Author: Don Tabor

I am a former Chairman of the Tidewater Libertarian Party and was the 2007 LP candidate for the 14th district VA Senate. Previously, I was the Volunteer State Director for the FairTax. I am married 50 years with two grown children and 5 grandchildren.

Another Climate boogeyman crashes into reality

Statistical analysis of hurricane frequency and intensity

170 years with no trend and no correlation to CO2 levels.

“First you guess. Don’t laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn’t matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.” Richard P Feynman.

The GOP has chosen its candidate for Governor

Kerry Dougherty on the GOP choosing Youngkin

As a Libertarian, I don’t participate in GOP or Democratic primaries or conventions but I would say the GOP has learned from past mistakes.

Amanda Chase was a sure loser, a shrill Trump-in-heels who turned off too many.

Kirk Cox is a personal friend, I delivered yard signs for him when he first ran for the GA. But he is a creature of the party establishment. He would be a great Speaker of the House, with deep knowledge of the issues and on how to get things done. He is a great guy, but not the winning candidate.

That left Glenn Youngkin and Pete Snyder, both successful and charismatic outsiders with deep pockets and appeal in the middle.  There were some awful negative campaign ads against Youngkins, trying to link him to China because the Carlyle Group sis business there, as pretty much every investment group does. I don’t know in Snyder was directly involved, but he didn’t condemn those ads either.

So, all-in-all, I think the GOP did well.

Woke insanity continues

California is considering ditching sentence enhancements

California, with the cooperation of 2nd Amendment advocates, passed a law long ago that makes sentence enhancements available to judges for the use of a firearm in a crime. These enhancements are often plea bargained away, but even so, the legislature is poised to remove them.

Not because they are enforced unfairly, nor because they don’t serve as a deterrent, but because Blacks are disproportionately affected because they so heavily rely on the use of firearms in criminal activity.

It’s a good idea, employed impartially, but the outcome doesn’t meet ‘equity’ goals, it will be discarded.

(Napoleon, are you watching?)

Measles parties

No article, just memory. Back in the 1950s, every summer, mothers used to bring their kids to measles or chicken pox parties to deliberately expose their kids to the diseases at a time when they would not miss school as a result.

There was no vaccine then, and it was regarded as certain that your kid was going to get them sooner or later, so it made sense to control when. It was also believed, especially with mumps, that the younger they got them, the less likely they would be severe.

Once they had them, they were safe from then on.

Note that they did not have Polio parties. Polio killed children,

So, considering how long it will be before the vaccines will reach all children, I wonder if COVID parties for kids of vaccinated parents might not be a good idea this summer before the schools reopen in the fall?

Am I serious? Maybe half way, but it makes more sense than the anti-vaxers.