“You could afford your house without your government if it weren’t for your government.”  -Rush Limbaugh

I read part of Francis Galton's novel.  He was a celebrated scientist who coined the term "eugenics."  He proposed that "fit" people be paid to have large families.  Then it hit me:  He probably thought he was fit.  If so, the appeal goes from hard to understand to very easy.

The Oregon governor wants Americans to rat on their neighbors if they're having Thanksgiving.  This is the same governor that lets Antifa run rampant for over 100 days of mayhem during Covid!  This is tyrannical -- you cannot effectively have one law for favored people and another for disfavored.  What a brazen disgrace this woman is!

"There are certain possibilities that many among the intelligentsia cannot even acknowledge as possibilities, much less try to test empirically, which would be risking a whole vision of the world -- and of themselves -- on a roll of the dice."  -Thomas Sowell

“You could afford your house without your government if it weren’t for your government.”  -Rush Limbaugh

I read part of Francis Galton's novel.  He was a celebrated scientist who coined the term "eugenics."  He proposed that "fit" people be paid to have large families.  Then it hit me:  He probably thought he was fit.  If so, the appeal goes from hard to understand to very easy.

The Oregon governor wants Americans to rat on their neighbors if they're having Thanksgiving.  This is the same governor that lets Antifa run rampant for over 100 days of mayhem during Covid!  This is tyrannical -- you cannot effectively have one law for favored people and another for disfavored.  What a brazen disgrace this woman is!

"There are certain possibilities that many among the intelligentsia cannot even acknowledge as possibilities, much less try to test empirically, which would be risking a whole vision of the world -- and of themselves -- on a roll of the dice."  -Thomas Sowell

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."  -Booker T. Washington

How do people KNOW the election was stolen or KNOW it wasn't... before the investigations are complete, let alone challenged in a court?  I'm not sure people know what it is to know, judging by the sheer quantity of "certainty" on Twitter.

A man wrote, for the London School of Economics, a book review in which he dismissed an author as a "rich white man."  While the author's net worth is anybody's guess -- the man is Thomas Sowell, a famous black economist.

This is more than just a mistake:  This reveals that many on the left -- even leading lights who might write for the LSE -- cannot make race-blind arguments.  What used to be known more broadly as "arguments."

"The gods mercifully gave mankind this little moment of peace between the religious fanaticisms of the past and the fanaticisms of class and race that were speedily to arise and dominate time to come."  -G. M. Trevelyan

"When street prostitutes moved in considerable numbers to the street corners of the neighbourhood in which I live, the senior local policeman said in response to residents’ requests that he do something about it that he would do nothing, since the women came from disadvantaged homes and were probably all addicted to drugs. He was not prepared, he said, to victimise them further. It was therefore our duty as citizens to pick the used condoms from our rose bushes. Such is life under the regime of zero intolerance."  -Theodore Dalrymple

"... A blink of an eye, and his successors are discovering fundamental rights to commit homosexual marriage.

What happened in between? Jurisprudentially, nothing: Everything Chief Justice Warren Burger said back in the ’80s — about Common Law, Blackstone’s “crime against nature,” “the legislative authority of the State” — still applies. Except it doesn’t. Because the culture — from school guidance counselors to sitcom characters to Oscar hosts — moved on, and so even America’s Regency of Jurists was obliged to get with the beat."  -Mark Steyn

To root for a Supreme Court decision which violates the function of a Supreme Court merely because you like the immediate outcome is to undermine the country.  Which would be fine if we were likely to erect an equally good country in its wake, but we aren't up to the job.  Not even close.

The Trump paradox:

The left hates President Trump because he lies more than any other President.

The right loves President Trump because he tells the truth more than any other President.

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not agree with the introductory quote.  Those who do not fight monsters are more likely to become monsters.

The LAPD "is dossolving its sexual assault unit" thanks to #defund.  So now #MeToo is another hapless victim of the left.

The left will sacrifice anything -- blacks, women, whatever -- if it means giving way to the most energetic and barbarous faction of leftists.

“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington.  He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.”  -Mark Twain

https://hannity.com/media-room/report-move-to-defund-lapd-forces-department-to-slash-unit-that-investigates-sexual-assault/

According to Genesis, after God made man he looked at all of his creations:  "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

But for environmentalists, it was almost all very good.  Except for the people part.  Namely, other people.  Since the '60s, environmentalists have been screaming at us that they hate people:  One of their unending quests has been, since that time, for depopulation.  But sometimes they have been more explicit:

"It'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of cheap, clean, and abundant energy because of what we would do with it."  -Amory Lovins

"Giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."  -Paul Ehrlich

The environmental left have had the same solutions to our problems since way before we had our problems.  And yet they think of themselves as "scientific."

There are no plain and simple problems any more. From poverty to race to crime to Vietnam, all we face are crises which threaten to bring down the world upon our heads.  –Ben Wattenberg, The New Republic, “The Nonsense Explosion,” 1970

According to Genesis, after God made man he looked at all of his creations:  "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

But for environmentalists, it was almost all very good.  Except for the people part.  Namely, other people.  Since the '60s, environmentalists have been screaming at us that they hate people:  One of their unending quests has been, since that time, for depopulation.  But sometimes they have been more explicit:

"It'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of cheap, clean, and abundant energy because of what we would do with it."  -Amory Lovins

"Giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."  -Paul Ehrlich

The environmental left have had the same solutions to our problems since way before we had our problems.  And yet they think of themselves as "scientific."

There are no plain and simple problems any more. From poverty to race to crime to Vietnam, all we face are crises which threaten to bring down the world upon our heads.  –Ben Wattenberg, The New Republic, “The Nonsense Explosion,” 1970

“Socialism is certain to prove, in the beginning at least, the road NOT to freedom, but to dictatorship and counter-dictatorships, to civil war of the fiercest kind.  Socialism achieved and maintained by democratic means seems definitely to belong to the world of utopias.”  -W. H. Chamberlin

It's looking like a long shot for the President.  Which is very much too bad.  Not only may the left ascend to power in the White House, but it will of course remain in power pretty much everywhere else:  Big business, alphabet-soup agencies, the media, and academia.  The Senate may have to put its finger in the dyke for awhile.

One reason why Biden has done well is politically incorrect to say:  Women voted for him.  This is because women are not good voters.

They disproportionately want to rehabilitate evil rather than destroy it.

They often feel more for the underdog than the overdog, regardless of rights.

They often worship nature in its raw form.

Women may have a right to vote, but our country would be freer and richer if they did not:  Only twice since 1950 have Democrats won the man vote.

Californians rejected affirmative action.  Which is kind of amazing, in the same way it's kind of amazing when the dimmest child in class gets a simple math problem correct.

‘…the griefs, struggles, strange adventures depicted exceed anything that any of us could imagine. Yes; and these wonders and terror have been lying by your door and mine ever since we had a door of our own. We had to go but a hundred yards off and see for ourselves, but we never did.’

— W. M. Thackeray ‘Waiting at the Station’

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”  -John D. Rockefeller

Biden is the New Hillary.

Packing the Supreme Court is the thing likeliest to prove catastrophic about 2020.

I am not on the left because, very simply, I do not care AT ALL about material equality.  It is their fixation, is based in envy, and leads to atrocity.

"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master." - Ayn Rand

"Leftism is both a way of understanding the world and a value system.  It is, in fact, a form of religion, albeit a secular one.  Many of its adherents believe in it with the same passion as religious Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in their respective religions."  -Dennis Prager

A Muslim has beheaded a woman in France and killed two others for Allah.  For decades now, the West has received a deluge of migration, much of it from Muslim countries (which differentiates it from earlier migrations).  Bigotedly thinking beheading is worse than whatever the left calls "xenophobia" or "Islamaphobia," I oppose this.

Glenn Greenwald has been censored at the publication he co-founded.  He has resigned.  Why has he been censored?  He criticized Joe Biden.  The new left simply wants to shut people up.

"Make no mistake: this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution."  -Donald Trump