One of the best videos opposing Critical Race Theory that you’ll ever see. 👏🏼🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/cXOfheV0kJ

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 1, 2021

Guilt for January 6 Belongs With Those Most Eager to Condemn It

George Will, Peggy Noonan, and other estimable friends bear a heavy responsibility in the disaster that has now been riveted on the backs of the American people and the world.

“…Trump did not incite anything, except a peaceful demonstration after a very questionable election result. None of the 18 lawsuits that directly challenged the constitutional or legal integrity of the vote or the vote-counting system were adjudicated. They were not heard for technical reasons. Neither was the case launched by the attorney general of Texas with the support of 18 other states alleging failure by several of the swing states to follow the constitutional requirement to ensure fair presidential election results.

There were no problems in 44 states, but in six swing states, there were extraordinary anomalies where voting or vote-counting had been altered with questionable constitutional legality, supposedly to accommodate voters inconvenienced by the COVID-19 pandemic, which made a number of key results practically unverifiable. If 42,000 votes were switched in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Wisconsin, it would have given Trump victory in the Electoral College.

The 2020 election, next to that of 1876 which was resolved by an agreement between the candidates after a partisan vote in a congressional commission, was the most dubious presidential result in American history. The real issue here is that the Trump-haters, like George Will, want to charge Trump falsely with seeking an insurrection after losing an unexceptionable election, when he was merely expressing the anger of his partisans over a dubious vote-counting process, aggravated by the abdication of the judiciary from its constitutional co-equal role with the legislative and executive branches.

On the same television program, Will said that on January 6 he urged his employees in Georgetown to go home, as if the malcontents at the Capitol would be trolling through Georgetown afterward and singling out George Will and his helpers for their five years of anti-Trump vitriol. A man of Will’s influence has an ethical and professional obligation to avoid the willful propagation of defamatory nonsense. He said on the same program that for the first time in American history many members of Congress are afraid of their own voters. They were elected because those same voters agreed with what they said: they all found Trump the preferable candidate.

The Biden Administration has been a disaster on every score and Donald Trump has not simply gone away like a dreadful meteor as Will and other Trump-haters predicted. Those who generally approved of Trump’s policies but couldn’t bear him now have to wear the odium of having helped elect Biden, as well as the cold terror that Trump will be back.

When I first knew George Will, he was a champion of the Reagan Revolution. I accept that Trump is much harder to warm to than Reagan, but in policy terms, he is Reagan’s continuator, after seven terms of indifferent or inept government. Trump’s revolution is just as necessary and just as worthy of support as Reagan’s, though his public persona is much less amiable. George Will, Peggy Noonan, and other estimable friends who are normally sensible bear heavy responsibility in the disaster that has now been riveted on the backs of the American people and the world. As Bill Clinton might say, I feel your guilt. As the ghastly current jargon goes, you own this debacle. Donald Trump isn’t the problem, you are.

A presidential election result that was highly questionable, despite the frenzied efforts of an air-tight media pretense that all the late drops of unverifiable heavy Biden votes in a few key states were squeaky clean, and which the judicial system at every level refuses to judge for process reasons (a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said the challenge in that state had to start at the lower courts and work up—impossible given those deadlines), naturally leaves the 75 million voters who supported the ostensibly losing candidate upset. That they would demonstrate is understandable, and when the speaker of the House and mayor of Washington refused the capitol police chief’s request for reinforcements, some hooliganism was predictable.

If January 6 is to be memorialized, it should be as an event illustrative of the strength of American democracy—that it can endure such strains and continue quite normally.

I hope we’re still on speaking terms. Smashing hijacked civilian airliners into large and famous buildings is a more egregious and sanguinary act of war than was the attack on Pearl Harbor—or the events of January 6…”

 

 

Baltimore Schools Will Not Hold Back ‘Tens of Thousands’ Of Students Who Failed This Year

An admission of total failure. Failure of parents, teachers, politicians. Failure also to recognize and admit failure in teaching and take steps to change.

‘We will shatter the heads of America and the Jews’

Jerusalem Imam Yousef Makharzah said that the Muslims will shatter the heads of America and the infidels and conquer Rome. He made his remarks in a Friday sermon that was aired on Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Al-Waqiyah TV (Lebanon).

 

$20 Billion to Rip Up Highways, To Reduce Climate Change and Division Caused by Road Traffic

“…President Biden’s infrastructure plan includes $20 billion to pour landfill into major access roads to cities, to eliminate racist community divides, reduce CO2 emissions, and revitalize inner cities by ensuring people who work in cities are incentivized to live near their workplaces…”

Largest U.S. Hospital Group Will Require ‘Conscious Inclusion’ Training, Recommended Employees Read ‘White Fragility’

We live in the age of cowardly stupidity.

Harvard-affiliated physicians want to deliver ‘preferential care based on race’

• • The physicians’ plan would single out Black and ‘Latinx’ patients in ‘fight for racial justice in medicine.’
  • Critical Race Theory influenced the physicians’ support for ‘medical restitution’ and ‘federal reparations.’

“…Harvard Medical School instructors Bram Wispelwey and Michelle Morse argue in a Boston Review article that race should be used as a determining factor in how heart failure patients are treated.

They write that the necessary “proactively antiracist agenda for medicine” should be direct, and the solution they propose could reach patients exactly at the point of care: “a preferential admission option for Black and Latinx heart failure patients to our specialty cardiology service.”…”

We Need More Statues Of America’s Heroic Saga, Not Fewer

Campus ‘diversity’ training challenged as unconstitutional compelled speech

Media outlets that derided COVID lab-leak theory last year now scramble to save face

BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors calls to "end the imperialist project that's called Israel." pic.twitter.com/0PgEtPMpVx

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 28, 2021

Eisenhower

American, Southwest put off plans to serve alcohol after passenger disruptions, assault on board

• • Southwest Airlines says it’s delaying a planned return of alcohol sales on board.
  • The decision comes after one of its flight attendants was assaulted on board.
  • The FAA this week said incidents, some of them violent, against flight attendants have surged this year, even though passenger numbers are below normal levels.

American corporations seem to be following the federal government down a path that is increasingly disconnected from reality. Corporations like government are dependent on the American public and not the other way around.

On a Southwest flight recently, I found the instructions by a stewardess relating to masking to verge on rude and condescending. This is not the way to gain cooperation of a large group of people in a free country. The rise of unruly passengers seems to have a linear relationship to the rise in petty tyrant personalities from low-level people in a position of semi-authority. Push that saucy talk a little too far, and public cooperation will decrease. That is the point I think we have reached. Passengers on an airplane are customers. Treat them as such. If you don’t, expect push back.

Joe Biden’s Imaginary America

His policies seem designed for coastal enclaves that do not represent most of the country

Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox:

“…Joe Biden’s ballyhooed “infrastructure” plan, coupled with unprecedented stimulus spending, is cast by the obliging media as being about the middle class but seems oddly detached from how the overwhelming majority of the middle class lives, which is in lower-density, automobile-dependent neighborhoods. This dynamic was intensifying even before the pandemic. But Biden’s plan seems mostly about serving the relatively small sliver of transit-riding apartment dwellers living in denser neighborhoods. Overall, dense residential areas accommodate no more than 10 percent of the nation’s population.

Rather than emulate Roosevelt’s New Deal, as Biden’s handlers insist, the plan renounces much of what drove it. The New Deal, whatever one thinks of it, was about improving the material quality of life for most Americans, such as by spreading the benefits of homeownership to an ever-broader part of the population. In contrast, the Biden plan focuses on permanent redistribution through ever more entitlements and dependency — something Roosevelt opposed. It is likely to reduce our competitiveness by boosting energy and regulatory costs as well as taxes.

Perhaps nothing better illustrates the Biden administration’s myopic sense of geography than its transportation priorities. Take urban transit. Biden has proposed a policy that, by some estimates, would allocate $165 billion for public transit (including urban rail — subways, light rail, and commuter rail) against only $115 billion to fix and modernize roads and bridges. Transit, which accounts for about 1 percent of overall urban and rural ground transportation, would receive nearly 60 percent of the money.

Echoing conventional progressive rhetoric, the administration’s transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, embraces the idea of getting Americans out of their cars and into trains and buses. For at least half a century, this has been a principal public-policy objective — and the results have been spectacularly unsuccessful. Despite the expenditure of more than $2 trillion and the construction of many new rail systems, transit’s share of daily commute trips dropped 44 percent from 1970 to 2019 (8.9 percent to 5.0 percent of the total). Even before COVID, working at home accounted for more commuting nationwide than did transit. Outside New York City, nearly 60 percent more people worked at home than rode transit in 2019, according to the American Community Survey. Transit accounted for less than 2 percent of all urban travel before COVID. The administration nonetheless is thinking about taxing vehicle mileage to pay for infrastructure, something that would be wildly unpopular outside the handful of dense urban cores where transit ridership is high…”

Death and double standards: Harder to attribute mortality to vaccine than to COVID?

“…Comorbidities are downgraded as causal factors in death when they overlap with COVID, whether the latter is verified or even merely suspected.

Stephanie Dubois, a British model aged 39, and Lisa Shaw, a BBC radio presenter aged 44, died within a day of each other due to serious thrombotic episodes after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Neither had underlying health conditions.

Dubois’ case has now been referred to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), as she lived in Cyprus, but she left her own account of her tragic decline on her Facebook page:

May 6: “So I had the vaccination today! I hate needles, today was no exception … And now I feel horrendous … pizza and bed for me.”

May 14: “Woke up feeling fine and then within an hour I had full body shakes, all my joints seized, and I was struggling to breathe and was cold to the bone with a persistent headache and dizziness … Mum and dad came to look after me and took me for a Covid test, which thankfully was negative … but it still doesn’t explain what the problem is. Maybe I’m having a prolonged reaction to my Covid jab last week.”

That same day she was admitted to the hospital.

May 18: “Done being ill now … Couple more tests today! PS — I still don’t like needles — feeling tired.”

May 19: Dubois went into a coma.

Shaw’s family said in a statement: “Lisa developed severe headaches a week after receiving her AstraZeneca vaccine and fell seriously ill a few days later … She was treated by the [Royal Victoria Infirmary’s] intensive care team for blood clots and bleeding in her head.”

According to Britain’s medical watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), there have been 332 cases of blood clotting leading to 58 deaths from the AZ vaccine. Statistically, that is very small compared to the estimated 23.9 million first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and 9.0 million second doses administered in the U.K. by the same date.

The death of Dubois highlights how much harder it is to attribute deaths to the vaccines than it is to claim death by COVID. Deutsche Welle has even run a fact-check article on other cases titled “No links found between vaccinations and deaths.”

The German state broadcaster and publisher sought to debunk claims made in many other countries, including Italy, Austria, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Belgium and the U.S. In a case in a Norwegian nursing home, it quoted the EMA stating: “Pre-existing diseases seemed to be a plausible explanation for death. In some individuals, palliative care had already been initiated before vaccination.”

Statens Legemiddelverk of the Norwegian Medicines Agency claimed, “Every day, an average of 45 people die in Norwegian nursing homes … therefore, deaths that occur close to the time of vaccination is expected, but it does not imply a causal relationship to the vaccine.”

Figures for deaths attributed to COVID, meanwhile, are not scrutinized to the same level…”