I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: “COVID-19 has had a detrimental effect on early diagnosis of cancer in children and young people.”
Archive for 2021
November 12, 2021
WOW: Man saves drowning 400lb black bear. Rescuing drowning people is dangerous enough. To be fair, this bear had been hit with a tranquilizer dart. But still.
UGH: British Columbia war memorial vandalized with pro vaccine message.
Early Thursday morning Cranbrook RCMP were notified that someone defaced the cities Cenotaph mere hours before the Remembrance Day ceremony was set to take place.
Spray-painted across the memorial were the words “the real heroes are the vaccinated.”
Police, firefighters, and city workers worked diligently to remove the graffiti, and successfully did so before the ceremony and parade took place at 10:15 a.m.
Canada lost more than 56,000 men to enemy action in World War I.
To compare their sacrifices to getting a shot is… typical leftist idiocy.
To vandalize a memorial to them on Remembrance Day… what awful, awful people.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Austrian Brothel Offering Free Jabs for Jabs.
AT THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY’S NATIONAL LAWYERS CONFERENCE: I’m having a great time at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C with what looks like over a thousand Federalist Society lawyers. Great discussions … as always.
(For some of you, spending three days with a thousand lawyers, even a thousand conservative lawyers, may sound like purgatory, but … well … these are my peeps.)
Tomorrow, I’ll be doing a book signing for A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education. If you’re here for the conference or you live around here and want to come by, I’ll be up on the Mezzanine level at the Mayflower from 10:30 to 11:15 am. You can bring your own copy or buy a copy there.
TOP SELLER: Carhartt Men’s Knit Cuffed Beanie, Black, One Size. #CommissionEarned
YES: The Warren Court Supersized the First Amendment…Now It’s Time for the Second Amendment. And Saul Cornell isn’t happy about that. Darn. The thing is, it’s dishonest to ask that the Second Amendment be interpreted today as narrowly as the First was a hundred years ago.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS STUCK IN TRAFFIC: Biden Spending Bill Would Break His Pledge on No New Taxes on Middle Class. “There’s also another part of the analysis that doesn’t exactly fit with the Democrats’ claim of hitting the highest earners because it actually gives a break to the wealthy. There’s a provision in the spending bill that would raise the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap, which ‘would provide almost no benefit for middle-income households’ while benefitting wealthy Americans.”
The Big Guy knows who his friends are.
THE LEFT ALWAYS SHOWS YOU WHO IT’S AFRAID OF: Karol Markowicz: There is no case against Dave Portnoy. No actual accusation has been made. It’s all leading conjecture.
Besides, nobody cares about #MeToo anymore. That went out when Gropey Joe was nominated. But they’re afraid of Dave Portnoy because he isn’t afraid of them.
BRING BACK SHOP CLASS: Using mechanical tools improves our language skills.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Tenured, Trapped, and Miserable.
CHANGE? Europe Is Making — Gingerly — an Opening to the Republic of China on Taiwan. “Earlier this week, a seven-member delegation from the European Parliament landed at the Republic of China capital of Taipei, marking the first official visit by European lawmakers to the embattled Asian democracy.”
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Brain changes during orgasmic meditation, study finds. “In a first-ever study, orgasmic meditation, a unique spiritual practice that uses stimulation of a woman’s clitoris as its focus, has been found to produce a distinctive pattern of brain function, according to a study published in the journal, Frontiers in Psychology on Nov 11th.”
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: What Does It Say That This Administration Was Surprised by Bad Inflation Numbers?
The first ten months of the Biden administration have brought more than their fair share of unnerving revelations, reports, and rumors, but this line in a Washington Post story from Wednesday is a giant flashing neon sign that this White House is every bit as out of touch as you fear: “Senior White House officials were greatly disappointed by Wednesday’s report and surprised at how serious the inflationary problems are throughout the economy, according to people familiar with the matter. The report also fueled mounting concerns about supply chain bottlenecks.”
Surprised? We’ve been seeing building and worsening signs of increasing inflation since at least early summer, if not earlier. It’s bad enough if the president runs around insisting no serious economist believes there is unchecked inflation; it’s worse if the president and his staff actually believe what they’re saying.
Related: Milton Friedman’s Revenge: “Friedman, whose empiricism led him to embrace free market public policy, was the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century. But Biden has a weird habit of treating Friedman as a devilish spirit who must be exorcised from the nation’s capital. For Biden, Friedman represents deregulation, low taxes, and the idea that a corporation’s primary responsibility is not to a group of politicized ‘stakeholders’ but to its shareholders. ‘Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore,’ Biden told Politico last year. ‘When did Milton Friedman die and become king?’ Biden asked in 2019. The truth is that Friedman, who died in 2006, has held little sway over either Democrats or Republicans for almost two decades. But Biden wants to mark the definitive end of Friedman and the ‘neoliberal’ economics he espoused by unleashing a tsunami of dollars into the global economy and inundating Americans with new entitlements. The irony is that Biden’s rejection of Friedman’s teachings on money, taxes, and spending may bring about the same circumstances that established Friedman’s preeminence. In a year or two, the American economy and Biden’s political fortunes may look considerably different than when Janet Yellen blurted out the obvious about inflation. Voters won’t like the combination of rising prices and declining assets. Biden’s experts might rediscover that it is difficult to control or stop inflation once it begins. And Milton Friedman will have his revenge.”
A PLATFORM ABOUT NOTHING: Twitter Has a Dirty Little Secret.
To give you an idea of what our company-wide suspension has meant to us in real terms, I want you to imagine a particular scenario.
You’re enjoying a nice conversation in a dark bar when a big, tough-looking guy starts getting in your face, telling you to shut your mouth. You try to ignore him, but the taunting persists. Finally, you’ve had enough, and you tell the bully you’ll meet him outside.
But once you see him clearly for the first time, illuminated under a bright streetlamp, you can tell that the man who looked so big and tough under cover of darkness is actually quite old and much frailer than you’d thought.
That’s Twitter.
Read the whole thing.
WHILE PRESIDENT, REAGAN DESCRIBED BIDEN AS ‘SMOOTH BUT PURE DEMOGOGUE’ IN HIS PERSONAL DIARY: Kyle Rittenhouse’s Mom Slams Joe Biden for Defaming Her Son: ‘He Did It for Votes.’
Of course, it’s been years since Biden was smooth.
TOP Seller: KA-BAR 1213 Black Straight Edge Knife / Hard Sheath #CommissionEarned
EVERYONE IS A CONSERVATIVE ABOUT WHAT THEY KNOW BEST: Mega-rich Pelosi objected to ‘billionaire tax’ in $1.75T spending bill.
SENSE AND NONSENSE ON THE ‘TAX GAP:’ Chris Edwards at the Cato Institute digs into the $80 billion extra for the IRS in His Fraudulency’s Build Back Better (BBB) spending plan and finds — surprise! — that they aren’t telling us the truth about that “tax gap.”
“The U.S. tax gap is fairly low by international standards. The official net federal tax gap of $381 billion is 2.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). One pro‐enforcement group puts the gap at 2.5 percent of GDP. If we add in an estimated state‐local tax gap, then the total U.S. gap would be about 3.9 percent of GDP. By comparison, this study estimated that the average tax gap in the European Union (EU) is 5.6 percent of GDP, while this study found that the average EU tax gap is 10.7 percent of GDP,” Edwards writes.
And did you know Biden’s BBB repeals an important requirement that an IRS analyst who wants to assess the agency’s steep under-payment penalty against a taxpayer must first get a sign-off from a superior?
Edwards has much more. No wonder Biden, Yellen, Schumer, Pelosi, et. al. aren’t talking much about this part of the BBB.