The MalaCast

"All those who do not follow the line that I have set out will be smashed." -Ho Chi Minh

I bought the book "Requiem," a book about wars in Indochina in the postwar period. What I got was Communist propaganda.

"This, of course, lays bare the curious moral stance of our age: it is not wrong to bash an innocent woman to death with a brick, but it is wrong to condemn the deed and its perpetrators." -Theodore Dalrymple

“There are people who are not interested in the war. Unfortunately, the war is interested in them.” -Fannie Hurst, 1941

I have saved up ~70 stories about the negligence of our justice system from this year. I'm going to tell you about six.

"Here lies Dennis Prager. He fought evil." -Dennis Prager, on his preferred epitaph.

“There are no devils left in hell.  They are all in Rwanda.”  -A Missionary, quoted in Time, May 16, 1994

Kamala Harris wants everybody to know about her suit color and

Biden's making a classic leftist prisoner exchange for Brittney Griner.

Much confusion comes from judging economic policies by the goals they proclaim rather than the incentives they create.  –Thomas Sowell

I have seen the face of a coward and found it loathsome. –Audie Murphy

"Having more than one armed person at the scene who is not a member of law enforcement can create confusion and carry dire risks." -NYT

Why yes, that's why we call them heroes.

Cowards do not say, "I am a coward." They say, "The thing which you call evil is just misunderstood. It's mental illness, it's a bad childhood, it's just another world view. So we shouldn't riskily (and unjustly!) fight so-called evil; rather it deserves our sympathy."

“Those who oppose Reagan cite, exhibiting traditional American ingenuity, almost everything they can think to say against him."  -William F Buckley

I have a final thought about Shinzo Abe:  National leaders are many things, but not cowards.  I explain.

Lebron James (moron) wonders if he were rotting in a Russian jail if he'd even want to come back to the USA.  He's incredibly dense.  And probably Smolletted himself!

A USA Today Poll in Detroit showed black residents were overwhelmingly more concerned about public safety than about "police reform."  White residents were more concerned about police reform.

“In [totalitarianism] shortages of material goods, even of necessities, were not a drawback but a great advantage for the rulers. These shortages were not accidental to the terror, but one of its most powerful instruments. Not only did shortages keep people’s minds strictly on bread and sausage, and divert their energies to procuring them so that there was no time or inclination left over for subversion…”  -Theodore Dalrymple

“If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause, because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that it will triumph.” -TS Elliott

A hero bystander at the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana stops a mass shooting almost as it began. Which infuriated the left.

“Can’t wait to get up every morning at 1:30 AM every morning and rush down to the teletypes and telephones to see what wonderful things hundreds of millions of heroic people have been doing overnight.” -Paul Harvey

"In the late 1990s, girls between the ages of ten and fifteen accounted for more than 15 percent of all births in Argentina and 17 percent of all births in Uruguay. By contrast, less than 2 percent of births in the United States are to girls in that age group—and most of those are Hispanics." -Ann Coulter

Joe Biden TWICE has told the story of a ten-year-old rape victim who had to travel to neighboring Indiana to get an abortion.  To combat rape?  Nope.  To combat car rides.

"The prevalence of freakishly young birth mothers in Latin America confirms the reports.  According to CNN, 318 ten-year-old-girls gave birth in Mexico in 2011....  In the last quarter century, there’s been one reported case of an American impregnating a girl that young.” -Ann Coulter

"I have prayed just one prayer in my life: Use me."  -Ingmar Bergman film, “The Magician”

Twitter and the media were awash with predictions of Republican decimation after Dobbs in June.  Only... two new polls are out showing Republicans +8.  Ha!

"He that would fly without wings must fly in his dreams." -Coleridge

What nation in history has damned its illustrious heroes for being racially similar to a 90% majority of the contemporary population? -Victor Davis Hanson

Leftists dismiss historical figures who did unique things by pointing to things they did which were common. I discuss this phenomenon as it relates to John Paul Jones.

“Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare

"The English Nation may hate me, but I will force them to esteem me too." -JPJ, 1780

John Paul Jones struggled when he wasn't captaining a vessel. Fortunately for him (and us), he usually was.

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." -JPJ, 1778