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Archive for 2020
February 1, 2020
FOX BUTTERFIELD, CALL YOUR OFFICE: U.S. health stats remain low despite trillions in healthcare spending.
FASTER, PLEASE: Dozens Of SFO-China Flights Suspended Due To Coronavirus.
RARE SIGN OF SANITY AMIDST THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Students demanded divestment from fossil fuels, a professor offered to turn off the gas heating.
Two students at St John’s College wrote to Andrew Parker, the principal bursar, this week requesting a meeting to discuss the protesters’ demands, which are that the college “declares a climate emergency and immediately divests from fossil fuels”. They say that the college, the richest in Oxford, has £8 million of its £551 million endowment fund invested in BP and Shell.
Professor Parker responded with a provocative offer. “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,” he wrote. “But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. Please let me know if you support this proposal.”
Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: ‘Progressives’ at odds after Rashida Tlaib boos Hillary Clinton at Iowa event.
Trump’s emergency declaration was contained to a single issue and a single project. Declaring “climate change” — an amorphous threat that’s perpetually a decade away from destroying us all — a national emergency, however, puts virtually all economic activity under the executive branch’s purview. If we’re to believe media reports, there isn’t a single hardship faced by mankind that isn’t in some dubious way connected to the slight rise of the earth’s temperature. Sanders would empower the same bunch of Malthusian hysterics who have been indefatigably wrong about everything for the past 50 years, to run some of the world’s most powerful bureaucracies.
Obviously, there is only so much a president can do. Some governors would end up ignoring him. Some would challenge him in the courts. But if, as he maintains, climate change is an existential threat to our very existence, why would a President Sanders listen? It is more likely that we end up with the biggest abuse of executive power since FDR treated the country like his personal fiefdom.
Read the whole thing.
HIGHER ED HAS CHOSEN SIDES. AND IT CHOSE . . . POORLY. A University of Virginia alumnus blasted his alma mater for promoting a “partisan” political agenda.
DISAPPOINTING PHOTOS SHOW WHAT LIVING IN SAN FRANCISCO ON A TECH SALARY REALLY LOOKS LIKE.
One of the photos is captioned “The biggest wake-up call? The astronomically priced rent.”
As Thomas Sowell has written, “the housing price of liberalism” doesn’t come cheap.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: What the updated coronavirus travel alert level and the additional border measures will mean for you.
Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) advice for the public.
China Then And Now: Why Coronavirus Is A Bigger Threat To Global Economy Than Previous Outbreaks.
Apple to close all China mainland stores as death toll touches over 250.
UPDATE: Excellent advice.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. “Chief Justice John Roberts doesn’t seem to have the judicial acumen of a traffic court judge.” Roberts is one of those people who’s so concerned with appearances that he sacrifices substance, not realizing that in the end, nothing gives you a worse appearance than a lack of substance.
NOT ANTI-WAR, MERELY ON THE OTHER SIDE: When Iran Took Americans Hostage, Bernie Backed Iran’s Defenders.
Related: Joe Rogan Likes Bernie Sanders’ ‘Consistency,’ But That’s Exactly What Should Scare People.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Buttigieg to Anti-Israel Activist: ‘I Respect Your Activism.’
