Making money from China is more important to Trump than freedom for autonomous Hong Kong

White House Told Officials to Go Easy on China Over Hong Kong:

“It was made clear down the chain that we need to be measured on Hong Kong,” one administration official said, noting that the guidance came from “the top” over concern that fragile talks with China might be jeopardized by any outward show of support for the protests.

Hey Rod Dreher: In the summer of 1967 159 race riots swept the country, but somehow America is still here

You were just a little baby then.

The fevered brow of fanaticism always fears the worst, immanentizing the dystopia

For wasted space, try between Damon Linker's ears

America is nothing if it is not about seeing how a presumptive candidate handles all the hyenas and how he fleshes out his positions and promises in response. America is entitled to form its opinion and express it in the form of actual votes taken at actual primary elections in actual places, like Iowa. What matters is representative democracy selecting the candidate, not the punditocracy.

It's always revealing to see progressives dismissive of the democratic process.

Obama no Reagan, no FDR: Democrat candidates for 2020 attack Obama legacy less than four years after he left office

It wasn't a scandal that Obama and Biden failed to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014 as promised, and it still isn't

That elephant in the room which no one wants to talk about is that Donald Trump is going to be re-elected in 2020.

That was a typo, they meant 2024, not 2014. Weak pinkie finger is unpredictable.

Thank God CNN's Brian Stelter warned us that The Babylon Bee is a fake news site

Still can't figure out why he deleted that tweet about it, though. Rumor has it it had something to do with someone explaining to Brian that The Babylon Bee was in reality the intelligent man's The Onion. Oh, as Rush might say.

Marianne Williamson wins Drudge poll

Marianne Williamson captured the nation's imagination like no one else in last night's debate

Marianne Williamson was last night's clear winner, and the left immediately goes to DEFCON 1: NBC attacks saying her real name is Marianne Individualism

Marianne Williamson's Democratic debate performance raised eyebrows. But she's no friend of the left. :

The self-help guru’s supposedly empowering rhetoric masks a mean-spirited individualism that would lead to harmful policies if she were somehow elected. ... Williamson is a good illustration of how a creeping hippie Reaganism can actually hurt progressive ideals. ... Williamson's approach is not an accident or an aberration. It's the natural outgrowth of an individualistic, reactionary ideology which calls first for internal spiritual renewal rather than for systemic cultural and political change. There's a direct line from such thinking to blaming poor people for their poverty or insisting that welfare payments corrupt recipients. Neoliberalism, whether of the left or the right, ends up blaming marginalized people for their own oppression. And once you've blamed them for their own suffering, you shuffle off any obligation to change things to help them, or to make the world more just.

Clash of the Lilliputians Part One

The overall economic growth rate since the year 2000 has contracted by over 47% from the previous eighteen year period under Reagan, Bush 41 and Clinton

There isn't an expert alive who can get you out of the time share these people are trying to sell you

Trump ensures that the news cycle is about one odious Democrat thing after another, not about the ideas of the twenty or so hyenas seeking the Democrat nomination for president

Beto O'Rourke spotted leaving Baltimore

It's obvious from the data that in the states with the worst rat-infested cities like Chicago, LA, NYC, Detroit, Philly, Cleveland, Dallas and Miami, the wider population instinctively protects itself by keeping more cats

Rahm Emanuel tries in vain to help Democrats unscrew themselves after Miami debates

A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates:

Before our party promises health care coverage to undocumented immigrants . . ..

Before we start worrying about whether the Boston Marathon bomber can vote . . ..

And before we promise a guaranteed minimum income to healthy adults who prefer to stay home and play video games . . ..

AP hopes Trump's in trouble for 2020 based on random interviews with 36+ suburban women, admits they are Democrat voters twenty paragraphs in

Gee, what a shock, right? Democrat base voters recoil at Trump because he's icky.

Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics:

Such women are an electoral threat to the president in large part because women outnumber and outvote men, noted Kelly Dittmar, a political science professor and a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

“They are especially vital because they are base voters for Democrats. They vote for Democrats in larger numbers than men, but for Republicans, they are also important because they have tended to be a larger proportion of swing voters,” Dittmar said.

Great, State of Michigan flying the fag flag is the same as flying POW flags and university flags

State lawmaker: Michigan shouldn’t fly gay pride flags. Whitmer: Try me:

[Governor Whitmer] also announced the flag order on Twitter, accompanied by a video and photo of the flags. But that tweet prompted more than 100 responses from people angry with the move, with many saying that a small segment of the population shouldn't be singled out for such an honor.

That was the point [Lynn] Afendoulis tried to make with her bill, but the Twitter response was just as quick. By noon on Friday, more than 6,200 people liked Whitmer's veto threat and several hundred people noted that flags honoring such groups as POWs (prisoners of war) and universities often flew on state buildings and would be banned under Afendoulis' legislation.