Source: Public Pool.

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Source: Bacon’s Rebellion.

The writer invites readers to weigh in with answers. I think the explanation has two parts:

• The case spikes we’re seeing elsewhere are largely an illusion created by increased testing and shifting data reporting requirements.
• Pandemics peter out naturally.

Commenters at BR offer some other theories.

Source: NPR/WHRV.

This could be a big deal. We’ll have to wait and see.

Source: Cafe Hayek.

Don Boudreaux made a point on his blog yesterday that I meant to share: “Because distinctive American innovation in the first half of the 19th century – the half of that century in which slavery still existed in some of the United States – was aimed at economizing on labor, this innovation is not explained by the availability of artificially cheap labor in the American south. Indeed, the bulk of the 19th-century American entrepreneurs who innovated – the bulk of the Americans who are truly responsible for driving forward American capitalism – were driven to do what they did by the unusual scarcity in America of labor relative to land and other natural resources. If American capitalism were rooted in slavery, nineteenth century innovation would not have been aimed at economizing on labor but, instead, at using labor more intensely.”

Details at the link.

Source: National Review Online.

I have commented on President Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) act many times, often in the context of denouncing The Virginian Pilot’s support for regionalism in Hampton Roads. Cooperation among local governments is probably a good thing in many ways, but it can also become subversive, especially under the transactional influence of a central government that hand out monies.

Kurtz focuses in this piece mainly on the tax-and-spending consequences of AFFH, and its role in current political dramas, but to grasp the full implications of AFFH, it pays to follow the links to Kurtz’s early work on the act. Imagine being told you can’t live in an apartment you can afford, which is convenient to your job, and which you happen to like, because you have the wrong skin color. That’s one of the devils that live in the details of the AFFH act.

Source: RealClear Politics.

One shouldn’t extrapolate big claims from small instances, but the story does illustrate both the reality of voter fraud and the unique vulnerability of mail-in ballotting.

Source: The Unz Review.

The possibility that our known history of ancient Rome may be a fabrication is almost too fantastic to contemplate. And yet I wouldn’t be altogether surprised.

Continue reading “How Fake Is Roman Antiquity?” →

Source: Wikipedia.

The boogaloo movement has been mentioned in the Forum lately in the context of defending Antifa by suggesting that the boogaloos are more evil and may be more dangerous. There’s not much purchase in the comparison. It is like suggesting that coronavirus isn’t worth our attention because Ebola is much worse.

Continue reading “Boogaloo movement” →

Part I Source.

Part II Source.

Antifa may not be the biggest problem in America or even the worst. But it is certainly not a thing to be sympathetic toward, not one single bit or in any way.

Source: CNBC.

Thank goodness.

I see the order as a victory for the rule of law. When a prosecution drops its case, the presiding judge is obligated to dismiss it. Any other approach would invite miscarriages of justice.