Heated words: on Mark Esper and on Drew Brees
It wasn’t calm on the Tucker Carlson show last night:
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COVID and the politics of “science”
I guess protestors and rioters are immune to COVID. Or at least, they pose no danger to Grandma. Or even if they do and grandma dies as a result, they’re not really granny-killers since their cause is just. People who … Continue reading →
David Horowitz on Al Sharpton and the Floyd memorial
Horowitz writes: In a twisted way it is fitting that the most destructive week for America in living memory should be topped off by a memorial featuring the nation’s chief racial arsonist Al Sharpton… Not the least unexpectedly, the malevolent … Continue reading →
“Unexpectedly,” jobs report is better than predicted
Ah, those experts. What is it they’re expert in again? Seems like the last few months have really undermined their creds. The rate fell somewhat instead of rising. Good news. But it’s not good news to the left, of course. … Continue reading →
It may seem like a fringe and nearly insane viewpoint when it first emerges in academia, but just watch…
…and it will bleed into the non-academic world soon enough, and the Overton window will move to the point where the left will think it’s just a basic truth. And then half the country – the Democrat half – will … Continue reading →
And it’s based on a web of Big Lies
One of the worst things about what’s been happening now, and actually for a long time, is the acceptance of lies as truth. It’s easy to spread a simple lie that grabs people and energizes them. Truth sometimes requires deeper … Continue reading →
Authors of the Lancet hydroxychloroquine study retract it
Yesterday I wrote about that influential Lancet study that had become suspect. Well, today its authors have retracted it. The statement from the journal can be found here. Excerpt: …[O]ur independent peer reviewers informed us that Surgisphere would not transfer … Continue reading →
Grant Napear’s firing and Václav Havel’s greengrocer parable
Grant Napear, longtime announcer for the Sacramento Kings, learned the hard way what is unacceptable speech in today’s America: Grant Napear resigned as the Kings’ TV play-by-play announcer and was fired from KHTK radio in Sacramento on Tuesday. Napear was … Continue reading →
A thought: well, the soft coup failed…
…so now it’s pivot to the hard coup.
Continue reading →Bail reform in NY: the gift that keeps on giving
But of course: Most of the looters and rioters arrested by the NYPD over the past several days are immediately released as a direct result of New York’s new bail-reform law, New York City police chief Terrence Monahan told the … Continue reading →
And speaking of science and politics: fake research for political aims?
It wouldn’t be the first time, either. Once hydroxychloroquine was touted by Trump as a possible tool against COVID, the drug’s days were numbered. Is it any wonder that a major study came out against it, and now there’s growing … Continue reading →
Language and political change
On using the word “looters” to refer to looters: Feels like a good time to post AP’s guidance on the word looting: pic.twitter.com/hjxQWbSYAx — Kimberlee Kruesi (@kkruesi) May 31, 2020 I have a better idea. Why not call them “undocumented … Continue reading →