🎯 When rights become privileges: Is the Constitution becoming optional? From: John Whitehead/Rutherford Institute. First, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on it by seizing greater power and using those powers against the American people.
NYC mayor Eric Adams stuns lefty reporters by going full MAGA. From: Steve Watson/Modernity News. Both he and Trump’s border czar "share the same desire”.
👎 The death and life of New York outdoor dining. From: Katarina Hall & M Nolan Gray/Reason. What began as a vibrant, organic solution to a crisis has been stifled by overregulation.
Free speech: Why a tech titan backed Trump. From: Michael Barone/Creators. Because, in his view, the Democrats who claim to be the great scourge of "disinformation" are threatening to embed disinformation in the bedrock of society.
👍 Sanity and honesty return to the SEC. From: Washington Examiner Editorial Board. The Democratic Party’s obsession with stopping climate change has undermined its ability to govern, especially in areas that otherwise have nothing to do with carbon emissions.
Report reveals that FBI spied on its likely new director, Kash Patel. From: Paul Sperry/NY Post. It’s going to be awkward at FBI headquarters next month when President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the bureau likely takes over.
⭐️ Why Politico's headline about undercover FBI assets at the J6 riot is priceless. From: Matt Vespa/Townhall. Previous Politico headline: “FBI didn’t deploy undercover agents on Jan. 6, watchdog report finds, undercutting conspiracy theories.”
Sotomayor’s headache: The United Kingdom upholds ban on puberty-blocking drugs for minors. From: Jonathan Turley. It is not clear if the Supreme Court will take “judicial notice” of the new decision, but it can.
👉 What Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny are telling us about America. From: Caleb Brennan/The Nation. When social structures corrode, as they are doing now, they trigger desperate deeds like Mangione’s, and rightist vigilantes like Penny.
Luigi Mangione frenzy: It’s time for a national conversation on left-wing violence. From: David Harsanyi/NY Post. There’s a real debate going on in some quarters of the progressive Left over whether slaying CEOs is a bad thing. And it’s unsurprising.
🚩 Almost all Fortune 500 companies still have DEI incentives. From: Charlotte Hazard/Just the News. The lead author of the Heritage report said he thinks Americans are waking up to the racially discriminatory elements of DEI practices.
IRS data shows 'Blue State Exodus' over past 30 years. From: Therese Bourdreaux/The Center Square. Millions of residents in blue states have migrated to red states within the past 30 years, according to federal data.
🔎 Biden's attempts to forgive student debt were a disaster. From: Emma Camp/Reason. While the administration was fighting for debt forgiveness in court, it was also rolling out a broken FAFSA application form.
The elitism of EVs. From: Eric Peters Autos. It is about getting us out of cars and into devices.
he Nation article comparing Mangione's murder of the United Healthcare exec with Daniel Penny's effort to protect himself and others from a deranged person on the subway, I submit that by any objective standard there exists absolutely no correlation. One case involved a premeditated, carefully planned, self-sanctioned execution of a perfect stranger in the total absence of any sort clear and present threat or danger. The other was an effort to protect self and others from a person acting in a threRegarding tatening manner and loudly proclaiming that "someone is going to die" in a subway car, from which quick escape was impossible. Further, the method used to subdue the threat was not meant to be lethal, unlike the bullets to the back Mangione used to commit senseless murder.
So Mangione brutally murdered his victim based on purely subjective ideological motives. In contrast, Penny, and another passenger, not charged to my knowledge for his participation, stepped up to subdue a very aggressive, clearly deranged person making credible threats against the lives of all the passengers in that subway car. To mitigate the threat, he had to be subdued until the car stopped at the next station and he could be turned over to authorities. He unfortunately died in the interim as an unintended consequence of the restraint applied to safeguard the well-being of many others. Unlike Mangione, Penny did not arrive at the scene with intent to kill. Unlike Penny, Mangione's action had zero chance of saving anyone from any sort of harm. Unlike Mangione, Penny did not try to evade the authorities, which speaks to the fact that his conscience was clear, and Mangione's was not. The obvious conclusion about the Nation article is that it is nothing more than typical leftist nonsense, claptrap designed to be an attack on anyone who refuses to subjugate their mind and body totally to the "authority" of the gov't and those at its levers of power. Adherents to this cult of total gov't are so dependent and personally helpless that they believe that we should (and have) completely delegated to gov't
our right to personally defend our very lives under any circumstances! The lunacy of that position cannot be overstated. The Nation article is useful only in that it illustrates the abject idiocy of leftist "thought". Pure, smelly, sticky, slippery B.S., nothing more.