Tuesday Links - 1 November

John Hinderaker at Power Line starts us off with We Are Proud of the Enemies We Make

By universal consent, the most powerful force in Minnesota politics is the teachers’ union, Education Minnesota. In my opinion, Education Minnesota is the state’s number one source of evil. My organization, Center of the American Experiment, has been fighting for years to counter the teachers’ union’s malign influence.

Matt Mills at Guitar-dot-com. “We were little pieces of shit”: Polyphia on teenage fame and making music with Steve Vai

Polyphia are hot shit and they know it. When Guitar.com video-calls one of the Plano lads’ players and co-founders, Tim Henson, he radiates just enough of an “I-don’t-give-a-shit” attitude to make him interesting. He has his camera turned off and speaks in an unwaveringly flat tone. And he doesn’t care about who he upsets.

Eric Erickson - Environmentalists Killed Democracy

I must admit I am flabbergasted by the rapid turn of Democrats to “voters are killing democracy by voting.” I mentioned Max Boot yesterday. Matthew Dowd on MSNBC went straight to Nazi comparisons.

The Gateway Pundit - Karine Jean-Pierre Blames Trump for Inflation and Economic Crisis, Has No Clue Why Americans Don’t Trust Democrats (VIDEO)

Then she blamed Trump: “When the president walked into this administration, the economy was in ruins. It was in absolute ruins.”

The economy was in ruins because Democrats forcefully shut down businesses during the Covid pandemic.

Bear Bussjaeger - I Would Dearly Love To See the ORIGINAL Paul Pelosi Attack Police Report

“News” services routinely bungle facts in their rush to scoop the competition. Maybe that’s what’s happening in this case. But a lot of those changes strike me as peculiar (particularly the underwear thing), and suspiciously convenient for the high profile hubby of a powerful politician.

Granite Grok - Go Woke Go… “Facebook’s” Value Has Plunged Nearly 70% Since Last Year …

And while the Zuckerberger Meister Berger wouldn’t be broke, seeing him knocked off his pedestal (as a result of his meddling) would be cathartic, given how many have been wronged by Facebook’s partisan policies and standards.

The Other McCain - Is It #FreeStacy Time Yet?

More than six years have passed since my @rsmccain account was permanently banned from Twitter, informed that I had been “found to be violating … our rules around participating in targeted abuse,” although they never did tell me (a) who had been “targeted,” (b) how they were “abused,” or (c) how I had been “participating” in this alleged abuse.

Legal Insurrection - Like Elizabeth Warren? Checking American Indian Box Based On “Family Lore” Slammed At SCOTUS Affirmative Action Argument

Listening to U.S. Supreme Court arguments doesn’t usually make me break out laughing and spit out what I’m drinking. But today was special.

Manhattan Conservative - UK Trapped In The Green Energy Cul-de-Sac

A better analogy might be “driving into the green energy cul-de-sac.” After all, when you hit a wall you can probably just pick yourself up and turn around and be on your way. In the cul-de-sac you are trapped with no evident way of getting out. You might be in there for a long time.

Professor David Yamane at Gun Curious -Racism Against the AAPI Community and Gun Ownership

There is a lot of anecdata floating around about how anti-Asian discrimination increased during the pandemic (think of people taking the “China virus” and “kung flu” language to the next outgroup level), and that this led to unprecedented gun buying among Asian Americans.

Again from The Other McCain - Real-Life Horror Story: ‘Demonic Possession, Exorcism and Blood Rituals’

It’s Halloween, but you don’t need ghost stories or scary movies to be afraid this year. There are real-life monsters out there in the world, and they are literally killing children.