And, given that American elections have degraded to the point where the opposition candidate is now
being indicted,
convicted and
shot at,
I find myself more interested in the disturbing abandonment by key US institutions of all remaining norms.
For example...
As my friend Conrad Black, one of its victims, put it over a decade ago:
Those who do exercise their constitutional right to a defense receivethree times as severe a sentence as those who plead guilty; 95 percent of cases are won by prosecutors, 90 percent of those without trial.
Those last two numbers have ticked up even higher in the years since, but that first one is important too: if you insist on your "constitutional" (ha!) right to a defence and it pans out as the ninetysomething stats suggest, you'll be gaoled for thirty years instead of ten.
They'll punish you for having the temerity to insist on being tried and convicted according to due process...
However, it seems the speakers at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) could not summon “the courage” to speak “authentically and proudly” about their full-throated endorsement of the most radical LGBT policies ever implemented... While the Democrats might lack the fortitude to highlight their “accomplishments” on these issues, here is just a brief summary of what the Biden-Harris administration has done:
On the first day of the Biden-Harris administration, it implemented an executive order allowing boys into the girls restrooms and locker rooms and to compete in girls sports.
The Biden-Harris administration has rolled back religious liberty protections for medical providers compelling them to provide “gender affirming care.”
The Biden-Harris administration has routinely championed the Equality Act. This act would effectively gut religious liberty protections and eviscerate women’s sports and other legal protections. It would compel Catholic Hospitals to provide “gender affirming care.”
The Biden-Harris administration adopted a rule that if foster parents refused to support “gender affirming care” they would have their children taken from them...
You would not have heard any mention of these policies from the DNC speakers...
Joe Kernen of CNBC schooled Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on the history of price controls in a debate about the economic policies of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Kernen explained the free market argument against price controls to Warren on "Squawk Box" Friday a day after Harris accepted the nomination for the presidency at the Democratic National Convention.
"I can paint you a picture of how that would work and how it's worked in the past where we've artificially tried to hold prices down, competition doesn't come in," said Kernen.
Chairperson of the African Energy Chamber (AEC), NJ Ayuk denounced the discriminatory withholding of investment in fossil fuels by Western financial institutions as very unjust, hypocritical, and colonial.
Natural gas is treated as a fossil fuel in Africa, but it’s seen as green energy in Europe…It’s clear discrimination, it’s outrageous and it should not be happening. You can’t have one set of standards for the European and American energy industries and another for the African energy industry...
Energy Poverty Kills
Without doubt, the single biggest cause of death in Africa, is the pathetic paucity of available energy. This is not hyperbole! It is absolutely true...
1718 - Hundreds of colonists from France arrived in Louisiana. Some settled in present-day New Orleans.
1875 - Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover, England, to Calais, France making him the first person to swim the English Channel. The feat took about 22 hours.
1939 - The movie "Wizard of Oz" opened around the United States.
1949 - NBC Radio debuted "Father Knows Best." The show went to TV in 1954.
1998 - A survey released said that 1/3 of Americans use the Internet.
But, of course, this is what Democrats have always done: keep people down. Keep them ignorant and poor and dependent. This is the message Democrats send to black kids by refusing them private school vouchers and telling them they can’t succeed in a white supremacist country. This is what they do to welfare recipients through the creation of a system that discourages marriage and work. And now, A-Walz is telling the rural poor that striving is selling out your own.
Walz sold out his men in the Minnesota National Guard just as they were headed into a war zone, and now he’s selling out every poor, rural kid hoping for a way out.
Credit: AP Bodycam footage shows a Butler Township police officer flipping out after his warnings about Crooks on the roof over the radio went ignored. That’s because Secret Service agents never picked up their radios.
“Before you motherf*ckers came up here, I popped my head up there like an idiot by myself, dude,” the police officer who was hoisted onto the roof said. “Then he turned around and I f*cking dropped, and I started f*cking, I was calling out, ‘Bro, f*cking on top of the roof.’ F*cking, we’re not on the same frequency?”
The day before the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a tactical team of local police officers set aside radios for their Secret Service partners so the two agencies could communicate during the former president’s July 13 campaign rally.
Termite aspirations. That term from Ayn Rand toward the enemies of modern living and human betterment is applicable to many energy issues today.
One of the most recent examples regards the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which since 1977 has been transporting crude oil from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez (800 miles) for tanker shipment to markets... This June, these environmental groups filed a legal petition to the U.S. Department of Interior to phase-out and decommission TAPS...
A posting at RVM News said, "The comments appeared to suggest that supporters should avoid any actions that could potentially harm the Democratic Party's prospects until after the election
The gunman who nearly assassinated former President Donald Trump used encrypted messaging accounts on platforms in multiple foreign countries, according to a GOP representative appointed to a congressional task force investigating the assassination attempt.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) — a member of the Bipartisan House Task Force on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump — revealed the three countries linked to encrypted messaging accounts used by would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Understand that government controls asset prices via its control of the money supply: if it wants asset prices to go up, all it has to do is print money.
Which means all a corrupt government needs to do to destroy you with a massive tax bill on unrealized gains is to print a crap ton of money, create massive asset inflation due to the deliberate devaluation of the currency, then bill you for the asset bubble it created.
If you bought a house for $200k, and the government fires up the money printer to juice asset prices resulting in your house being worth $600k, you now have $400k in unrealized gains the government can tax you on...
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15 2022 in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga Our findings show the volcano can explain last year’s extraordinarily large ozone hole, as well as the much wetter than expected summer of 2024. The eruption could have lingering effects on our winter weather for years to come... Animation of the Hunga Tonga eruption recorded on January 15 2022 by Japan’s Himawari-8 weather satellite.
As Twitchy reported earlier this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting ready to sign legislation that would allow illegal aliens to buy homes with a $0 down payment and 0 percent interest. Mind you, this is only for illegals.
Oregon appears to be saying, "Hold my beer." Hacienda Community Development Corporation is offering $30,000 to buy a home, but only if you're a non-citizen … Americans need not apply.
Joe Biden’s speech at the DNC this week was so chock-full of lies that even CNN — one of the most left-leaning news outlets in existence — called him out.
Dave Rubin plays a clip of CNN’s Jake Tapper and Daniel Dale discussing the various lies and half-truths in the president’s speech.
And, given that American elections have degraded to the point where the opposition candidate is now
Credit: AP
Animation of the Hunga Tonga eruption recorded on January 15 2022 by Japan’s Himawari-8 weather satellite.
