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The Generation That Hates George Washington: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/generation-that-hates-george-washington-culture-wars/ Yes, young Caleb, that would fix everything. But wait, what’s this about renaming the university? This privileged twerp — where do you even start? Remember how we were all told that it was just the Confederate statues they were after, not the Founding Fathers, for heaven’s sake? It will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it. Wakanda forever! My challenge to you is to find a single prominent liberal commentator who forthrightly denounces this repugnant crap. They can’t do it, even if they think it, because they are terrified of the radicals in their midst. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Washington Post today, a reporter observes Republicans preparing to pounce. Excerpts: I mean … how dare they?! Liberals love to blame conservatives for fighting the culture war, which usually means resisting whatever radical aggression the liberals have tried next. More from the story: Damn straight. J.D. Vance understands that often, culture war is class war. Tim Ryan is not going to fight the culture wars because he knows his party holds contemptible, losing positions. One more quote: Read it all. I remind you that the political scientist Eric Kaufmann earlier this year warned that conservatives had better make fighting the culture war their most important priority. He says that most people over age 30 favor what he idiosyncratically describes as “cultural liberalism” — meaning tolerance for liberty and diversity. But those under 30 favor what he calls “cultural socialism” — no tolerance at all for anything opposed to wokeness. Caleb Francois is our future, unless we fight back. No Democrat at the national level has the guts to say a word of criticism of him and his ideological confreres. In all of our normative institutions, the leaders grovel in front of the Caleb Francoises. Find politicians prepared to push back hard against these radicals, and not just rhetorically, and they will win power. When they win power, they’d better use it, too.

Biden: Inflation Is Everybody’s Fault but Mine https://mises.org/wire/biden-inflation-everybodys-fault-mine Without all this new money creation, the inflation we’re witnessing today would be impossible. This isn’t to say that we wouldn’t see some rising prices considering wars and China’s ongoing lockdowns. Those events certainly do drive up some prices. But in an environment without constant monetary inflation perpetrated by central banks, inflation would not be general in the way it is now. Some prices would increase, but other prices would decline, as would make sense when the money supply is limited. There would only be so much money to go around so price inflation in some areas would be balanced by price deflation in others. But with monetary inflation running rampant, price inflation can do the same throughout the entire economy: more money is chasing goods and services. Biden Is Making Price Inflation Worse by Hobbling Production But even in time periods when monetary inflation is rampant, the effect on price inflation can be tempered by increased production and increased worker productivity. Specifically, improved technology, innovation, and international trade are all disinflationary forces that can make price inflation less bad. The Biden administration, however, is currently waging war on innovation, productivity, and trade, and thus making price inflation even worse. In his Tuesday speech, Biden called for even more regulation on businesses and higher taxes. He wants more power to coerce businesses into higher fuel economy, and to mandate more electric vehicles. He wants to increase fees on oil and gas producers. He wants higher taxes on employers. This will all only serve to cripple production and thus will put further upward pressure on price inflation. As far as foreign production goes, the Biden administration has largely preserved the Trump administration’s antitrade innovations. Biden’s anti-Russia policies have also only served to further cripple international trade by imposing economic sanctions on nations—including those that have friendly relations with the US—who consume critical Russian goods. This will be most disastrous for the poorest countries of the world, but American consumers will be impacted as well. (Gas prices in the US on Tuesday hit a new high.) As a result, the US has done much to raise energy and food prices worldwide while taking no steps at all to seek a diplomatic solution to the end of the war in Ukraine. Americans now have the misfortune of living under a regime that relentlessly inflates the money supply while working to cripple production. This is a recipe for ongoing inflation in both assets and consumer goods. But you won’t hear anything about this from the White House. Last year, the inflation culprit was “greed,” which supposedly prompted corporations to raise prices. (Why inflation-casing greed suddenly became far worse in 2021 is never explained.) Now, Putin provides a convenient scapegoat. For the past six months, the regime has repeatedly groped around for whatever bogeyman could be blamed—so long as the central bank remains blameless. Yep, Mr. Biden is naming pretty much everybody else as scapegoats in the failing U.S. economy and rising inflation. Everybody else but the true culprits; the central banking system and it's full embrace of MMT practices.

Apples vs. Oranges.

I have never beaten my spouse. Have you physically abused your spouse?

No, I'm not. But you go on thinking that Dante. Your hatred of basic economic transactions without government interference is noted.

New York Times Apologizes After Wordle of the Day Is 'Fetus': https://gizmodo.com/new-york-times-apologizes-after-wordle-of-the-day-is-fe-1848898991 More lefties choosing to be offended by a simple 5-letter word. Sad.

Nothing is as frightening as a left wind mob threatening you and your family. This is exactly the kind of thing that pushes people, even those who were supporters of Donald Trump, further to the right. If these people on the left believe that they have the right to treat us, their fellow Americans, with active contempt and threats of violence, then they should not be surprised when relatively moderate people become radicalized. They politicize everything, and demand compliance. These aren’t liberals anymore. They are soft totalitarians.

What a joke. Talk about a small fish in a giant pond. Another joke. A custom made sectional victory for a p/p. I guess some possible unrealistic travel time is their only penance.

I love you too.

Yep. TDS is a sad, sad condition.

So you don't think people who enjoy Chess and support the after school Chess club don't have Chess "deeply embedded" in them? They don't spend much of their time on Chess forums?

And this is bad exactly why?

Why Social Issues Dominate https://mises.org/wire/why-social-issues-dominate Mass democracy, under shifting rules often determined by nine politicized judges, is not a prescription for harmony and goodwill among 330 million very diverse Americans. Those millions don't much agree about guns, God, abortion, and plenty more. But they don't have to agree. In a “postliberal” and post-good-faith environment, aggressive federalism and realistic discussions of political secession are the obvious path forward. If you claim to love your fellow American citizens, unyoke them from the federal superstate and demand the same for yourself. The universalist, totalizing impulse, which resulted in the dramatic centralization of state power through the twentieth century, must be reversed in the twenty-first. The other way lies political strife, and worse. Agreed. Rack this spot-on commentary from Mr. Deist.

The Biden Administration Sees Free Speech As a Public Menace https://reason.com/2022/05/04/the-biden-administration-sees-free-speech-as-a-public-menace/

Sounds like Indiana lawmakers are chomping at the bit to exert their control over a women's body: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/03/what-leaked-scotus-draft-roe-v-wade-opinion-means-indiana/9628268002/ A "War on Abortions" will ultimately fail. Just like the doomed War on Drugs did.

Depends on how many OMG! Athletes they can get to transfer from the likes of McCutcheon or Lafayette Jefferson. I'm sure Mr. Peebles would also love some of that sweet talent on the West Side River Rats squad but that is much tougher nut to to crack and a lot more bit-o-honey to pony up.

Agreed, SW. Another take: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/on-roe-thank-you-donald-trump/ It is as yet unclear how Chief Justice John Roberts will vote, according to the story. Three of the five in the reported majority were appointed by Donald Trump. No Trump, no Roe overturned. If this draft ruling becomes law, then I hereby publicly repudiate myself for having withheld my presidential vote in 2016. I was wrong, and never have I been happier to be wrong. Here is a link to the full text of the draft ruling. Justice Samuel Alito wrote it — and somewhere in lawyer heaven, Justice Scalia is puffing on his pipe and smiling. Alito’s prose is very clear, and his argument against the Roe decision is powerful. If you have never read anything critical of Roe‘s shaky reasoning, Alito’s crisp analysis will open your eyes. The 1973 decision was nothing more than an example of “raw judicial power,” as a 1973 SCOTUS dissenting justice put it. Notice this paragraph citing leading liberal legal lights, critical of Roe‘s reasoning. Law professors Tribe and Tushnet, in particular, are strongly on the legal left: This is a hugely important distinction, one that Roe supporters consistently elide: the “right to privacy” upon which Roe is based is not the same thing when applied to other matters, e.g., consenting sexual partners. Only abortion has to do with the life or death of an unborn human person: You may not believe that an unborn human is fully a person under the law, but no one can deny that the growing biological entity that exists inside the womb of a woman after conception is of our species — and is a unique phenomenon. Justice Alito goes on to say, contra the 1992 Casey ruling, that it doesn’t matter what the public thinks about this or any other SCOTUS ruling. Justices have to do their jobs as well as they can, based on their analysis of the law. In fact, I bet that if the eventual ruling of the Court on abortion affirms what we see here in the leaked document, it will redound to the short-term political benefit of Democrats. Still, it will have been the right thing to have done. It is important to say what overturning Roe would not do: ban abortion nationwide. All it would do is return the issue to state legislatures. New York, California, and other liberal states would remain havens of baby-killing. Other states, like Louisiana, where I live, and Texas, would be more humane. Everybody should know, however, that the United States has one of the world’s most liberal abortion legal regimes. Just last week, when I was in the Netherlands — that is to say, that secular progressive welfare-state utopia — a Dutch friend was telling me that the law requires a five day “think it over” waiting period between the time a pregnant woman presents herself for abortion, and the time the doctor performs it. Most European countries allow abortion, but restrict it to the first trimester, absent certain exceptions that have to be approved by more than one doctor. No European country is as liberal as the US is on abortion. If SCOTUS overturns Roe, then the US will become like Europe in this respect: abortion restriction will depend on the state. As Politico notes, SCOTUS drafts can change before being announced, so this leak is not the law. Nevertheless, if it does prove to be the case, then the pro-life movement can rightly take pride in the tireless work of fifty years. I will be grateful to them. And I will be grateful to the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg for refusing to retire during the Obama presidency. And I will be grateful to Justices Alito, Thomas, Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch, for finally rectifying an egregious injustice. Since Roe became the law of the land, an estimated 63 million unborn children have died in their mother’s wombs, at the hands of abortionists. The current president, only the second Catholic chief executive in US history, supports the continuation of this abomination. Donald Trump, a non-churchgoing Presbyterian who is almost nobody’s idea of a model Christian, was the first sitting president in the history of this country to have addressed in person the March For Life (he did in 2020), and acted decisively to bring this holocaust of the unborn to an end. God writes straight with crooked lines. Here is Trump’s 2020 speech to the March For Life. Though he appointed Justice Alito, George W. Bush did not go there to talk to the faithful. Neither did George H.W. Bush, who appointed Justice Thomas. Donald Trump did. Again, I never have been so pleased to have been wrong about a politician. On the right to life, he delivered. ....

Easily. I have a number of in-laws that were born, raised, and still live there. Visited it often as youth, and still go there from time to time. As the automotive industry waxes and wanes so does the city. And the jobs that industry provides Kokomo are nothing what they were 30-40 years ago.

WKU is in Conference USA, not the MAC.

Go Wildkats. Another deep 4A tourney run or a state championship could be a welcome shot in the arm for for the citizens of Kokomo, a city that is rapidly becoming a drug-infested hellhole.

How long will the esteemed DE's suspension from posting on the GID last?

COVID-19 Policies Wrecked Public School Enrollment and Student Outcomes https://reason.com/2022/04/27/covid-19-policies-wrecked-public-school-enrollment-and-student-outcomes/

Biden Claims School Children Don’t Belong to Parents ‘When They’re in the Classroom’ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-claims-school-children-dont-belong-to-parents-when-theyre-in-the-classroom/ Ahh, the "In loco parentis" baloney again. Just because it sound kind of cool in Latin doesn't make in any less onerous.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/more-people-should-get-jury-duty/ Another issue is listed in one of the comments:

Native American community condemns Anderson's 'Indian' mascot https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2022/04/15/native-americans-anderson-high-school-indian-mascot-peace-pipe-ceremony/7283327001/ More snowflakes out looking for something to offend them. And sacrificing history and tradition in the process. Sickening.