NPR: Failed communal Massachusetts colony

Socialism isn’t evil because it fails, it fails because it is evil.

And even if you start with the most devout and well-intentioned people, it will make them corrupt, envious and lazy.

It’s a lesson we have to learn sooner or later.

Waiting for regularly scheduled meeting

while people die.

The FDA could hold an emergency meeting to extend vaccine eligibility to 5-11 year olds, but anti-virals that could save patients wait until the scheduled Nov 30 meeting for consideration.

Merck and Pfizer have pills that can cut deaths to near zero. Studies were cut short to get them into use ASAP.

But the FDA can’t be rushed.

Could it be that they just don’t want people to have alternatives to vaccination?

Is this an exception to Hanlon’s Razor?

National Review, prosecutorial misconduct.

Judge Schroeder is being placed in a very uncomfortable position. He really wants to leave it to the jury but he may have to put an end to this travesty himself.

The prosecutors effectively testified to allegations unsupported by evidence.

Depending on what happens with the jury Schroeder will have to choose between allowing the prosecution to try again or ending the mess with a mistrial with prejudice.

Reason Biden invokes ‘I Pencil’ without attribution

In an attempt to explain supply chain complexity, President Biden borrows from Leonard Read’s classic 

I Pencil 

while clearly not understanding it at all. The whole point of I Pencil is that through price signals, markets self-organize supply chains and automatically compensate for scarcity and interruptions.  Biden used the reference to justify massive interference in those markets with controlled sourcing. 

My 8 year old grandson understands I Pencil and no doubt would make a better President. 

WSJ Lomberg Cost of policy vs costs of change

Lomberg accepts the UN estimates of warming from CO2 emissions.

I don’t. For many reasons I believe the effect of CO2 is overstated by  double or more, but even using the UN numbers, the cure can be worse than the disease.

WSJ Pushing back tyranny in VA

It will be worth it just to hear the screams of the woke.

When a university hires a physicist, we should hear what he thinks about physics, not equity.

Saving civilization with cheap power

The Yellowstone Supervolcano could erupt any time. It’s a ticking time bomb due sometime in the next 50,000 years.

But with techniques developed for fracking, it can be defused and power almost half of America.

Another example of technology, not austerity, being a solution.

When he is busy destroying himself.

NPR Manchin blasts ‘gimmicks’

House Democrats assume Manchin is as easily fooled as the MSM at their peril.

White Supremacists at Youngkin rally exposed

When a band of White Supremacists, complete with Tiki torches, showed up at a Youngkin rally to show their support, the pictures went viral and gullible news media spread the word.

But it turns out they were paid Democrat staffers in a false flag operation. Democrats just can’t win without lies and deception.