Month: February 2023

According to Governor DeSantis, any references to Black History Month in any public school, local government, or even in the MSM will be prosecuted as a violation of Florida’s new “Stop Woke” statute. “This is just another way to promote diversity, which we don’t need in this state,” said DeSantis, who went on to explain that “America is for real Americans, and black people can’t be real Americans. Heck, their ancestors didn’t even want to be here. How can they be real Americans? Why would we take any interest in their history? Why would we want our kids to learn about it, when they could be using their valuable time reading about Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson?”

Of course, this hasn’t happened. Yet.

You can’t make a plausible argument that birth control is murder, so it is perfectly possible for a red person to acquiesce to the one, but not the other. If your objective is to grow the domestic population (Douthat) or impose a severe sanction on sexual immorality (most reactionaries), however, birth control is a problem. It needs to go.

Douthat, as a conservative Catholic, undoubtedly opposes birth control and wants it to be banned, but I can’t remember him ever making that case in his NYT column. Why not? He probably thinks it is a bridge too far for his readers. He’s probably right, too; the vast majority of American Catholics ignore Catholic teachings on that issue.

Griswold notwithstanding, I suspect you are going to see some serious efforts in blood red states to ban birth control for the reasons listed above. Let’s hope so, because for the left, it will be the gift that keeps on giving.

Joe Manchin thinks he can be the honest broker in a deal between the Democrats and the House Republicans. He is confident that Kevin McCarthy will deal with him in good faith. Is he right?

When McCarthy talks to Manchin and Biden, he will do his best to sound reasonable. When he talks to MTG and Matt Gaetz, he will be a cheerleader for burning it down. You can’t trust anything he says, because his principal tactic for remaining Speaker is to tell every person he sees what he thinks that person wants to hear.

In other words, good luck, Joe. You’re going to need it. You’re not negotiating with McCarthy; you’re negotiating with the Chaos Caucus.