Finally! Now Trump can get the truth out to the public. Think of the soundbites during the election.
Now hurry up and do it Barr.
Category: On-Line Article Reviews
Reviews of blog posts and other articles
Theresa May Resigns – Finally!
Boris Johnson is pushing to get the job and supposedly someone will be installed by the end of July. Hopefully he and Nigel Farage can coordinate a way to get the Brexit finally done!
Over at the Hill Former FBI A.D. of Intelligence Kevin Brock Says Barr is After the CIA
Brock thinks things are moving along quickly and the targets are the Intelligence Agencies that fed the FBI the phony dirt that their operatives produced.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/444802-ag-barr-puts-former-intel-bosses-on-notice
Let’s hope he is right.
Brexit Party to the Rescue?
I very rarely read or link to National Review anymore. After their descent into NeverTrump madness, I mostly ignore them. But this article on Brexit is very informative and actually hopeful. If you’re interested in Brexit I recommend you read it.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/brexit-party-poses-an-existential-threat-to-the-tories/
Sharyl Attkisson Defines the Possible Reasons for the Russia-Gate Travesty
Basically the Deep State is made up of either criminals or blind idiots. Seems about right.
Tyler Over at the Portly Politico Has his Review of John Carpenter’s “They Live”
No one can say I’m not a patron of the arts. Rowdy Roddy Piper takes on the Progressives and the Aliens! Imagine if he had had Stallone and Schwarzenegger to help.
20MAY2019 – American Greatness Post of the Day – Notes on the Great Realignment by Roger Kimball
I haven’t even finished this essay but I can already recommend it. Kimball looks at the Never-Trumpers’ reaction to President Trump meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and then talks about the reality of Orban himself. https://amgreatness.com/2019/05/18/notes-on-the-great-realignment/
Things going on in Europe are important because they reinforce the global nature of the attack on normalcy going on everywhere by our beneficent masters. Coordinating with our allies in Europe and elsewhere must be especially frightening to the Hive.
Max Boot seems to primarily exist as an example of hypocritical idiocy. He can’t actually believe the things he says but he is stupid enough to believe we’ll buy his lies.
16MAY2019 – American Greatness Post of the Day – Our Modern Satyricon – VDH
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist by training so it is perhaps unsurprising that he finds the analogies between Petronius’s Satyricon and the cultural rot of our own age.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/05/15/our-modern-satyricon/
But I still praise him for the accuracy of his point by point comparison. Comparing the present age to post-republican Rome has become a common trope but Hanson points out just how accurate it is. Nothing new here, just the scholarly expertise of the author pointing out the exactness of the analogy.
Finding the Missing Link between Microbes and Men
Unless we include progressives there doesn’t seem to be any close relationship between bacteria (a prokaryote) and humans (a member of the eukaryote group). In fact, even something as humble as a fungus has more in common on the cellular level with humans than it does with bacteria. Assuming that bacteria were here first (which is an assumption that needs to be tested) it isn’t clear how the jump happened from the bare bones simplicity of the prokaryote to the remarkable complexity of even the most simplistic eukaryotic cell. Recent discoveries in the organisms that fall somewhere in between these two groups (archaea) is fueling additional controversy. According to one theory the archaea are the ancestor of the eukaryotes and therefore sort of our multi-great grand uncles. This rubs a lot of biologists the wrong way. There are even feuds based on this disagreement. I don’t have a dog in this fight but I am interested in advancements in the understanding of how life evolved on Earth. An interesting aspect of the story is that certain components of the eukaryotic cell (like the mitochondria and the chloroplasts) started out as independent bacterial cells that were ingested by some ancient organism but somehow survived inside the cell and formed a symbiotic and permanent arrangement. And many modern biologists see similar symbiosis between the bacteria living in our intestines and our human selves. Both species profit from the relationship and in our cases couldn’t survive without the other. What a strange and remarkable world we live in. Interesting read.
The Trickster Microbes that are Shaking Up the Tree of Life by Traci Watson
If You Need Something to Cheer You Up Today
Roger Kimball of the Spectator opines that AG Barr is not a man to trifle with.
https://spectator.us/doggedness-william-barr/
“The man is part terrier (and another part Sphinx). He will get to the bottom of this whole rotten story and (as he explained in that earlier confirmation hearing) he will neither pursue anyone groundlessly because he has influential enemies, nor will he forbear to indict someone who has broken the law because he is politically powerful. I believe this is true. Like Koko in The Mikado, I have a little list on which are the names of several prominent Democrats who I believe have broken the law. William Barr surely has a similar list, though his is probably longer.”