Source: The Wall Street Journal (free link).

Some doctors are OK, some not, with authorization of Covid-19 booster shots without data from human trials.

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Source: Kerry: Unemployed and Unedited.

I am not entirely opposed to the federal government using its purse strings to influence the behavior of states. For example, I am in favor of de-allocating federal funding for states that allow various forms of “sanctuary city” to declare themselves within their jurisdictions. But starving children to force schools to promote weird sexual philosophies doesn’t meet my standard of acceptable federal action.

To my mind, federal extortion of the states may be acceptable when the objective is consistent with some explicable national interest and some demonstrable consensus of the public. A two part test. I do not believe that gender-identity politics meets that standard.

It seems very clear to me that Joe Biden and his clan don’t care about anyone but themselves.

Source: CNN.

Just in, still reading.

Source: The American Conservative.

This casual essay makes a serious point that is too often ignored: The wealth of nations derives from making things, always.

Source: Executive Order 13526.

Confusion over security classification persists here in the Forum. Some basic concepts may deliver some clarity.

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“If you can’t trust gay Jews to write about hot-blooded Puerto Rican teenagers, who can you trust?”

Source: PowerLine.

This article has a connection with my post (yesterday) on an American Revolution in Morals.

Continue reading “Down With the Constitution!” →

Source: Wall Street Journal.

This brilliant essay crystallizes several themes I have tried over the years — with far less success — to convey in my own words.

One note. Where the author mentions “the core disciplines of the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, moral philosophy,” he is referring to the Trivium/Quadrivium order that once was the basis for a liberal arts and science education in western societies. In less fancy language that order would be called grammar school and college and the different curriculums that characterize them.

Source: American Thinker.

In the Forum thread on FBI standard procedures for filtering materials obtained by search warrant, someone asked, “Who assigns the filter team?” It was a fair question, although at least two commenters blew it off with deflections.

Continue reading “Is the FBI even doing counterintelligence cases anymore?” →

Source: Frontpage Mag.

One of the first hard lessons I learned in early adulthood was to avoid renting an all-electric apartment. I did that once, not realizing what I was getting into, only to find the VEPCO bill was more than I could afford. I tried juggling VEPCO payments with the rent, but quickly fell behind in both. Nightmares ensued.

I think the same will happen as politicians push forward with their dream of an all-electric society. Electricity is inherently expensive because it is derived, with loses, from other forms of energy. It is also as fussy as a gold digging bride.