The writer makes a subtle, but profoundly significant point. He notes that the infrastructure plan won’t create jobs in excess of the employment rate. The observation merits contemplation.
Here Is What Republican Voters Really Believe in.
Some on this forum casually claim a perfect election. They have to know this is not the case. For example, our own Scott Taylor went to bed the winner and woke up the loser. This cannot happen in the real world. As the Romans used to say, the thing speaks for itself.
Wayne Allyn Root is a practical intellectual, a very reliable witness, unlike the left-wing media. Here’s his take.
It’s Obvious — Israel Is an Apartheid State
Speaking of things we shouldn’t be funding…
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.
Think it is not all about Trump? The GOP disagrees…vehemently.
Preschool works.
Boston did not have enough money to provide preschool for all students so it chose who would get it into preschool with a random lottery. The authors have studied the long term outcomes for those who attended versus those who did not. They found little difference in academic achievement as measured by standardized tests but very substantial differences in overall success.
Democrats Are Killing the American Dream
Source: Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).
The writer takes a dim view.
Continue reading “Democrats Are Killing the American Dream”President Biden’s American Families Act makes one political reality officially clear: The Democratic Party has given up on the American dream.
Jimmy Carter Reconsidered
I have long felt that the honesty, competence, integrity and sheer decency that President Jimmy Carter brought to the White House have been grossly under-valued. Like most Democratic Presidents he inherited nearly insolvable problems from his GOP predecessors. The economy, for example, was still in the aftermath of Nixon’s attempt to control inflation by Presidential edict.
As time goes on I think it likely that history will appreciate President Carter even more while his amiable corporate spokesperson successor will be more clearly seen for the disaster that he was.
Tucker’s Vaccine Skepticism
VAERS is the name of the database industry and the public use to report adverse events (side effects) of vaccines to the CDC and the FDA. Other countries have similar systems.
Stories about VAERS and VAERS-like numbers associated with the Covid-19 vaccines have been percolating around the Internet for a number of weeks. They went mainstream a couple of nights ago when Tucker Carlson did a segment on VAERS, leading to strong reactions from other media outlets.
Continue reading “Tucker’s Vaccine Skepticism”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?)
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