“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” W. Churchill
George Rebane
The tyrant’s last refuge of legitimacy on the world stage is that his brand of governance provides the best prosperity for those under his heel. When it comes to the legitimacy of China and its CCP, we read, “for decades China’s biggest fear was a Taiwanese declaration of independence producing a crisis for which Beijing had no good options. Yet now the regime is telling us its legitimacy will have to rest on reclaiming Taiwan because, with the prosperity machine sputtering, the ruling Communists have no other good answers for why they still rule.” So conquest of an economically better performing neighbor is now legitimate. (more here)
Today’s debt ceiling derby is going nowhere. GOP wants to reduce spending as part of the package, and the Dems want to continue spending under a “clean bill” that will only raise our borrowing limit with no spending limits. Neither side will give in, even to the GOP proposal that we should only borrow enough to match the percent growth of our GDP. The Dem proposal would blow this cap by raising our debt to 110% of GDP. And the Repubs don’t do much better with their current budget which will raise our debt to 106% of GDP. So go figger. In the meantime ol’ Forked Tongue Joe promises to consider spending cuts after the GOP accepts his clean-bill demand. Speaker McCarthy should check with Joe Manchin’s office on the pipeline deal.
DEI in academe has gone Kafkaesque. Scott Gerber, a prominent law professor at Ohio Northern University, has been summarily dismissed for having a “lack of collegiality” in his public opposition to the school’s woke policy of diversity, equity, and inclusion. No specifics have been given on the charge other than Professor Gerber’s views on the practice of DEI “are not part of our diversity, belonging, and inclusion plan.” As in Kafka’s The Trial (1925), Gerber was accosted by armed police and campus security while in the middle of teaching a class, and marched out to the astonishment of all who witnessed the event. The book tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested, prosecuted and killed by an inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. (more here)
[update] Again we await a new “trove of evidence against the Biden crime family.” PJ Media report (here) that this latest trove of “bombshell evidence” was to be released today by Rep James Comer chair of the House Oversight Committee investigating the source of all the Biden family millions. But it appears that this bombshell was just another in the long line of evidentiary duds as the sun sets tonight and all is quiet on the lamestream media front, not even a fizzle of it in the New York Post.
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