The Morning Dispatch: MLK in Montgomery

"The only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy that allows judgment to run down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

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Happy Monday! Only two more days until we can all place orders for four “free” COVID-19 rapid tests, which, once ordered, will ship after an additional 7 to 12 days. Just in time for the arrival of the Omicron wave!

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • Up to 70 Ukrainian government websites were targeted in a cyberattack over the weekend. The websites’ functionality and data were reportedly not compromised, but ominous messages—“be afraid and wait for the worst”—were posted on homepages. Russia has denied responsibility for the hack, but Ukrainian officials believe Russian forces were behind it and U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan said yesterday it “would not surprise” him if Russia was the perpetrator. Russia has reportedly been moving additional tanks, rocket launchers, and other military equipment toward its border with Ukraine over the past week. 

  • Russia’s Federal Security Service said Friday—and an anonymous Biden administration official confirmed—that Russia had arrested several members of the REvil hacking group believed to be behind many of last year’s ransomware attacks on American companies, including the Colonial Pipeline.

  • North Korea on Friday conducted its third and fourth missile tests of recent weeks, with the country’s state media asserting over the weekend its military had successfully launched two ballistic missiles from a train car and hit a target in the ocean.

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  1. Kimberly White

    I'm not trying to be a brown noser, but I honestly think the much-maligned David French will be seen much more unanimously positively in the future. His thinking is clear and far-sighted, but offensive to those caught up in defensiveness against The Left and the MSM. I predict that as time passes, alliances change, Trump ceases to be relevant, the Church either collapses or rights itself, these particular defensive positions will cease to be motivating.

    People will look back and say, "Well yes, of course the Church needs to withstand scrutiny and cleanse itself! Of course there is systemic racism that needs to be rooted out! Of course policing should be reformed to weed out the truly racist officers! Of course Trump was bad for conservatism and the character of the nation!"

    At least I hope so.

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    Joanne_milbourn

    Why, as a paying member of The Dispatch, am I blocked behind paywalls for the National Review articles linked in TMD?

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  3. Danny Grizzle

    They’re not in the same tier as MLK, but contentious people now who I believe opinion will settle out later: James Comey and Edward Snowden. If they’re still mentioned at all.

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  4. Mary Stine

    If I were to pick a person who would have near universal support in a few decades I'd pick the Rev. Barber of the Poor People's Campaign, who understands that poverty is not limited to the poor.
    If I were to pick an idea, I would pick the concept of global life conservation, which embraces conserving not only water, soil and native plants, but also human and animal life. In real time, this will inevitably lead most of us toward a mostly plant centered diet, if not outright veganism.
    To escape or survive Covid and other parasitical diseases to come we will have to do two things
    on a global scale: eliminate "wet" markets, giant livestock "farms", animal protein in ruminant feed, and unsanitary processing. We are at a tipping point where our current practices are failing us. The research on the Blue Zones has already shown us that the longest living, healthiest humans on the planet eat mostly plants. Some early studies on Covid have identified those same groups, along with vegetarians and vegans, as having the lowest death rates from Covid.

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    DANA A. NICHOLS

    Well-stated, Aylene, and I appreciate your succinct hand for me to refer to in your like-minded opinion here; my recall is quite fleeting, yet my recent opinion mega-rambles here-in often took me three or four hours to compose (Dana-standard. I'm no debate threat. Apologies to TDN and all. End of that.) I'm 65; not cherry-picking for "effect" here, but a flash of memory from seven-years-old, at a July outdoors, hotter-than-hell Alabama water fountain, was my glancing up at dad and wondering why it said "White Only." My Jim Crow definition is several hundred years worth of slow-rendering into a relatively specific, collective "Harrumph, that is just the way it is." Trump's take is a blur to me (perfect target me, so I acknowledge it and just walk on, instead of hopping aboard his "With us or totally against us..." hell-bound train ride.
    His decks are awash; he doesn't get a take-two on that starter-kit insurrection he thought he could underwrite and then split up like CCP's Nike stock; and Biden's take is, perhaps, in the kaleidoscope he left laying at that Alabama water fountain. I hope my fellow Americans and I are now feeling our reawakening -- not "woke" -- resolve to stand by for the long Fight's On(!) groundswell of shoving all of the past two years' worth of duplicity fog back into Fox's bong. Coincidentally, I'm a new and happily-settled citizen of South Dakota; between Sen. Rounds making stunningly clear and credible sense to me, and Liz Cheney next door, I cannot help but believe the clean lights are coming back on, and we work the problem smartly and true.

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  6. Larry Otteman

    I believe bipartisan passage of a child allowance modeled along the Romney Family Security Act will be opposed by many but eventually seen as an advance equivalent to tHe Social Security Act

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    Patrick

    We may look back and wonder why we didn’t listen to Enes Kanter more.

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    Ms. SSM

    Thank you TMD for Highlighting a speech or quote from King that isn’t in the standard conservative media go to. Everyday you prove my subscription money was well spent.

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    Ms. SSM

    QOTD- Colin Kaepernick is my guess. History will be kinder to him then the present. Also most sports protesters end up being praised later. I’m not quite sure why but it’s been that way in America for a while.

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      Richard Maxton

      I dunno about that. His Netflix thing jumped the shark with that NFL Combine / Slavery comparison.

      Also, and I know many don't agree with me, but he's a victim only as much as the rest of us. He was provided the same freedom of speech in his work uniform that I am when I'm in mine: as much as I want so long as I'm willing to accept the consequences.

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        Ms. SSM

        Just based on historical sports figures I think he has a good shot. I’m not saying he’s a victim. I think as u said he’s a perfect example of freedoms at work. But every significant sports protester of any kind is viewed much favorably years later. He has to be the exception to NOT have a rise in 50 years.

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    Joe Lancaster

    “Is there a person—or idea—that is contentious now, but that you believe will have near-unanimous support in a few decades?” I keep thinking Milton Friedman will be that person, but, unfortunately, not yet.

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