Right As Usual

I was reading The Passive Voice blog , and this caught my eye. Publishing Perspectives  readers are familiar with this case from  our reporting earlier this month  on how the police organization president, John Blackmon is calling for an English-class summer reading list to drop  The Hate U Give  (HarperCollins, 2017) by Angie Thomas and  All American Boys  (Simon & Schuster, 2015) by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. Both books have stories that include police brutality and racism as themes, and both are among the most highly acclaimed bestsellers in their sector of recent years. Blackmon’s complaint about the books–two of four titles from which students of Wando High Schoo’s English 1 class in Mount Pleasant are to choose and read one. In the guild’s open letter to the police group, executive director Mary Rasenberger writes, “Attempts at censorship by law enforcement organizations cannot be tolerated in a democracy. Educators must b...

Tools.https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270615/sex-lies-and-deep-state-daniel-greenfield Nellie Ohr, employee of Fusion GPS (source of the 'pee-pee' story), with her husband, Bruce Ohr, deputy attorney with the DOJ, who worked with Steele (who promoted the 'dossier'), until Steele was fired. Nellie's work at Fusion was directly tied to trying to bring Trump down. Nellie is Yet Another Woman Useful Only Due to Hubby - YAWUODUH. HRC, is, of course, the Premier Example. Bruce has since been demoted, although he is still employed by the DOJ, and retains his position as  director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF). He got off lightly; actions like his can result in JAIL TIME. Not for Democrats, of course. Even with evidence of DNC and HRC campaign payments. Sex-for-information. AMAZINGLY, Ali Watkins just HAPPENS to have 'fallen' for men COINCIDENTLY placed in positions that could provide her with information tha...

I've blogged about this issue in the past - no, I doubt that vaccines are responsible for autism, but I do believe that inoculating pre-school children with the high number of vaccines on the schedule is probably not in that particular child's best interest. The recommended schedule for children - check out the large number of vaccines, and particularly the number given when the kid is only 2 months . Both doctors and the CDC strongly discourage alternative scheduling (designed to reduce the number of vaccines in a single visit). They admit that they do so to improve the chances that all shots will be given, not because it's better for the child to be given so many different vaccines at one time. But, some of these don't make sense - IF the kid is not in a group child care setting. I looked up one of the diseases on the schedule - Rotavirus. I'd not heard of it before (link to CDC site) . Rotavirus was the leading cause of severe diarrhea among infan...

One of the many things Leftists and those allied with them fulminate about is the Federal Government's response to the crisis after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. Did the Federal Government delay aid? Were they trying to 'kill people', as a few more hysterical people have suggested? Well, no. The problems of Puerto Rico long precede Hurricane Maria. The island has been over budget, corrupt, and willing to let its people live in appalling conditions for many decades. The hurricane did not cause the problems. The Federal government refused to let politicians use this tragedy as an excuse for open-handed tsunamis of cash, delivered to the more-than eager political class - i.e., greedy crooks. First, Trump has been criticized for bringing attention to the government's use of some of the money it received for bonuses for government workers. They DID do this, claiming that the law compelled them to. B$. They had a choice - to use that money for its intended purpos...

...it's truly hard to have much sympathy for these guys. Share

Sometimes, people say, "This is not political," about an issue. My response? It's ALWAYS political. The upcoming battle to control the confirmation of the next Supreme Court Justice is gonna be a brawl. Because of the timing, it may well have a major effect on the composition of Congress. One major effect: the currently-elected RINOs may stake their jobs on the outcome of this fight. Those who side with the Democrats may well find that they are voted OUT in the next election. From the Democrats' position, that may be a feature, not a bug. The Senate RINOs should pray - fervently - that voters have a short memory. Myself, I doubt they do. How will Senate races involving presently-serving Democrats who side against the nominee turn out? For those in hard-core Left states, the same as usual - Yellow-Dog Democrat, all the way. For those in less rigidly aligned states? They could lose - BIGLY. Share

The discussions about the Star Wars franchise, and the meaning of the structure of its society have gotten me to think philosophically. NOT my strong point. I tend to be a concrete thinker, more comfortable with the nuts & bolts, than the theoretical underpinnings. However, the tangled and confused framework of Star Wars has gotten me to think about it. First, some analysis of the Star Wars politics.  You can listen to the audio, or scroll down for the transcript. And, another perspective, comparing the fictional worlds of Star Wars and Star Trek. The media's representation of governments has long had the ability to influence peoples' conception of the ideal. Star Wars came into being just as those post-Vietnam War rebels were beginning to build families and take responsibility for civic affairs. It appealed to the idea that their government antagonism might help them form a new, and better, world. Star Trek, in contrast, was pro-World Government, pro-interventi...