May 22, 2025

THEY SEEM TO THINK THAT ANONYMOUSLY AND BELATEDLY TELLING SOME OF THE TRUTH GETS THEM OFF THE HOOK:

Posted at 11:27 am by Stephen Green 53

RADIC CHIC: THE NEXT GENERATION. The Left Inevitably Embraces Terror.

Beege wrote an excellent piece earlier today about the vicious murder of two employees of the Israeli Embassy.

Elias Rodriguez, the social justice “activist” whose many, many, many “causes” include promoting antisemitic Palestinian terrorism, Black Lives Matter, and, inevitably, Socialism.

In his mind, they are all of a piece. For that matter, in the minds of most Leftists, they are all of a piece because the big issue is destroying the West, and the means to do so is terror.

It is always thus. Leftism is a modern phenomenon. Its very name comes from the seating arrangement at the National Assembly during the French Revolution, where the radicals sat on the left side of the aisle. As the Leftists lost patience with the democratic process, they resorted to violence and eventually to The Terror.

Violence and politics have always gone together, of course, but ideological terror is relatively modern. Bashing somebody over the head to seize wealth and power is just the law of the jungle–ugly and awful. Leftist terrorism adds the claim of morality, and morality justifies endless violence and demands totalitarianism. The subjugation not just of the body but of the soul.

Related:

Donie and Tay-Tay chuckle.

UPDATE: Donie and Tay-Tay aren’t the only ones laughing right now:

Posted at 10:55 am by Ed Driscoll 131

THAT SEEMS WISE: FDA plans to limit COVID shots to those over 65 or with high-risk conditions. “The COVID-19 public health emergency has officially ended, and we are entering a new phase in our response to the virus. A rubber-stamping approach to approving COVID boosters in perpetuity without updated clinical trial data under the Biden administration is now over.”

Posted at 10:41 am by Stephen Green 51

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Posted at 10:39 am by Glenn Reynolds 62

MORE “GLOBALIZING THE INTIFADA?”

Posted at 10:37 am by Glenn Reynolds 29

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IS HARD TO ERADICATE: UCLA medical school still discriminates against white, Asian students, lawsuit alleges.

Related:

Also related:

Posted at 10:30 am by Glenn Reynolds 48

LINCOLN BROWN: Europe’s Death Spiral Picks Up Speed. “A cruise up the Seine sounds tantalizing. Spending time in a foreign ER with a subdural hematoma or being forcibly relieved of all my valuables does not.”

Posted at 10:10 am by Stephen Green 44

TREAT THEM LIKE THE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS THEY ARE:

Maybe if the FBI had been working on these people instead of traditional Catholics and parents who spoke up at school board meetings . . .

UPDATE (from Steve): Commies and murderous antisemite terrorists go way back.

Posted at 10:08 am by Glenn Reynolds 55

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…

…it isn’t enough.

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green 83

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Tragedy In DC as Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Assassinated. “It has been reported that the shooter yelled, ‘Free Palestine,’ which isn’t surprising at all. What I was originally leading off with was a story about Secretary of State Marco Rubio going off on Hamas/terrorism sympathizer Rep. Pramila Jayapal from Washington. Jayapal was grilling Rubio about one of the foreign national Gaza/genocide loons who had her student visa revoked.”

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green 63

IF THERE’S A WAR ON CIVILIZATION, MAYBE CIVILIZATION SHOULD START FIGHTING BACK?

Posted at 8:39 am by Glenn Reynolds 179

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: They’ve Learned Nothing: Dems Still Pushing the Same Failed, Unpopular Gun Control That Got Them Where They Are Today.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), for instance, has lately introduced the so-called “Assault Weapons Ban of 2025,” while an Illinois Democrat has proposed a bill to ban semiautomatic “convertible pistols.” The American public, meanwhile, still isn’t buying it.

Dr. John Lott, Jr., the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, recently described the results of a poll that the CPRC commissioned last December on crime and gun control. The poll asked general election voters in America which of three approaches, in their opinion, was most likely to reduce crime: enacting more gun control, stricter enforcement of existing gun control laws, or having law enforcement arrest violent, repeat offenders and ending cashless bail reforms.

Less than one in five respondents felt the answer was more gun control.

To be fair, Democrats don’t want to learn anything. They just want gun control, and lots of it.

Posted at 8:37 am by Stephen Green 43

OUT ON A LIMB: Do Not Expect the Mainstream Media to Honestly Audit Itself. Jeffrey Blehar writes:

So the real questions, the questions that reporters like Tapper and Thompson, or Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, are actually best situated to answer, are left largely unaddressed: Why did the American media, in the aggregate, forsake its investigative duties? We are informed in these books about the Biden administration’s many efforts to deceive, spin, or bully national political journalists, yes; we are told little about why those journalists acquiesced so easily and at times enthusiastically. Were they really that easily fooled, when all the rest of us in America — theoretically less well-informed than they — were not?

I have already ventured to answer those questions myself, and at length. On the same day I wrote the column excerpted above, I also wrote this:

What the hell happened to the mainstream media during this entire period? . . .

I have an appealingly simple theory to explain the mystery: They didn’t miss it at all. Everyone knew, and the sorts of people who would have normally pursued these whispers about Biden’s remoteness — obvious enough from his calendar and the behavior of his public minders — simply decided not to because it was not in the best interests of the Democratic Party to do so, at least as perceived by the “herd mind” of the media, the left-tinged blob of assignment editors, investigative reporters, and liberal commentators across Washington.

Do you know how I know this? I know this because back in 2019, when Joe Biden seemed for all the world like a hopelessly boring retread with no chance of winning the 2020 nomination — when Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders were thought to be the main competitors for the Democratic prize — the New York Times was more than happy to report about Biden’s age. Once he captured the nomination and went into a quasi-hibernative “basement campaign” (timed perfectly to conceal his weakening state), however, that was it for any investigations into that topic.

I know this because in the fall of 2022, during that brief window when it looked like Biden might decide to pass the torch instead of running again, the window to discuss Biden’s age was once again open for the Washington Post: “Biden, turning 80, faces renewed age questions as he weighs reelection.” Once Biden chose to run for a second term — a moment of world-historical hubris — the subject went back into storage, verboten in polite commentary of real reporting.

I know this because the pressure to not venture the topic was immense, and I saw it come from within the media, not just from the Biden administration. . . .

The media want to tell us that they didn’t know? If they didn’t know, then why were they so eager to raise the subject when it seemed possible to prevent Joe Biden from winning the nomination, or discourage him from running again, but curiously not afterward? Why then such servile eagerness to act as Karine Jean-Pierre’s water boys near the end of the entire debacle. . . . In fact, what better proof do we need of the media’s purely instrumental interest in Biden’s mental disintegration than the fact that once it became impossible to conceal after the debate, they flooded the zone with coverage to push Biden out of the race, but once he was gone promptly never discussed him again?

As Kyle Smith wrote in March of 2019:

When he became veep, any attack on Biden risked looking like casting aspersions on the man who made him his number two, and the media could not countenance any naysaying about the judgment of the Precious. For the next few months, though, we’re in an amusing interstitial period when the media actually has a reason to attack their fellow Democrats: any hacks out there who think their party can do better than Biden (or Sanders, or Warren, or Harris, or etc.) can rip into their disfavored candidates in order to give an assist to their preferred picks. All of this goes away as soon as the Democratic pick for 2020 becomes evident, but until then we’ll be seeing some actual vigorous reporting.

That was the conventional view of the how the DNC-MSM reported on their candidates, but all that changed by the end of 2020:

 

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll 30

#JOURNALISM:

Plus:

Posted at 8:29 am by Glenn Reynolds 36

ASKING THE BIG QUESTION: Who Ran the Executive Branch? John Hinderaker quotes from the London Times, who are attempting to answer the question that American journalists have been avoiding for four years, and lists multiple names: Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Ron Klain, Bruce Reed, Anthony Bernal, “And, of course, the Biden family,” Hinderaker adds. “Dr.” Jill and Hunter.

In my opinion, Lady Macbeth had nothing on Jill Biden. Finally:

The troubled son: Hunter Biden
***
After the disastrous debate, Hunter continued to argue that his father was best placed to beat Trump, taking the view that it was the family against the world. Biden’s decision to pardon his son has further soured relations between the Biden family and the wider Democratic Party. “It’s toxic,” one Democrat said.

Joe Biden liked to say that Hunter was the smartest man he knew. The frightening reality is that, given Joe’s immersion in Democratic Party politics, his claim might have been true.

We will never know what disasters may have been averted by Biden’s visible collapse in his debate with Donald Trump. The Democratic Party has much to answer for, but don’t hold your breath waiting for any meaningful accountability.

Hunter and Jill are being setup as the fall guys, in an effort to salvage the careers of those who hope to work for the next Democrat president. But how big a role did the Chateau Marmont’s favorite tenant actually play in dad’s administration?

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll 28

GLOBALIZING THE INTIFADA IN DC: Last night’s murder of two Israeli embassy employees outside an event held at a Jewish museum was an attack on Jews, period. A political assassination of Israeli diplomates would be bad enough, but this was simply an antisemitic attack by someone chanting “Free Palestine.”

(1) The event was not an Israeli event or even a pro-Israel event, it was an event for young Jews interested in foreign affairs sponsored by the American Jewish Congress (AJC). A close relative of mine, who is not Israeli and has nothing to do with Israeli politics was there.
(2) The couple murdered were not Israelis, one was American, the other German. The Israeli embassy employed them as foreigners, embassies typically have local staff. [Correction based on ne reporting: One victim grew up in Germany, but later became an Israeli citizen.]
(3) They were randomly targeted after attending the Jewish event.

This is what Globalize the Intifada and similar rhetoric means, those who have apologizing for it, or worse justifying it, are morally culpable.

UPDATE: Thank you for the New York Times today, for informing us about the debate over whether extremist rhetoric at Hamasnik rallies is inciting violence against Jews.

Posted at 8:19 am by David Bernstein 30