Utopia, you are standing in it!

I like this ad not because it compares Trump with George Wallace (Trump is more subtle in his bigotry), but because it reminds us what real leaders sound like—and we all know that they sound nothing like Trump.

The Lincoln Project is a PAC formed by Republicans and former Republicans whose goal is to ensure that Trump doesn’t get reelected. Their webpage says this:

We do not undertake this task lightly nor from ideological preference. Our many policy differences with national Democrats remain. However, the priority for all patriotic Americans must be a shared fidelity to the Constitution and a commitment to defeat those candidates who have abandoned their constitutional oaths, regardless of party. Electing Democrats who support the Constitution over Republicans who do not is a worthy effort.

Amen to that last sentence. And now the ad:

Climate theory used to hold that there was a link between the amount of extreme weather and the equator-pole temperature gradient, meaning that warming poles should mean less of it, not more. But nowadays almost anything unusual can be labelled extreme weather by alarmists, creating headlines but no understanding of the climate.
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A new Global Warming Policy Foundation report from retired physicist Ralph Alexander, Ph.D. (Oxford University) supports the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s conclusion there is limited scientific evidence linking human-caused climate change to increases in extreme weather, says H.Sterling Burnett.

Alexander’s conclusions are also confirmed by recent documents produced by Heartland Institute Senior Fellow and meteorologist Anthony Watts on the Climate at a Glance website.

Alexander’s paper begins by remarking, “The purported link between extreme weather and global warming has captured the public imagination and attention of the mainstream media far more than any…

William IV (William Henry; August 21, 1765 – June 20, 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from June 26, 1830 until his death in 1837. William was the third son of King George III, William succeeded his elder brother King George IV, becoming the last king and penultimate monarch of Britain’s House of Hanover.

William, Duke of Clarence.

William served in the Royal Navy in his youth, spending time in North America and the Caribbean, and was later nicknamed the “Sailor King”. In 1789, he was created Duke of Clarence and St Andrews. In 1827, he was appointed as Britain’s first Lord High Admiral since 1709.

In the Drawing Room at Kew Palace on July 11, 1818, William married Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the daughter of Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Luise-Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. William apparently remained faithful to the…

Robin D. G. Kelley is a Professor, in UCLA’s Department of African American Studies and a Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History. His new op-ed in the New York Times asks a provocative question, and I doubt that anybody here is going to say “Yes, property is more valuable than black lives.” But I’m not sure that that sentiment is in fact the case—except, of course, for those Republicans and conservative news outlets who do use looting as an excuse to ignore the sudden but eloquent calls for the elimination of racism.

In fact, although Kelley concentrates on looting, and says that the media emphasizes it as a way to distract attention from the point of the demonstrations, there’s the issue of violence in general, which is the one I’ve concentrated on. There is violence by demonstrators against police and others…