Reports today, actually rumors, that a coup may be underway in China; that Xi is under arrest. Meanwhile, Putin is threatening nuclear response to any attack on Russian territory, even as they will be conducting a referendum in the Donbass about annexing it to Russia. Zelensky calls upon NATO to nuke Putin if Putin is even “thinking” about using his own nuclear weapons.

We are spending money hand over fist on a national credit card that will surely inform future economists as to whether an economy is all psychology — if we think, we can suspend the bubble indefinitely. Pray the little child does not show up to declare “the Emporer has no clothes!”

Wow. A politician doing what they promised.

In the UK, budgets are enacted overnight – no long parliamentary cycles, etc. So, for example, the tax on petrol (gas at the pump) is announced and enacted in a matter of hours.

Amongst all the frightening signs of how the left has taken over our institutions, a large Texas school district is naming a new school after two fallen Marines who went to school and played football together in the district (Comal ISD).

The new elementary school will be named Farias-Spitzer Elementary after Lance Corporal John Felix Farias and Sergeant Thomas Spitzer.

With statues coming down and schools being renamed to deny our heritage, it’s nice to see that some communities still understand how to honor the best of Americans.

This article is from The Spectator edition published Thursday, September 22 and is reprinted here with permission.

I thought one of the benefits of being cancelled – I lost five positions in quick succession at the beginning of 2018 – is that it immunizes you from being cancelled again. After all, what more dirt could be thrown at me? The offense archaeologists did such a thorough job four years ago, sifting through everything I’d said or written dating back to 1987, that there was nothing left to dig up. But it turns out that was naive. Last week I got cancelled again.

Hard to say, of course, but Putin seems to be far on his back foot.  The “referendum,” partial mobilization, and lack of effective counter-counter-attack so far are the things that make me think so.  I do not believe that the referendum or the mobilization were in the works as anything but potential future things before the Ukrainian counterattack.

The laughable referendum sounds like an attempt to create the appearance of a fact on the ground, and will of course be used the same way China waves about its maps with a nine-dashed line encompassing the Vietnam Sea.  The mobilization is tricky because a full mobilization would simply advertise that suddenly Russia must go to war on a national footing just to accomplish knocking over a few counties of Ukraine.  The strategic damage to Russia of merely declaring a full mobilization seems considerable.  So “partial mobilization” it is.

School officials at a Boston suburb public high school informed faculty that political items such as Black Lives Matter and gay pride flags are banned from classrooms. 

“We need to avoid placing items in the classroom that can cause disruption or distraction; we are an inclusive environment and want to maintain that inclusivity.”