RFK Jr.: “While we were bombing bridges, ports, roads, schools, universities, hospitals, they were building them”
Douglas Schoen and Carly Cooperman wrote in The Messenger, “Elections tend to be a referendum on the incumbent, and with inflation continuing to erode Americans’ wages, our polling reveals that Biden’s efforts to talk about how the economy has turned a corner is falling flat.”
W. James Antle III wrote two days ago in the Washington Examiner, “Senators come back from recess next week with a deadline for funding the federal government at the end of the month. All eyes will be on McConnell.”
Edward-Isaac Dovere and Priscilla Alvarez wrote in CNNPolitics yesterday, “While other cities have been seeing a growing number of migrant arrivals, New York City has become the epicenter of the crisis, after the number of newly arrived asylum seekers since spring 2022 surpassed 100,000 last month with costs projected to run up to $12 billion in the coming years as people line up in search of housing and other basic services.”
Matt Welch wrote two days ago in Reason, “Extended school closures, long after the survey data and global experience argued convincingly against them, constituted one of the most egregious public policy failures in modern American history, the aftereffects of which are still massively reshaping American kids, families, education systems, and cities.”
Julie Kelly wrote yesterday in Declassified with Julie Kelly, “[U.S District Court Judge Amit Mehta] condemned January 6 as a ‘crime committed against the citizens of the United States.’ The four-hour disturbance ‘altered the social fabric in a way a normal crime does not,’ Mehta claimed—which is true just not in the way he thinks. He further insisted the country would have been ‘far better off if no one had come to Washington’ that day.” Kelly also wrote that Judge Tanya S. Chutkan “compared January 6 to 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing.”
Wikipedia says, “More than 2,000 rioters entered the building, many of whom vandalized and looted parts of it, including the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D‑CA) and other members of Congress. Rioters also assaulted Capitol Police officers and reporters, and attempted to locate lawmakers to capture and harm.”
Five days ago, Douglas Wilson wrote in Blog & Mablog, “Please be so kind as to remember that the last fair election Trump was in, he won. The Democrats had foolishly written him off, and thus had none of their machinery in place. The pallets of bricks couldn’t be delivered in time. They were caught flatfooted, and were profoundly humiliated with the result. But their intelligence agencies swung into action before Trump was even inaugurated, and the 2020 election interference began almost immediately. Russian collusion!”
Four days ago, Garrett Epps wrote in Washington Monthly, “On August 14, in a courtroom in Helena, Montana... In a case brought by 16 young state residents, Montana District Judge Kathy Seeley ruled that the state’s pandering to the fossil fuel industry violated their rights to ‘live clean and healthy lives in Montana.’ While the state will undoubtedly appeal to the Montana Supreme Court, this victory is a breakthrough for climate litigation.”
John Tillman wrote yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, “If Republicans fall short, it will get harder to repeal public-sector collective bargaining, since unions will become more powerful with every passing year. It may be now or never to stop Virginia from becoming a wholly owned union subsidiary like Illinois.”
An article appeared yesterday in Gulf Times from Project Syndicate saying, “Whereas the US may be expecting Cold War II, shaped primarily by ideological polarisation, China seems to be betting on global fragmentation. Yes, it has tried to offer non-Western countries an alternative to Western-dominated institutions such as the G7 or the International Monetary Fund. But, in China’s view, the quest for sovereignty and independence is fundamentally incompatible with the formation of Cold War-style blocs.”
Tim Hains posted in RealClearPolitics parts of an interview between CNBC's Brian Sullivan and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In the part about unraveling the warfare machine, Hains left out the part of the quote where RFK Jr. talks about how The United States was bombing while China was building. I watched the video and provided the full quote below:
“We have to unravel the warfare business, the warfare machine. That is bankrupting our country. And you know, Paul Kennedy who's a Yale historian, has done this extraordinary history on the decline of empires. and every empire in the last 500 years, its death knell was overextending its military abroad. We've spent $8 trillion on wars over the past 20 years since 2002, that have gotten us nothing, that have made it less safe to be an American, our country less safe. The Chinese spent $8 trillion during that same period. While we were bombing bridges, ports, roads, schools, universities, hospitals, they were building them. And they're now the principal creditor for almost every nation in Latin America and virtually every country in Africa.”
W. James Antle III wrote two days ago in the Washington Examiner, “Senators come back from recess next week with a deadline for funding the federal government at the end of the month. All eyes will be on McConnell.”
Edward-Isaac Dovere and Priscilla Alvarez wrote in CNNPolitics yesterday, “While other cities have been seeing a growing number of migrant arrivals, New York City has become the epicenter of the crisis, after the number of newly arrived asylum seekers since spring 2022 surpassed 100,000 last month with costs projected to run up to $12 billion in the coming years as people line up in search of housing and other basic services.”
Matt Welch wrote two days ago in Reason, “Extended school closures, long after the survey data and global experience argued convincingly against them, constituted one of the most egregious public policy failures in modern American history, the aftereffects of which are still massively reshaping American kids, families, education systems, and cities.”
Julie Kelly wrote yesterday in Declassified with Julie Kelly, “[U.S District Court Judge Amit Mehta] condemned January 6 as a ‘crime committed against the citizens of the United States.’ The four-hour disturbance ‘altered the social fabric in a way a normal crime does not,’ Mehta claimed—which is true just not in the way he thinks. He further insisted the country would have been ‘far better off if no one had come to Washington’ that day.” Kelly also wrote that Judge Tanya S. Chutkan “compared January 6 to 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing.”
Wikipedia says, “More than 2,000 rioters entered the building, many of whom vandalized and looted parts of it, including the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D‑CA) and other members of Congress. Rioters also assaulted Capitol Police officers and reporters, and attempted to locate lawmakers to capture and harm.”
Five days ago, Douglas Wilson wrote in Blog & Mablog, “Please be so kind as to remember that the last fair election Trump was in, he won. The Democrats had foolishly written him off, and thus had none of their machinery in place. The pallets of bricks couldn’t be delivered in time. They were caught flatfooted, and were profoundly humiliated with the result. But their intelligence agencies swung into action before Trump was even inaugurated, and the 2020 election interference began almost immediately. Russian collusion!”
Four days ago, Garrett Epps wrote in Washington Monthly, “On August 14, in a courtroom in Helena, Montana... In a case brought by 16 young state residents, Montana District Judge Kathy Seeley ruled that the state’s pandering to the fossil fuel industry violated their rights to ‘live clean and healthy lives in Montana.’ While the state will undoubtedly appeal to the Montana Supreme Court, this victory is a breakthrough for climate litigation.”
John Tillman wrote yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, “If Republicans fall short, it will get harder to repeal public-sector collective bargaining, since unions will become more powerful with every passing year. It may be now or never to stop Virginia from becoming a wholly owned union subsidiary like Illinois.”
An article appeared yesterday in Gulf Times from Project Syndicate saying, “Whereas the US may be expecting Cold War II, shaped primarily by ideological polarisation, China seems to be betting on global fragmentation. Yes, it has tried to offer non-Western countries an alternative to Western-dominated institutions such as the G7 or the International Monetary Fund. But, in China’s view, the quest for sovereignty and independence is fundamentally incompatible with the formation of Cold War-style blocs.”
Tim Hains posted in RealClearPolitics parts of an interview between CNBC's Brian Sullivan and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In the part about unraveling the warfare machine, Hains left out the part of the quote where RFK Jr. talks about how The United States was bombing while China was building. I watched the video and provided the full quote below:
“We have to unravel the warfare business, the warfare machine. That is bankrupting our country. And you know, Paul Kennedy who's a Yale historian, has done this extraordinary history on the decline of empires. and every empire in the last 500 years, its death knell was overextending its military abroad. We've spent $8 trillion on wars over the past 20 years since 2002, that have gotten us nothing, that have made it less safe to be an American, our country less safe. The Chinese spent $8 trillion during that same period. While we were bombing bridges, ports, roads, schools, universities, hospitals, they were building them. And they're now the principal creditor for almost every nation in Latin America and virtually every country in Africa.”