That’s what my grandmother—a much more gracious woman than I ever have been a man—would call things and behaviors that were utter…foolishness.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has signed a law that toughens the penalties for engaging in a variety of acts during riots. Engaging in the riots themselves has long been illegal.
In 2017, Foxconn signed a deal with Wisconsin to invest $10 billion, build an electronics manufacturing plant in the State, and hire 13,000 people by the year 2032.
Now, Foxconn has renegotiated the deal and will invest as much as $672 million and create 1,454 jobs by the year 2025.
What’s changed?
A number of things, but two in particular are the Republican Governor and Republican President in 2017, and the Progressive-Democrat Governor and the Progressive-Democrat President today.
That’s a question Just the News‘ Susan Katz Keating asked in her recent article.
One of the “Pentagon war-planners” she interviewed had this to say about our military’s considerations of that sort of question.
We hold modeling scenarios about this on a regular basis. We work out the likelihood of what would happen in a multi-front war. In the scenarios, we do well.
Frankly, I’d have to see the scenarios before I could think this believable.
“Infrastructure” entry. Here’s a brief list of what the Left and their Progressive-Democratic Party claim is infrastructure and what they want to spend $1.25-$1.5 trillions of your tax dollars on.
Infrastructure is turtles, all the way down.
Que Bill the Cat.
Here’s the standard, Merriam-Webster online dictionary, definition:
1: the system of public works of a country, state, or region
2: the underlying foundation or basic framework (as of a system or organization)
President Joe Biden (D) seems to have identified a long-standing error regarding our nation’s response to espionage.
President Biden’s decision…to punish Russia for the SolarWinds hack broke with years of US foreign policy that has tolerated cyber espionage as an acceptable form of 21st century spycraft[.]
Espionage is espionage, spycraft is spycraft; the tools used are irrelevant to these simple facts.
Congressman Jim Langevin (D, RI) is continuing the misapprehension, though.
Mercantilist tariffs (as opposed to tariffs as foreign policy tools) are purely protectionist, designed to punish competitors for competing. They’re not only aimed at foreign competition, either, as Europe’s auto industry is demonstrating [emphasis added].
Auto makers in Europe eager to boost sales of their electric vehicles have a new strategy: demanding higher taxes on conventional vehicles that burn gas and diesel fuel.
The top executives at several car and truck makers are calling on European governments to introduce the new taxes on carbon-dioxide emissions from gasoline- and diesel-powered cars and trucks as a way to help their EVs better compete.
Maybe. President Joe Biden (D) is acting like he’s taking action that would seem to respond to Russia’s SolarWinds hack and interference with the 2020 Presidential election. His potential action includes
The sanctions will take effect on 14 June.
And doesn’t care. That’s Dr. Anthony Fauci, as he made clear in his…testimony…before the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis last Thursday. Congressman Jim Jordan (R, OH) questioned Fauci regarding when Wuhan Virus (my term, not Jordan’s or Fauci’s) situation would be ending and CDC guideline restrictions lifted.
Fauci insisted that the restrictions would begin to be relaxed
When we get the level of infection in this country low enough that it is not a really high threat[.]
Despite repeated questions from Jordan to define “low enough,” Fauci remained evasive, repeatedly refusing to be specific, to identify the number…what metrics, what measures, he would use to define “low enough.”
In one of their Tuesday editorials, The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote about the shooting of Daunte Wright in the Minnesota town of Brooklyn Center. They seemed to be on the right track in their insistence for due process both for Wright and for the police officer who, according to body camera video and audio, fatally shot him.
Sadly, the editors blew up their thesis with this, regarding post-shooting events:
On Monday night protesters looted businesses….
Accuracy, and truth, die at the hands of political correctness.
Protesters don’t loot. Criminals loot.
Protesters don’t riot. Rioters riot.
Especially in Los Angeles County, where County District Attorney George Gascón rules.
Gascón has proposed legislation that would bar felonies committed while a juvenile from being counted as “strikes” under California’s Three Strikes law when the person commits a felony as an adult. Superficially, it seems like a good idea. After all, Gascón argues, the child’s brain isn’t fully developed.
A sister of a gang-related murder victim exposed the flaw in that argument, though. Aja Courtney:
Anybody who has children understands that children know at very early ages what’s right from wrong[.]