PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: ‘It’s a miracle!’ Paul Krugman spotted doing a quick economic one-eighty with ‘Biden boom’ prediction:
Exit quote: “The New York Times is just a humorless Babylon Bee.“
Obligatory flashbacks: PAUL KRUGMAN ON ELECTION NIGHT 2016: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
And from March: GIVEN HIS TRACK RECORD, THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I’VE SEEN IN WEEKS: Paul Krugman: Market signaling a ‘permanent recession.’
‘PANHELLENIC’: Duke sorority council bans events with male groups. “The Panhellenic Council at Duke University voted to ban chapters of member sororities from hosting ‘mixers’ with all-male organizations, vowing to place chapters that violate the rule on social probation.”
TAMING THE ADMINISTRATIVE BEHEMOTH BEFORE IT EATS US UP: Mike Rappaport offers a workable approach for identifying unconstitutional violations of the non-delegation doctrine.
SO GLAD WE HAVE TRUMP’S EFFICIENT COVID RESPONSE: HHS sends new rapid molecular COVID-19 test to 5 states.
And the people who spent the past four years telling us the 2016 election was “hacked” are now saying it imperils democracy to talk about fraud. But when 30% of Democrats think there was fraud, it’s not a crazy fringe theory.
WELL, GOOD: U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Pledges $32B Military Build-Up. “The pledge of about £24.1 billion — or just under $32 billion — supports Johnson’s vision of what he calls a freer and more independent “global Britain” following the United Kingdom’s protracted divorce from the European Union via Brexit.”
THE DEMOCRATS’ MEDIA APPARATCHIKS ARE TALKING ABOUT PROPRIETY AND IT’S NOT GOING WELL FOR THEM:
Not well at all:
DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF YOUTH: Joe Biden turns 78 today, set to become the oldest US president.
SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS AREN’T SECOND-CLASS RIGHTS: Lawprof John McGinnis: Gun Rights Delayed are Gun Rights Denied.
WELL, CALIFORNIA: Gavin Newsom’s Latest COVID-19 Order Doesn’t Even Make Sense.
IN THE MAIL: From Kevin Williamson, Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the “Real America.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Why the SpaceX ‘ferry’ just truly launched a new Space Age.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Stacy Abrams Is the Governor of Georgia and You’re Not.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is it OK to celebrate the ranting delusions of someone still contesting an election they lost fair and square?
Answer: When she has a (D) after her name.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Gavin Newsom provides a shutdown carve-out for Hollywood
- Virginia Attorney General goes after guns (again).
- Barack Obama and Jimmy Kimmel (!!!) conspire against POTUS, lamely.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
CONSERVATIVES ARE GOING TO REGRET BUYING INTO NONSENSICAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT THE ELECTION: Kevin Williamson: The Dumbest Coup. Please note that no amount of past Democratic lies, distortions, conspiracy theories, or refusal to accept the results of the 2016 election justifies buying into bogus conspiracy theories. Let me put this as simply as possible: Trump lost. There is no plausible set of facts based on any evidence that anyone has presented that would reverse the results in several states and give him a victory in the electoral college. If you want the lawsuits to continue to ferret out whatever fraud might have occurred to improve things for the future, fine. But if you actually believe, as Sydney Powell has publicly claimed, that “President Trump won by a landslide,” you are being a sucker for a con man.
FORT APACHE MINNEAPOLIS, PART 2, AND ANTI-POLICE ANIMUS: Powerline continues to report on “the dramatic rise of violent crime in Minneapolis.” The post, written by Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff, reminds everyone that in October — before the election — the Trump Justice Department offered to help Minneapolis police “through a special partnership program.” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo supported the offer. At the time –before the election– Mirengoff also reported that Minneapolis’ mayor and leftist city council were quite unenthusiastic about receiving help from the Justice Department.” Did DOJ’s October offer get major media coverage? Of course not. Mirengoff concludes that the mayor and council rejected aid out of “raw anti-police animus and sympathy for violent criminals.” I think that’s right. Will Minneapolis’ mayor and leftist city council be held responsible for their inflammatory and destructive virtue signaling that has produced the rise in violent crime? That responsibility lies with Minneapolis voters.
SPACE RACE II: China rolls out Long March 5 rocket for Chang’e 5 moon sample-return mission launch.
Chang’e 5 is scheduled to lift off on Nov. 24, according to a NASA description of the mission. (Official Chinese sources have said only that the launch will occur in “late November.”) The 18,100-lb. (8,200 kilograms) spacecraft, which apparently consists of four modules, will then make its way to the moon.
Two of the Chang’e 5 modules will remain in lunar orbit. The other two — a sample collector and an ascent vehicle — will touch down in the Mons Rumker area of the huge Oceanus Procellarum (“Ocean of Storms”), a vast volcanic plain that has been explored by a number of other moon missions, including NASA’s Apollo 12 in 1969.
If all goes according to plan, Chang’e 5’s sample collector will use a robotic arm and a drill to snag about 4.4 lbs. (2 kg) of moon dirt and rock, including material that will be sourced from up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) underground. The ascent vehicle will then loft this cache to lunar orbit, where it will dock with one of the orbiting modules and then be integrated into the other, which will haul the stuff back to Earth, according to the NASA description. The moon samples are scheduled to land in China in mid-December.
This is an ambitious and complex mission to carry out.
