Archive for 2020
December 31, 2020
ENDING 2020 ON A HIGH NOTE: In a Last-Minute Reversal, HHS Voids FDA Fees on Distillers Who Produced Emergency Hand Sanitizer.
OPEN THREAD: Comment us into 2021.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: One last disaster in 2020: ‘Wonder Woman 1984.’ Message: “Ronald Reagan bad!”
THE WORLD’S TERRIBLE RULING CLASS: Ontario finance minister touted ‘sacrifices’ while vacationing in St. Barts during lockdown.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Do We Eat Black-Eyed Peas on New Year’s Day?
KURT SCHLICHTER: My Prediction for 2021 is Pain.
HOUSING ACTIVISTS CHECK IN, REFUSE TO LEAVE OR PAY: Jeff Dunetz and The Lid report they paid for 16 rooms the first night, which was Christmas Eve, then refused to leave. They are still in the Fife, Washington, Travelodge, and they aren’t paying for the rooms or damages. The activists are with the Tacoma Housing Now group and are demanding that local government pay all of their expenses.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Study: As pot rules relax, more U.S. teens driving while stoned.
THE BIDEN ILLEGITIMACY:
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: 14 Great Pocket Pistols for Personal Defense.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Poll Observer Claims ‘Statistically Impossible’ Number of Military Ballots in Georgia County Went for Biden.
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR: Dave Portnoy.
Portnoy wasn’t done. The 2016 Free Beacon Man of the Year established The Barstool Fund to raise money for small business owners. In less than two weeks, the fund brought in more than $8.7 million, and helped save dozens of small businesses from financial ruin. Portnoy’s FaceTime calls with grateful business owners provided the heartwarming content so many of us craved in these difficult times.
Portnoy has offered to go on any network to talk about his efforts, but thus far only Fox News has put him on the air. CNN has better things to do, apparently, like keeping track of Trump’s golfing schedule.
“I didn’t think I’d be the guy doing it,” Portnoy told Tucker Carlson after launching the fund. “I’d rather be sitting on a beach, betting on horses, drinking, but nobody else is going to do it. We have this big platform, so we’re going to try to help as many small businesses as we can.”
For all the awards journalists keep giving themselves, few have ever done anything to deserve one.
Until now.
For perhaps the first time in human history, a media personality has made a positive contribution to society by improving the lives of working people who don’t have time to follow politics obsessively on Twitter.
I’m so old, I can (just barely) remember a time before journalists inverted Chicago Evening Post columnist Finley Peter Dunne’s 1893 notion that “The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED: When There Wasn’t Enough Hand Sanitizer, Distilleries Stepped Up. Now They’re Facing $14,060 FDA Fees. Distilleries just learned that to cap off a brutal year, the FDA is charging them a fee normally reserved for drug manufacturing facilities.
CRUSHING THE NARRATIVE: Organic, non-organic meats have similar greenhouse gas impacts.
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