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Liz Sheld:
“…Night two of the Democrat presidential debate delivered as expected. There was no Spanish but mucho loco. During the first debate, the candidates were just trying to get some attention because many of them were unknown. On night two, the candidates attacked the president more explicitly and attacked one another because they are jockeying for a bump in the polls. G-d help us.
Biden was the big target because he’s the front runner and was mostly defending himself against his lack of wokeness. Back in his day, what the woke police considered woke was actually considered madness or mental illness. Times, they are a changin’…
…One thought that crossed my mind is how openly radical the Democrats have become compared to the 2016 campaign. Bernie was regarded as an extremist back then but they are all Bernie now. Free healthcare, free college, no borders, healthcare for illegal immigrants, radical economic policies to combat “climate change,” minimum wage hikes (sorry small businesses!), gun control (brain teaser: would the U.S. deport an illegal alien involved in a gun violence crime?), back into the Iran deal, back into the Paris Accords. Sounds like paradise. But how do you win a general election once you’ve come forward with these crazy policies?…
…The Democrats are in a bind: if they don’t nominate a nutter, their base will attack and won’t turn out to vote but unless they moderate their political positions, a large chunk of voters will be turned off. Good luck….”
You won’t know this fact.
Access to western markets and technology has not caused China to liberalise. On the contrary, the Chinese government lies, steals, takes advantage, and uses technology to suppress its people.
Gary McWilliams:
“…Huawei had sued CNEX in U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas, for misappropriation of trade secrets involving a memory control technology and for poaching its employees. The jury rejected those claims, while finding a CNEX founder failed to notify the company of his patent filings.
CNEX filed a counter suit, alleging Huawei sought to steal its technology by posing as a customer and calling the original claims part of a pattern by Huawei to obtain others’ secrets. The jury found Huawei had misappropriated CNEX’s secrets but awarded no damages.
“This is a victory for the rule of law and for global standards of ethical corporate behavior,” said CNEX General Counsel Matthew Gloss. “This case was never about money.”
The United States has effectively banned its agencies from buying Huawei telecommunications equipment and barred U.S. companies from doing business with Huawei, claiming the firm represents a threat to national security…”
VIRGINIA KRUTA:
“…Actress Nancy Lee Grahn cropped the time and date from a photo she posted Friday to blame Trump for something that actually occurred during the Obama administration.
Grahn, best known for her roles on “Santa Barbara” and “General Hospital,” tweeted photos of children wrapped in aluminum emergency blankets and huddled together in an immigration detention center, claiming that their “torture” was the result of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies…”
There are so many headlines nowadays that occupy the gray area between crazy-town and just-possibly-true that it is becoming harder and harder to tell the difference between satire and truth. Another example of this phenomenon is below.