Let’s hear from Ron DeSantis on January 6th
I’d like to second what he said:
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Happy Insurrection Day! says the left
My gut feeling is that most Americans who are not on the left are heartily sick of hearing about the horrors of January 6th from the Democrats’ perspective, and have Moved On to more pressing concerns like inflation and crime. … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/6/22
I had never heard of this before I saw this video:
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The ostensible reason is COVID, of course, the all-purpose excuse. The real reason – IMHO – is they have gotten very very accustomed to just phoning it in (that is, computering it in), and being paid for it. So why … Continue reading →
New York may have gotten rid of de Blasio and installed a tougher-on-crime mayor, but…
…it’s got a new Soros-backed DA named Alvin Bragg. And you know what that means: Bragg took over on January 1. On January 4, Bragg promised to instill new rules similar to those in San Francisco and Philadelphia, both of … Continue reading →
Can any airplane experts out there explain?
Recently I returned from a cross-country visit out west. The less said about the airport from which I left, and the crowds there and lack of decent signage, the better. And yes, wearing a mask almost unceasingly for close to … Continue reading →
The James Webb Telescope sunshield has been successfully deployed
[NOTE I wrote about the James Webb Telescope previously here.] I’ve grown so used to assuming government incompetence (or worse) as the default position that I’m gobsmacked by this news: The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/5/22
What would be the political consequences of a SCOTUS decision in Dodd to overturn or modify Roe?
Food for thought: Democrats backing abortion rights predict a “revolution” of outraged voters ousting anti-abortion Republicans in elections for state legislatures and Congress. At least some Republicans are nervous about such a backlash… Today, the leading pro-abortion rights constituency is … Continue reading →
Milan Kundera on national memory
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting was the first book I ever read by Milan Kundera back when it was first published in 1980, and it probably is still my favorite work of his. It’s a very strange but wonderful … Continue reading →
Medical discrimination on the basis of race
White people in some states willl have a tougher time getting possibly lifesaving meds for COVID [emphasis mine]: It takes a score of 4 or more to be somewhere on the list to receive monoclonal antibodies, the best treatment we … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/4/22
Ozzy Man in an un-cynical mood for 2022:
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