NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Trump Legal Team: We Have ‘So Much Evidence’ of Fraud in Nevada ‘We Had to Rent a Separate Car.’
Archive for 2020
December 3, 2020
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” COLLECTS DIVIDENDS: Democratic socialist AOC gets destroyed for selling $58 ‘Tax The Rich’ shirts.
I keep waiting for actual evidence that restaurants and bars are a major source of infection. We’ve been contact-tracing for nine months. Either that’s been a total waste of time and money, or we should know the answer by now.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Austin Mayor Steve Adler Takes Democrat COVID Privilege Up a Notch.
THE REAL SYSTEMIC RACISM: Set-Asides Are Unconstitutional. Andrew Cuomo (among many other leaders) makes race the basis for dispensing money and opportunities to entrepreneurs and small businesses.
ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE FIASCO IN NEW YORK: New York’s Homeless Crucible. Bill de Blasio has doubled spending on the homeless, put a progressive activist in charge of policy, and created the largest affordable housing program in city history. And the problem has just gotten worse.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW — EVEN IF SHE WAS CONCEIVED IN THE 20TH: Baby born from 27-year-old embryo believed to have broken record set by her big sister.
Plus: “Gibson became pregnant with both Emma and Molly with the help of the National Embryo Donation Center, a faith-based nonprofit in Knoxville that stores frozen embryos in vitro fertilization patients have decided not to use. Families can adopt those unused embryos, which are then transferred to an adoptive parent’s uterus.” I’ve driven by that place many times — it’s out in Farragut — and wondered vaguely if it was real. Apparently so!
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Walter E. Williams, RIP.
IT’S DIFFERENT NOW BECAUSE REASONS: Biden-Harris Campaign’s Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracy Theory’s Sad Epilogue: 3 Former Presidents Step Up for COVID Vaccine.
AS CASES RISE, A REMINDER: Most Americans have been wearing masks since spring, the C.D.C. says. But while masks aren’t worthless, the cloth “face coverings” that you see so often basically are. Surgical masks provide a modest amount of protection, at best, for the wearer and somewhat more for others. N95 masks provide substantial protection for the wearer, if worn properly. But a bandanna, or a cute cloth mask with your school logo on it, or a pulled-up neck gaiter, is basically just pandemic security theater. At most, they help keep you from touching your face, for whatever good that does. And masks don’t protect you if you don’t wear them, and most people in social situations don’t. (Even groups of employees at restaurants and stores usually pull their masks down when they gather to chat.)
Masks have been politicized as useless by some, and as magical talismans by others. They’re merely a tool, moderately useful at best. Cases are going up because that’s what happens in a pandemic until enough people have had the disease that it can’t sustain transmission. My guess is, we’ll reach that point before the vaccines are in wide distribution, notwithstanding the enormous dispatch with which Operation Warp Speed produced multiple vaccines.
MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT WARTHOG IS FURIOUS RIGHT NOW: Emotional support animals on flights restricted to trained dogs: DOT.
IF SO, COULD SHE CAST TWO VOTES IN THE EVENT OF A TIE? Senator and Vice President of the United States: Can Kamala Harris Hold Both Positions at the Same Time?
SECRETARY OF INDOCTRINTION: Biden Education Lead: Chinese Communist Party Has Done ‘Magical Work.’
CHARLES LIPSON: The Georgia Runoffs and Our Embattled Constitution. “It’s understandable that the national debate should focus on which party will control the Senate and just how radical the Democrats’ program will be if they do. But just beneath the surface lurk potential constitutional issues, which have received almost no attention. The basic problem is this: although America’s Founders were deeply concerned about tyranny, centralized power, and the suppression of individual rights and constructed institutional barriers to prevent those abuses, they never envisioned the mechanisms that pose serious threats today.”
GEORGIA GOV. UNDER INVESTIGATION: Georgia group founded by Stacey Abrams under investigation for seeking out-of-state, dead voters.
BECAUSE THEY’RE INSANE AND/OR HAVE TERRIBLE TASTE IN LITERATURE: Lefty Law Profs See Handmaid’s Tale Lurking Behind Supreme Court Religious Freedom Ruling.
THOMAS SOWELL: Walter E. Williams 1936-2020.
Walter Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there. But not in the classroom.
Walter once said he hoped that, on the day he died, he would have taught a class that day. And that is just the way it was, when he died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020.
He was my best friend for half a century. There was no one I trusted more or whose integrity I respected more. Since he was younger than me, I chose him to be my literary executor, to take control of my books after I was gone.
But his death is a reminder that no one really has anything to say about such things.
Read the whole thing.
IN THE MAIL: From Carnell Smith, TRAPPED BY LAW: Stop Paying Child Support for Paternity Fraud.
