Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 23, 2024
HMM: Even 1 cigarette a day during pregnancy can harm baby. I don’t know how babies can even smoke one cigarette during pregnancy.
THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE IS ON THE CASE: South Fulton’s Protectionist Zoning:
Between rent, the security deposit, and building out her shop, Awa spent nearly $20,000. But then came time for the City Council to vote for her license. To her shock, when the City Council met it was not concerned with how to welcome a new business, but instead focused on protecting other businesses from competition.
Their language was anything but subtle.
One member said that it was “not fair” that an existing salon would “have to compete” with Awa. The Council even said that Awa should forget the thousands of dollars she invested, start over, and find a new location where she wouldn’t be “competing with anyone.” The Council rejected her permit—not because her shop was unsafe or failed to meet any regulations, but rather to stifle competition from other politically favored businesses.
This blanket economic protectionism is unconstitutional. The South Fulton City Council cannot shut out new businesses just to protect existing ones from competition. The Georgia Supreme Court said so just last year in another IJ case involving lactation consultants.
Every American has the right to use their property to earn a living without arbitrary government interference. The government cannot pick and choose who gets to pursue the American Dream.
The remedy should include not only her license and damages, but mandatory training in civics and economics for the South Fulton City Council.
PRO-NATAL POLITICS: Legal scholars say parents should get extra votes.
SABO STRIKES AGAIN:
MARK JUDGE: David French Isn’t a Conservative.
TAR AND FEATHERS: Most ‘swamp’ managers say voters don’t matter. “Washington’s bureaucracy, expanded and emboldened by the Biden-Harris administration, feels so secure that most managers would impose new regulations even if voters ‘overwhelmingly’ rejected their plans. In the latest sign of the disconnect between Washington’s ‘swamp’ and the rest of the country, 54% of federal government managers would defy voters to do what they want, according to a new Napolitan Institute survey conducted by Scott Rasmussen and shared with Secrets.”
WELL, THIS SUMS IT UP:
They need you to hate Donald Trump more than inflation.
They need to you hate Donald Trump more than open borders.
They need to you hate Donald Trump more than fentanyl and drugs on our streets.
They need to you hate Donald Trump more than our children being killed by…
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 20, 2024
BRITAIN IS BECOMING A RACIST, TOTALITARIAN STATE: I’m Sure Throwing J.K. Rowling In Jail Over Her Tweets Will Calm Everything Down.
UPDATE:
How bad are hate speech laws in the UK? Saying "it's OK to be white" can result in a harsher sentence than child pornography. @abigailandwords found numerous cases in which UK judges jailed thought criminals while letting actual criminals off the hook.
The list is shocking.🧵 pic.twitter.com/ell2A5hjdi
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) August 20, 2024
EITHER THAT OR ITS A MONEY LAUNDRY: Are ActBlue’s Donors Even Real? “There’s definitely something fishy going on. And there is definitely no chance at all that the Department of Justice or the FEC will investigate it in this administration.”
OH, I HOPE HE MEANS IT:
I mentioned this a month or so ago, now it has cropped up again. Pres. Trump has repeatedly indicated a preference for a massive senior leadership turnover at the Pentagon, should he win in November.
I think there’s a good chance he means it.
pic.twitter.com/AnWWfcDHpg— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) August 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
VICE PRESIDENT ZERO:
Kamala got zero votes, has given zero press conferences, has given zero interviews, and had to stage buying a bag of Doritos.
This is the most ridiculous, anti-democratic, laughable joke I’ve ever seen in politics.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) August 22, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SLS contract extension hints at additional Artemis delays.
THAT THEIR ROCKETS ARE BLOWING UP IS NOT A BIG DEAL; EVERYONE’S DO FROM TIME TO TIME. IT’S THAT THEY AREN’T DOING MUCH ELSE. Blue Origin Rockets Crumple And Explode in Two Incidents.
I’d very much like Blue Origin to succeed, and as great as SpaceX is it would be better with competition. But come on, guys, show me something.
NOW THEY TELL US: Alzheimer’s May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals.
WELL, THE GUY SPEAKING WAS SHOT BY THE OPPOSITION: Trump says he thinks that Biden withdrew because he was “threatened… violently.”
#JOURNALISM:
311,457,587 people saw the original lie. 2,598 people saw the retraction. https://t.co/GPG59rjApq
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) August 22, 2024
EVERYTHING THAT GUY JUST SAID IS BULLSHIT:
DNC speakers Weds who went to Ivy League schools:
Cory Booker (Yale)
Amy Klobuchar (Yale)
Bill Clinton (Yale)
Jared Polis (Princeton)
Olivia Troye (Penn)
Mindy Kaling (Dartmouth)
Pete Buttigieg (Harvard)
Amanda Gorman (Harvard)
John Legend (Penn)Vance Man Bad! Class traitor! https://t.co/353CzDVwmG
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) August 22, 2024
KEEP AN EYE ON THAT DR. SMITH CHARACTER, HE LOOKS SHADY: Starliner Stranded in Space? NASA Answers FAQs on Astronauts’ Return Status.
TAKE DOWN THE JUNIOR ANTI-SEX LEAGUE, FOR STARTERS: Joel Kotkin: Will we survive the sex war? The era of eros is coming to a close.
Related:
"Depression increased the most among liberal young women, where it went from 15% in the late 2000s to 46% in 2021-22 — more than tripling in a little more than a decade."
— Jean Twenge pic.twitter.com/5VOeE2NIo5
— Paul Graham (@paulg) August 21, 2024
Leftist politics make everyone neurotic and unhappy. This is not by accident, but by design.
Related: Neurosis and the Curley Effect.