Source: American Thinker.

The writer recounts key details of the Trayvon Martin case and connects the false narrative of George Zimmerman’s guilt to the false narrative of Kyle Rittenhouse’s guilt. I doubt the insight will have much effect.

A strange type of thinking has become commonplace today. It is the habit of reasoning from penumbras. Thus, for example, if Zimmerman and Rittenhouse can be portrayed as being defective in some general way, then the particular actions for which they faced judgement must have been defective, too. Short form: I don’t like the guy; therefore he must be guilty.

Let’s assume that $100 pays for 100 jobs that create 100 goods. For our purposes it doesn’t matter who spends the money: the jobs will occur and the goods will be created. It does, however, matter how the money is obtained.

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Source: American Thinker.

It’s a fair question. One can certainly imagine the process: First black markets exploit security weaknesses to become profitable; the profits fund black market security, resulting in military-style control of territory; then, confronted with a choice between open warfare and assimilation, a feckless sovereign (us) grants statehood.

Migration is indistinguishable from war.

Source: ZeroHedge.

Posted just for the record.

In an ideal world this acquittal would be ho hum. This being a real world, I’m waiting to see how many different ways we’ll be told not to believe our own eyes.

Source: The Wall Street Journal (free link).

WSJ’s concluding paragraph deserves emphasis:

Keep in mind that CBO this summer projected that annual deficits will already exceed $1 trillion on average through 2030, causing U.S. debt to swell by $12.8 trillion—and that’s before the infrastructure bill or this House bill. When the spending all kicks in, and the rich are all taxed out, the middle class will be hit with a huge tax increase. This is the most dishonest spending bill in American history.

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I’ve been looking into this question since it came up in the Forum recently. The answers are somewhat complex, but it turns out there really are “evil doers” to blame.

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Source: Marginal Revolution.

Tyler Cowen wants to know. I think I can explain.

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Source: The Wall Street Journal (free link).

It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry over this story. Laughter is appropriate because Stumble Joe’s administration so obviously and clownishly exceeded its authority. But tears are appropriate just because it tried; it is an awful thing to see an attempted murder of liberty.

The topic of ancient languages and what we know about them came up in another thread recently, so I thought it might be relevant to share this video that covers the linguistic issues rather nicely.

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Source: Bacon’s Rebellion.

I have a personal coincidence with this story. Just this week I had a Medicare “wellness consultation” with one of the residents at the EVMS clinic I use for primary care. When it came time in the course of the standardized interview for me to ask any questions I might have, I asked whether it might be wise for me to stock up on Ivermectin in case I might need it this winter.

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