THE NOMENKLATURA ARE IMMUNE FROM A LOT OF THINGS THE REGULAR PEOPLE HAVE TO ENDURE: Are Members of Congress Immune From COVID-19? DC Mayor Bowser Seems to Think So.

IS IMMUNITY A CASE OF ROTHBARD’S LOST KNOWLEDGE? As Jeffrey Tucker explains, that would be something that was generally known but which for unexplained reasons is lost and must be re-discovered. My thought is we aren’t re-discovering immunity to COVID-19 quickly enough.

And if you are of a mind to do a deep-dive on the data, Tucker did it and reached this conclusion: “The claim that lockdowns control viruses is pseudoscience or magical thinking of a deeply dangerous sort; it wrecks economies and lives.” 

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A SUCCESSFUL SPLASHDOWN FOR SPACEX. “Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken landed gently in the Endeavor capsule off Pensacola, Fla., at 2:48 p.m. EDT, assisted by two sets of parachutes that slowed the descent. A crew from the SpaceX Go Navigator was ready to hoist the capsule onto the vessel.”

I won’t say they make it boring, because they don’t, but I just realized that I basically had no doubt this would go off fine.

TYLER O’NEIL: Is This a Scene From Nazi Germany? No, It’s the Portland ‘Peaceful Protesters’ Burning Bibles.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): If you burned Korans this way and somebody shot you, you’d be told that it was your own fault for “provoking” them.

CORONAVIRUS: Repurposing News.

I HAVE A SIMPLE FORMULA: DID TRUMP RECOMMEND IT? IF SO, THEN “SCIENCE” SAYS IT DOESN’T WORK. Could a Mathematical Model Determine Whether Coronavirus Preventative Measures Work?

GINSBURG HOPING CARBONITE FREEZING PROCESS LASTS UNTIL LATE-JANUARY: RBG Waited Four Months to Say Her Cancer Had Returned.

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HUH. I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Texas cave sediment upends meteorite explanation for global cooling 13,000 years ago.

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Quantum physicists say time travelers don’t have to worry about the butterfly effect.

I AM INTRIGUED BY HER IDEAS, AND WISH TO SUBSCRIBE TO HER NEWSLETTER: Karen Bass, VP contender for Biden, renounces her praise of Fidel Castro.

Earlier: Bass, on Biden VP shortlist, addresses past praise of Scientology.

K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Fourth Grade Teacher Details How Schools Push Ban History And Leftist Agendas: ‘The parents don’t even know what’s going on because it’s all at school,’ says a fourth grade teacher in an interview. ‘The parents question very little and they just assume the teacher knows what they’re doing.’.

ALL GRAFFITI IS EQUAL, BUT SOME GRAFFITI IS MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS: Pro-life activists arrested for chalking “black pre-born lives matter” on sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood.

GET TUSKED: How Once Stately Fleetwood Mac Went Bipolar.

My review of the newest book by Fleetwood Mac producer Ken Caillat on the band’s strangest album, and how it came to be, over at Ed Driscoll.com.

(The review of the recent documentary Recording in Progress I published on Wednesday night was meant to be just a few paragraphs as the coda to the Fleetwood Mac article, to illustrate how recording budgets have been massively slashed since the “nothing succeeds like excess” days of the record industry in the late 1970s. But since that review ran so much longer than I anticipated, I broke it off into its own article.)

(Bumped.)

BOMB CANADA: THE CASE FOR WAR. First NHL player — a Canadian — takes knee for national anthem; he then stands for “O, Canada.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

SPEAKING OF GEORGE WALLACE… “But since Obama brought it up, it’s worth noting that the only person in modern American politics to have repeatedly praised Wallace and other segregationists is Joe Biden.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College students value job-skills training over ‘elite education’: survey.

NO MALARKEY: Joe Biden has a long history of claiming arrests which never happened.

Also not happening this week: Biden delays VP announcement another week.

Perhaps this is a factor: Karen Bass, on Biden VP shortlist, scrambles to explain remarks on Castro, Scientology.

I am intrigued by her ideas, and wish to subscribe to her newsletter.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Philadelphia’s NAACP chief’s mosque calls Jews ‘Satan,’ says Muslims should ‘pick up a stone’ when Jews are spotted.

YOU CAN SPEND WITHOUT LIMIT UNTIL YOU HIT THE LIMIT, AND NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE LIMIT IS: U.S. Gets a Debt Warning From Fitch as Stimulus Battle Rages.

I’m just as worried about the debt as ever, but I’ve come to the sad conclusion that nothing will be done until our hand is forced by something catastrophic. Fair chance that will happen this decade, but who knows? People have been talking debt catastrophe for my entire lifetime and so far nothing. I wish that meant that debt catastrophe will never come, but I have my doubts.