Monday, June 3, 2019
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Twitter's 12-hour punishment of Erick Erickson for this Elizabeth Warren joke was so grade schoolish
Twitter is treating some of its customers like children because it can. The company lost money every year since 2013, when it went public, until 2018, when it turned a profit of $1.2 billion. The service has about 126 million daily users.
Erick Erickson is still too wet behind the ears to appreciate how National Review made purging conservatives from the movement its persona, Twitter just puts that on steroids
Catholics excommunicate. Protestants self-excommunicate. Get with it, Erick.
National Review’s Own Struggle With “Ideological Diversity”:
For Murray Rothbard, the history of National Review was largely a story of exclusion. “And so the purges began,” Rothbard recounted in a 1992 article. “One after another, Buckley and the National Review purged
and excommunicated all the radicals, all the nonrespectables. Consider
the roll call: isolationists (such as John T. Flynn), anti-Zionists,
libertarians, Ayn Randians, the John Birch Society, and all those who
continued, like the early National Review, to dare to oppose Martin Luther King and the civil-rights revolution after Buckley had changed and decided to embrace it.”
That
policy of excommunication continued to the present. Over the years, the
magazine has fired or stopped publishing figures like Joseph Sobran (an
editor who should have been fired for his anti-Semitism and racism but was not let go until criticizing Buckley in 1993), Peter Brimelow (an editor who was excessively anti-immigrant) and Ann Coulter (who was fired in 2001 after writing a column arguing saying that the United States should “invade [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity”).
Saturday, June 1, 2019
In China, however, things are mostly wrong, very wrong
Chinese dissidents are being executed for their organs, former hospital worker says:
The world is beginning to wake up to the fact that virtually every
organ transplant in China costs the life of an innocent human being.
That’s why countries like Israel, Spain, Italy and Taiwan have already
banned transplant tourism.
There were zero bank failures in 2018, but we got the first one of 2019 last night
The Enloe State Bank, Cooper, Texas, failed last night, the first bank failure in the US since Dec. 15, 2017. A bank failure hasn't occurred in Texas since 2013.
The failure in Texas is estimated to cost the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund $27 million.
The FDIC insures the deposits at 5,362 institutions as of March 31, 2019.
To kick off abnormal pride month, Drudge headlines two stories highlighting gay proclivity for the extreme
An unbelievably lame one from NBC featuring a gay storm chaser who proposes during a tornado (death wish much?), and one from the Advocate featuring supposedly gay Philippine President Duterte, whose regime has encouraged violence in the extra-judicial killings of thousands of drug pushers.
And it's only June 1.
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