NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC: I am told that this device before me is a…“garbage disposal?”
“She posted that on the same night, coincidentally, that Twitter suspended a popular Ocasio-Cortez parody account. How can they tell the difference?”
As Glenn has noted, “getting Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Omar elected was Roger Stone’s finest dirty trick.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: In the Air With Zipline’s Medical Delivery Drones : Commercial operations in Rwanda prove the company can deliver emergency blood packs in minutes, rather than hours .
JOE BIDEN: “First thing I’d do is repeal those Trump tax cuts.”
I’m betting what he really means is he’d repeal Trump’s SALT-exemption limits which hit well-to-do lefties in high-tax blue states with higher tax bills.
In other words, Biden would give the rich — the right rich — a tax break and sock you with the bill.
THIS WOULD EXPLAIN A LOT: Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber?
THE INVISIBLE FIST: Federal Regulations Amount To A $15,000 ‘Hidden Tax’ On Families, Report Finds.
The federal regulatory apparatus imposed a roughly $14,600 “hidden tax” on American households in 2018, according to a report by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
“That amounts to 20 percent of the average pretax income of $73,573, and 24 percent of the average expenditure budget of $60,060,” CEI’s Wayne Crews wrote in his annual Ten Thousand Commandments report released Tuesday.
In total, federal regulations, once again, cost the U.S. economy $1.9 trillion despite the Trump administration’s effort to roll back onerous regulations. Crews said his report was a conservative estimate of the true cost of regulations.
“The regulatory ‘tax’ exceeds every item in the household budget except housing,” Crews wrote. “More is ‘spent’ on embedded regulation than on health care, food, transportation, entertainment, apparel, services, and savings.”
That’s a lot.
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BJORN LOMBORG takes on the crisis-peddlers.
BIG SUNSCREEN HAS BEEN KEEPING IT QUIET FOR YEARS: FDA Finds High Systemic Absorption of Sunscreen Ingredients.
JAMES COMEY IS IN TROUBLE, AND HE KNOWS IT. “There is a sense that Comey’s team was not checking the boxes, did not have adequate predication, and may have tasked sources before an investigation was even officially opened. Barr should pull case files and dig in on this. In addition, the cast of characters leveraged by the FBI against the Trump campaign all appear to have their genesis as CIA sources (‘assets,’ in agency vernacular) shared at times with the FBI. . . . James Comey is right to be apprehensive. He himself ate away at the soul of the FBI, not in small bites but in dangerously large ones. It was a dinner for one, though: His actions are not indicative of the real FBI. The attorney general’s comprehensive examination is welcome and, if done honestly and dispassionately, it will protect future presidential candidates of both parties and redeem the valuable soul of the FBI.”
Comey didn’t act alone. He had a lot of help within the FBI and the DoJ. It’s bad news for him that the FBI folks are trying to pretend that he was on his own.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
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THE DEEP SEVENS WON’T LIKE THAT: Scientists call for better research on planetary internal dynamics.
VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW UPDATE: Selena Zito asks, What’s the Matter With Virginia?
ILHAN OMAR: Israel’s occupation of Gaza causes rockets to fire and children to be killed, or something. “The rockets fired because of an occupation? That’s a neat trick, considering that the occupation of Gaza ended in 2005. It’s been fourteen years since Ariel Sharon dismantled all of the Israeli settlements in Gaza — to a loud outcry at home — and pulled the IDF out of the strip, leaving the Gazans to their own devices. Sharon’s government had to forcibly evict some settlers from their homes in the area, and ended up relocating thousands of Israelis back into Israel proper. Gaza held elections the next year and, despite warnings from all over the world, elected Hamas to govern the territory. The rest is history.”
If anything, Gaza is evidence that unilaterally turning land over to the Palestinians just brings more war.
WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL: NY Times: ‘There Is A Crisis At The Southern Border.’
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter Declares War on Conservatives: Pro-Trump Accounts Purged.
IN THE MAIL: From Milo Yiannopoulos, How To Be Poor.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN IS ABOUT BOB ZUBRIN’S THE CASE FOR SPACE, WHICH IS A MUST-READ. Robert Zubrin makes ‘The Case for Space:’ Sure we should go to space for the knowledge and the challenge, but it will also ensure our survival and protect our freedom.
STANDING UP AGAINST HATE: “Toxic masculinity does not exist.” “The problem is, by shaming men on a completely subjective scale, you intimidate, which is exactly what the left and most ‘feminists’ want, they want to intimidate the men that go against the grain and reject the weak and feminized version of men you see portrayed everywhere. I believe there are toxic people, but to make an entire term for men and to keep cramming it down the throats of men is biased, bigoted and a result of brainwashing.”
Related: Bros Are People Too: Title IX enforcers need to fix the toxic environment they have created for men.
MATT VESPA: How Cory Booker’s 2020 Gun Control Agenda Is A Blue State Nightmare. “In total, the proposal is a blue state nightmare that Democrats want to unleash on the rest of us. And of course, Booker says the only people who should fear his agenda are criminals. Sorry, senator—this whole agenda is straight trash and one that will turn millions of law-abiding citizens into criminals…in accordance with the text of these proposals.”
Expect to see a lot more crazy as the huge pool of Democratic candidates try to stand out from one another.
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