How to Ensure a Middle East War in Five Easy Steps

How to Ensure a Middle East War in Five Easy Steps. The usual insightful commentary by Victor Davis Hanson.  I think Biden is up to step five already.

I seem to be a party to a class action lawsuit wherein a bunch of lawyers made a fortune suing Honda over some transmission issue. This class-action issue is a scam but I'm a winner also. I got a certificate for $25 worth of parts for a car that was totaled two years ago. The lawyers will make an application to the Court at the Fairness hearing for an award of attorneys’ fees of not more than $1,085,000. The settlement document is here.

Peggy Noon has a column on the Secret Service in the Wall St. Journal. Here's a fun excerpt:

Their primary job: to keep the president safe and if necessary take a bullet for him. That is literally what agent Tim McCarthy did during the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. There too was agent Jerry Parr, who bundled the seemingly unhurt Reagan into the car and, after seeing pinkish, oxygenated blood on his mouth, countermanded an order and got him straight to the emergency room. When Parr was a kid he saw a 1939 movie, “Code of the Secret Service,” which made him want to be an agent. The central character, fearless agent Brass Bancroft, was played by Ronald Reagan, whose life Parr saved some four decades later. Life is full of strange, unseen circularities.

Biden, well known plagarizer, used a Ronald Reagan joke speaking at the Coast Guard commencement. Of course he didn't get it right, which suggests he didn't get the joke. 

Why the Right Hates Fauci. For reasonable people on the right, there are perfectly legitimate reasons for hating Fauci,

Democrats Bewildered at the Unpopularity of Kamala Harris

San Francisco Seeing an 'Epidemic' of Shoplifting. San Francisco, once one of the most beautiful and pleasant cities in America, is being destroyed by an ideology that promotes “permissiveness.”

Some years ago, Ronald Reagan spoke at the Coast Guard graduation.  He told a joke. Biden told the same joke at the Coast Guard graduation, but he blew the delivery, then reprimanded the cadets for their response. Here's the text in Forbes. Reagan got it right.

A rather cool 8-second movie of a lunar eclipse.

The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

If the case that SARS2 originated in a lab is so substantial, why isn’t this more widely known? As may now be obvious, there are many people who have reason not to talk about it. The list is led, of course, by the Chinese authorities. But virologists in the United States and Europe have no great interest in igniting a public debate about the gain-of-function experiments that their community has been pursuing for years.

A leaked State Department memo revealed US embassies were encouraged to show support for Black Lives Matter on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death. The seven-page document obtained by Human Events News gave authorization to 'diplomatic and consular posts' to fly the organization's flag and use its name in messages and speeches. 

The Pentagon has created a working group to cull "extremists" out of the military. To head that group, they've hired a radical named Bishop Garrison who is on record as saying that anyone who voted for Trump is just such an extremist (and racist and misogynist to boot).

Epicurious is a publishing business with a web site and magazines about cooking.  They have gone woke. In an effort to encourage more sustainable cooking, they won’t be publishing new beef recipes on Epicurious.

Another example of politician do-gooders messing up opportunities for people. In response to a Colorado state law that requires employers post salary ranges in job postings, companies are simply refusing to consider applicants from the state.

Democrats' Pre-Election Lies Are Unraveling. Despite four relentless years of the media lying intensely about him, Donald Trump was still poised to be re-elected as we headed into 2020. Then the infernal Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu hit and the Democrats immediately sniffed opportunity.