McAleer: “Rebellions are complaints against suffering and demands for justice”
Yesterday, referring to blacks, Jason L. Riley wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “Welfare-state expansions have increased dependency and subsidized counterproductive behavior.” Today, Brian Darling wrote in The Hill that Trump's “effort to game the system was a clear case of political and legal maneuvering, not of criminal conspiracy.” Heather Digby Parton wrote in Salon that the “MAGA caucus” wants “to impeach Joe Biden, as we all predicted the moment they took the majority in 2022, and flood the zone with investigations. And they want to hold the government hostage by shutting down the government.” W. James Antle III of the Washington Examiner wrote, “Miami Mayor Francis Suarez became the first 2024 Republican presidential candidate to drop out of the race this week.”
In a Fox News interview, Sean Hannity confronted Ramaswamy about Israel: “You said aid to Israel, our Number One ally, only democracy in the region should end in 2028 and that they should be integrated with their neighbors.” Ramaswamy responded, “What I said is it would be a mark of success if we ever got to a point in our relationship with Israel if Israel never needed the United States’ aid.” Max Burns wrote in The Hill that “Ramaswamy’s campaign strategy depends on doing interviews with reporters who won’t challenge his ideas."
In the Washington Examiner, Sarah Bedford discussed two dinners Joe Biden attended that “represent some of the most compelling pieces of evidence to date that suggest Joe Biden was more deeply involved in his son’s business dealings than he has publicly admitted.” Marty Makary in The Wall Street Journal wrote, “The novel Covid booster shot may be warranted for some high-risk patients. But pushing it hard for young and old alike without human-outcomes data makes a mockery of the scientific method and our regulatory process.”
Phil Boas wrote in the Arizona Republic, “After spending weeks condemning conservative ‘freedom marchers’ for causing super-spreader events with their outdoor protests, the greater portion of the medical establishment gave its blessing to left-wing political marchers protesting police brutality.” I first found Boas’ article in USA Today.
Kurt Volker of CEPA (Center for European Policy Analysis) wrote, “Ukrainians are no more inclined to give up than Americans were in 1777-1778.” He then wrote that the call for Ukraine to negotiate “comes from those focused on a desire to stabilize relations with Russia, no matter what. That denigrates both the Ukrainian people and the cause of freedom they are fighting for.” Rep. Mark Alford (R-Missouri) wrote in The Hill, “As a member of Congress, and the House Armed Services Committee, I cannot in good conscience support further taxpayer dollars for an undefined conflict. Clarity, responsibility and accountability must shape our actions moving forward.”
Jason Stanley wrote in The Guardian, “In less than two years, two young white men [Ryan Palmeter and Payton Gendron] have committed two mass murders of Americans motivated by an explicit desire to kill Black people.” Stanley then wrote, “The idea that white people face a threat of replacement by non-white people is behind the brutal treatment of immigrants in Europe and the United States, including the tolerance of mass drownings on the borders of Europe, family separations in the United States and the widespread denial of food and water to small children on borders.”
Guy Benson wrote in Townhall, “Republicans say the murderously bigoted monster who ripped three lives away over the weekend does not represent them or our country. Many on the Left, especially journalists, evidently disagree.”
Yesterday, S.A. McCarthy wrote in RealClearInvestigations, “Among the State Department initiatives are a $10,000 grant to a Portuguese LGBT activist group to finance a film festival featuring drag performances, incest, and pederasty. It also provided $20,000 to support a series of drag shows in Ecuador.”
Graham McAleer published an essay called “Camus and the Crisis of the West” in Law & Liberty on August 18th. McAleer wrote, “Rebellions are complaints against suffering and demands for justice. They stem from the perception of our dignity, the idea that persons cannot be willfully intruded upon.” He then wrote, “If rebellion is to be genuinely creative and not murderous, it ‘cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.’ This measure is the cosmos.” A condensed version of “Camus and the Crisis of the West" appeared yesterday in RealClearBooks&Culture.
In RealClearDefense, Joe Buccino discussed Steven Simon's book, Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East. Buccino wrote, “‘Grand Delusion’ compels readers to question prevailing assumptions about American motives in the Middle East." He then wrote, “However, this book provides no real roadmap for avoiding the pitfalls of unchecked ambition.”
Charles Lipson wrote in RealClearPolitics, “The Bidens’ political and legal problems are not merely that family members made a lot of money, but that they made it while Joe Biden was vice president and made it without any visible business skills.” Lipson also wrote, “The president’s direct involvement in these schemes is still murky. Proving he knew, or worse, aided them, is the goal of Republican House investigations and a possible impeachment inquiry.”
In a Fox News interview, Sean Hannity confronted Ramaswamy about Israel: “You said aid to Israel, our Number One ally, only democracy in the region should end in 2028 and that they should be integrated with their neighbors.” Ramaswamy responded, “What I said is it would be a mark of success if we ever got to a point in our relationship with Israel if Israel never needed the United States’ aid.” Max Burns wrote in The Hill that “Ramaswamy’s campaign strategy depends on doing interviews with reporters who won’t challenge his ideas."
In the Washington Examiner, Sarah Bedford discussed two dinners Joe Biden attended that “represent some of the most compelling pieces of evidence to date that suggest Joe Biden was more deeply involved in his son’s business dealings than he has publicly admitted.” Marty Makary in The Wall Street Journal wrote, “The novel Covid booster shot may be warranted for some high-risk patients. But pushing it hard for young and old alike without human-outcomes data makes a mockery of the scientific method and our regulatory process.”
Phil Boas wrote in the Arizona Republic, “After spending weeks condemning conservative ‘freedom marchers’ for causing super-spreader events with their outdoor protests, the greater portion of the medical establishment gave its blessing to left-wing political marchers protesting police brutality.” I first found Boas’ article in USA Today.
Kurt Volker of CEPA (Center for European Policy Analysis) wrote, “Ukrainians are no more inclined to give up than Americans were in 1777-1778.” He then wrote that the call for Ukraine to negotiate “comes from those focused on a desire to stabilize relations with Russia, no matter what. That denigrates both the Ukrainian people and the cause of freedom they are fighting for.” Rep. Mark Alford (R-Missouri) wrote in The Hill, “As a member of Congress, and the House Armed Services Committee, I cannot in good conscience support further taxpayer dollars for an undefined conflict. Clarity, responsibility and accountability must shape our actions moving forward.”
Jason Stanley wrote in The Guardian, “In less than two years, two young white men [Ryan Palmeter and Payton Gendron] have committed two mass murders of Americans motivated by an explicit desire to kill Black people.” Stanley then wrote, “The idea that white people face a threat of replacement by non-white people is behind the brutal treatment of immigrants in Europe and the United States, including the tolerance of mass drownings on the borders of Europe, family separations in the United States and the widespread denial of food and water to small children on borders.”
Guy Benson wrote in Townhall, “Republicans say the murderously bigoted monster who ripped three lives away over the weekend does not represent them or our country. Many on the Left, especially journalists, evidently disagree.”
Yesterday, S.A. McCarthy wrote in RealClearInvestigations, “Among the State Department initiatives are a $10,000 grant to a Portuguese LGBT activist group to finance a film festival featuring drag performances, incest, and pederasty. It also provided $20,000 to support a series of drag shows in Ecuador.”
Graham McAleer published an essay called “Camus and the Crisis of the West” in Law & Liberty on August 18th. McAleer wrote, “Rebellions are complaints against suffering and demands for justice. They stem from the perception of our dignity, the idea that persons cannot be willfully intruded upon.” He then wrote, “If rebellion is to be genuinely creative and not murderous, it ‘cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.’ This measure is the cosmos.” A condensed version of “Camus and the Crisis of the West" appeared yesterday in RealClearBooks&Culture.
In RealClearDefense, Joe Buccino discussed Steven Simon's book, Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East. Buccino wrote, “‘Grand Delusion’ compels readers to question prevailing assumptions about American motives in the Middle East." He then wrote, “However, this book provides no real roadmap for avoiding the pitfalls of unchecked ambition.”
Charles Lipson wrote in RealClearPolitics, “The Bidens’ political and legal problems are not merely that family members made a lot of money, but that they made it while Joe Biden was vice president and made it without any visible business skills.” Lipson also wrote, “The president’s direct involvement in these schemes is still murky. Proving he knew, or worse, aided them, is the goal of Republican House investigations and a possible impeachment inquiry.”