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The Racism of the Mayor

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And the straightforwardness of one recruit. Progressive-Democrat Mayor Karen Bass is upset that so many Americans of Latino background are enlisting in the Customs and Border Patrol along our southern border. Bass responded to a report that [a]pplications up 70% from last year as over half of southern border agents are now Hispanic.

Well, in a way, I think it’s sad. I think that those Border Patrol agents are going to have a difficult time when they’re out in the field and they see what actually happens in real life separate from their training.

Not so much. Maybe Bass ought to travel along the border without her entourage screening her and see for herself.

On the other hand, here’s a young recent recruit to the CBP:

Juan Peralta, a 20-year-old who said friends back home were surprised that he’d joined up and would say things like, “How do you feel about arresting your own kind?”
“And how do you answer that when you hear that?” [CNN‘s David] Culver asked.
Peralta responded, “They didn‘t come in the right way. So, they aren‘t my kind.”

They All Look Alike? Really?

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In touting an endorsement by Jasmine Crockett, who is a Texas Progressive-Democrat Congresswoman and Senate candidate, of a California Progressive-Democratic Party candidate for Congress, California Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (D) used this imagery.

To the vast majority of us, it’s plain that the image labeled Jasmine Crockett is not an image of Crockett. There’s not even a hint of resemblance, other than that it’s an image of a black woman. And it was offered by a liberal white woman* in typical white female liberal savior fashion. That Quirk-Silva didn’t even recognize her “mistake” until queried by Fox News is instructive.

It is possible that this…error…didn’t flow from any “all blacks look alike” racism. Maybe it flowed, instead, from the “all blacks are politically monolithic so any black image will do” racism.

*To clarify, based on Quirk-Silva’s name: born Sharon D Howard, she acquired her family name from her first marriage to Shawn Quirk and, following divorce, her current marriage to Jesus Silva. Her decision to hyphenate on her two married names is her own.

Gun Control by the Weak

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Recall the mass shooting/killing just a few days ago on a Sydney beach. No one had firearms on that beach but the shooters, by design of the Australian laws. In the aftermath, we get this from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese:

Albanese called for tougher gun laws, saying that leaders would discuss limits on the number of guns that can be licensed and a review of licenses over time.
“People can be radicalized over a period of time. Licenses should not be in perpetuity,” he said in a press conference Monday.

Recall, also, the unarmed man—all one of him—on that beach who charged one of the shooters and took him down and disarmed him. And was not allowed to shoot him, under Australian law, and so the shooter got away. Fortunately, the police, arriving later (no knock on them, but they can only react when called, so their arrival will always be minutes after shooting has been in progress) got that one.

If armed citizens had been present, and it would not have taken many at all, the one shooter could have been stopped much sooner with far fewer dead and wounded, and the other shooter perhaps also by the time the police arrived.

But Albenese’s solution in the face of such mass shootings is to further disarm Australians, making them even more defenseless, even more helpless, in the face of such attacks.

Via my wife, but entirely a propos here: The cowards never started, the weak died along the way, that leaves us.

Foolish Social Conservatives

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Some are as foolish as the Republicans’ House Chaos Caucus in their all-or-nothing positions. A case in point is Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and its supporting cohorts. These entities are, quite properly, anti-abortion, but their tactics are, at best, suboptimal.

The activists’ warning was simple: extending subsidies without such limits [no funding for abortions] was a line Republicans must not cross to keep social conservative support in next year’s midterm elections.

Withholding support for Republican candidates in 2026 over their not being anti-abortion enough to suit them will guarantee a Progressive-Democratic Party majority in the House—and those politicians absolutely will not stay with the status quo; they will enthusiastically and loudly expand access to abortion and make all of us taxpayers—including members of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, et al.—pay for those abortions.

Better would be, for the near term, to push a concrete (not merely conceptual) plan for using the putative subsidy funding instead as vouchers for us citizens to use to fund our HSAs and FSAs, with limits on annual contributions to those eliminated. An additional improvement to HSAs in particular would be eliminating the requirement to have a particular kind of health coverage policy (so-called high-deductible policies) in order to have an HSA. Any citizen should be able to set up and fund an HSA regardless of the kind of policy or no policy at all that he has. Allowing unused FSA funds to be rolled over into subsequent years would be a useful step toward rolling FSA accounts into HSAs, eliminating the quasi-duplication.

True, But

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A letter writer in The Wall Street Journal‘s Friday installment of its Letters section suggested a solution to our nation’s baby-birth dearth.

The problem isn’t finances—it’s perceived inconvenience.
Children are a responsibility: a limitation on us in an age of careerism and radical individualism. But they also contain a hidden wealth that exceeds anything else—and hope for the future. We need to stop framing decisions about childrearing as simply another cost-benefit analysis and present young people with a more beautiful vision of what family life can be and do for the world.

The problem, though, also includes this simple, critical fact: today’s young people have already experienced what family life is, not hypothetical “can be’s.”

It’s necessary to address that realized experience in these proposed presentations. Absent that, such presentations will be perceived as just another installment in the empty words of lectures by older generations.