Thoughts on anti-Semitism throughout history.
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Heart Regeneration
Researchers are upbeat about it.
Well, if they are, then so am I.
Advocating For Genocide
Thoughts from Eugene Volokh.
The problem to me is that we’ve overbroadened the definition of genocide to the point that it’s lost useful meaning. I don’t agree that simply killing large numbers of an ethnic group justifies being called that. While what the Japanese did in Manchuria was atrocious and horrific, and clearly a war crime, I don’t think that it was genocide, because I don’t think (correct me if I’m wrong historians) that it was done with an intent to wipe an ethnicity off the face of the planet. Similarly, while what we did in Dresden and Tokyo and other cities was arguably a war crime, it was not genocide. But what the Nazis did clearly was, and what Hamas is calling for, and those college students are supporting (“gas the Jews”) clearly is.
Hunter Biden
Jim Geraghty on the shameless, sordid, indefensible man (not “child”) and the hypocrisy of his father.
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Why did the indictment take so long?
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Thoughts from Jonathan Turley.
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The indictment is a disaster for the White House.
The U.S. Air Force
…is in serious decline.
DEI degrades and corrupts every institution it touches.
I wonder if it’s as bad with the Space Force?
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DEI at the FAA is lunacy. It will kill people.
The B-Team
More like the C-Team, actually. What happens when mediocrities are promoted.
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Related: Academics thrill to rape and murder.
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Is Gen Z turning against Western civilization? And thoughts on Weimar America:
…the overwhelmingly minority students (whose school is ranked academically near the bottom among New York City schools) were acculturated to the racist reality that as the “oppressed” they were exempt from any punishment for hunting down their own teacher. As a Jewish (and thus white) “oppressive” supporter of Israel, she was reduced to, in the words an enthusiastic commenter on a Tik Tok video of the riot, a “cracker ass bitch.” And so the student pack tracked her down as if they were hunting an animal. The old Nazi youth gangs tried to kill Jews because they were not considered “white;” our new Nazis hunt them down because they allege that they are. The common denominator between the 1930s and 2023 is an unhinged hatred of Jews.
Yes.
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The people who mobbed the Jewish restaurant in Philly are total psychopaths.
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Addressing the rot in the universities.
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Genocide and Jews at Harvard.
And are Americans finally starting to see the depravity of academia?
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Reverse speech codes aren’t the answer.
Disinformation Starts At The Top
Human Rights
Do they extend beyond the planet?
The fact that the UN declaration is a “universal” one strongly suggests that they do. I disagree that “health” is a human right, though.
Space Rescue
Yes, there will be a need for it (and a Space Guard to carry it out). And not just for tourists. And the most responsive place to put a base for it would be equatorial LEO.