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What Error did she Acknowledge?

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In James Freeman’s Best of the Web Wednesday piece, he wrote of Seattle’s newly elected socialist mayor Katie Wilson’s supposed acknowledgment of her problem vis-à-vis her disdain for big business in a competitive market. In her series of victory laps shortly after her election, she crowed while at a barista union rally,

I am not buying Starbucks, and you should not either.

With the ensuing backlash, which includes an exodus of big businesses like Starbucks from Seattle, she then said,

Those comments were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good….

Freeman then quoted, without questioning, Danny Westneat, writing for the Seattle Times:

Admitting errors in public is hard…. Conventional political wisdom says it means you’re weak. In this case, I’d argue it’s a positive sign for the future of both the mayor and Seattle.
It means the mayor is at least more grounded in the real world than some of her blinkered progressive fans….
Maybe this is a chance to reset relations with businesses—at least ones other than Starbucks, where it may be too late.

But what “error” is Westneat claiming Wilson has admitted? In fact, it’s quite clear from Wilson’s own words, and Westneat has chosen to ignore it. Wilson admitted the error of her words, not the error of their intent, which is and always has been, her disdain for and assaults on free markets and the larger businesses that operate in them.

Not a Chance

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In an article about the future of travel coming to us in just 20 years, this prediction jumped out at me. From Scott Fleming, Aon‘s Director Aon Travel Practice:

My [AI travel booking] agent will know the places I like, it will have insight into my finances, my budget, my risk tolerances, all my preferences from the kind of room I like to my pillow type[.]

As British royal butlers and secretaries and other staffers, royal and commoner, British or elsewhere, routinely demonstrate, not even personal staff can be trusted with such personal information in such quantities and breadth. I’m certainly not going to trust a robot or other software package with all that information.

Disregarding our Constitution

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Here they go again. This time it’s Virginia’s Progressive-Democratic Party-dominated legislature and Governor who think our Constitution is just something to be used or ignored at Party convenience and that, in the immortal words of a Leftist “journalist,” isn’t binding on anything and it’s hard to understand, being over 100 years old (or, as he later “corrected,” more than 200 years old.

This time, it’s Party’s disregard of our 2nd Amendment and of Supreme Court rulings holding that keeping and bearing Arms is an individual inalienable right of which a well regulated militia is a beneficiary not the purpose and that the keeping and bearing cannot (not just may not) be regulated except in consistence with our nation’s traditions. That last includes, explicitly, firearms that are in widespread lawful use—these cannot (not just may not) be restricted from our possession of them.

Virginia’s reigning Party has banned what it’s pleased to call “assault” weapons along with the 30-round magazines that are an integral part of the semi-automatic rifles that are subject to the ban. This is in direct and deliberate violation of our 2nd Amendment and is a nose-thumb at our Supreme Court.

This miscarriage is now in both Federal and State courts, looking to get this blatantly unlawful Party gun grab tossed. It should, in the end, be tossed, but honest citizens shouldn’t have to spend the time or treasure going through this.

It’s time to remove this lawless Party from the halls of political power at the next election and in subsequent election cycles.

Racism of the NAACP

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Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v Callais, in which the Court virtually barred racial gerrymandering, and Tennessee’s subsequent realigning its Congressional district boundaries to eliminate just that racism in its districts, the NAACP has sued the State for having done so.

The core of the NAACP’s suit is that the redraw didn’t preserve the racially done district.

This is the intrinsic racism of the NAACP: it demands special treatment of black voters (which can come only at the direct expense of all of Tennessee’s non-black voters) with the provision of a special Congressional district into which they can be segregated.

The NAACP with this suit also has demonstrated its utter contempt for the same black citizens it claims to protect, insisting as its suit tacitly does, that blacks are inherently inferior and cannot compete effectively with other groups of American citizens without that special protection.  Woodrow Wilson, in a bygone era, insisted that black Americans should be grateful for the protections of segregation. This is today’s NAACP.

Who Do They Hate More?

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Republicans offered a resolution that would acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice that law enforcement personnel make in their efforts to keep the rest of us safe while decrying the loud Leftist movement to defund the law enforcement departments within which those police officers operate.

173 Progressive-Democrats in the House voted “Nay.” Those politicians rationalized their No votes with their objections to

language in the resolution that criticized left-wing activists for supporting the defund the police movement and sanctuary city policies for putting officers’ safety at risk[.]

The question arises, then, regarding who Progressive-Democrats hate most: Republicans, who were the primary movers of this simple resolution, or the police the resolution honored.