got one tool in your tool belt, you use it for everything. They’re going to say that COVID-19 is racist!
direct the Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights to deliver a report as soon as practicable on the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on students in elementary, secondary, and higher education, including those attending historically black colleges and universities, Tribal colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, and other minority-serving institutions
A National Day of Unity: it begins. Inauguration day saw a flood of orders, proclamations, and revocations. It evinced an energy belied by the campaign and took on a very progressive cast. Lowlights include:
This is going to be a long ordeal.
A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5,000 Check (Yes, a Check): this is a stunning indictment and proof that the health care industry is not operating under market forces. What specific distortions and historical forces got us here are up for discussion, of course, but this has to implode or change. {via}
China, Capitalism, and the New Cold War: thought-provoking review of a book that seems to defend capitalism on pragmatic grounds, only to cede the argument in the end with leftist solutions to its perceived defects. The review does a credible job of laying out the nascent battle for dominance and is replete with links to other treatments.
Rand Paul on His Book The Case Against Socialism on The View: sorry for another Rand Paul item so soon but this clip has it all: presentation of true facts, allegations of “mansplaining,” “no true Scotsman,” false reliance on the wisdom of crowds, and literal shutting down of conversation.
Rand Paul – Pulling US Troops From Syria ‘May Be The Best Thing That Ever Happened To The Kurds’: intriguing perspective that I haven’t heard anywhere else. We shouldn’t be in the business of “homeland building” for sure; I’m not sure we should be in the middle of anything in the area.
Turkey & the Kurds – Defending Trump’s Decision to Remove Syria Troops: Andy McCarthy splashes some cold water on the fevered concerns about the abandonment of our “ally” in Syria. His recommendation that Congress decide on military action in Syria after we exit the region. In other words, leave and don’t come back since there’s really no American interest there. I agree.
Impeachment Town Hall: Saturday Night Live skewers the Democratic candidates and does so funnily. TNC only found this clip humorous and does not recommend watching an entire episode.
So Who Is John Galt, Anyway? – A Reader’s Guide to Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”: a new book by Robert Tracinski. It looks like it mostly comes from blog entries but, seeing as how those are behind a paywall, it’ll be new to you. I’ve found his writing to be cogent and I just recently finished Atlas Shrugged so I might give this a look.
My Gift to Climate Alarmists: this is a succinct overview of the fraud perpetrated by the alarmists. It focuses on the mechanics of the fraud rather than the philosophical aspects. For that, I’d recommend Alex Epstein’s PragerU video.
St. Greta Spreads the Climate Gospel: this reflects my experience with climate alarmists. Their faith and fervor is identical to any born-again fundamentalist. The scary part is that the rest of the culture agrees with them and is only minimally hesitant about their goals.
European Union – A Massive Expansion of Top-down Powers: thus insuring that the 21st century will not be the European Century.
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!
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Didn’t the old Soviet Union charge their “refuseniks” for their education and made them pay up before they would let them emigrate? And weren’t the particular targets Russian Jews trying to get to Israel?
Gee Chucky Schumer. Looks like you really have learned the lessons of history – you Schmuck.
The point is not to prevent wealthy people from leaving. I don’t think the Left would care if every capitalist were gone, so long as all their wealth is expropriated on the way out.
The goal is not to keep them here. It is not to reap continued benefits from their work. It is not to ensure a growing economy. It is not even to feed the poor. The only goal here is expropriation, as an end-in-itself — to show those bastards who’s in charge.