Morning Mistress
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“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”― Ray Bradbury
A “right” is something the government can’t do to you (not something it must provide for you). Thinking that something is a good idea doesn’t make it a right.-Sen. Mike Lee
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.-Martin Luther
“Imagine no possessions.-Mike B
Let's start with your iPhone.
Hand over your wallet.
Your car keys and your home..."
(Chuck) Schumer, it turns out, isn’t telling the truth at all. In a speech on the floor yesterday afternoon, Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.), who led the coalition to draft the GOP bill, offered to include an amendment for every concern that Democrats had raised in their talking points opposing the legislation. “If you don’t think we’re right, make it better. Don’t walk way,”-Alexandra Desanctis
"(Cuomo's)biggest blunder was the infamous March 25 Department of Health order that required nursing homes and rehabilitation centers to admit COVID-19 patients being discharged from hospitals. It stands as one of the worst decisions in New York history because it condemned the most vulnerable to hellish deaths surrounded by strangers while no friends or relatives were allowed to visit."-Michael Goodwin
"Traces of urine have been found in their drug samples."-Mark Steyn, on CHOP drug testing
I find the abuse of black civilians — or, though this is apparently a provocation, any civilians — by the police abhorrent. More than any other group in American life, cops, empowered by the state to use force, have special responsibility to protect life and adhere to the law. But I am no more liable for the actions of Derek Chauvin than is S. E. Cupp or Al Sharpton. I have nothing to confess. The color of my skin is not an indictment of my morality, nor does it strip me of my agency.-David Harsanyi
The arc of his (Obama's) moralizing universe is long, but for the anointed like him, it apparently bends toward the just deserts of riches and material bounty.-Victor Davis Hanson
Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.- Satchel Paige
This Pope's Bible has the Gospels of Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.
There actually exists in our federal law something called the Insurrection Act, which really does empower the president to deploy federal troops in certain situations, and there really was a national debate about whether the recent riots originating roughly in Minneapolis provided a legitimate occasion for invoking the Insurrection Act, which has been relied upon in convulsions ranging from desegregation (President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to deal with violent defiance of Brown) to the Los Angeles riots that were under way back around the time Maureen Dowd wrote her last interesting column.-Kevin D. Williamson
Minneapolis is a Democratic city, with a Democratic mayor and a Democratic city council (0.0 Republicans on that body), in a state with a Democratic governor and a Democratic state house; these are the people who hire police chiefs and organize police departments, who specify their procedures and priorities, who write the laws that the police are tasked with enforcing — Democrats and progressives practically to a man. (Not every member of the Minneapolis city council is a Democrat — there’s a Green, too.)-Kevin D. Williamson
“If the media tries to make the choice this summer one between cops and rioters, the great majority of Americans will choose the cops, for all their faults, because good policemen risk their lives to save others while rioters contribute nothing to society but grief and immiseration.”-Michael Brendan Dougherty
"Only the cops need guns” simply could not live forever alongside, “The cops are racist and will kill you.” And so, at long last, the two circles of the Venn Diagram have filed for an amicable divorce. In the end, the differences proved irreconcilable.-Charles C.W. Cooke
"We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home... But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.”— Calvin Coolidge
Are we seeing the "soft bigotry of low expectations" in Minnesota?-Mike B
The LA riots, Ferguson, Minneapolis...is there any other group that takes the occasion of a wrong done to one member of their community as an excuse to riot, loot and destroy the neighborhood?
And some excuse it!
“Until people start forming beliefs based on evidence rather than the narrative that’s most comforting, our discourse will continue to be toxic trash. (Also, as long as media outlets employ people with a documented history of fabrication & fabulism, the media will be unreliable).”-Glenn Greenwald