Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

We’re not in Kansas anymore. https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/caitlyn-jenners-anti-newsom-ad-previews-big-challenge-for-dems/

I won’t blow smoke up your exhaust pipe because 2022 will be one tough election. Between a media that relishes lying, to a corrupt court afraid of being mobbed at home, to a Democrat Party that will ruthlessly churn out fake votes like confetti for a tickertape parade, the game is stacked against Republicans Don …

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Starship lands successfully.

If political incorrectness is a disease it ought to ban itself. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/01/867200259/protests-over-racism-versus-risk-of-covid-i-wouldn-t-weigh-these-crises-separate?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&s=09

The most important divorce in America today is not between Bill and Melinda Gates but within the political center. What held it together was the need to pay the national bills and the glue of residual shared culture.

Identity politics in Africa. https://nypost.com/2021/05/04/ethiopia-at-a-crossroads-amid-spiraling-ethnic-conflict/

Bizarre photo showing giant Bidens beside miniature Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter keeps the Explainers busy.

About 300 students will get to sit at the ceremony, while their families cheer them on virtually. According to the school’s ceremony plans, family members — even the parents who helped pay the tuition — will not be allowed to sit in the stands. … While the students will be sitting about six feet apart …

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One school district in Washington state has evidently decided that Asians no longer qualify as persons of color. https://reason.com/2020/11/16/equity-report-north-thurston-asian-students-of-color/

Will the electric guitar intro work? A 36-year-old CIA employee also wants you to know how else she sees herself – that she is proudly a “woman of colour,” is “intersectional” and is a “cisgender millennial”. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3132143/why-woke-cia-recruitment-video-angered-us

Elliott is telling analysts that the sell-off is overdone – and comparing the decline to one following an advertiser pullback during Black Lives Matter protests last year – and when Twitter banned the account of former President Donald Trump, according to the report. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3689377-twitter-cuts-losses-on-report-elliott-is-buying-post-earnings-slide

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/census-news-republicans-democrats.html

We’re now in chapter two of the story and we still don’t know how it started. https://www.9news.com.au/world/pfizer-vaccine-for-youngsters-children-12-to-15-eu-drug-regulator-evaluating/72a0e87e-8dc4-4ba1-a07b-45e79be96727

Frederick Forsyth should write a book. https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/retired-french-generals-boost-marine-le-pen-as-emmanuel-macron-is-warned-of-divided-country-1.1212271

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/world/europe/france-marine-le-pen-acquitted-isis.html Ms. Le Pen, head of the National Rally, posted graphic pictures in 2015 to protest comparisons between the terrorist group and her party. NYT

Nobody knows the virus’ origin for sure but it would be foolish to rule a lab accident out simply from political correctness. https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/exclusive-classified-study-found-covid-19-could-have-originated-in-chinese-lab

Made in the Philippines words will bounce off Made in China armor plate. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-04/phillipine-foreign-minister-china-south-china-sea-teddy-locsin/100113638

Because you’ll be canceled for racism, even though the criticism is directed against Communism. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/10/china-xi-jinping-totalitarian-authoritarian-debate/

The stealth progressive president. https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/05/03/cnn-biden-admin-wants-to-outsource-spying-on-americans-to-private-firms-to-bypass-fourth-amendment-n1444246

The rise of Covid anxiety syndrome. Do you have it? The anxiety syndrome is characterised by compulsively checking for symptoms of Covid, avoidance of public places, and obsessive cleaning, a pattern of “maladaptive behaviours” adopted when the pandemic started. Now researchers have raised the alarm that the obsessive worrying and threat avoidance, including being unwilling …

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