Source: The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).

Commenting on the president’s just released budget, WSJ’s editors all but call it insane:

If Mr. Biden gets his way, spending in fiscal 2022 will still be $6 trillion, which is some $2 trillion more than before the pandemic in 2019. Then spending will keep rising and remain a little under 25% of GDP for the rest of the decade. That level has never been reached in a single year since World War II, and the postwar pre-Covid average was 19.4%.

Translation: It is insane to tax and spend at world-war levels when there is no world war.

Continue reading “Biden Is the $6 Trillion Man” →

Source: National Review.

Finally, a reference study that supports the intuition that photo identification of voters at poling places is harmless.

Source: PJ Media.

This is great. I championed the Mueller report and Bill Barr’s decision not to prosecute then President Trump when they came out. At the time and ever since, the anti-Trumpers on this web site claimed that Mueller’s report proved Trump was guilty, at least, of obstruction of justice.

Now we learn that the obstruction allegation was never prosecutable, not on the merits, not no way; never.

Patience, patriots. Reality has a conservative bias.

CICADA-LICIOUS: Cooking and Enjoying Periodical Cicadas

The Author of a Popular Cicada Cookbook Shares Her Bug Eating Tips

Now on the Menu at DC-Area Restaurants: Brood X Cicadas

If I came across the name Mary Eberstadt in the past, I didn’t pay attention. It is, however, a great treat to discover her now in a video that appears in an article on the Bacon’s Rebellion web site.

Continue reading “The Great Scattering” →

Source: Marginal Revolution.

As population grows, so does regulation.

Continue reading “Population predicts regulation — but why?” →

Source: The Unz Review.

The writer proposes a (conspiracy) theory to explain recent media attention to UFOs. In brief he argues that the famous “tic tac” videos and testimonials from military insiders are fake and preparatory for staging a giant hoax of an extraterrestrial invasion of the planet from which the subjugation of humanity (by humans) will emerge.

Having witnessed several mass hysterias in my lifetime, I’m not inclined to dismiss the proposal out of hand.

Source: Palladium.

The essay promotes the possibility of a big rewrite of human history.

Continue reading “Why Civilization Is Older Than We Thought” →

Source: Bacon’s Rebellion.

I remember the all-electric apartments I lived in when I was young, 40 years ago. They were comfortable enough, but far more expensive than the apartments I had with gas or oil heat. The VEPCO bill was always a killer, but more aggravating was that when the electricity went off NOTHING worked except the water faucets.

Continue reading “The Electrification of Everything” →

Source: Mises Institute.

Excellent brief on how propagandists exploit the Fallacy of Four Terms.

I would add that the best defense against becoming duped is to question assumptions. Here, for example, does it really make sense to call child care a type of infrastructure?