I am a baseball fan. When the NFL and MLB seasons overlap I invariably watch baseball. I find the NFL boring while most find baseball boring. Yet this year I did not watch a single inning of the World Series. Neither did many others making this World Series one of the least watched in history. However, I was glad that the Texas Rangers won. They are the only MLB team that does not have a “Pride” night. That was enough for me to buy a Rangers cap.
The new speaker is causing much consternation among the left. They hate him. He would be wise to ignore all their criticism and follow his own muse. As expected, the Israel support bill coming out of the House did not contain funding for the Ukraine. What was unexpected is that the bill did not include new funding, rather the $14 b was drawn from the ludicrous $80 b slated to go to the IRS in the likewise ludicrous “Inflation Reduction” Act. The Senate Democrats howled and said the bill was dead on arrival. Mitch McConnell was not apparently happy either. Good. Although I thank McConnell for not allowing the hack attorney general Merrick Garland a seat on the Supreme Court, he has been too much of an establishment Republican for my taste. You know the type: content with the status quo, big spender but not as big as the Democrats.
McConnell and the establishment Republicans act as if they want the approval of the mainstream media. Right now the media hates Mike Johnson. I hope he does not try to curry their favor. Let’s hope he sees their criticism as evidence that he is doing a good job.
Empirical research has been always suspect but never more so than now. Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases handed out over $45 b in research grants with some institutions receiving over $300 m a year. It should not be surprising that the recipients of the grants seldom produced results that ran afoul of Fauci. ”Research” supported Fauci’s claim that COVID did not come from the Wuhan lab, even though that made the most sense. The Center for Disease Control was in lock step with Fauci and its woeful director Rochelle Walensky was embarrassing. The result being that few people believed her utterances and fewer belied the results of their reported “research” results. Not surprisingly, the new COVID boosters are sitting on the shelves.
The Southern Poverty and Law Center brands organizations as hate groups and brands conservative groups with the label. So the Alliance Defending Freedom where Johnson was an attorney is labelled a “hate group”. Why? Because it is an anti LGBTQ advocacy group and is anti-abortion. The SPLC also brands Moms for Liberty as a hate group for their opposition to imposing LBGTQ, critical race theory and transgender curricula in public schools. However, the SPLC does not list Antifa as a hate group. Go figure.
The anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, demonstrations on and off college campuses are clearly anti-Semitic. Why else would Jews be targeted by the demonstrators and attacked? Why else are Jewish businesses attacked? That the left is anti-Israel and labelled it an apartheid state is puzzling. Is Israel practicing apartheid within is borders? Are its Muslim citizens second-class? Apparently not. Yet Israel’s actions in the West Bank are clearly apartheid-like. Nonetheless, all of Israel’s Muslim neighbors are clearly apartheid states. They do not tolerate LGBTQ. They do not tolerate other religions and are clearly racist. Yet the progressives would rather support the Muslims over Israel. Why? The only reason that I can figure is that it is racial. The Israelis are being portrayed as the white oppressor of brown people.
Automobile manufacturers in the US and Europe are scaling back their production of EVs. The majority of the public would rather not have them. The initial sales spurts are over. The save the world crowd has gotten their EVs and the rest of us are buying the gasoline/diesel vehicles. The only way to get EVs widely purchased is to mandate them and ban internal combustion engines. Europe has moved in that direction as have California and other states. Biden’s new fleet milage requirements can only be met by EVs. This will lead to increased demand for used cars. The question is whether people will rebel and vote out the greenies.
EVs are evidence of Harold Black’s Laws 4-7.
4. If something fails the market test and exists only because of the government, it is bad.
5. If it is mandated it is bad.
6. If it is subsidized, it is bad.
7. If it is protected, it is bad.
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