Overnight News: “Irish Democracy” is coming to the U.S.A.

“One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish Democracy” – the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people – than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs.” –James Scott, Two Cheers for Anarchism.

Although he claims to come from Scranton, PA, Sleepy Joe Biden apparently has yet to meet the Cumberland Strain of American patriots. Joe Bob Briggs wrote a wonderful send up of the Cumberland Kind, and you should read it, but here’s a key incident to illustrate the idea: When the federal government turned on redneck distillers west of the Cumberland (ahem) Gap – The Whiskey Rebellion – some folks paid the new taxes, but the Cumberlanders moved out of reach of the revenuers and proceed to invent Bourbon and later stock-car racing.

If you put yourself on the freeway and set the cruise-control for four miles-per-hour above the speed limit, everyone who is passing you is a Cumberlander in spirit – a taker of no shit. The ones who honk at you could find a way to shoot you, if you get too much in the way.

These are the people Sleepy Joe intends to make war on…

In other news:

Housing Wire: Fannie Mae’s rental payment change worries some.

CNBC: U.S. judge denies landlords’ request to block CDC national eviction ban.

CNBC: U.S. Supreme Court strikes down part of New York’s eviction ban.

KOMO News: Seattle police’s response times reach over 60 minutes as staffing shortages continue. Ahem.

Scott McKay: Toward An American Revivalism: It’s time to say “goodbye” to conservatism. CTRL-F ‘fatherhood’; not found.

Human Events: The Biden Justice Department Can’t Seem To Produce The Evidence It Supposedly Used To Indict The January 6th Protest Cases.

Julie Kelly: The Justice Department’s ‘Troubling’ Discovery Delays: January 6 defendants appear to have practically no shot at a fair trial in Washington, D.C. Some judges are finally pushing back.