Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Tuesday roundup

 Ted Cruz calls for the Senate to forego an August recess and work on the repeal plan for the "A"CA.

Very thoughtful piece at NRO by Nicholas Gallagher on the tension between the two key notions of what America is: an idea (namely, that liberty is an essential condition for human well-being) and a blood-and-soil geographically identifiable location populated by particular demographics.

North Korea has been supplying everything from arms to construction labor to a number of African nations for decades, and they are quite pleased with the partnership.

Identity politics madness in San Francisco prevents BART from releasing videos of criminals beating people up and robbing them on public transit:


The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) authority is refusing to release surveillance videos involving a recent spate of robberies committed at BART stations in the last three months. Their reasoning?
They don’t want to perpetuate negative stereotypes of minorities.
 The CBS affiliate in San Francisco says in the last three months “there have been at least three robberies on BART involving groups of teenagers.”
June 28: A group of four kids assaulted a passenger and made off with a cell phone at Dublin; and
June 30: A woman on a train with about a dozen teenagers had her phone snatched by one them before the group got off at the Coliseum stop. Thankfully, a good Samaritan was on hand to retrieve the phone.
Despite the heightened threat to the public, BART authorities continue to withhold video of the attacks from the press, citing concerns that they would be aiding negativity towards minorities, although they failed to identify which minorities are in question.
You knew this was coming: transgendered dolls.

There's been a lot of hype in recent times about China being poised to become a genuine world-stage leader. Don't buy it, says Rich Lowry.


5 comments:

  1. China may not be in our class of leadership but they are every bit as formidable in all out war as Ike viewed them to be back in '53, but what a snowflake, eh? Let's be exceptional. Let's roll, Donnies had enuf!

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  2. You're correct that they would be able to deal a devastating blow if another major power (USA?) ever found itself in an actual war with them. But in terms of providing some kind of strategic vision for humanity or any portion of it, and therefore leadership in a realm like business or education, they don;'t have what it takes.

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  3. You're correct that they would be able to deal a devastating blow if another major power (USA?) ever found itself in an actual war with them. But in terms of providing some kind of strategic vision for humanity or any portion of it, and therefore leadership in a realm like business or education, they don;'t have what it takes.

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  4. No want to be numba won, numba one have no where to go but down....

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  5. No want to be numba won, numba won have no where to go but down....

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