The idea that a word is "offensive" is an expression of fashion and nothing more.  Your offensive words will, down to every last one, be inoffensive to future generations.  The words you use will appall them and they will think you were immoral for uttering them.

Everybody chastises those who talk bad about people behind their back.  Not me.

When I look up a past news event on Wikipedia, it ought to have a “media interest score.”  Like, 1-10 how much time did media spend on the story, did it go national etc.  Like:

Stephen Halton Jr was killed on his way to work at the Cleveland Clinic in 2014.  There have been ten articles written on him.  There have been more than 24,000 on Michael Brown.

I’m not the first to notice many of the businesses the old left would have hated the most are uber-woke.  Big tech, big banks, big oil for example.

Seems like self defense:  Safe from the left due to their leftist policy, safe from the right due to business-friendly ideology.

"I would have cheerfully submitted to a thousand deaths to have saved this dear child." -Henry Clay on the death of his final of six daughters

People always say "No parent should outlive their child," but that's a little like saying "No good man should ever get sick and die before 75." In the sense that it's very undesirable of course it's correct, but in the sense that it's in some way unnatural is not. Most parents to have ever lived lost a child.

On the topic of addiction: People who are so desperate to remove moral responsibility from others also remove their agency, their potency, their humanity.

“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”  -Charles MacKay

A man murdered at least 5 Christmas celebrants in Wisconsin by hitting them with his car.  He ran over a woman earlier in the month, on purpose, but his bail was set at just $1000 by a progressive DA who boasted of efforts to "reduce racial disparities in the system" and the "commitment to not keeping individuals held."  Will the left ever stop enabling savage cruelty?

"For three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain, and others.  And although it be not always so plentiful, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want..."  -Edward Winslow:  11 December 1621

“If I am drowning in a rapid river, a man who still has one foot on the bank may give me a hand which saves my life. Ought I to shout back (between my gasps) ‘No, it’s not fair! You have an advantage! You’re keeping one foot on the bank’? That advantage—call it ‘unfair’ if you like—is the only reason why he can be of any use to me. To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?” -CS Lewis

In five US states, more than 2% of "motor vehicle occupant traffic fatalities" involve drowning.  I was stunned to learn this.

I'd like to say something about being on the "right side" of history. There is no history. It's not a thing, or more precisely, it's so many things that it can't be said to have a discernible view.

"First, as to putting the clock back. Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong it is often a very sensible thing to do? But I would rather get away from that whole idea of clocks. We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.” -CS Lewis

"When he came up I looked him in the eye, and I saw shoot, and there wasn’t shoot in nary other eye in the crowd; and so I says to myself, says I, hoss; it’s about time to sing small, and so I did.”  -Russel Bean

Andrew Jackson was accused of "racism" by his biographer Remini. And yet, when he came upon an Indian infant, he adopted the boy and planned to send him to West Point. Hmm...

"Deep inside General Andrew Jackson lay a terrible, vindictive enemy against whom the Indians would only find their graves and the confiscation of their property."  -Remini

I'm joined by Ben Tracy from Twitter (handle:  @_UnityForAll_) because he disagreed with me about criminal sentencing and I wanted to hash it out.  We talked about that last:

1:05 "Moral Supremacy"

9:40 Free College for Illegals

22:00 Race/Racial Profiling

42:12 Criminal Sentencing

"[The Russian Emperor’s] power is more far-reaching than God’s, for God makes only the future, while the Czar remakes the past."  -Prince Peter Koslovsky

Any company which says "Safety is our #1 priority" is lying.

Down Syndrome goes up after 35, says the Mayo Clinic website. No, Down Syndrome goes up always. Nothing remarkable about 35.

“[They were] lies only by implication (the most effective kind, not only because they can be disavaowed when exposed, but because the implicit is always more effective than the explicit.” -Theodore Dalrymple

"If nothing's horrific, life is terrific." -Dennis Prager

"Homicides in the U.S. in 2020 increased nearly 30% over the previous year, the largest one-year jump since the FBI began keeping records..." -AP News

I know how to solve violent crime.

“Every day in our newspapers we read of the absurd and dangerous leniency of the criminal-justice system.” -Theodore Dalrymple

“Seeing victims everywhere you look is the zeitgeist, it is what gives people license to behave as they like while feeling virtuous. Virtue is not manifested in one’s behavior, always so difficult and tedious to control, but in one’s attitude toward victims.” -Theodore Dalrymple

People who say "Addicts can't stop" are self-aggrandizing.

“The American philosopher Herbert Fingarette pointed out in his book Heavy Drinking that experiments show that even very drunk chronic alcoholics (than which no addiction is more chronic) can resist the temptation to have another drink if they have an incentive to do so. Their problem is that they rarely do have such an incentive.” -Theodore Dalrymple

More important than your obligation to follow your conscience—or at least prior to it—is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.  –Antonin Scalia

A man died on the road outside my subdivision.  And I have a really good ghost story.  And yet... We are not products of our experiences.  We are products of our decisions.

“The desire for explanation always outruns the recognition of explanatory power.  The illusion of understanding is more important for most men than understanding itself.  And what counts as an understanding today will be revealed tomorrow as an illusion, often so gross that people will wonder how anyone came to believe it.  Conduct that was once attributed to the devil will be attributed by successive generations to a deficient or excessive phrenological bump, to an unresolved Oedipus complex, to bad conditioning, to faulty brain chemistry, to unfortunate genes, or to a part of the brain that fails to light up on fMRI scans when appropriately provoked.  The illusion of understanding is like the grin of the Cheshire Cat:  it is what remains when all else has disappeared.”  -Theodore Dalrymple

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -George Orwell

"It would probably be rude to ask, but I’m sure none of [the Afghan refugees] support sharia law, hate gays or Jews, or favor the death penalty for apostasy. People are really the same everywhere on earth, regardless of beliefs."  -Racist

"The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended. The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.” -Rowan Atkinson

“Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.” -Mark Twain

Ryan Reilly doesn't know what ear plugs are.

Mara Gay and Brian Williams Can't do Math.

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.” -Abraham Lincoln

"I am not a reformer. I think there is entirely too much attempt at reforming in the world and that we pay too much attention to reformers. We have two kinds of reformers. Both are nuisances. The man who calls himself a reformer wants to smash things. He is the sort of man who would tear up a whole shirt because the collar button did not fit the buttonhole. It would never occur to him to enlarge the buttonhole. This sort of reformer never under any circumstances knows what he is doing. Experience and reform do not go together. A reformer cannot keep his zeal at white heat in the presence of a fact."  -Henry Ford

"Like, 9/10ths of the way to being a Nazi himself."  -Glau from Twitter

"This is your dog whistle for white supremacists."  -Chris from Twitter

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."  -Teddy Roosevelt

“One of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery” –Nikole Hannah-Jones

"Virginia’s many appeals to end slave importations brought nothing but rejections from the three Georges who mounted the British throne in succession." -Unger

Stop blaming people (or nations) you don't like for things they didn't do.

“Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.” -Shakespeare

"'Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body and if so, why? If God's goodness is inconsistent with hurting us, then either God is not good or there is no God: for in the only life we know He hurts us beyond our worst fears and beyond all we can imagine. If it is consistent with hurting us, then He may hurt us after death is unendurably as before it.”  -C. S. Lewis

"He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong."  -Auden

"Disarmament and complete pacifism is indisputably the wisest policy." -Bertrand Russel, 1936

Pacifists and other "give peace a chance" types have never really been discredited in popular culture.  But they have gotten millions killed.

It's said that society is judged by how it treats the least of its citizens, but it's just as good to judge it by how it treats the most.  For example, you won't believe how often China murders one of its billionaires.

"There never was a war in all history easier to prevent." -Winston Churchill, postwar

https://www.forbes.com/sites/raykwong/2011/07/25/friends-dont-let-friends-become-chinese-billionaires/?sh=15d67cec2dda

"What is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society."  -Thomas Sowell

It is no more acceptable to make me a therapist than to make me a roofer. It's not my job to make strangers healthier nor to make their homes more waterproof.

"In a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the early 1960s, various restrictions were placed on the police in their arrest and interrogation of suspects in criminal cases, and in the search of their property."  -Thomas Sowell

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. -Eric Hoffer

The frog in the boiling pot is exactly backwards. It is absolutely ideal for disasters to happen slowly. Because then they're usually not disasters at all.

A biologist at Harvard University said, "If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot—they don't sit still for you."

Here's an account Re: Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940):

"On November 7, high winds buffeted the area and the bridge swayed considerably. The first failure came at about 11 a.m., when concrete dropped from the road surface. Just minutes later, a 600-foot section of the bridge broke free. By this time, the bridge was being tossed back and forth wildly. At one time, the elevation of the sidewalk on one side of the bridge was 28 feet above that of the sidewalk on the other side."

The article says "just minutes later," but if the people in the condo in Florida had had "just minutes" of violent swaying we wouldn't have 150 dead people. We'd have maybe 5.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. –Edmund Burke

I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine.  -Ray Bradbury

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.  -Voltaire

A BLM activist has been shot in the head not by police or white people, but by a young black man.  Which is not a surprising culprit, except... why are we all supposed to pretend police and white people are the biggest threats to black lives?  I suggest the reason:  To disempower whites and police.  It's a fraud.

White privilege is real.  It's a thing and everything.  But I have two problems with it, as told by the left:

1) It ignores black privilege and asian privilege.  But every unchosen characteristic has some advantage and some disadvantage, depending on who's around.

2) It emphasizes race privilege over, and to the exclusion of, an infinite number of other similar privileges.  Why?  Because it, unlike counless others, taps into and amplifies feelings of white guilt and black victimhood.  It plays into the left's favorite moral melodrama.

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.” -Joseph Schumpeter

“Imagine that a ship is sinking in the ocean with 300 passengers on board and only 200 life-preservers.  The only just solution is that everyone drown.”  -Thomas Sowell

Many death-penalty opponents say, "It's not going to bring your loved one back."  Google it -- tons of them say this.  To which I now respond, "WHAT?!  It doesn't reincarnate them like Lazarus?!"

Leftist-anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated William McKinley who died on September 14, 1901.  Czolgosz was convicted and was sitting in the electric chair on October 29, 1901.

And yet Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 at Parkland, has not even begun his trial 1,217 days later.  The search for perfect justice in our system has created terrific injustice elsewhere -- for the families who have to wait 30 years for the sentence to be meted out, for the taxpayers who have to pay millions to convict a man who OBVIOUSLY DID IT, and so on.

Most of us look back on the old days of shaming out-of-wedlock children and fat people with disgust.  But yet -- what if that did untold good?  It's a genuinely unresolved question for me.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.  -Calvin Coolidge

"Feminists have no idea that some women like to flirt with danger because there is a sizzle in it. You know what gets me sick and tired? The battered-woman motif. It’s so misrepresented, the way we have to constantly look at it in terms of male oppression and tyranny, and female victimization. When, in fact, everyone knows throughout the history of the world that many of these working-class relationships where women get beat up have hot sex. They ask why won’t she leave him? Maybe she won’t leave him because the sex is very hot."  –Camile Paglia

"It has been said by much wiser people than me that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Well, what I’ve seen during my time in Washington is that every party in power will always want to exercise absolute power, absolutely."  -Joe Manchin

“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”  -Milan Kundera

"Saying the ends of the political spectrum are Communism and Fascism is like saying the ends of the sex spectrum are dudes and Caitlyn Jenner."

I watched The Sands of Iwo Jima.  It was the best war movie I've ever seen:  It had a moral depth not found in more modern, essentially pacifist war movies.

"I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living. I'd like to know why they make excuses for cowards who spit in the faces of the police and then run behind the judicial sob sisters. I can't understand these people who carry placards to save the life of some criminal, yet have no thought for the innocent victim.”  -John Wayne

At Bennington, I would go to a faculty meeting and be aware that everyone hated me. The men were appalled by a strong, loud woman. But I went to this auto shop and the men there thought I was cute. "Oh, there's that Professor Paglia from the college." The real men, men who work on cars, find me cute. They are not frightened by me, no matter how loud I am. But the men at the college were terrified because they are eunuchs, and I threatened every goddamned one of them.  -Camile Paglia

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts  -Camile Paglia

I'm going to talk about how women are different from men.  In some ways better, in some ways worse.

Knowing these differences can save your life savings one day, fwiw (looking at you Elizabeth Holmes)

“For boys it’s very much about telling a story of the good guy killing the villain. There’s a winner and a loser,” Tania Missad, Mattel's director of global consumer insights, said. “Girls wanted the action and the battle, but would tell us: ‘Why does the good girl have to kill the villain? Can’t they be friends in the end?’"

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.  -Camile Paglia

"Lockdowns were the underclasses and blue collar people serving the needs of the upper classes.  We had no choice.  Pats head, "you're essential.  How special."  It was only our personal lives they wanted to lockdown.  You can work in the factory and deliver our food but you will not unwind with a beer after work and you definitely won't be having family over for Christmas."  -antihero_kate

"The liberal assumption, in this as in most things, is that to understand is to approve (or at least to pardon), and therefore my disapproval indicated a lack of understanding."  –Theodore Dalrymple

“As a black woman in America, I am no stranger to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence.”  -Ayanna Pressley

"Is the criticism of Israel here explained by the bitter old conclusion that the world likes dead Jews (and their paintings) more than living Jews who are fighting for their rights?"  -Elliott Abrams

“Cowards die many times before their deaths,

The valiant never taste of death but once.”  -William Shakespeare

https://nypost.com/2021/05/13/far-left-house-democrats-break-with-biden-blast-israel-in-speeches/>

https://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/israel-erupts-cutting-through-the-misinformation-surrounding-part-of-this-conflict/

“Everyone knows heavy drinkers can stop whenever they want to, so I never tried.”  -Scott Hanel

Defense Atty Andrew Branca says Chauvin should be granted a mistrial. That would have one nice effect: It would tell the mob that mobishness does not work.

I'd find Officer Chauvin Not Guilty on most counts since the state hasn't proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Chauvin even caused Floyd's death.

Our current culture no longer finds addicts responsible for their horrible addictions. But I think they are.

"Another burglar demanded to know from me why he repeatedly broke into houses and stole VCRs. He asked the question aggressively, as if ‘the system’ had so far let him down in not supplying him with the answer; as if it were my duty as a doctor to provide him with the buried psychological secret that, once revealed, would in and of itself lead him unfailingly on the path of virtue. Until then he would continue to break into houses and steal VCRs (when at liberty to do so), and the blame would be mine. When I refused to examine his past, he exclaimed, ‘But something must make me do it!’ ‘How about greed, laziness, and a thirst for excitement?’ I suggested. ‘What about my childhood?’ he asked. ‘Nothing to do with it,’ I replied firmly. He looked at me as if I had assaulted him."  -Theodore Dalrymple

"Diversity worship and multiculturalism are currency and cause for celebration at just about any college. If one is black, brown, yellow or white, the prevailing thought is that he should take pride and celebrate that fact even though, just as in the case of my eye color, he had nothing to do with it. The multiculturist and diversity crowd see race as an achievement. In my book, race might be an achievement, worthy of considerable celebration, only if a person was born white and through his effort and diligence became black."  -Walter Williams

United has announced half of their training class is going to be women/nonwhites.  And some people online believe setting racial quotas does not compromise output quality!

Ha!

Try running an NBA team and pledging you'll have only 13% black players.  Let me know what happens to quality when your team "looks like America."

"For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement."  -Walter Williams

Joe Biden says the new GA law, which expands voter access according to The Washington Post, is "Jim Crow on steroids."

It's not.  Slavery is Jim Crow on steroids.

Families "of color" will receive payments in Oakland thanks to a city-launched project.

The Vermont governor tweeted an offer of vaccinations to black people before white people.  In what world is that not a massive news story captivating the nation??  Ours, evidently.

“Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.”  -Thomas Sowell

"Findings suggest that, overall, the racial composition of mass murderers is similar to that of other murderers..."  -2016 study

"I am a 'no' vote, on the floor, on all non-diversity nominees."  -Tammy Duckworth (D)

"If we have the wisdom to make the best use of the advantages with which we are now favored, we cannot fail."  –George Washington

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.  –Edmund Burke

44 black intellectuals have signed a great letter admonishing the President of Smith College for jumping to conclusions in a recent row over race on campus:  "We certainly didn't march [in the Civil Rights Movement] so that privileged Blacks could abuse working class whites based on "lived experience."

"A lion can never be out-numbered by sheep" -Wilfred Reilly

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”  -Voltaire

"The proportion of people killed annually in wars is less than a quarter of what it was in the 1980s, a seventh of what it was in the early 1970s, an eighteenth of what it was in the early 1950s, and a half a percent of what it was during World War II. Genocides, once common, have become rare. In most times and places, homicides kill far more people than wars, and homicide rates have been falling as well. Americans are half as likely to be murdered as they were two dozen years ago. In the world as a whole, people are seven-tenths as likely to be murdered as they were eighteen years ago. Life has been getting safer in every way. Over the course of the 20th century, Americans became 96 percent less likely to be killed in a car accident, 88 percent less likely to be mowed down on the sidewalk, 99 percent less likely to die in a plane crash, 59 percent less likely to fall to their deaths, 92 percent less likely to die by fire, 90 percent less likely to drown, 92 percent less likely to be asphyxiated, and 95 percent less likely to be killed on the job."  -Steven Pinker

Interestingly, many diseases have been falling for longer than we had vaccines or even treatments for them.  The reason?  Mostly sanitation and bug extermination.  Plumbers, civil engineers, and exterminators have done more to lengthen life than doctors have.

All of human history has been ravaged by communicable disease.  To give a pretty typical year, about 500/100,000 people died in NYC in 1849 of TB.  In the US in the past year, about 160/100,000 people have died of Covid.

But people in the past didn't panic at this -- it was simply normal.  Perhaps that's our future:  Things are unbelievably good and safe, and we all are clutching our knees in a corner, shaking in fear.

“All of us who prize greater economic equality would do well to remember that with the rarest of exceptions it was only ever brought forth in sorrow."  -

Walter Scheidel

"Marxism:  the methamphetamine of the masses."  -Jordan Peterson

Clarence Thomas is, as always, brilliant in his most recent dissent.  And never at a more consequential time.  If, as the SCOTUS has said previously, "[c]onfidence in the integrity of our electoral process is essential to the functioning of our participatory democracy," why does the Court repeatedly give us no reason to believe in the integrity of our elections by not hearing case after case, no matter how compelling?

As Thomas put it, "One wonders what this Court waits for."

I do not, however, wonder what the Court waits for.  I believe I know:  The left never understands the injustice of what it does until it is done to them.

"In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed, and the boldest staggered. The circumstances are in a great measure new. We have hardly any land-marks from the wisdom of our ancestors, to guide us. At best we can only follow the spirit of their proceeding in other cases."  -Edmund Burke

“The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one other such victory would utterly undo him.”  -Plutarch

The left may be having pyrrhic victories at the moment:  After all, they are limiting their own sources of knowledge when they ban right-wingers but are not limiting ours at all.

If speech is violence, what's violence?  Laudable, if you ask NYT's Nikole Hannah-Jones.  The woke left are ruining more lives each year.  John McWhorter is standing up to them like almost no one else is.

John's pointed out that the left have set a series of traps which are impossible for a white person to escape.  E.g.  "Silence about racism is violence. But elevate the voices of the oppressed over your own."

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.  –PJ O’Rourke

https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neoracists

"If a young black boy cannot dribble well when he comes out to play basketball, no one will cast his problem as an injustice.  No one will worry about his single-parent home, the legacy of slavery that still touches his life, or the inherent racial bias in a game invented by a white man.

...

All through the torpor of a day structured to spare his feelings around reading, writing, and arithmetic, he will long to be on the other side of that window, where everything is asked of him."  -Shelby Steele

A Chicago man just received probation for a carjacking.  His 13'th arrest in 14'th months.

A longtime NYT columnist has called for "black power."  This leaves the left alone in its racism:  There is no symmetry between right and left here.

AOC has said Cruz is "trying to get [her] killed."  She should beg forgiveness for such a lie, which ironically puts Cruz in danger.

"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."  –PJ O’Rourke

https://cwbchicago.com/2021/02/man-gets-probation-for-carjacking-delivery-driver-in-2019.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/opinion/black-power-us-voting.html

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944

"When the harvest is good we hear about how low prices will be bad for the farmers; however, when the harvest is bad we hear how the consumers will suffer from high prices."  -Bjorn Lomborg

Joe Biden has killed the Keystone Pipeline, apparently, an action which will kill people.  Which made me wonder:  Why has nobody become the poster child for oil pipelines?  Why aren't the relatives of the deceased from roadway and railway accidents carrying posters of them to Washington to protest Biden?

Fraser Institute:  "Oil pipeline outperforms rail and road by a wide margin... Rail causes nearly 40 times that many injuries requiring hospitalization on a per-ton-mile basis... Road is the worst performer on this measure, averaging one serious injury per billion ton-miles. This is 145 times the oil pipeline rate."

"The environmentalists staked their bets on chromium, copper, nickel, tin, and tungsten, and they picked a time frame of ten years.  The bet was to be determined ten years later, assessing whether the real prices had gone up or down.  In September 1990 not only had the total basket of raw materials but also each individual raw material dropped in price.  Chromium had dropped 5 percent, tin a whopping 74 percent.  The doomsayers had lost."

"You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right."

—Lyndon B. Johnson

"It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel.  The trunk was only an empty shell; its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside--just a thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest wind.  The living power had gone, and the shape it left had not been able to stand without it."  -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

The Capitol riot should have been a wake-up call for both the left and the right. 

For the right:  Wow… the right does riot.

For the left:  Wow… riots are awful.

I'm not sure the country can survive if the right acts like the left.  It reminds me of parents who are fed up with their teen so decide to act like him.

The woman who was killed shouldn't have charged the Capitol.  She shouldn't have trespassed.  I do not support the officer being charged.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”  -John Kennedy