June 19, 2021 --

Hope everyone had a happy Juneteenth (June 19), the newest federal holiday.

Gerard Baker, So Right and Then So Wrong:

Mr. Baker, formerly the editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, now has a column at the paper called "Free Expressions." In his June 15 column, he noted that for the media, these days, "The new reality is that the mission is the message."  He went on to indicate that the mission for most of the media, today, is to spread lies about Donald Trump and his voters with the aim of removing him from power -- and keeping it that way. Where Mr. Baker went wrong was at the end of his June 5 column when he agreed with the lying media "that Mr. Trump is spreading a 'big lie' about a stolen election." If the mission was to get rid of President Trump, wouldn't a "stolen election" be consistent with this mission?

Observation Link:

Here is a link to an important column on anti-Semitism by Jackie Mason, renowned social commentator, at Jewish World Review, "Thank God for the Gentiles:    

CLICK HERE TO VIEW LINK

On the relevance of a movie remark by Jack Nicolson:

LPR spotted an internet item, June 9, that NBC very grudgingly mentioned the government report that President Trump was not responsible for clearing Lafayette Park of protesters, early last June.  This prompted LPR to conclude that the internet serves a function comparable to the samizdat in the former Soviet Union, underground distribution of literature and news banned by the Party.   The media has replaced the old Times slogan, "All the news that's fit to print," with "all the lies we choose to publicize."

The U.S. media, today, "can't handle the truth," quoting Jack Nicolson's famous line  in "A Few Good Men, "   Thank goodness for talk radio -- and the internet, websites like American Thinker and, of course, LPR.

A Threat of the Week Club?

The president told U.S. troops, June 9, that global warming is the greatest threat our country faces.  (LPR hopes he doesn't lead them into the North Sea, a la Caligula, to fight climate change by doing battle with Neptune.) Didn't Biden, in his Tulsa remarks, recently, say that terrorism by white supremacists was the greatest threat to the country?  Here's looking to the next greatest threat facing the country, to be announced in another week or so.

Babylon Bee, give us a list of five or six of the next greatest threats facing the country.

To mention Biden in that connection is cheating.

Rockaway Beach: People, at long last.

June 6, 2021 --

From the Wall Street Journal:

A Wall Street Journal story, May 27 carried a headline saying that Rep. Liz Cheney "Sees Her Re-Election Bid as Vote on GOP's Future." There she goes, again, putting herself at the center of the political world. Sorry, Liz, you are not the be-all and end-all of the Republican party.

From Roger Kimball, writing, at American Greatness, on "The Impotence of Paul Ryan":

Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) actually represents Peggy Noonan and the republic of Georgetown. Spiritually, it’s the same constituency represented by Mitt Romney and his understudy, Paul Ryan. 

From Alan Dershowitz:

Retired law professor Alan Dershowitz expects that former President Trump will be indicted, but acquitted after trial.  LPR disagrees. If Mr. Trump goes on trial in New York (state or federal court) a New York jury will convict him, with media hectoring led by The New York Pravda, of course.  For acquittal, LPR fears that Mr. Trump will have to appeal, perhaps to the Supreme Court of the United States.  And the case could extend into the 2022 election season.

Congratulations to Two Greybeards:

To golfer Phil Mickelson, 50, on winning the 2021 PGA  championship, his second PGA win and 6th major; and to Helio Castroneves, 46, on winning the 105th Indianapolis 500, his 4th Indy win, tying A.J Foyt, Al Unser, and Rick Mears in  Indy wins.

Hallelujah!  GOP Senators Stand Tall and Block the Jan. Commission:

Senate Republicans, May 28, blocked Speaker Pelosi's ploy to smear the GOP with false accusations about the January 6 trouble at the Capitol. The totalitarian-minded Democrats needed 60 vote to get Senate approval for the commission, but only six of the Republican senators voted to shoot themselves in the foot:  Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Portman, Sasse, and Cassidy.  The vote was 54 in favor, and 35 opposed, with eleven senators not voting.   Next, LPR suspects, the Democrats will direct their fire to abolishing the filibuster.  The smarmy six Republicans are hardly supporters of former president Trump, which puts them out of touch with the great majority of Republican voters.  Consequently, they thumb their noses at the advice in Federalist No. 57 that officials should stay close to the people. 

This just came to mind …

LPR cannot understand why the supposedly conservative Wall Street Journal insists on following  the lead of the rabidy anti-conservative New York Times in denouncing, in both its news and editorial columns, as "baseless lies," suggestions  from well-meaning people that the 2020 presidential election was not run according to Hoyle.  How expect Republicans to get a firm backbone when the Journal seems to bow to... peer pressure? Clearly, propaganda sheets like the Times are not peers to emulate in any form.

LPR's proprietor