Reality is socially conservative, and reality bats last. "At a time when the abnormal is championed as the new normal, conservatives cannot act to uphold the established order without being silenced or destroyed by the progressives who control that order." The "new normal: is an experiment against reality. Wait. "The problem with norms and customs, however, is that they are relatively easy to tear down and much harder to restore." Until their absence becomes painful? "Democrats are destroying America at a fast enough rate."
The weekly round-up of pithy elaborations of traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
2. Pass the popcorn. "The great enemy of socialism is a large, successful, thriving middle class."
3. The deprivation is the point. "We deserve a world free from fossil fuels."
4. Of opinions and facts? "Those who use 'information' to speak of differences in interpretation and judgment are deceivers." It's easier to carp about "misinformation." “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
5. Think about the rent-seekers. "If a good or service had multiple providers listed in the business section of the telephone directory, the government shouldn't be doing it."
6. Does state action crowd out entrepreneurial alertness? "Perhaps I should have foreseen then that someone might indeed run it, if they could make money doing so!"
7. Jim Backus was not a querulous twerp! "Merrick Garland is just another Mr. Magoo."
8. Your job is to say No and uphold standards. "If they can’t do it in your class, they won’t be successful after graduation."
9. His own worst enemy. "Joe Biden is in office and ruining this country because ... stay with me here ... TRUMP LOST."
11. Politics: "High school with paychecks."
12. Raise expectations! "The taut cable of high expectations has been slackened, and the result is the current mood: listlessness." Children and minorities hardest hit. "We students are blind to the extent of our loss."
13. Dementia Joe whispers, "guess what, it's working." "Lingering inflation and rising gasoline prices won't convince anybody that they're prospering." We can see it. "'Bidenomics' Is Failing Everyday Americans"
14. You'd think that would be self-evident. "In a free, secular society, it’s not the government’s role to pick and choose which belief systems deserve protection from grievous offense, and what criticisms against them are 'improper.'"
15. Their transgressivity does not excuse your transgressivity. "While the argument has been made on social media that a Democrat most likely would get a pass from the press on this, in my opinion, that is just as good an argument as any for any Republican politico to conduct themselves in public in ways that don't lead to incidents like what took place Sunday."
16. Thanks, Karen. "There’s a bus driver shortage because undisciplined kids and hovering parents make driving a school bus a deeply unappealing proposition."
17. The higher learning. "The organizers are so clueless about antisemitism that they engage in classic anti-Jewish tropes while defending themselves from charges of antisemitism."
18. Progressivism. "Our so-called leadership of the so-called elite gives every indication of hating at least half the American citizenry; it’s as if there is a secret contest on for who can come up with a notion to make our lives even more miserable, by banning gas stoves, gas-powered gardening tools and automobiles; limiting air conditioning, efficient toilets, appliances and heaters, and limiting living in detached suburban houses with a generous garden attached."
19. Hey, Chicago, whaddaya say? Take your reparations at the Party Store. "The government is not going to run these stores at a profit when actual businesses could not do so. Instead, it is likely to supply food at a higher cost for taxpayers in the red." I thought urban policy was all about root causes. "Gee, I wonder what’s happening on the South and West sides that’s keeping grocery stores away?" Silly me.
20. What would we ever do without experts? "Experts are highlighting the unintended consequences of government intervention in fuel pricing and distribution."
21. That's baseball. "The Cardinals bucked that trend for as long as they could, longer than any other team in baseball – and, heck, maybe even all of major professional sports. Eventually, that perennial consistency had to come to an end at some point."
22. Did Voltaire write about football? "Matt LaFleur has been painfully loyal to running back A. J. Dillon (as well as a certain defensive coordinator), and it’s been costing the team." David Foster might have. "For by his death [let's not overdo it, a resignation might suffice -- Ed.] I stiffen springs which must not be permitted to relax."
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