The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences turns out to be a worthy sequel to the Golden Globes, held in March, offers James Freeman in the WSJ. Sunday’s Oscars could turn out to be “absurd fodder for a Larry David production.” This week’s Oscars turned out to be a worthy sequel to the Golden […]
America Cannibalizes Itself
America, with its illustrious history – its prosperity, freedom, stability – hinges on a few factors, notes Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness: Constitutional and Political stability Secure currency and financial order Strong Military A first-rate inductive educational system General social calm often dependent on a reverence for the past Secure borders An ability to […]
“Suicide by Cop” – Spinning Out of Control
The United States today is engulfed in violence – political violence of street protests, rising urban crime, cops shooting suspects or being shot at by suspects, or the routine violence of homicidal shooters. Asked if she was inciting violence by urging demonstrators “to get more confrontational,” Maxine Waters snapped back that this isn’t “about violence.” […]
Why Black Lives Matter Needs to Be Shut Down
Originally posted on August 7, 2020. In Louisville’s Cuban community, members recently rallied together in support of an immigrant-owned business, James Freeman reports in the WSJ. According to Tyler Emery of Louisville’s ABC affiliate WHAS, “The owner of La Bodeguita de Mima, Fernando Martinez, came under fire recently after he publicly spoke out against a […]
Dale’s Diner – No Más
Pick up any newspaper and you often can read about the frustrations of small businesses being able to hire staff. Across America there’s seems to be a dearth of people wanting, needing, and willing to work. Here in Key West, we repeatedly hear from business owners how they can’t fill positions needed to keep their […]
Incentivizing People to Stay Home?
Mike Rowe, former “Dirty Jobs” star and executive producer of “Six Degrees with Mike Rowe,” has some thoughts on the debate in Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour. I want everybody to be able to support themselves. But if you just pull the money out of midair you’re going to create other […]
A Pitiful, Helpless Giant?
Even as the predominately Democratic cities bleed, political machines are hard to polish off. And Republicans have a long way to go, argues Daniel McCarthy in Spectator.US. Joe Biden, alive, is head of a dead party. Mr. McCarthy believes Democrats have a demographic problem: “… the exiguous margins of their hold on the House and Senate, […]
COVID Mask Wearing Buffoonery
(Dick Young: best COVID post reading) Vaccines, the marvel of modern medicine, have saved countless lives worldwide. Charles Hurt reminds readers in the Washington Times that we now have the COVID vaccine thanks to President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed – a marvel of “presidential vision, political leadership, bureaucratic humility and free enterprise genius.” When President […]
Law and Order – A Twisted Joke
Americans have been endlessly hectored about mask wearing, social distancing, and outdoor gatherings. Yet politicians and journalists support citizens who smash and burn some of America’s poorest neighborhoods. We consistently have been warned that Minneapolis is a city “on edge” because of the ongoing trial of Derek Chauvin. If the police officer under whose knee […]
CBS – Picking on the Ron Guy
While New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was busy accepting his Emmy award and writing a “pompous, self-congratulatory” book, he was also lapping up constant praise from his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo. The Empire State, however, was far from booming, Grace Curley reminds us in Spectator.US. As Ms. Curley observes, CNN’s 60 Minutes didn’t seem […]
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