Harry Reid spent his entire career in government being a poster boy for term limits. His entire deal was growing government. By definition in my book that makes him an enemy of freedom,

As Ronald Reagan put it, when government grows freedom shrinks.

The damage that Harry Reid caused this country is incalculable, and that counters my usual inclination to mourn the loss of anyone’s life.

So it is that he will receive no laurels from me about “years of service”. His “service” was to anti-American ideas and ideals. His record in government has managed to strike a balance within me. It is totally without any emotion whatsoever that I note his passage.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Cuba

Everywhere you go

Have a look at the 5 and 10 shelves are empty again anything you want is never there

Let me start this out by saying that many years ago the union movement did in fact have some nobility about it, a noble purpose. Alas, that those days are long past.

The problem with unions is quite similar in nature to the problem of any centralization of power. Heads of large corporations, government officials, and Union representatives, homeowners associations.

Eventually, anyone and I mean absolutely anyone, given significant amounts of power, will be abusing that power eventually, and will tell you that they’re doing it for the good of humanity or to better your situation. It ends up that that’s always the cry of tyrannical leadership. It almost never works out to be so, however. In truth what those situations are is people liking the power that they have in their hands too much, and becoming dictatorial in the process.

This shows the wisdom of our founders who sought to constitutionally limit the power of government to prevent just such things from happening, and why those involved with the Democrat party have spent the last 50 years trying to overcome those constitutional limitations.

Have you ever noticed that when labor disputes come up the amounts of money and benefits being fought over never really get discussed?

Well let’s examine that. Labor costs for members of the UAW average around $73 an hour, as of the most recent polling on the subject in 2002. That includes salary, benefits, but does not include the added cost imposed on the automakers as regards work rules and whatnot.

Maybe now you understand why American automakers have spent years trying to catch up to automakers in japan, korea, germany, and before long, China.

In the end, unions are damaging to business to the country and to the workers. There are short-term gains to be certain. But those short-term gains are invariably overridden and unionized workforces eventually leave ghost towns behind. Ask those who used to make their living in Detroit making automobiles. Or for that matter, Lordstown Ohio.

But, Lord forbid that anybody should actually place the blame on the unions where the blame belongs.

Here’s the truth:

https://youtu.be/JBudiVNsW2E

The unions are now passing out electronic hand bills on social media telling us that we shouldn’t cross picket lines.

Personally, I will not aid and abet extortionists, which is precisely what unions are. And I wouldn’t stand in my way if I were you.

Hiding your leftist politics behind “community standards” is totally unacceptable. You’ve spent the last number of years trying to silence any conservative voice, anyone to the right of Fidel Castro. It’s despicable, but that’s what you’ve become.. absolutely despicable.

As Thomas Paine once suggested, one cannot be honest if all they’re worried about is whether or not they will offend somebody.

Let me put this directly to you in a way I’m sure you’ll well understand….My right to free speech which you are attempting to you server from every American does not end where your “community standards” are violated, nor do they end when you become offended personally.

Those two points are precisely where the right to free speech begins.

I will not comply.

When you can’t win by the number of votes, you win by lawsuit. That seems to be the modus operandi we’re going to be subjected to once again from the Democrat party.

Zippy here is actually admitting to two things. The first being what everyone already knows, the Democrats are going to lose big in the next couple of elections at least. In fact as I’ve been saying all along this should be an extinction level event for the Democrats.

But the second thing being admitted to here is why the Democrats have been playing this insurrection card for so long even after it’s been proven many times over that they’ve been playing a busted flush all along.

You see the problem is that such a lawsuit would demand a full investigation of who was involved. I’ve said all along that January 6th was a false flag event, arranged by the Democrats. Any such investigation would surely reveal that.

If they’re actually stupid enough to go along with this, it truly should be an extinction level event for the Democratic party. There won’t a one of them be able to get elected to dog catcher.

It’s time to say I told you so.

Today is actually a stunning day in the world of COVID transparency and the manipulation of COVID for political benefit.

After the White House tried the Omicron “winter of death” narrative, they suddenly realized what some (including myself) had mentioned earlier. When you require something, you are by nature of that requirement taking ownership of the outcome.

The Biden administration mandates -writ large- mean the government has to take ownership of the outcome. Thus, if government tests are required then government is responsible for testing.

The problem is, when any entity takes ownership, they are setting themselves up for accountability and criticism.

…

Today, Joe Biden officially tries to take the U.S. government out of the COVID mess by saying “there is no federal solution” to the crisis their COVID-19 response created. Yes, JOE BIDEN SAID THAT. Directly and without any pause as to the ramification of what he was saying or reading.

For two years Joe Biden has critiqued, criticized, complained and promised that his administration would handle the spread of COVID-19 and all the downstream consequences. Today, all of that is summarily trashed -as if it never existed- and the White House proclaims that individual states are now responsible for every outcome on their own.

So, Uncle Creepy has finally gotten around to acknowledging what I said over a year ago, that there was truly no Federal answer to covid-19. For all that we heard about “the Biden plan” this is an admission that he really didn’t have a plan.

Now it’s time for us to acknowledge that there is no governmental answer to covid-19, regardless of the level of government that’s involved.

One more point to be made here, is what I’ve been saying since Hillary care was being touted. When government runs health care every Health Care decision is a political decision. What we have been witness to the last 2 years if nothing else proves that. And the very reason that Biden and company have been forced to scrounge around for something that will click with the American people is the American people have begun to catch on to those facts.

We are still left with the question of why the United States government was doing what amounts to biological weapons research in cooperation with the communist chinese. We are also left with a question of how it is that Anthony Fauci.. the person who arranged for that research, was able to glibly announce that Donald Trump was going to face a pandemic less than 2 days after Donald Trump was elected.

Over at Front Page, they’re discussing the impending and richly deserved demise of CNN;

CNN’s effort to launch CNN+, a paid streaming service, at a time when its core ratings are crashing is confusing observers who wonder why the news network thinks people will pay for CNN when they won’t even watch it for free.

CNN President Jeff Zucker billed CNN+ as being for “CNN superfans, news junkies and fans of quality non-fiction programming.”

The existence of CNN superfans is as improbable as Bigfoot and UFOs. No one has ever spotted a CNN superfan in the wild and not even the most exotic zoos have them in stock.

News junkies certainly exist, but they don’t bother with CNN which doesn’t offer news.

Among some of the names dropped are Chris Cuomo and Chris Wallace.

They mention how CNN’s ratings dropped even further when Cuomo was exiled. What they fail to mention however, did those numbers go down because Cuomo is gone, or for the finally revealed reason for his being gone?

Frankly I don’t believe for a second that Chris Cuomo was much of a draw. I think the drop in numbers is disgust among what’s left of CNN’s viewers when they realized the game that was being played by CNN and by Cuomo.

It’s interesting that the Front Page article mentions the widely held belief that Wallace was brought in to replace Cuomo, which turned out to be false.
Apparently, even CNN recognizes that he’s not going to be able to keep the place afloat, put into prime time.

The thing they haven’t figured out yet of course is that nothing will.

The numbers continue to show that America has caught on to the idea of the Trump was right about CNN. They are fake news.

Which by the way, is as good an indication of what’s going to go on in the next couple of elections as we can point to.

Edtor’s note:
Once again as in years past, I’ve found my inbox filled with messages from longtime readers who wonder if I’m going to be re-posting “A Bithead’s Christmas”, and begging me to do so.
As I believe I’ve told you in previous years, I get more email about this one single post, these 2900 or so words, then I have about anything else written here. And it happens every single year. Either this one post is particularly good, or the rest of it is comparatively bad. You’ll forgive me if in my vanity, I believe the former. I take that they’re using Email, instead of simply leaving comments, to mean that I’ve struck a very personal and private nerve. Touching people in that fashion is a very rare thing, and one I take very seriously, so the answer to the question is “Yes, of course I’ll run it again”.

Understand going in, it may not be politically correct. I seek no absolution, no forgiveness, for it’s being overtly Christian in nature, any more than I seek absolution or forgiveness for anything else that I put into these spaces. It is what it is, because Christmas is what it is, and because I speak my mind on the topic at hand, whatever that is.

Christmas, and thereby, Christianity itself, has been going on for a little over 2000 years, in spite of all the naysayers, protesters and government regulations that history has managed to toss up in those 2000- plus years. It does so, because at the core of it all, is a message…….. a message that all the naysayers, protesters and government hacks will never understand, much less conquer. It is a message that will survive the ravages of time, government, and liberals, fascists, and anything and everything else, long after you and I are no longer even a memory in this world. The Christmas message, you see, is eternal, and ever green.

(Evergreen. I am suddenly struck with the symbolism here)There is something of a journalistic precedent for this as well. . . I do not pretend to hold myself quite so high in the world as these media outlets who have such traditions as “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”… but they’ve been getting away with such things for well over 100 years, so I suppose I can get away with it, here.

One of the things that man has always found fascinating about the Christmas story, is that you can reread it all your life, and every time you reread it, you find a new truth buried within it, so perhaps that’s WHY we get away with repeating such stories. It’s perhaps where such traditions come from.
So with all this in mind, and with the hope of helping you find new meaning in this season… and peace… a personal peace… in these troubled times, I will offer once again this year:

A Bithead’s Christmas

I find myself wanting to take more seriously, the challenge of writing to the subject of Christmas, today, than I have in years past. It’s not clear in my mind as to why, but this isn’t unusual… I never really do have a firm grip on why I want to attack a subject in these spaces. In fact, the writing of a coulmn for me has becomes more an effort of exploring a subject; the codification of random thoughts. The act of putting those thoughts into words on a screen allows me to think about, and RE-think about the subject at hand. My thoughts on a given subject often do not fully take shape until such time as I’ve re-written them twice. Often, indeed… usually, the ideas are already there, waiting to be cast into words, but not fully defined until the act of sitting down and typing them out. I suppose this subject is no exception.To this effort, some blogs, this time of year will quote the great Gospels of Christ’s arrival, and expound on that. And that’s worthy, and right. Some others will take the secular angle of the holiday and go off on that. That too, is fine, though frankly it’s always for me missed the core of the topic, a little.But not me, for either of those tacks. Not this year. I’m going to go off the beaten path, for this post, at least in context of this blog, given it’s Christmas, and off the beaten path in terms of the Liturgical calendar, given it’s me. I’m going to stick with the meaning of Christmas, but to point it up, I’m going to turn to something a little later… about 30 years later… for my subject. I trust you’ll see why when I’m done.This story is in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. We’ll use Luke’s version for the purpose.

In Luke 18 it reads:

15 Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 17 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

Now, all three versions add a little something to the story, and I suggest you read them yourself to get it all.
Most times that Christians hear this text or read it, a child is being baptized. The apparently intended thrust of reading it in those situations is to make a loose connection with the Children being accepted by Christ. And, that’s a valid angle for the story. But, think about the story line, here, so you can get the flavor of what I’m going to describe to you. There’s a far bigger angle that many miss.

See, Christ has been playing “superstar” for a while, now. He’s been attracting flat out huge crowds wherever he goes. The disciples are starting to become concerned for the (human) well being of Christ. Children are, then as now, a source of some stress to adults already under stress, so the disciples decide, wordlessly to give the Lord a break. But Jesus says.. “Hey… No.. Let ’em come… It’s OK. ”

Apparently, seeing some remaining resistance in their eyes, he reinforces the command with a statement that must have shaken them badly. “It’s to the likes of these as belongs the Kingdom of God.”

Now, It’s not hard for us to imagine what’s going on in the minds of the disciples…. They must have felt a little put back… While not saying so, they must have figured they had an inside track to Heaven. (Shrug) It’s human nature.

The passages don’t record if they said anything, but you just know what they’re thinking, here… “Comon, Jesus… We’re tryin’ to give you a break here! And you elevate these lowest of low, mere children, into the ownership of heaven? You raise a polite nothing to a path to heaven and eternity? What’s THAT about?”And you know, Jesus knows it too. He knows full well what they’re thinking, because watch what he comes back with: “I’ll tell you the truth;”, he says, “Unless you change… Unless you transform, and accept the kingdom of heaven like a child, you’ll never enter it.”

But what does he mean, here? He’s talking, I’m afraid, about how you lose touch with happiness and the sense of wonder, as you become an adult. That loss prevents us from seeing the Kingdom of heaven as it is.

For most of us, the happiest times of our lives was when we were children. When we’re younger, we have less in the way of cares, and troubles. Let’s admit, too, that as we get older, we become aware of, and allow more and more sadness into our lives.It’s true; It’s a hard world out there, and being adults we’ve come to understand this, in a way of understanding that only long exposure and experience… and lots of scar tissue, can bring.It seems that every year we have more worries and concerns.

Oh, yeah, do we EVER worry. We worry about our health, and those concerns increase with advancing age. We worry about our jobs, about our investments, our savings, about the future in general. Retirement is a concern. Will we have enough? We’re too fat, we’re too skinny.

We’re too tall, we’re too short, our once wavy hair is still waving… Only, it’s waving bye-bye. We worry about the future our kids will have and the normal growing up problems, but we also worry about the future that we’ve left our kids. We look at the news, and we wonder what kind of a world have we left them? We even worry if we worry too much.We’ve seen marriages and relationships we thought would pass the test of time, pass away, instead. Things we had hoped would come to pass, didn’t, and those we’d not dreamed, in our wildest nightmares would happen, did. We see loved ones die. Jobs disappear. Hearts get broken.

And friends, those are just the hum-drum… The everyday worries that every generation has had, since Cain bopped his brother’s bean with a rock. Then you get into the problems particular to us and our times; AIDS, oil shortages, cancer, drugs, the way our own technology seems to be spiraling out of our control…

And Islamofacists.

Ah, yes, there’s nothing at all, to my mind, like the specter of 3000 plus people dying on national television, in Washington, NY and Pennsylvania… while we watch, to remind us that we’re not in control.And yes…. it’s all about control, if you think on it for long. All these things I’ve listed are worries about things we cannot control, try as we might.

The list of these reverses, these scars, gets longer as the years progress, and it starts eventually, to break down the positive outlook in every one of us… Each according to their ability to resist. Each step, each worry, each bit of emotional scar tissue, if you will, moves us farther away from the relative joy of our comparatively carefree childhood.

By now the sharper among you will notice where I’m going with this; This is where Christmas comes in. This is why Christmas holds a special place in our hearts, and our traditions.

You see, even for the not-so-religious, it is a time of renewal of our fragile human spirit. All of the hurts, small and large, become less pronounced, and fade under the soft glow of the lights, the candles, the fireplace, and the smile of the children.

Have you ever noticed that it’s the children, in fact, that do us the most healing? Christmas, it’s said, is for the children. Presidential speechwriter and WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan noted recently about some of the qualities of children:

“They are susceptible to wonder. A child can look at a red toy car in the red-green glow of Christmas tree lights and imagine an entire lifetime.

A child can play with a new doll and smell good things being cooked and hear sweet music and it can make that child imagine that life is good, which gives her a template for good, a category for good; it helps her know good exists. This knowledge comes in handy in life; those who do not receive it, one way or another, are sadder than those who do.”

Of course, we move away from that ability as we grow older. Our long experience has hardened us to the realities of the world around us, and perhaps jaded our point of view. But here comes Christmas, which gives us, individually and collectively, the chance of looking at the world through the wonder-filled eyes of a child once again… Becoming childlike ourselves in the process, and becoming healed and renewed.

The experience is a far deeper one for those who have accepted the Christmas promise, and it’s meaning. Reacting to that promise includes allowing someone else to run the controls of our lives. Remember I said it was all about control? Well, I want you to think about the features of being a child.

It was Randall Jarrell, I think, who once quipped:

“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”

Well, let’s remember.

You’re NOT in control of much of anything. Someone who knows better, and is by far more powerful than we, is running things. And looking back, I’m sure most of us would conclude that having that situation back would be of comfort to us. Haven’t we all wished to resign from the world of adulthood at times?

I guess this would be a good place to slip in a parallel story.

Consider the fictional person of Ebeneezer Scrooge. Think about how the story develops;

He’s had some serious emotional setbacks in early life… and those have become a self-feeding, never ending circle by the time we meet him, 7 years after his best friend’s death.

All these setbacks have made him cold, and hard, and for all outward appearances, non-feeling. He’s covered with emotional scar tissue. Being hard, is his way of dealing with what he cannot control.

Only after his overnight experience do all these cares get swept away, along with his anger of not being able to control his situation…. The realization comes to him that he never really WAS in control in the first place, so stop fretting about it all… Think about what are essentially the first words out of his mouth as he realizes that the weight of his worries.. Not unlike worries you and I have had, are gone;

“I’m as light as a feather….” The weight of that scar tissue… And all the concerns they represent having been lifted off his shoulders…

“…and as giddy as a Schoolboy!”

Like.
A.
Child.

“I’ll tell you the truth”, he said, “Unless you change.. Unless you transform, and accept the kingdom of heaven like a child, you’ll never enter it.”

Amazing parallels, aren’t they?

I’m reliably informed that Charles Dickens was not as a rule what one would call very religious. Yet, in looking at the parallels in these two story lines, I must wonder in all honesty if he didn’t have some help with “A Christmas Carol”.

Now, you’ll notice I took some liberty with the way the Biblical text was quoted. Some liberty, I say, but not very much, really, since it’s long been pointed out by Bible scholars that the word that earlier versions of the text had as ‘change’ were really translated from the ancient Greek word for “transform”.

This is a major point, because it demonstrates what the first step is, and whose it is… yours.

And no, change and transformation are not the same thing. The best description I’ve ever thought of to explain the difference between the two, runs along these lines:If I take a rock, and in the other hand I take a large hammer, and I hit the rock with the hammer, and break it, I’ve changed that rock. If I take that same rock, and take a small hammer and chisel, and very carefully, perhaps over a period of decades, sculpt that rock into a flower, I’ve still merely changed that rock.

Transformation, on the other hand, is when the rock itself, as a matter of responding to it’s own will, becomes a flower. And of course that’s beyond the normal power of the rock, by any standard we know.

What Christ therefore is saying is, that we must become children, as of a matter of our own will. Which is, as I say, impossible by any standard we know…. Which in turn leads us to the source of all things, who teaches us how, and gives us the power to do it.

You see, the externalities I mentioned, the lights, the fire, the children…and that which Dickens writes of… the giving, the being open to what joys are around us, and so on, helps toward the goal of understanding the Christmas promise, but it’s not the whole deal.

At the core of it all… (and this is a connection that, alas, many people never make…) is that the one whose birth is being celebrated every December the 25th, is the one who takes over that long list of worries. But understand, here…THAT’S WHY WE CELEBRATE!!

With those worries removed, lives get changed, hearts mended, child-like perspectives restored in a way that the lights, carols and greenery can never do on their own. And the newly remade Children find that the authority and responsibility and all the ponderous weight connected with them, are taken away by the one who said “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me”.

Now, I must warn you; There are those who will resist being told all of this… to the point of removing such joy as they find, wherever they may find it, often using the power of governments, and force of arms to have it removed from town squares and schools, mocking, persecuting and yes, even killing those responsible for the spreading of the news of this miracle.

It’s a sad truth, that a world used to darkness, you see, will continually fight to see the darkness continued.

That warning given, however, I will say to you also, that it’s no accident, Christmas being called the season of light, and that Christ is called the light of the world.

If I have one wish for this Christmas, it is that you will be open to the light…. With the wondering eyes of a child.

It’s time to take stock of the covid-19 situation that we’ve been dealing with for so long.The fact of the matter is we’re not being honest with ourselves on it.

First, let’s consider the virus itself. In doing so, for the sake of discussion, let’s completely ignore, just for the moment, the governmental reaction to it.

At its most basic, we have a disease, a virus, that was created in a laboratory. There’s two ways we can define such a disease, either pure research or we can consider it a biological weapon. It actually feels both roles at once, something that Chinese Communists figured out early on. Anthony Fauci in his naivete may very well have considered it pure science, but the Chinese are a bit more practical, in much the same way that Iranian nuclear scientists are. And yes I’m quite aware of what that implies. We will get to that.

We want to trust the guys in the white lab coats. It’s what we’ve been trained to do after all.

However, let me remind you that every zombie apocalypse movie ever made, every monster movie that’s got a monster in it that’s gotten out of control, every movie that involves some catastrophic infection, all of these begin with the guys in the white lab coats and looking at awful lot like Anthony Fauci, telling us that “everything is under control”… and that we should relax and just do what the government tells us to do.

It doesn’t work in the movies, and it’s not going to work here, either, because invariably, there are factors that have not been accounted for but the supposed smartest people in the room.

If we’re honest about this thing, any disease created in a lab, particularly one that has the demonstrated capability of killing millions of people can easily be considered a biological weapon and by any reasonable standard, unquestionably should be considered as such.

Now, let’s go a step further and consider that this virus was created in a laboratory in Wuhan China and largely paid for with American tax dollars.

Oh, there’s no question that the lab coats in this country particularly Anthony Fauci told us that wasn’t true, and quickly labeled those who expressed that view to be conspiracy theorists and nothing more. But as we are learning more and more, that’s exactly what happened. All of the conspiracy theories have turned out to be true.

They told us that they weren’t doing gain of function research, because that would be illegal, immoral,unethical, and so on. But once again we have found out over time that’s precisely what’s been happening.

Fauci and company have stated that the “gain of function” research was not specifically authorized. And yet, here we are.

And so at best, we have a situation where the white lab coats in this country allowed This calamity to be follows through their own ineptitude and naivete.

The Chinese Communists have proven themselves untrustworthy for decades now. Given that proven lack of trustworthiness, there are only two ways that we can take the NIH and for that matter the US government as a whole signing off on this cooperative effort between the Communist Chinese and the NIH and Wuhan, the best of them being shear stupidity.

This makes the assumption that the lab coats didn’t understand the threat involved here. It makes the assumption that they didn’t understand more likely didn’t want to admit to themselves, that China will glom onto anything produced in such a cooperation …virus producing techniques, and probably even covid-19 itself or somewhat less probably, something even worse for used to bring about their version of political change. Again, this is not unlike what we would see from Iran’s nuclear scientists.

If it is the case that they simply didn’t understand these points because of their worldview, their politics or their lack of understanding that not everybody shares their view of pure science, then what we are dealing with here is a case of criminal incompetence at the very least.

The thing is I don’t think they’re quite that stupid.

There’s a few possibilities of why they involved the chinese, one certainly was plausible deniability.

I think this Chinese bomb that got dropped on the rest of the world went off precisely as intended. There are several indications that they knew this was happening and knew precisely what they were doing, their vehement denials not withstanding.

First, let’s remember Anthony Faucci getting up on his hind legs on CNN and telling the world that Donald Trump would face a pandemic, telling the world this beer hours after Donald Trump’s election. How would he know that?

Then, also, we have numerous lies coming out of NIH, HHS and it’s leadership about how the virus got started. The reaction of those people is strikingly similar to that of cockroaches when the flashlight gets turned on. They start running in any direction they can, often to their own destruction.

For example the wet market bat soup lie. You’ll remember that that claim went down in flames less than 24 hours after it was made. For over a year, NIH under the leadership of Dr Anthony fauci vehemently denied that what we were dealing with here was a lab leak at Wuhan. This even as whispers kept coming out that the supposed conspiracy theorists had it right on the money. Eventually, NIH was forced to admit, yes, it was a lab leak.

The comportment of NIH as a whole and Fauci in particular reads as somebody who understands that they’ve stepped in a big pile of yak poop and are desperately trying to cover their own backsides, both with additional lies which were also disproven and with absurd recommendations to the government which the government gladly swallowed.

There is increasing evidence that there was a good deal about what was going on in that American officials did not know, Fauci in particular. Things that they were responsible for knowing and failed…. Something that they didn’t fully understand until it got into the wild.

What we are discussing here is criminal incompetence.

The unfortunate fact is the Democrats don’t want us to know how this thing started because it’s still being in play empowers them. Intern, that bottom line’s at the only way we’re going to find out what the real story is here and who deserves jail time, is to remove the Democrats from power.

The polls have long since begun to indicate that the American people are quite ready to do that, so there is hope on these matters, scant though it be.

So, Nick sandman, won a $275 million lawsuit against NBC.

It pleases me no end to see this happen, but in all honesty I have to wonder if the mainstream media is getting the message being sent here.

As regards the Detroit shooting…

The prosecutors have apparently decided to charge the kid, 15-year-old, as an adult. That of itself is not unusual in these cases. However that’s not the end of it.

Where we get into a problem is when they also charge the parents. Involuntary manslaughter I believe is the charge. The stated reasoning? They weren’t controlling the kid.

The trouble with the combination, if you’re charging the 15-year-old as an adult you’re making the claim that he had the capacity to understand what it was he was doing and was solely responsible for his actions. If that’s true then you can’t legally expect the parents to be controlling the kid. If on the other hand it’s not true, then the largest crime you can charge the kid with is some sort of mental hygiene issue.

That comes down to this; Charge the kid as an adult or charge the parents, choose one …you can’t do both.

The claim by the prosecution is that they shouldn’t have allowed the kid to have access to firearms. The problem is CAP laws as they’re called, (child access protection) has never been passed in Michigan. In other words the legislature has decided not to go that route. That such laws should exist may very well be the opinion of the prosecutor, but in terms of actual law, no such animal exists. The prosecutors in this case are so far off the deep end I’m amazed that they don’t pull an Alec Baldwin out of the hat and blame the gun. In watching this scenario I have to wonder if that’s not the money of George Soros I smell involved with this case.

By any reasonable measure, this is an extraordinary case.

To be perfectly honest with you I have more than a sneaking suspicion that there is a good deal going on with the parents in this case that we haven’t been told about simply because there’s no legal way to approach them. Certainly, there is no legal way to approach them that serves the interests of the anti-gun crowd. Which is really what this case of overreach is about to begin with. You know as well as I do that without that advantage there won’t be any reporting on any of it.

As for legal precident coming out of this case, I wouldn’t bet on it being anything good. They’re going to attempt to use this to bolster the gun grabbing that they have always had on their minds. Extraordinary situations make bad case law, the saying goes. And this is one such situation.

To how many people, I wonder, has the thought occurred that the reason Mandella was in prison all those years, that that south African blacks were oppressed, was the power of government?

And further, how many noted the disconnect that he embraced a powerful government as a solution to those problems?

It personally amazes me that so many black conservatives speak so highly of the avowed socialist, and I wonder… what, save his color, do they base that overt approval?

Ed Morrissey demonstrates why the New York Post is the only paper in New York City worth reading.

The story of the Waukesha massacre appears to have gone to the same media destination as the ongoing crisis of abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. Perhaps we can call it the Island of Misfit Narratives.

The New York Post — and the people of Waukesha — certainly get that impression, after watching the national media lose interest in the attack on a Christmas parade after the arrest of an inconvenient perpetrator:

Screenshots of Brooks’ Facebook page, under his MathBoi Fly rapper handle, were mysteriously deleted right after the parade murders, and showed that he had praised Hitler, backed Black Lives Matter — and called for violence against white people.

“So when we start bakk knokkin white people TF out ion wanna hear it…the old white ppl 2, KNOKK DEM TF OUT!! PERIOD,” he wrote under his rap name, MathBoi Fly, along with a middle-finger emoji.

Brooks’ case has become a cause célèbre — not in the mainstream media, which was slammed for initially saying the deadly attack was caused by “a car” that drove into the parade, but by an increasing chorus of influential podcasters like Joe Rogan and online pundits who claim Brooks and his victims in Waukesha have been “swept under the carpet” by the press because the case doesn’t fit their agenda.

As usual, Ed raises an interesting point. If the existence of a story, if the existence of a news event does damage to the cause of the left, it’s simply goes down the memory hole.

The examples of such things happening are rather numerous. The Maxwell trial, the number of people that are still stuck in Afghanistan assuming that they’re still alive as a result of Joe Biden’s idiocy, the record high inflation, again as the result of Joe Biden’s idiocy, the question of why we were cooperating with the Communist Chinese in the process of developing biological weapons, the idea that Anthony Fauci is on record as saying these masking mandates aren’t buying us a bloody thing… All of these go down the memory hole. Nobody reports on them.

Well, almost nobody.

Which as I say demonstrates why the New York Post is the only paper in New York City that’s worth reading.

Is it any wonder that the mainstream media is going under? Nobody believes them anymore.

Their own bias is why.

I will admit that I haven’t been watching Dan Crenshaw very closely. He struck me as somebody with some serious potential, but apparently he’s discovered he likes the power of government too much or somebody got to him or both.

He’s turned into nothing more than another establishment critter.