“A conviction would have also set the stage for a vote to bar him from serving in public office again.” The outcome leaves the populist forces in the field and the old GOP party in the dust. Up next: the battle to define conservative politics as Biden faces a new world.
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Was it suddenly or all along?
It’s abandon ship at the Lincoln Project. The worst lies are those we make up and come to believe ourselves.
Masked until further notice
The mutating virus is in an evolutionary race with politicians and public health authorities. How long did it take them to win the Cold War or War on Terror again?
Scoops missed by that much
Ben Shapiro expresses disappointment at all the bombshell scoops — Cuomo, Hunter Biden, the Lincoln Project — that the press just missed exposing presumably due to bad luck.
How long till we move on past the NY nursing home deaths?
The reason people hang on is they still have hope. Do you think hope will get you anywhere?
NY can admit deaths now the feds are different
As it would undermine their moral standing.
Don’t beg
Canceling people in Woke outrage is a big fad now. Often the canceled — their careers gone, exile affirmed — complain it isn’t fair. But fair’s got nothing to do with it. It isn’t reasonable to expect ‘fairness’, ‘reciprocity’ or ‘tolerance’ from left wing or Woke media outlets or platform. One cannot count on the …
WHO comes to the conclusion it agreed to reach
Probe ground rules stipulated in advance China would not be blamed. Imported frozen food or wildlife or undetected previous disease may be to blame.
We all mistakes, or so we once believed
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain
“This is Sparta” but not in a good way, helot.
The rise of the global China class.
Electric cars will double world power consumption
Member of Facebook independent oversight board member joins Biden admin
The riddle of the sands
China is waging a subtle war against an island neighbour, deploying a rather unusual tactic as it looks to expand its regional empire. Its latest weapon? Sand…
China’s feet of clay and sword of gold
Although China is a formidable geopolitical rival it is not ten feet tall. It’s birthrate continues to fall to record levels despite the Party’s reversal of the One Child policy. Compared to the Quad alliance …
Interview with Steve Bannon
I was interviewed by Steve Bannon on War Room on my recent piece Bandwagon of Perdition. My segment starts at about 26:50
Our sickening simplicity
Charles de Gaulle when asked by a journalist if ‘he was happy’ retorted “What do you take me for, an idiot?” For some people neighborliness is just plain irksome. Do you really want to help people or just enjoy sitting in judgment of others? This is the dilemma of the virtuous. Nothing is more ensnaring …
Is the old war habit coming back?
Is war making a comeback in the Middle East? What about the Pacific? One of the two things the pandemic did was weaken great powers across the board. The other was it destabilized countries and power blocs internally. The former lessens the danger of deliberate conflict; the latter increases it. The question is whether and …
Climate activists say China must stop producing to save planet
“China’s record aluminium output last year emitted more C02 than some entire countries, including Indonesia and Brazil,” says Reuters. Maybe the West should shut more of their economies down in order to shame China into compliance. Or it could develop cheap nuclear power and outcompete their “inefficient coal plants”.
The better political people weren’t
Politics ought to be decided on policy and performance. Virtue signaling was always a pretty phoney basis for choosing public positions.
Go on and laugh at the groupthink of others
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