Signal your virtue to your think-alikes, and it’s all right — whatever it is.
Our elites care more about what their peers think of them than about what they’re supposed to be doing. No wonder so many institutions are failing.
Even David Brooks is admitting it: “Our elites really do stink.” And he’s right. But why? In part because they’re inbred, and care too much about each other’s opinions.
Take newspapers etc. Lemmings.
The irrepressible Cafe Hayek man makes his point:
When Beijing subsidizes Chinese exports or tariffs Chinese imports (or both) it does indeed tilt the playing field. But it tilts that field in favor of Americans (and others who who buy Chinese exports) and against its own citizens.
These interventions by Beijing raise our real incomes: our dollars buy more from China. And any resulting job losses in America mean that resources are released to produce goods and services here that were previously too costly to produce.
Whenever a trading partner insists on giving you more for your money, you are made better off. This fact isn’t altered if your trading partner happens to live abroad.
This his main argument vs. Trump, and my only one.
Don’t you believe it.
The world’s response to climate changing under natural and human influences is best founded upon a complete portrayal of the science.
The U.S. government’s Climate Science Special Report . . . released Friday does not provide that foundation. Instead, it reinforces alarm with incomplete information and highlights the need for more-rigorous review of climate assessments.
So did David Garrow, whose 1986 biography of King, Bearing the Cross, is full of references to King’s sexual escapades.
Garrow wrote about a number of extramarital affairs, including one woman King saw almost daily. According to Garrow, “that relationship … increasingly became the emotional centerpiece of King’s life, but it did not eliminate the incidental couplings … of King’s travels.”
He alleged that King explained his extramarital affairs as “a form of anxiety reduction.” Garrow asserted that King’s supposed promiscuity caused him “painful and at times overwhelming guilt.” (Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. William Morrow & Co. 1986. pp. 375–6)
See also selections from Bearing the Cross here.
He remains an icon, of course. Even today I heard him quoted in a sermon. Nobody’s going to tear down any of his statues. Ever.
Sunday sermons, weekday observations
By praying it, not announcing or declaiming and not scanning the audience as if giving a lecture or teaching a class. He really means it, and we know it. It’s how liturgy should be. It’s the sine qua non of liturgical practice. You gotta have heart, you can’t be looking around.
The “pray, brothers and sisters” — Orate, fratres in Latin-mass days and still now in the so-called extraordinary form — is another story, of course. Addressing the people, he looks at them. He does not spout the words as if magical incantations. “Behold the Lamb of God — Ecce Agnus Dei — and other parts, same thing.
Novus Ordo? It’s the Paul VI mass, presumably reflecting the wishes of the Vatican 2 council fathers (bishops from around the world) but arguably altered beyond anything most of them had in mind.
Most of us are accustomed to it by…
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Just how rough special counsel Robert Mueller is playing with Paul Manafort goes back before this week’s indictment — to the FBI’s no-knock raid in July.
They picked lock, barged in, pre-dawn, 12 of them with guns drawn, felt up the wife in bed for guns, with intent to traumatize, says source.
Typical of Mueller’s top prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann. ” A former mob prosecutor in New York, [who] specializes in turning witnesses against bigger prey and is not afraid to make things rough for spouses, too.”
In the United States of America. The FBI in peace and war.
From: Washington Times
It’s our Joe:
Ready to save you.
This is the Russian “intelligence” about Trump and the prostitutes in Moscow etc., also know as the Fusion GPS, British spy episode, he latest of which features never-Trump Republicans.
Thus we have Free Beacon neocons, never-Trump Republicans, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DNC, a British spy and comrades in Russian intelligence, and perhaps the FBI, all working with secret money and seedy individuals to destroy a candidate they could not defeat in a free election.
Buchanan’s good, clear and to the point.
Blithe Spirit 