Friends, in light of Attorney General Bill Barr's recent public admission that the FBI "spied" on the Trump campaign, you may wish to read this article, which sheds light on the nature of that spying. It seems that the British were instrumental in the effort to pin a charge of "collusion" on Team Trump. That's hardly a surprise, given the central role played by Christopher Steele, but if the signals in this article are to be believed, a thorough investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia hoax may embarrass not just Americans, but plenty of foreign intelligence operatives as well. The $64,000 question, of course, is how much about the plot against Trump is still being concealed from us?
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/04/11/fbi_mans_testimony_points_to_significant_wrongdoing_beyond_spying.html
In other news, the students of Georgetown University can't wait to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves once owned by their alma mater. Here's a great analysis of this empty gesture:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/12/georgetowns_reparations_virtue-signaling_superficiality_140044.html
It boggles the mind that liberals would open the can of worms that is "reparations," but apparently they really are this dumb and out of touch.
Dr. Waddy: My initial reaction to the Georgetown gesture is that it is a private association and I couldn't care less what they do of their own free will. I do wonder how long it will be before the inevitable lawsuit charging the school with inflicting irreparable emotional distress on the recipients of this fund because of the paltry amount offered. How many people can mathematically tie themselves to Georgetown slaves if they are of a mind to hold the school directly responsible for any difficulties they may encounter in life. Why, $400,000 for all of them? That's chump change!
ReplyDeleteTrue, Jack. $400k won't go far. The descendants of those slaves could easily number in the thousands, although most will be, say, 1/1024th a slave, but, as Elizabeth Warren has already proven, that's no great obstacle to claiming victimhood... The whole exercise is absurd. As you say, the students of Georgetown are free to flagellate themselves financially all they wish. The real concern is that this proves that the passion for reparations is taking hold on the Left, so we can't dismiss the movement too blithely. The worst case scenario is that leftist blundering will actually do serious harm to race relations -- more so than it already has.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: No doubt the next thing we will see is a mandatory reparation assessment at state schools.
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