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MAY 15-16, 2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

WELCOME TO THE IVY LEAGUE – FROM PJ MEDIA:   Some Yale law students are calling for the “unrelenting daily ostracization” of people who disagree with them on abortion — as if they don’t ostracize them already anyway. But in addition to giving conservative students migraines because of their constant caterwauling, the frothing radicals want to toss the Constitution too.  They don’t say what we should replace it with. Because that would require actual thought — something the radicals are unfamiliar with. They do a great job emoting and wailing and gnashing their teeth, but when it comes to thinking, it’s as mysterious as Oak Island.  A first-year law student, Shyamala Ramakrishna, is beside herself with grief and paranoid fear about “conspirators in the Christo-fascist political takeover we all seem to be posting frantically about.” She means those mild-mannered lawyer types in the campus Federalist Society. Yale Federalists may be upper-class twits, but “Christo-fascists”? Really now.  Would I be going too far to suggest that we have a maturity crisis in American education?  I think I'm right on.  Whole schools are being destroyed, and professions twisted.  See just below.

DO PATIENTS COUNT ANY LONGER? – FROM FOX:   At least 39 of America’s 50 most prestigious medical colleges and universities have some form of mandatory student training or coursework on ideas related to critical race theory (CRT), according to CriticalRace.org, which monitors CRT curricula and training in higher education.  Earlier this year, CriticalRace.org found that CRT was prevalent in medical schools across the country. The project from Legal Insurrection Foundation, a non-profit devoted to campus free speech and academic freedom, has since expanded its database and found even more elite medical schools are focusing on "racialization" of medicine.  "The national alarm should be sounding over the racialization of medical school education. The swiftness and depth to which race-focused social justice education has penetrated medical schools reflects the broader disturbing trends in higher education," Legal Insurrection founder William A. Jacobson told Fox News Digital.  I wonder what's been taken out of the med school curriculum to allow time for this stuff.  Who will live and who will die?

May 15-16, 2022       Permalink

A "NO" ON ERIC ADAMS – OVERNIGHT:  As readers know, I've been having a debate with myself over Eric Adams, the new mayor of New York.  The mayor of New York is important, since New York is the country's most influential city and a major symbol of America abroad.  What happens in New York never stays in New York.

There are days when I've felt Adams, a former cop, was on track to tackling the nightmarish crime wave that has strangled the city.  On other days I've felt he's been giving in to the minority establishment, which wants to defund the police and coddle the criminals.

The point always in New York, and probably in many other places, is to determine who controls the mayor.  I think we just found out, and it ain't good.  From Fox: 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams joined the 'Bans Off Our Bodies demonstration' in NYC. He believes "Men should not have that right to choose how a woman should treat their body."

New York City Mayor Eric Adams slammed the pro-life movement as "radical" on Saturday and pledged that he would "fight" to ensure there are "no" limitations on abortion.

"Abortion is health care. It’s that simple. And New York City won’t let a group of radical extremists take away health care or any human right without a fight," Adams tweeted Saturday using the hashtag "BansOffOurBodies."

Adams attended a pro-choice protest in New York City on Saturday and said that he doesn't believe there should be any limitations on abortion.

"No I do not," Adams said when asked at the "Bans Off Our Bodies" demonstration in New York City whether there should be any limitations on abortion.

"I think women should have the right to choose their bodies," Adams said when pressed again about abortions up until the day of birth. "Men should not have that right to choose how a woman should treat their body."

The comments from Adams come as pro-choice protesters are demonstrating across the country in response to a leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting that Roe v. Wade is on the verge of being struck down.

COMMENT:  I try to understand the different points of view on abortion, but, I'm sorry, I cannot accept the idea that abortion should be legal until the day of birth.  That isn't abortion.  That is infanticide, and it is illegal in this country and all over the civilized world.  We are not barbarians, and I don't think we should become barbarians because of the demands of abortion extremists. Abortion until birth is favored by only six percent of our population.

My fear is that Mayor Adams has now told us that he's prepared to buckle to any important political group.  The backbone isn't there.  The strength of conviction isn't there.  I've become pessimistic that he has much value at all.  Does he actually believe in abortion until the moment of birth?  I really doubt it.  But some powerful people around him do.

May 15, 2022      Permalink 

MAY 13-14, 2022

IS THE PARTY OVER?  MAYBE YES:  Maybe it's time for the Democratic Party to pack it up and move to Iran.  They'd love it.  From the New York Post:   

The vital mission of the Republican-Right in November 2022 and ’24 should be to demolish the Democratic Party and relegate it to the Smithsonian, amid the Whig and Know Nothing parties.

The Democratic Party of JFK, LBJ and even Bill “Welfare Reform” Clinton is long gone.

The Democratic Party of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom has nothing positive to offer and deserves to be voted overwhelmingly into oblivion.

The Democratic Left has become purveyors of poverty, chaos, danger and death.

• First-quarter GDP shrank 1.4% amid inflation, regulation, supply-chain snafus, barren store shelves, baby-formula rationing(!) and the Biden-Democrats’ anti-business bias.
Nominal wages advanced 5.5% year-on-year in April, but last month’s 8.3% inflation (a near 40-year-high) shriveled real wages to negative 2.8%.

Bloomberg reports that, compared to 2021, inflation will cost the average US household $5,200 this year, or $100 per week, for the same basket of goods. Biden’s five-steps-forward, eight-steps-back economy is making Americans poor again.

• The Biden-Democratic-Left has unleashed chaos at the US-Mexico “border,” which 2,499,190 illegal immigrants breached on Biden’s watch (from Feb. 1, 2021, through March 30, 2022), versus 666,756 during Trump’s final 14 months — up 375% — as he installed 458 miles of border wall.

Biden’s figure does not include an estimated 620,000 got-aways who invaded America without even greeting the Border Patrol. Also, 42 foreigners on the terrorist watch list tried to enter the United States during the Biden-Democratic Era, including 23 at the southern “border.”

• From classrooms to board rooms, Democrats are pushing Critical Race Theory, through which they harass whites as privileged oppressors and infantilize blacks as helpless victims. Everything — from troops in US barracks to erasable white boards in physics classes — is bigoted to today’s race-possessed Left.

• The Democratic Party endangers Americans through its policies and a recent embrace of Sandinista-flavored intimidation, thuggery and political violence. Democrats in 2020 defunded the police in numerous cities and states they control. When handcuffed cops somehow arrest career hoodlums, criminal-hugging district attorneys such as San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin, Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg, Los Angeles’ George Gascón and their ilk too often massage lawbreakers’ wrists or flat-out refuse to prosecute them.

Democrats also sacked cash bail. Criminals rejoiced. Jewayne Price was arrested last month for shooting nine people in a Columbia, SC, shopping mall. He was out on $25,000 bond in mere hours.

COMMENT:  Wonderful, wonderful.  Please read the whole thing.  This country would be much better off if the Democratic Party passed into history and was replaced by a modern, center-left party, patriotic, and proud of America's great heritage.  The party today has been taken over by the political fringe, which contributes nothing but noise and love of dictators. 

Ronald Reagan, who began his career as a Democrat, said it best when he remarked that he didn't leave the Democratic Party, the party left him.

But first, our side must win a great victory in November.

May 13-24, 2022       Permalink 

I'M GLAD THIS IS HAPPENING – OVERNIGHT:  Clearly, there is a major pushback against the woke society.  Maybe it began with parents in Virginia, maybe somewhere else.  But it takes things like this to give the movement its voice.  From Fox: 

Conservative figures including former Trump administration officials, current members of Congress, professors, and media personalities have signed onto a statement lamenting what they call "an age of increasing national self-doubt" in the U.S., blaming leftist ideologies for bringing down the "national mood" and vowing to "reclaim" a positive attitude about the U.S.

The statement, published by National Review, claims that "[t]he American project … is under assault" via historical revisionism, accusations of systemic racism in various American institutions, and "propagandizing" in the public school system.

"Our traditional values of fair play, free speech, and religious liberty are trampled by inflamed ideologues determined to impose their will by force and fear," the statement says, likening the current climate to those of the 1930s and 1970s, "when radical critiques of America got considerable traction and our national self-confidence often seemed to hang by a thread."

The signers include former Attorney General Bill Barr, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, current Reps. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Michael McCaul, R-Texas, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, radio host Hugh Hewitt, National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry, and Commentary editor John Podhoretz. According to them, "[e]ven some on the right have become disenchanted with the American project," and that they are looking to "reclaim what once was a consensus view of America that has now become bitterly
contested."

That view is "that America is a fundamentally fair society with bountiful opportunity," that the country's founding "was a world-historical event of the utmost importance," and "that its original sins have been honorably, if belatedly, repudiated," despite claims on the left.
"To the extent that these notions are falling out of favor, it is the responsibility of those who love America to revivify them," the statement says.

The signers acknowledge in the statement that even they disagree amongst themselves about policies, but that ultimately they "are united as devotees of America."

COMMENT:   A very good start.  Of course, the political left will come out of the woodwork to disparage every word, and our guys have to be ready to counterpunch, with both facts and passion. 

I believe the left is now losing.  As usual, the leftists overstepped, their egos far ahead of their brains.  If our side wins decisively in November, the woke era can start to fade away. 

May 13, 2022       Permalink