Holocaust survivor, Israeli professor targeted at Pittsburgh College

Holocaust survivor, Israeli professor targeted at Pittsburgh College

https://worldisraelnews.com/holocaust-survivor-israeli-professor-targeted-at-pittsburgh-college/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israel+Makes+Coronavirus+Breakthrough%3B+Dershowitz%3A+Sanders+is+America%27s+Corbyn%3B+Israel+Tells+Citizens%3A+%27Don%27t+Fly%27%3B+Al+Jazeera+Spied+on+US+Jews+to+Make+Anti-Israel+Film&utm_campaign=20200227_m157125080_Israel+Makes+Coronavirus+Breakthrough%3B+Dershowitz%3A+Sanders+is+America%27s+Corbyn%3B+Israel+Tells+Citizens%3A+%27Don%27t+Fly%27%3B+Al+Jazeera+Spied+on+US+Jews+to+Make+Anti-Israel+Film&utm_term=_0D_0A_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09Read+Now_0D_0A_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09

Excerpt: In the same city where the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue was met with an outpouring of support for the Jewish community and the promise that Pittsburgh is “no place for hate,” anti-Israel activists have weaponized anti-harassment and anti-discrimination laws in an attempt to end the academic career of a local Holocaust survivor and the only Israeli professor at Point Park University (PPU).

Coronavirus breakthrough? Israeli researchers make discovery that could lead to vaccine

Coronavirus breakthrough? Israeli researchers make discovery that could lead to vaccine

https://worldisraelnews.com/coronavirus-breakthrough-israeli-researchers-make-discovery-that-could-lead-to-vaccine/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israel+Makes+Coronavirus+Breakthrough%3B+Dershowitz%3A+Sanders+is+America%27s+Corbyn%3B+Israel+Tells+Citizens%3A+%27Don%27t+Fly%27%3B+Al+Jazeera+Spied+on+US+Jews+to+Make+Anti-Israel+Film&utm_campaign=20200227_m157125080_Israel+Makes+Coronavirus+Breakthrough%3B+Dershowitz%3A+Sanders+is+America%27s+Corbyn%3B+Israel+Tells+Citizens%3A+%27Don%27t+Fly%27%3B+Al+Jazeera+Spied+on+US+Jews+to+Make+Anti-Israel+Film&utm_term=_0D_0A_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09Read+Now_0D_0A_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09_09

Shouldn't be available to anti-Semites who hate Israel. Like Iran. ~Bob

Iran may have many more coronavirus cases than reported, Canadian research suggests

Iran may have many more coronavirus cases than reported, Canadian research suggests

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/02/25/iran-may-have-many-more-coronavirus-cases-than-reported-canadian-research-suggests.html

Excerpt: Pakistani medical staff were stationed at the Pakistan-Iran border in Taftan on Tuesday after Pakistan closed border crossings due to the outbreak of coronavirus in Iran. The true number of coronavirus cases in Iran may be upwards of 18,000, according to a preliminary analysis by Canadian researchers, suggesting an epidemic there nearly 200 times larger than what the country has reported — and a situation with potentially grave global consequences. A spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry said Tuesday that the country had 95 confirmed cases of COVID-19, as the disease caused by the novel coronavirus is called, and 15 deaths.

Credibility of European Court of Human Rights lies in ruins after judges’ links to Soros revealed

Credibility of European Court of Human Rights lies in ruins after judges’ links to Soros revealed

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/481651-george-soros-european-court-judges/

By John Laughland, who has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford and who has taught at universities in Paris and Rome, is a historian and specialist in international affairs.

Ex-Baltimore mayor sentenced for book sales scheme

Ex-Baltimore mayor sentenced for book sales scheme

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ex-baltimore-mayor-sentenced-for-book-sales-scheme

A Few Laughs at Bernie's Expense

A Few Laughs at Bernie's Expense

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/0gx76g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-bernie-sanders-has-always-been-bernie-sanders

Are We Seriously Debating Capitalism vs. Socialism Again?

Are We Seriously Debating Capitalism vs. Socialism Again?

https://www.aier.org/article/are-we-seriously-debating-capitalism-vs-socialism-again/

Excerpt: Myth is right, and it was too much for Michael Bloomberg, who called him out for favoring socialism in a country in which the most famous socialist owns three homes. To be sure, to someone like Sanders, there is nothing contradictory here. The dictatorship of the proletariat always needs a vanguard elite to channel the interests and energies of the working classes; it stands to reason that they should live well, in this way of thinking. Such has it always been. Socialism is a movement not of the working classes but of the elites, born of arrogance, snobbery, and preposterous pretense, kept alive not from lived experience but the astonishing capacity of an ideologically soaked brain to live in denial of reality. But what about this term capitalism? The case against it as a description of the market economy is that it was an invention of the Marxists, and for a reason: it was supposed to describe an economy ruled by the capitalists. In fact, capitalism is nothing more than the working out of the advanced stage of a society that respects private property, peace, and freedom of association and trade. It is not an imposition or even a system; it is a description of what happens when violent actors bow out of the process of social evolution. [I added emphasis. Ron P.]

Wasn’t There Supposed to Be a Surge of New Democratic Voters by Now?

Wasn’t There Supposed to Be a Surge of New Democratic Voters by Now?

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/what-happened-to-that-democratic-voter-surge/

Excerpt: One reason to look forward to Super Tuesday is that it will give us our first large-scale comparison of turnout in the Democratic primaries of 2016 and this year’s primaries. Since about late Election Night 2016, Democrats have believed that President Donald Trump is a one-man Democratic get-out-the-vote machine, and they certainly saw supporting evidence for that theory in the 2018 House races. Suburban soccer moms and white-collar dads who had previously split favorably to Republicans turned to the Democrats in significant numbers. But you don’t run on socialism, banning private health insurance, a ban on fracking, abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, banning U.S. exports of oil, or praise Fidel Castro (see below), and pledge to allow convicted felons to vote from prison while serving sentences if you want to keep suburban soccer moms and white-collar dads. The argument of the Bernie Sanders campaign is that he doesn’t have to worry about alienating or frightening the suburban soccer moms and white-collar dads, because he’s going to bring out a big number of people who previously didn’t vote. As David Frum summarized: “The Sanders campaign is a bet that the 2020 race can be won by mobilizing the Americans least committed to the political process while alienating and even offending the Americans most committed to it.”

Media Silence on Voter-Registration Attack Deepens Our Divide

Media Silence on Voter-Registration Attack Deepens Our Divide

https://amgreatness.com/2020/02/25/media-silence-on-voter-registration-attack-deepens-our-divide/

Excerpt: In the hours and days after Gregory Timm reportedly plowed his vehicle into a tent of Republican Party volunteers registering voters in the Kernan Village Shopping Center parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida, national coverage of the event has been alarmingly lacking. Local news channel WJXT reported days later on the arrest report, which showed Timm telling the sheriff’s office his “disapproval of Trump” was the motivating factor for the attack. He showed the office a self-recorded video of him driving straight at the volunteers, expressing frustration that the video cut out before “the good part.” Even then, as I write this, the best the New York Times could muster was wire coverage. No teams of reporters were sent to uncover his dark motivations, upbringing or political leanings. No psychological profiles have been written up, nor have any experts weighed in on how this is a growing threat. These are all tools that would have been used by an army of reporters if Timm had been a Trump supporter plowing into Democratic Party volunteers registering voters. The problem isn’t that Timm’s attack on the GOP wasn’t covered by most of the media. It’s that it wasn’t covered with the same voracious appetite news organizations have whenever someone who is even peripherally associated with the right does something to a Democrat. This isn’t whataboutism; this is realism. [This is an excellent article, well reasoned and well written, and I agree with it and recommend reading it. But, I hate the way the article is broken up every few lines by repetitive advertising. I understand someone has to pay for the “free coverage and content,” but have to question if this is the best way to do it. Ron P.]

Medical Supply Chain Dominated by China

Medical Supply Chain Dominated by China

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68844?

Excerpt: According to his recent Senate testimony, Scott Gottlieb, a physician who is also a former Trump administration Food and Drug Administration commissioner, detailed some of our strategic reliance on China for pharmaceuticals: “About 40 percent of generic drugs sold in the U.S. have only a single manufacturer. A significant supply chain disruption could cause shortages for some of many of these products. [In 2019], manufacturing of intermediate or finished goods in China, as well as pharmaceutical source material, accounted for 95 percent of U.S. imports of ibuprofen, 91 percent of U.S. imports of hydrocortisone, 70 percent of U.S. imports of acetaminophen, 40 to 45 percent of U.S. imports of penicillin, and 40 percent of U.S. imports of heparin, according to the Commerce Department. In total, 80 percent of the U.S. supply of antibiotics are made in China.” Oh, and by the way, Gottlieb notes, “When it comes to starting material for the manufacture of pharmaceutical ingredients, a lot of this production is centered in China’s Hubei Provence, the epicenter of coronavirus.” This isn’t the free market at work. It’s the result of Beijing’s typical and strategic market manipulation, including underselling global competitors to put them out of business and enable China’s market domination. 

Death by a Thousand Progressives

Death by a Thousand Progressives

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68823?mailing_id=4887&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4887&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Excerpt: Pete Buttigieg is encouraging a nine-year-old boy to “come out the closet” on the stage of a presidential campaign. Hip Hop rapper YG targeted a conservative young man and threw him out of his concert because he would not say, “F— Donald Trump!” Two young Trump supporters were run off the road by a car because of their Trump flags on their bikes. To top it off liberal style, there are rumors that the tarnished Hillary Clinton is being courted as a VP candidate for Bloomberg. Sigh. If America is to be destroyed it will not explode from outside, but implode from the inside. Hence the phrase “death by a thousand progressives.” [Willie’s Weekly is worth reading. Patriot Post usually runs one or two of his columns every week. Ron P.]

Capitalism, Socialism And Nationalism: Lessons From History by Niall Ferguson

Capitalism, Socialism And Nationalism: Lessons From History by Niall Ferguson

https://www.hoover.org/research/capitalism-socialism-and-nationalism-lessons-history?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=6f96f31f2c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_26_06_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-6f96f31f2c-72863337

Excerpt: Schumpeter warned that socialism might ultimately prevail over capitalism, for four reasons. Creative disruption is rarely popular. Capitalism itself tends towards oligopoly. Intellectuals are susceptible to socialism. So are many bureaucrats and politicians. Socialism had manifestly failed everywhere it had been tried by the 1980s, apparently proving Schumpeter wrong. But the adverse consequences of the 2008-9 financial crisis, combined with the left-wing bias of much Western education, have led to a revival of interest in socialism among young people. However, what young Americans mean by ‘socialism’ is not the state taking over ownership of the means of production. They merely aspire to policies on healthcare and education that imply a more European system of fiscal redistribution. They fail to grasp that the defining feature of socialism is the violation of property rights. To an extent Schumpeter underestimated, socialism’s greatest weakness is its incompatibility with the rule of law

The Best is yet to Come

https://youtu.be/aDrtQlN6CkY

Democrats propose 35% ammunition tax in Connecticut

Democrats propose 35% ammunition tax in Connecticut
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/02/democrats-propose-35-ammunition-tax-in-connecticut/?fbclid=IwAR11_HWd8Q9lEZPoE8mxWZbFzcW-LvUvN8R4U74VA8ubVJjhMS6nDqXbNkI

Will Christians Disappear Entirely From the Middle East?

Will Christians Disappear Entirely From the Middle East?

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/02/will-christians-disappear-entirely-from-the-middle-east?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_2020_02_23_jihad_watch_daily_digest&utm_term=2020-02-23

Democrats And Race: Seems Like Old Times

Democrats And Race: Seems Like Old Times

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2020/02/23/democrats-and-race-seems-like-old-times-n2561747

Time For a US-Brazil Free Trade Agreement

Time For a US-Brazil Free Trade Agreement

https://townhall.com/columnists/briandarling/2020/02/23/time-for-a-usbrazil-free-trade-agreement-n2561693

Amazon Echo Dot

Amazon Echo Dot

Our granddaughter, Britnye, gave both Bonnie and I dots for Christmas. We are hooked. One in the bedroom, one in the living room. We signed up for Amazon Music Unlimited on moth of them, total $8 a month. At a request, Alexia pays music I have loved since the 1960s Kingston Trio, Clancy Brothers, Brothers Four, Limelighters, Joan Baez. And music I have discovered since: the Corries, The Dubliners, North Sea Gas, Jean Redpath. This morning we left at 8. I left John Denver on for the pets. It was still playing when we got home at 6. And some new music I found looking for particular songs on YouTube: Old Blind Dogs, Sheila Ryan. The sound is amazing for such a small device.

I won’t give up the CD player. Amazon doesn’t have some groups I thought were well known: Cherish the Ladies, Gaberlunzie, or local/regional music I like: Charlie Zahm, Margaret Gravitt, The Eddystone Singers, Two for the Brew. Yes, I’ve read the staff that says she is listening. To What? Who Cares? ~Bob

Liberals Oppose Equal Status for Faith-Based Organizations

Liberals Oppose Equal Status for Faith-Based Organizations

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/21/liberals-oppose-equal-status-for-faith-based-organizations/

Keeping Africa On the Brink of Starvation

Keeping Africa On the Brink of Starvation

https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2020/02/22/draft-n2561715