The Week In Pictures
July 17, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Funny how times change. Try this for a thought experiment: what if someone had hijacked that private jet with the fleeing Texas Democrats and diverted the plane the Cuba? Might have been a grand experiment in cognitive dissonance, and the dim Dems would wonder why Havana looked more like Peoria than Austin, what with its marching deplorables waving American flags. And then they’d wonder how to find a Kinkos. Headlines
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July 16, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Time for another periodic data dump, though a bit of a themeless pudding this week. Let’s start with the explosion of public debt. I’m sure it means nothing. Meanwhile, the price of coal is soaring. Gee, I wonder why this is happening? Hmmm. . . why is housing getting so expensive everywhere? Idea: stop paying people not to work. Capitalists are doing their part: Evidence of how corporate tax cuts
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July 10, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Without question the news item that federal investigators confiscated a U.S.Capitol Lego set from one of the January 6 protestors is peak nonsense. Our “betters” have abandoned logos for Legos, but that’s par for the course from a class of people who ingest our media emetics and suffer from full-blown logorrhea. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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July 3, 2021 — Steven Hayward
This is the week we really learned that Doktor Jill Biden is in fact running the White House as the reincarnation of Edith Wilson. We know this because Vogue magazine, which put her on the cover of the current issue wearing a picnic tablecloth, called her a “goddess in stilettos.” We think they means shoes with the reference to “stilettos,” but better check with Kamala Harris about that, as she’s
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June 26, 2021 — Steven Hayward
After this week’s willow-the-whispering Joe Biden, I’m moving up my sports book wager on how soon he’s going to be removed from office. It is hard to know right now which is the bigger farce: Joe the Whisperer, or Kamala the Kackler? There isn’t an infrastructure bill big enough to prop up these two. Headlines of the week, starting with how much the New York Times must hate its readers
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June 24, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Happy first week of summer, but what’s up with power shortages in places like Texas where summer happens . . . every summer? Seems like there’s some kind of problem with our energy supply these days. We keep hearing that wind and solar are not just the future, but have arrived. A look at some long term data suggest this claim is . . . overhyped? Let’s start with some
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June 19, 2021 — Steven Hayward
The G7 summit is over, but it certainly seemed more like the Gee Whiz summit. Of course the most important news of the week was Victoria’s Secret giving up its least secretive secret by deciding, as someone put in on Twitter, to switch from models with eating disorders to models with mental disorders. Which is par for the course these days. Oh, and happy Juneteenth—the day Republicans freed the slaves
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June 16, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Now here’s a depressing survey out this week. The left likes to say that “cancel culture” is just as prevalent on the right as it is on the left, but take a look at this chart and see if you spot a conspicuous difference: This finding comes from the 2021 American College Student Freedom, Progress and Flourishing Survey, just out from the Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation
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June 12, 2021 — Steven Hayward
It was a tough call deciding on the lead theme for the week, given how Jeffrey Toobin’s reinstatement at CNN summons fond memories of the eternal return of Anthony Weiner. It just shows that the Toobin Missile Crisis wasn’t armageddon for his media career. But Kamala Harris distributing faceless cookies of herself has to be perfectly fitting for her faceless, clueless vice presidency. Headlines of the week: And finally.
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June 10, 2021 — Steven Hayward
• With today’s bad inflation number, here’s what the trend looks like—but not to worry, I’m sure it’s nothing, and I’m sure the Biden Administration and the Fed are on it: • According to Gallup’s latest polling, a majority of Americans now prefer returning to normal life as soon as possible, and getting outside. There’s a catch, though. There’s a sharp partisan divide. Democrats—the “party of science,” remember—prefer to keep
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June 5, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Have you ever seen fame and fortune turn so quickly against someone as it is right now against Il Fauci? The scandal of his emails ranks right up alongside the massive leak of the “climategate” emails back in 2009; they are the “Pentagon Papers” of the COVID fiasco. And does every media headline have to include “racism” in it right now? It seems like it from the ones we’ve assembled
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June 2, 2021 — Steven Hayward
With Biden’s proposed $6 trillion budget, we’re back to full-blown Keynesianism, which fits with our full-blown liberal crime wave. So let’s start with this pair. Speaking of race, I know I had these two charts a few days ago, but they bear repeating: • Incentives matter: Ohio vs. the US: • The rot in higher education: • Is this good news or bad news? • One of my favorite energy
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May 29, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Has the media ever had a worse week than having to admit, however indirectly, that Trump was right about the Wuhan Flu? Of course there will be no introspection about how the media’s TDS caused them to rush to judgment. The dodging and weaving would do Muhammad Ali proud. The media is used to receiving leaks; now they’re the ones leaking—leaking out the last shred of their credibility. Headlines of
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May 22, 2021 — Steven Hayward
So after a typical conflict between an intransigent freedom-loving people and the malignant force out to conquer and oppress them, a cease-fire was finally settled this week, though not without spasms of media sympathy for the malignancy and Democratic Party outrage at the freedom-lovers. I refer, of course, to the CDC and the American people. Did you think I meant something else? But first up—a reader sends along this perfect
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May 19, 2021 — Steven Hayward
• ZachGoldberg strikes again: You may want to embiggen this first chart (clicking on it should work), and notice in the first panel on the left how white liberal sympathy for Israel has plummeted in the last few years. The left likes to claim that Israel is engaged in “genocide” against the Palestinians. Some genocide: • More evidence (from Zach Goldberg again) that white male liberals are indeed girly-men: • Mark
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May 15, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Is it merely a coincidence that the CDC abruptly announced this week that masks are no longer necessary for people who have been vaccinated? Could it be that with multiple crises piling up for the Biden Administration, they need to do something to improve the mood of Americans suddenly re-enacting the gas lines of 1979? If the Cardigan sweater was the emblem of the Carter administration, the mask-uber-alles of the
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May 8, 2021 — Steven Hayward
Has there ever been a more fitting picture for our humble Week-in-Pictures feature than this seemingly LSD-infused pic of Joe Biden hulking over Rosalynn Carter? What’s up with this? Is the “one pill makes you larger” idea come to life? Not since a swamp rabbit attacked Jimmy Carter in 1979 has a photo seemed so unreal, but perhaps it is a fitting metaphor of Biden’s bizarro left-wing presidency, not to
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