Going for the Gold

I don’t follow Olympic sports in general, or powerlifting in particular, so I don’t know how well U.S. powerlifting has done in international competition over the years. I have a hunch we’ll be dominating women’s powerlifting for awhile, based on Biden administration policies and the lawsuit filed by the person in Minnesota.

on divorce and its effects

I could wish more people could be this honest about the wreckage created by divorce. We’re dealing with some of the effects in my family, and it’s horrible.

C. S. Lewis has a chapter, “Christian Marriage,” in his book Mere Christianity, and he pictures divorce this way:

[Christians] all regard divorce as something like cutting up a body, as a kind of surgical operation. Some of them think the operation so violent that it cannot be done at all; others admit it as a desperate remedy in extreme cases. They are all agreed that it is more like having both your legs cut off than it is like dissolving a business partnership or even deserting a regiment.

It would be a great benefit to society if this became more the perception of divorce, rather than making it easier and regarding it as a supposed boon to the parties involved. It’s horrible.

income statistics have bourgeois values

The headline of the column says it all:

“Married Couples with Children and Jobs Cause Income Inequality“

on leftists, justice, and the state

Civil asset forfeiture has become a crazy situation. I get the potential for crippling organized crime syndicates, and I’m warm to that idea. But what in the world are law enforcement officers thinking when they abuse citizens because they can? This case of the man from Kentucky having his truck seized by Customs agents may be the nail in the coffin of what might have been a useful tool but one that can’t be trusted in the hands of totalitarian minded LEOs.

And it’s this very dynamic that baffles me when I hear Leftists propose that the only way to bring about social justice is giving more authority to the State at all levels to compel citizens to behave in specific, “just” ways in their religious, commercial, and a private lives. Civil asset forfeiture abuse should make it obvious how that’s going to work out.

on media, persuasion, and propaganda

Nice viewpoint on the polarization of the culture, including the media, and how the reaction to the Trump administration has undermined the Leftist cultural effort to persuade people to support Leftist policy proposals.

Here’s the key takeaway from the post: “The media has gone Full Trigglypuff — and you never go Full Trigglypuff.”

single payer health systems

Apparently the Democrats are going to push all out for government controlled health insurance. Healthcare is a right in their view. To the situation in the UK, where this summer it was revealed that millions of people can’t get to a general practitioner in less than a week, with more than 11 percent of patients failing to get an appointment at all, I’m sure the advocates in the United States will point out that we’ll get it right, that in the UK they haven’t really been trying single payer.

It’s going to suck.

on the Pope and politics

Paul Rahe has written a scathing rebuke of both Pope Francis and the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church for the scandal of making the church a partisan political program rather than a promoter of the gospel. That’s going to leave a mark.

on socialism and single payer

It’s amusing if tiring to read Leftists defend socialism from its failures in Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, etc., but claiming they’re not actually instances of socialism. We in the United States will get it right.

This summer it was reported in The Telegraph that getting an appointment to see a GP in the UK was getting increasingly difficult. Now it’s being reported that certain joint surgeries are not available to patients who are smokers or are overweight.

In light of the current push by Democrat politicians for single payer in the United States, I fully expect to hear before long that the NHS is not really a single payer system.

Democrat party malfeasance

Anytime someone on the Left claims that extremists on the Left are the fringe, while extremists on the Right are part of the mainstream of the GOP, ask them about this from the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, about as official as it can get:

DEMOCRATIC PARTY SMEARS NEIL GORSUCH AS A BIGOT

h/t Powerlineblog

trans ideology against humanity

This article of a situation out of the UK illustrates the anti-humanity of the trans ideology movement. That movement doesn’t care one whit about harm to human beings as long as they are setting the terms for discussion of gender and sexuality. Disgusting.