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from Commentary
Magazine in New York, New York
Society’s risk-takers routinely confound the arbiters of our national discourse, whose level of risk-intolerance borders on the pathological. Studying to become a professional crane operator or signing up to fight wildfires in California; using a cell phone in the car; working the third shift for any reason; all these vocations and more contribute to increased personal jeopardy. But the world we inhabit would be measurably worse without these daredevils. We are all better off because of the calculations they’ve made.
from The Hill
LEAST BIASED, MOSTLY FACTUAL, News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.GOP report on COVID-19 origins homes in on lab leak theory
A House Republican lawmaker’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19 is raising concerns that the pandemic outbreak stemmed from a genetically modified virus that leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, located in the Chinese city where the virus was first detected in December 2019. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released on Monday a third installment in his investigation into the origins of the virus and the missteps by China in alerting the world to the risks of the pandemic. The GOP investigation parallels efforts by the Biden administration and the international community to determine the origins of the pandemic outbreak, which has killed more than 4.2 million people across the world, infected nearly 200 million and upended global stability.
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from Huffington Post
LEFT BIAS, MIXED, news and commentary site headquartered in New York City
Trump spins “destructive” narratives to lost souls, says Rep. Jackie Speier.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), who survived the Jonestown massacre more than 40 years ago, compared former President Donald Trump to the late cult leader Jim Jones on Sunday. “There’s no question that you could compare Jim Jones as a charismatic leader who would bring his congregation together, force them to do things that were illegal, and then took 900 of them into the jungles of Guyana where, over the course of time, he then convinced them that they should die. I’ve never been able to say they committed suicide because I don’t think they were in control of their faculties, to be quite honest with you,” Speier told CNN’s Brian Stelter. “So you look at Donald Trump, charismatic leader, who was able to continue to talk in terms that appeal to those who are disaffected, disillusioned, and who were looking for something.” Speier called both men “merchants of deceit.” Just as Jones once did, Trump steers people away from facts and spins “destructive” narratives, she said.
Trump’s former personal attorney is currently embroiled in a massive $1.3 billion lawsuit filed against him by Dominion Voting Systems.
Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is almost broke and Trump doesn’t seem to care all that much, sources have told The New York Times. Giuliani is currently struggling under a mountain of legal fees as he attempts to fend off a major federal investigation and answer a $1.3 billion lawsuit. Trump, meanwhile, isn’t pitching in a dime of the millions he has raised in his ongoing battle against a legitimate election, according to New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman. Giuliani’s supporters are “aghast” that Trump isn’t helping out, according to Haberman, given that many of his activities were carried out on Trump’s behalf to push the former president’s “Big Lie” of a rigged election. But helping Giuliani is “problematic” for the former president (and definitely for his bank account), and Giuliani should have known better than to undertake some of his activities, sources told Haberman.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Inequality of outcome is inherent to a free economy, which tends to reward the most talented. Since talent is unequally and arbitrarily distributed, free enterprise and its resulting inequality of outcome are unpalatable to the equalitarian Left. Yet progress depends on the flourishing of the talented. That means that inequality is truly the midwife of progress. And that’s why progressives hate progress.
Just like mobile phones, the elite will enjoy space travel before the rest of us. Progress always happens unequally, at first. But without that initial inequality, there can be no progress.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
The Nazi regime represented not a unique evil in history but rather a now-conventional combination of two dangerous ideological trends: nationalism and socialism.
Since the 1800s, surly Americans have derided politicians for spending tax dollars “like drunken sailors.” Until recently, that was considered a grave character fault. But Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act shows that inebriated spending is now the path to national salvation. ... Anything that encourages people to view politicians as saviors imperils freedom. The more people there are who depend on Washington, the more difficult it becomes to leash politicians. But the profusion of handouts will enable politicians to yank in the reins on average citizens. The Supreme Court ruled in 1942, “It is hardly lack of due process for the government to regulate that which it subsidizes.” Government controls have followed a short step behind the subsidies; as a result, more and more activities in our society and economy are now dependent on political approval. Subsidies inherently represent a transfer of sovereignty and power from private citizens to politicians and bureaucrats.
What is the modern state? The answer to this question will—and perhaps already has—split the once unified white evangelical voting bloc. Ever since this group of Christians gravitated toward the writings of Francis Schaeffer in the 1970s, Protestant evangelicals have voted together opposing government-funded abortion. That central rallying cry began to dissolve on June 20, 2021. On that Lord’s Day, Dr. John MacArthur, the teaching pastor of Grace Community Church (GCC) in Sun Valley, California, delivered a sermon entitled “When Government Rewards Evil and Punishes Good.” For the first time in his fifty-plus year tenure in that pulpit, he decisively (albeit belatedly) railed against the evils of the modern state itself, not merely its particular rulers and policies. Instead, his exposition of Romans 13 drew a rhetorical line in the sand. Namely, that the modern American state is NOT a permanent, God-ordained, or benevolent institution. Rather it is an evil creation in the hands of evil people. ... While the immediate implication for Republicans is that their formerly unified pro-life voting block has split, they must choose whether their next candidate will put forward the state itself as the savior of mankind, or if their candidates will correctly and boldly, along with Dr. MacArthur, declare the state to be an inherently evil institution.
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from Spokane Daily Chronicle
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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