Stefan Molyneux and Gavin McInnes and Devon Tracy have been purged from YouTube.  When I was born, the whole country was against book-burning.  Not anymore.

Happy Fourth of July to a country that isn't perfect, but is great instead.

Forbes accepted, posted, then deleted an apology from an environmentalist.  No reason was provided as yet. 

The Amazon is not the lungs of the world.

Biden has pledged to rescind permission to build the Keystone XL pipeline.  That's a clear wrong.  As the Fraser Institute tells us, "Rail causes nearly 40 times [as] many injuries requiring hospitalization on a per-ton-mile basis."

http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/6/29/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/why-amazon-doesnt-produce-20-percent-worlds-oxygen/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-campaign-keystone-xl-pipeline-permit-revoke/

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/intermodal-safety-in-the-transport-of-oil-rev3.pdf

A kind of error:  The belief that because a problem has not been solved in a way that has no negative aspects, the problem hasn't been solved at all.

It's why BLM-types are able to say that mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow.

To not note magnitude is often to miss the point entirely.

The reality is that in all kinds of ways that really matter, life is unbelievably, unprecedentedly good right now.  Take a look at this graph:  https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past

I can't imagine what goes on in the minds of normal voters sometimes.  For example, what has happened in the past month that has caused Trump to stumble in the polls and Biden to soar?

- The left have rioted in a dozen+ cities and blue mayors have shown they're cowards in the face of leftwing defilement.

- The Supreme Court have shown they're still committed to unilaterally updating the law to say what the left would like it to say despite the two new Trump appointees (in fact, in one recent case, because of a recent Trump appointee).

These factors do not make me wish for more leftism, but they do my countrymen.  My fellow Americans are making me nervous that the following is true:  

"Every nation gets the government it deserves."  –Joseph de Maistre

Want to stop most times police kill a citizen?  Stop resisting arrest!  This life-saving advice is not pushed by the left because they are more interested in blaming whites or America or police than they are saving black lives.

Uncle Ben's and Aunt Jemima are changing their "brand identity" for reasons nobody can articulate.  But achieving racial parity in the USA will not be found in branding.  It won't be found in defunding police.  It won't be found in eliminating blackface.  It won't be found in PC Halloween costumes.  It will be found in one place:  Black Americans' decisions.  To give one example, not enough black Americans raise their children at all, let alone well.

https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in-single-parent-families-by-race#detailed/1/any/false/37,871,870,573,869,36,868,867,133,38/10,11,9,12,1,185,13/432,431

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/06/17/uncle-bens-plans-to-change-its-brand-identity-to-end-racial-biases/

There are cases in which the answer doesn't "lie in the middle."  In fact, there are even cases in which the answer lies at either extreme, but not in the middle.  One such case is how one resolves a military victory over a hated rival.

The middle route, reparations, contributed to Hitler's rise to power following WW1.  Reparations are playing with fire, whatever the moral arguments offered may be.

The remedy is worse than the disease (17 killed in Floyd riots).

The left is becoming uber-radical (dismantle police is new).

We are quickly becoming unable to establish "good government from reflection and choice."

Government is increasingly capable of only doing things I don't want.  OSHA and the FDA are infinitely powerful, yet the police/courts can't protect public works.

When should companies fire people who say bad things on social media?  Rarely.

Live P.D. and Cops are canceled.  We are in a moral panic.  Now is the time to stand up against the mob.  It will only get harder to do so if we don't now.

The Federalist points to many cases in which "If You Don't Support Black Lives Matter, You're Fired."  I don't think democracy can function in such an environment.  

A Democrat data analyst reports that peaceful protests by the left help Democrats, while riotous ones hurt Democrats.  He was fired.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/11/if-you-dont-support-black-lives-matter-youre-fired/

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/case-for-liberalism-tom-cotton-new-york-times-james-bennet.html

The left thinks they have figured out a completely superfluous profession once every 50 years.  First businessmen, then soldiers, now cops.

Big business isn't rightwing.  No large business affiliates itself with rightwing extremist causes like Microsoft (to name just one) has with Black Lives Matter.

Speaking of BLM, they want to defund the police.  Which the media are quickly trying to drag back into the realm of "reform."  When the media are the adults in the room, you know you've lost it.

Last, I'm going to explain you're one lucky person.  Even luckier than somebody who won a thousand lotteries centuries ago.  The latest news to be happy about -- Covid deaths were down to 373 the other day, from a high of 2700 in April.

Curiously enough, Clover had not remembered that the Fourth Commandment mentioned sheets; but as it was there on the wall, it must have done so. And Squealer, who happened to be passing at this moment, attended by two or three dogs, was able to put the whole matter in its proper perspective.

"You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? And why not? You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention.

https://twitter.com/selfdeclaredref/status/1267911752462843904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1267911752462843904&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theamericanconservative.com%2Fdreher%2Flanguage-memory-soft-totalitarianism-live-not-by-lies%2F

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/language-memory-soft-totalitarianism-live-not-by-lies/

https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2020/06/01/matt-walsh-drops-epic-thread-showing-media-hypocrisy-over-protests/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=matt-walsh-drops-epic-thread-showing-media-hypocrisy-over-protests&utm_content=0&utm_campaign=PostPromoterPro

Chris Hayes tells us that rioting is something the Founding Fathers did.  My question is:  SO WHAT??  That might be Chris' question too if they burned down his house.

The New York Times tells us that blacks are unhealthy because of slavery.  But if that explained health disparities, they would have originated with, not predated, slavery.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-georgia-reopening-coronavirus-pandemic/610882/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/coronavirus-race-obesity.html