 Dear Joltarian, What is there to say in the face of such on-the-spot bare-faced mendacity? It's not as if the nimble mind isn't worthy of occasional awe: Like The Godfather's Jack Woltz recalibrating his insults (directed at that smooth-talking German-Irish sonofabitch Tom Hagen). But to imply an attempted murder(s) knife attack is nothing more than teens-having-funnery — all for the contrived sake of cop-bashing, well, that crosses a line. Pray, one that marks the edge of the Grand Canyon. (Or we’ll settle for the safety-as-you-know-is-paramount platform edge at the Milford train station.) There's plenty on lefty knife idiocy below. And plenty on all others sorts of additional lefty idiocies (there are so many!) there too, in this late-April edition of what may be (or, may not be) your favorite Friday / Saturday posting / missive from NR. No more rambling: Let's get you to it! NAME. RANK. LINK. EDITORIALS Hoping the White House Basement wi-fi works: Biden Administration's Unserious Climate Summit Jimmy Lai and other brave people: On Hong Kong, Stay Strong It'a All About the Needle: Vaccination Is Our Ticket Out of the Pandemic Guilty in Minnie: The Message of the Derek Chauvin Verdict ARTICLES Kyle Smith: Anthony Fauci's Misadventures in Fortune Telling Rich Lowry: George W. Bush and the Republican Establishment Remain Wrong on Immigration Reform Rich Lowry: Biden Virtual Climate Summit Achieves Little David Harsanyi: Joe Biden's Climate Denialism David Harsanyi: Ed Markey and AOC's New Green New Deal Remains Nuts Mario Loyola: Green New Deal: More Socialism than Climate Action Jimmy Quinn: Climate and China: Cooperation Won't Stop Beijing’s Environmental Abuses Tyler Merritt: Trevor Noah Is Wrong about Police Philip Klein: Columbus Shooting: Cops Can Justifiably Intervene In Knife Fights Charles C.W. Cooke: In Defense of Teenage Knife-Fighting Michael Brendan Dougherty: Brian Sicknick Case Exposes How Media Makes Its Own Reality Charles C.W. Cooke: Richard Dawkins Gets Cancelled by American Humanist Association Kyle Smith: Bill Maher's Liberal Contrarianism Daniel Buck: Woke Classrooms: University Education Programs Source of Problem Ryan Anderson and Adam J. MacLeod: Clarence Thomas Is Right about Big Tech Kevin Mooney: Pennsylvania Governor's Abuse of Emergency Powers Must End Cameron Hilditch: Red China's 1921 Project Isaac Schoor: Red China and the Are in No Way U.S. Allies David Harsanyi: Senator Warren's Disgraceful Meddling in Israeli Politics Robert Joseph: Iran Nuclear Deal: Biden Administration in a Fact-Free Frenzy Kaj Relwof: Will Connecticut Be the Next Race-Charged Ballot Battleground? CAPITAL MATTERS David Bahnsen and Tim Busch skewer woke capitalism on the new episode of the Capital Record podcast Jerry Bowyer sees loneliness emerging in Silicon Valley: Thanks to Its Progressive Social Agenda, Big Tech Is Running Out of Friends Tom Spencer takes on Yellen's worldly desires: Global Minimum Tax Can’t End International Competition by Fiat Sally Pipes says the bucks are there: Health-Care Affordability 'Crisis': Poll Results Countered by Economic Data LIGHTS. CAMERA. REVIEW! Kyle Smith is digging a new Norwegian film: Hope is Elegant and Surprisingly Reassuring Armond White hits a Homer: The Simpsons Try to Cancel Morrisey More Kyle, who pours a tall one from a small keg: Brewmance: America's Craft-Beer Revolution More Armond, who comes to the defense of a lady snubbed: Michelle Pfeiffer Deserves Oscar for French Exit STRAP ON THE FEED BAG BECAUSE YOUR STRONG APPETITE YEARNS FOR THE AWAITING PLETHORA OF READY AND INTELLECTUALLY TASTY EXCERPTS, WHATEVER THAT MEANS Editorials 1. The White House Ringmaster zooms the Climate Clown Show for a most unserious gathering. From the editorial: The climate radicalism of Ocasio-Cortez and of the Biden administration itself is mostly a radicalism of rhetoric and posture. If the goal is to radically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in a way that mitigates climate change some decades down the road, then creating a jobs program for Democratic activists is not a meaningful proposal. It is simply a way to raid the treasury while linking the political priorities of the moment of New Deal nostalgia. The fact that it is unserious does not mean that it cannot do both political and economic damage in the real world, if it is pursued with sufficient vengeance. One suspects that Chairman Xi understands that even if President Biden doesn't quite. If we could set aside the culture war for a half a minute, we might discover some points of cooperation. For example, the U.S. electricity-generating sector has significantly improved its greenhouse-gas profile in recent years, not because it was visited by bright young things employed by a Civilian Climate Corps but thanks to — prepare to clutch your pearls — fracking. Natural gas is a much cleaner fuel than coal from a carbon-emissions point of view, and an abundance of inexpensive natural gas enabled normal economic forces to act in the green interest. We could be exporting enormous quantities of the stuff to the rest of the world, helping to displace coal power with cleaner gas power while doing precisely what it is Senator Markey and his congressional allies say they want to do at home: creating good jobs. But that would require, among other things, infrastructure, from pipelines and storage facilities to new export terminals on the West Coast. Private investors are ready to build these at their own expense, but the Biden administration and its allies stand in the way of this and other practical measures that have a chance at producing both consensus and results. Neither "Green New Deal" radicalism nor puffed-up summitry credibly promises as much.
2. The people of Hong Kong, and notable heroes such as Jimmy Lai and Martin Lee, are deserving of full-throated support as their ChiCom oppressors. From the beginning of the editorial: April 16 was a dark day for Hong Kong — a city that has seen many dark days in recent years, and whose days are getting darker. A court handed down sentences for nine advocates of democracy. What were they sentenced for? Well, advocating democracy. The U.S. secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken, issued a statement condemning the sentencing. He said that "Beijing and Hong Kong authorities are targeting Hong Kongers for doing nothing more than exercising protected rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of speech." Obviously, the Chinese government fears democracy. Eight of the nine people just sentenced have, at one time or another, been democratically elected to Hong Kong's legislature. And the ninth — Jimmy Lai, about whom more in a moment — is an ardent and brave supporter of democracy. Martin Lee, one of the nine, has long been known as "the father of democracy" in Hong Kong. Other democrats, worldwide, have been in awe of him since the 1980s. Lee founded the first democratic party in the city, the United Democrats of Hong Kong. Now 82, he was arrested last year for taking part in a protest. He made a poignant statement: "Over the months and years, I've felt bad to see so many outstanding youngsters being arrested and prosecuted, but I was not charged. Now I've finally become a defendant. I feel proud that I have a chance to walk this path of democracy together with them."
3. COVID vaccines are safe and the core of our pandemic exit-strategy. People should be getting the shots, and the media should can the hysteria over outlier stories. From the editorial: Vaccination not only protects the vaccinated individual; a vaccinated person who does get infected sheds much fewer viruses than an unvaccinated person, making infection of others less likely. It doesn't eliminate it completely, but a study of nearly 5,000 vaccinated Israelis concluded that "viral load was substantially reduced for infections occurring 12 to 37 days after the first dose of vaccine." But some media institutions seem to think every time a vaccinated person gets infected, it's big and shocking news. The New York Post felt the need to tell us about a Brooklyn woman who was infected three weeks after getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Then they wrote about an Alaskan woman who was infected with COVID-19, recovered, and then was infected again on April 12. The same day, the paper separately told us about a Brooklyn man who was infected two weeks after getting the J&J vaccine. The Post has relentlessly covered people who have died ... READ MORE
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