Still Some Life

Some may have thought the Mavericks had their goose cooked when they fell behind the Celtics three games to nil in the current professional basketball championship series. The Dallas cagers proved last night that they still had quite a bit of fight left in them. I am not saying they will somehow sweep the next three contests and claim the title, but they certainly demonstrated last night that they belong on the same court as mighty Boston. 

A Union Overreach

A small coffee house chain in the somewhat tarnished Golden State (only three stores) was just closed by its owner after the employees voted to unionize. The workers already received health and dental insurance along with pay exceeding California's high minimum wage. The proprietor told staff that the locations had already been losing money for years, but labor nevertheless voted for collective bargaining. This left the boss with no choice (from his prospective) but to shutter the doors. The work force should have realized that any enterprise other than government is unable to simply print more money, and that they could push their now former employer too far. 

The Real Offense

Hunter Biden does not seem to have always made great life choices. The one aspect of Hunter's misadventures that is undeniable is that he had nothing to offer to his foreign contacts, save for who his father happens to be. I do not see energy firms offering random crack users in America millions of dollars if their Dad does not happen to be the nation's Vice President, and in this context "Vice" has a double meaning. 

A Terrifying Abdication

I really hoped, even prayed, that Meir Kahane was wrong, and that in America at least, the government would protect Jews. I watched family friend Melba Lapidus murdered in a blast and never having her killer brought to justice. I sadly witnessed the killer of Sammy Schlanger, a Jewish attorney in my hometown of Nashville, never be caught. I thought perhaps that was merely incompetent policing, but now fear that perhaps the authorities just did not care sufficiently about my fellow Jews to really look that hard into their murders. At UCLA last night, I watched the Chabad rabbi threatened with murder right in front of police who refused to make any arrest, saying they were only there for "crowd control". Even in the United States, it seems the authorities who are charged with upholding everyone's rights including the protection of our lives have abandoned their duty to the one most vulnerable minority. Jews are left to fend for ourselves. 

First Amendment Issue

The Tennessee Star has published portions of the demented Covenant School murderer's manifesto and some evidence from the investigation of the massacre that took six innocent souls. The publishers are now threatened with incarceration for contempt of court. The caprice of a local judge should never be allowed to trump the free speech protections of the United States Constitution. 

New Day Dawning?

It is possible, that in France and Belgium at least, that the Left is in the process of losing power to more conservative parties. The Left kept pushing anti-farming policies which amount to being anti-humanity, but the Right in Europe brings different connotations than in America. Too often in the Old World, "Right" means authentic Hitler-loving Nazis, as we saw with Jorg Haider in Austria and see in the Azov thugs in Ukraine. Pro-native parties coming into power that oppose unfettered migration and support productive agriculture would be a benefit to the whole world. 

Prestige, Even Credibility

The United States has slipped into a morass where the President will either clearly be cognitively impaired or a convicted felon. Many nations hate America deeply, and the looming choice of leaders for the nation of Honest Abe will only reinforce their perception of our once being great to now descending to the status of a fallen country. The one redeeming fact is Trump is not actually guilty of the crimes for which he was convicted in a manipulated trial. The other certainty is that Joe Biden's mental decline will only worsen.