Sunday, March 17, 2024
Camping at beach on the California central coast in Big Sur banned for two years after users turn it into a shithole
Story here:
San Carpoforo Beach has no restrooms or trash cans . . ..
Saturday, March 16, 2024
The border crisis has become one of the biggest threats to Biden’s reelection: Millions of illegal aliens will gut the future for already struggling low-wage workers
We forecast that undocumented entry will exceed U.S. job growth in 2024.
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Holman Jenkins for The Wall Street Journal reminds everyone that the Hur Report was released by Merrick Garland
It’s the great unexplored theme in the Robert Hur imbroglio. The decision to release the Hur report, with its portrayal of a confused and forgetful president, wasn’t mandatory and neither did it rest with Mr. Hur, despite the congressional grilling he received this week.
The decision rested with Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Everyone with a brain knows this. Even Molly Jong-Fast knows this. It was not unexplored. She jumped on it right away, like a chicken on a June Bug.
The question is Why did Garland do it? Molly thinks it's because Garland is a Secret Republican ™, which is ridiculous.
The great unexplored thing in all this remains The Context™, to which no one is paying attention, because Boring™: the DOJ policy which immunizes the sitting president from prosecution.
Is anyone talking about prosecuting Biden once he's out? Hello?
Hur tells you the policy right up front, then says all this bad stuff about Joe, which is really bad. But Garland chose to let you read that, despite the policy.
That's the point. It's a really big deal. Garland thinks what Biden did is really bad, and that Joe is incompetent to serve.
I still say it was a trial balloon by Garland, to see if Biden cabinet members would rise to the occasion to remove the befuddled old man.
Jenkins doesn't really appreciate that. It has to be more than all the personal attacks Merrick Garland has had to endure from the Bidens.
Garland has been running interference for this guy from day one. He's been Joe's wingman no less than Eric Holder was Barack Obama's.
But Joe is too incompetent to even appreciate it. That's what really stung Garland.
Friday, March 15, 2024
McDonald's Australia: Just use cash during global IT outage
The cashless society hits a speed bump.
Newsweek here:
In Australia, internal systems at some restaurants have been offline since about 3:10 p.m. local time. Some stores have been forced to close completely, while others are only taking cash orders, according to a report by news.com.au.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Kamala Harris is a millstone hung around shuffling Joe Biden's neck with 52% net disapproval in latest USA Today poll
54% of survey respondents said Harris isn't qualified to serve as president. ... 56% of independents; 37% of African Americans; and 48% of Hispanic voters said she isn't qualified.
Inflation more durable than policymakers had anticipated, Joe Biden most hurt
This week provided a reminder that inflation isn’t going away anytime soon :
The bad news began Monday when a New York Federal Reserve survey showed the consumer expectations over the longer term had accelerated in February. It continued Tuesday with news that consumer prices rose 3.2% from a year ago, and then culminated Thursday with a release indicating that pipeline pressures at the wholesale level also are heating up. ...
The latest jolt on inflation came Thursday when the Labor Department reported that the producer price index, a forward-looking measure of pipeline inflation at the wholesale level, showed a 0.6% increase in February. That was double the Dow Jones estimate and pushed the 12-month level up 1.6%, the biggest move since September 2023.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Scott McConnell: Joe Biden has had his hair on fire for NATO enlargement since at least 1998
Anatol Lieven has pointed out that not a single hawk during the Reagan
era (which today’s Democrats pretend to respect in counterpoint today’s
America First Republicans) imagined bringing Crimea under NATO
jurisdiction and evicting the Russian fleet from Sevastopol would be a
desirable or feasible goal for the West. ...
One can go back to the 1998 Senate debate over NATO enlargement, won
inevitably by the side promising greater profits for the military
industrial complex, to see its contours. That debate was spirited, and
we might take solace from the fact (unlike the present) that it took
place at all.
Opposing NATO expansion, Senator Daniel Moynihan, the last intellectual in American politics, warned “We’re walking into ethnic historical enmities. We have no idea what we’re getting into.” Taking Moynihan’s side, Republican senator John Warner of Virginia warned of antagonizing Russia by building an “iron ring” around it. And from whom came the most strident objection to Warner and Moynihan? According to the New York Times, Joseph Biden, “took the floor and erupted…stalking the Senate floor, flailing his arms….”
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