The Morning Dispatch: A Conversation With Liz Cheney

Plus: Iran is surveilling political opponents here in the U.S.

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Happy Thursday! We’re normally immune to obvious celebrity cash grabs, but something tells us this chili cookbook from Brian Baumgartner—the actor who played Kevin in The Office—is the real deal. 

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • The Chinese Ministry of Defense said Wednesday the country will send troops to eastern Russia for joint military exercises scheduled for August 30 through September 5—and that India, Belarus, and other countries will also participate. China and Russia have drilled together before—including earlier this year—but this round seems intended to communicate that Russia still has military capacity outside Ukraine.

  • Officials in China’s Sichuan province ordered factories in 19 cities—including Apple, Toyota, and Volkswagen facilities—to close or reduce production this week to preserve electricity supply for homes. A heatwave and lack of rainfall in central and southwestern China have lowered the water level in the Yangtze River, threatening hydropower electricity production.

  • U.S. Africa Command announced Wednesday that—in coordination with the Somalian government—U.S. forces conducted an airstrike over the weekend against al-Shabaab terrorists attacking the Somalian military near Teedaan, a rural town in the middle of the country. It was the fourth such reported strike this summer, and the U.S. believes this one killed 13 al-Shabaab terrorists—and no civilians.

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  1. Michael

    This is one Republican who will vote for Liz for President in a primary or as an independent candidate. She is my hero. Courageous, honest and conservative.

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    Bono Vox

    Sorry to offend any decent, true believers, but Allah is not God. Muhammad was a war profiteer and the Koran is nothing but a “grotesque plagiary of the Old and New Testaments. If only someone would go on Al Jazzarra and exercise one’s God given human right to freedom from religion. Thanks for asking, I guess. Peace through superior mental firepower

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  3. Randall Briggs

    Re the increase in traffic fatalities, my guess is that there are more angry drivers. And drivers are angry because Americans are angry. It seems that more people than ever are putting their political opinions on their car bumpers and rear windows, inflaming those who disagree.

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  4. BadgerBill

    Regarding the item on the increase in highway deaths, you only have to drive on a freeway in any part of the country. Speeding is rampant and not just 10mph over the limit, but many people going 80mph or 90mph on urban freeways. Not enough enforcement and no traffic cameras are likely a leading reason.

    Not to be old guy yelling at clouds, but the argument that cameras are a violation of privacy is nonsense. If a cop sees you, it’s okay, but if a camera sees you, it’s a violation of privacy? Really? (Done yelling at clouds).

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  5. Tom (Inadvertent Obfuscation)

    Um. I'm not comfortable sharing something that I privately believe but generally don’t feel comfortable sharing in public.

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  6. Ellen Elmore

    I am a Conservative Evangelical Christian and passionately Never Trump. All our church friends and family members think Trump walks on water. They give him unqualified support no matter what he says or does. With few exceptions I can not talk politics with any of them. So none of them know I was a third party voter in 2016 and a Biden voter in 2020.

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  7. Brook

    QOTD: I have friends who support the GOP. They know that I left the Republican Party in the summer of 2016. Yet, they continue to include me in emails that praise Trump or assert populist positions that I reject. Furthermore, they love to use the word “woke” to describe every damned thing they don’t like. I typically delete these emails forthwith, but I hate even being associated with the crap often contained in these emails. I have thought about asking them to take me off their lists, but I don’t want to come across as a self-rightous, pompous ass to people who have been life-long friends. So, I keep quiet.

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    BikerChick

    For some people….not all. I’m still not vaccinated. I’m still not reinfected. But apparently I still can’t make choice without being treated differently in certain segments of society. So dumb.

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    Antebellum Whig

    QOTD: I hate to say this even anonymously, but our educational system is shite and that's partly because our teachers are mostly shite. Scholars have done studies on people who get education degrees and found that they have significantly worse credentials than students at the same schools studying literally anything else.

    I love and respect many teachers including those in my own family and I've spent a fair amount of time teaching myself. It's hard work, if you do it right, or try to do it right. But lots of people don't.

    Many people are drawn to it for not just the wrong reasons, but for honestly damnable reasons, e.g., they're looking for sexual partners, or they want a job they think will be easy or that they can't get fired from or where nobody is likely to notice them being drunk or stoned during the work day, or they don't want to have to work during the summers, or they want to be able to impress their own (often weird, losery, and half-baked) ideas on impressionable young people.

    There are lots of problems with our educational system that exacerbate this problem either directly or indirectly - low pay, terrible bosses and colleagues, insufferable parents, bratty kids, wokeness, etc. Why do you think schools spend so much time on these useless palavering sessions about feelings and attitudes? Because it's easier than teaching chemistry or anything else of substance.

    But as much as we may like our kids' teachers (and be grateful to them for taking the little imps off our hands for a few hours a day), there's no denying the fact that most teachers are absolute crap who barely understand the material they're supposed to teach, much less how to teach it effectively or how to control a classroom.

    Supposedly, we've seen a shift from teaching rote facts to teaching how to think - except that the teachers themselves lack good reasoning skills and the discipline to impart them, so that now kids get passed further and further through our system without knowing *either* facts *or* how to reason properly.

    You can imagine why I would be loath to share these views non-anonymously.

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    PJ

    QOTD: Nothing unless I am in a small conservative community as a visitor. Then I just feel like there isn't any room for conversation beyond the weather today. I do moderate what I say if I am in a work setting, but still not afraid to discuss anything in an appropriate manner. Most people know that and do not go where they do not want to tread.

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