Deniers of liberty on wrong side. From: Kent McManigal/Eastern New Mexico News. “People who are in favor of slavery of any variety are always on the wrong side.”
⭐️ Victor Davis Hanson: Woke DEI + green nihilism = Dresden in California. From: American Greatness. California’s DEI “humanism” and Green New Deal environmentalism ensured the cruelest imaginable treatment of thousands of people and unrivaled destruction of the natural ecosystem.
Fires incinerated the facade of California governing competence. From: Matt Welch/Reason. Virtue-signaling is no substitute for disaster preparedness.
🔥 Wildfires don’t care about DEI. From: David Mamet/Unherd. Public safety went up in smoke.
Incarcerated firefighters do risky, low-pay work. From: Lartey, Heffernan/The Marshall Project. Many say it’s the best job behind bars.
🙄 Politico and the Guardian falsely blame California wildfires on climate change. From: Watts Up With That. By refusing to discuss the true causes of wildfires, outlets like Politico and The Guardian are complicit in hindering meaningful action.
Why was Pacific Palisades reservoir empty? From: Victoria Taft/P J Media. California's self-inflicted wounds continue as the state spends less money on necessities and more on the left's luxury beliefs...
👉 California's fire catastrophe is largely a result of bad government policies. From: J D Tuccille/Reason. This year’s deadly wildfires were predicted and unnecessary.
Trump’s cabinet picks will begin confirmation hearings this week – here’s the schedule. From: Matthew Medsger/Boston Herald. Several nominees will face an uphill battle as they work to convince a majority of lawmakers that they are fit to serve in the position to which they’ve been nominated.
🎯 Time to put the Inflation Reduction Act on ice. From: Andy Mangione/Real Clear Policy. The law caused seniors’ out-of-pocket Medicare costs to dramatically increase and limit drug access while siphoning Medicare off to other Democrat pet projects.
We can’t let Mark Zuckerberg pass the buck on Meta’s censorship. From: Miranda Devine/NY Post. No one person should be wielding historically unprecedented power to censor political thought and speech, least of all a socially inept tech bro.
🔎 How Jack Smith destroyed his own case against Trump. From: Jonathan Turley/The Hill. An example of how a general can have the largest army and unlimited resources and yet defeat himself with a series of miscalculations.
Passage of Riley Act woud be victory for common sense. From: Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Right now, ICE is unable to detain and deport the illegal criminals who commit these minor-level crimes.”
🇦🇷 Residents of Argentina's crime-ridden cities welcome Milei's gun reform. From: Autumn Spredemann/Epoch Times-Zero Hedge. The decision to lower the age of gun ownership comes amid shifting attitudes to gun ownership and the need for self-protection.
Young black males feel they need to carry guns for safety. From: Daniel Johnson/Black Enterprise. To the participants, carrying a gun was a logical and necessary conclusion to their calculus of survival.
Good reading as always, Jim. Thank you.
Say, have you run across Yuri Bezmenov? His today article is pretty interesting: https://open.substack.com/pub/yuribezmenov/p/carry-the-fire-civilization-free-speech?r=249yjv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true