“Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.” David Horowitz re harassment of Justice Kavanaugh at DC restaurant.
George Rebane
Illinois Gov Pritzker typified the profound ignorance that most (all?) leftwing politicians have about guns, ‘gun violence’, and the effect of existing gun regulations. In signing a law banning the sale and possession ‘ghost guns’ (AR-15 style untraceable componentized semi-automatic rifles) he made this audacious claim that was not rebutted by any of the media; to wit, “… even our revolutionaries did not use assault rifles, they used muskets.” The idiot governor has no idea that muskets were the assault guns of the 18th century.
[7jul22 update] Over 550 colleges have hired for-profit education vendors for delivering their online programs under the schools’ names. The students seldom know that their courses are delivered by employees of companies like 2U instead of the universities’ academics. It’s an attractive fire-and-forget source of revenues for the schools that get 20% of online ‘bootcamp’ tuitions and 40% of semester course tuitions from the vendors. Bootcamps go for upwards of $10K, and semester courses for more than $60K. Modern school daze. (more here)
The Victims of Communism Museum in Washington opened last month. It “unsparingly illuminates the most murderous ideology of modern times.” The museum was funded by donors and the governments of Hungary, Poland, Estonia, and Latvia. Communist regimes have killed well over 100 million of their own citizens, and today 1.5 billion people still live under communism. Unfortunately, more countries, including our own, today seek to increase their governments’ role in “abolishing private property and controlling the means of production and distribution of goods and services.” “Under the pretense of classless, egalitarian society, Communist regimes rely on force, use brutality, and repress speech, religion, assembly, and all rights and freedoms.” (more here)
[8jul22 update] The Democrats are desperately trying to divert the country’s attention from the ongoing foreign policy mess, the open border crisis, exploding crime rates, soaring inflation, shelves empty of critical goods, historically high gasoline prices, ongoing Covid muddle, fetid cities filled with vagrant encampments, dysfunctional public schools, pending recession, and announced policies guaranteed make each of these social catastrophes worse. The only diversions they have left now is to blanket the country with lies about J6, SCOTUS, and “the best economy in our history”.
Abortion is a latent right, even though it isn’t in the Constitution, so argue all pro-abortionists and progressives. A favorite supportive citation is Madison’s inclusion of the 9th Amendment in which he wanted to make sure that unenumerated rights would henceforth not be excluded. The big problem this argument launched is who decides what the next unenumerated right is, and how many of these are there waiting to be ‘discovered’ and codified by the politicians who happen to then have control the government gun. We now have a culture in which new rights are immaculately conceived daily out of thin air, rights that inevitably reduce freedoms for the rest of us.
[9jul22 update] The dollar will be destroyed to pay off or at least allow the Treasury to keep borrowing to service the $23T+ national debt held by the public ($30T+ total). This has been covered many times over the years in these pages (e.g. here and here). Now the Mises Institute is also putting out papers that warn us of this (here). Destruction will occur through sky-high inflation which allows the debt to be serviced in ever cheaper nominal dollars. As I see it, the real news here is that we Americans are simply too stupid to be concerned, let alone do anything about it at the ballot box. Witness the comment stream below.
Poetry more relevant today than ever to illuminate the upcoming mid-term election.
[11jul22 update] Repeal the 2nd Amendment is the latest brainchild of communist filmmaker Michael Moore (here), who proposes adoption of a 28th Amendment that would explicitly do that, and make civilian ownership and use of firearms a joke that would please only those Americans born with serfdom in their veins, aka Democrat voters.
[12jul22 update] So how to interpret the Trump/Biden polls for 2024. Depending on the poll and its qnaire, it’s hard to really tell what the legitimate backing is for either man’s 2024 candidacy. (more here) I estimate that half of the right and leftwingers are contras – the rightwingers wanting Biden to run, and the leftwingers wanting Trump to run on the theory that either man would be the loser in any feasible match-up. Me? I definitely want Biden to run again, and Trump to leave the field and lose his ‘the 2020 election was stolen’, no matter the merits of the argument. So now you know how people like me would respond to pollsters, but that doesn’t help knowing that the, say, pro-Trump respondents would also include a hefty share of the man’s political devotees.
‘Bumblebrain bows out before 2022 election’ predicts Athena Thorne of PJ Media while crowing that she is the first to make this prediction (here). Sorry to burst the bubble of this Jenny-come-lately, but RR readers had already had this discussion more than a year ago and even entered into a monied bet in July 2021 on exactly when we would get a new president (here)
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