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Former Ted Cruz and Jim DeMint communications director, Amanda Carpenter takes aim at the fight over voting rights.
“You can’t have a reasonable debate about voting rights with people who wanted to cancel votes.“
Continue reading “The Bulwark: “Election Integrity” Means Restriction”Source: American Institute for Economic Research.
“This is an important issue that needs to be addressed much more vigorously than has been the case up until now.”
I agree with the writer. What is liberty if those who harm no one must prove themselves to others? It is nothing. It doesn’t exist.
Written by someone who lived under Communist rule and saw the end of it makes an interesting comparison between the Communist leaders of his country and youth with today’s GOP and their media cronies.
And many times it has been asked when the GOP started down the path they are on and the answer has been, many times, Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House. Mr. Klavana found a much earlier indicator of where the party was going: Ronald Reagan, 1964.
Continue reading “The Bulwark: The GOP and Conservative Media Now Resemble the Communists of My Youth”The origins of private property are obscure. We can imagine there was a time in which it didn’t exist, and that some time later it did. But how do we account for it’s manifestation?
Continue reading “To Understand Economics, First Understand Private Property”https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-weisselberg-idUSKBN2AZ0IO
In the movie “The Untouchables”, there is a masterfully suspense laden scene involving a baby carriage and the arrival of Capone’s accountant at the train station. The accountant kind of resembled Mr. Weisselberg, Trump accountant since 1973.
I came across this little gem while looking for a way to make sense of a comment that flummoxed me in another thread: “Capitalism is an economic construct, not a social one.”
The Tour addresses the comment in it’s first panel, but not in great depth. Instead, it merely alludes to the historical (or social) context in which capitalism evolved.
But it is an important point. Capitalism is a naturally occurring phenomenon, not an invented one. It is a reality, not a philosophy.
I have always associated progressives with either communists of the Marxian variety or socialists of the Robert Owen variety. I am accordingly thankful to have my perspective revised by associating progressives with Jeremy Bentham, of whom I know very little, but in whose Wikipedia biography I see much that is both familiar and repugnant.
Beyond that, the writer captures the contemporary progressive mindset exactly as I experience it: Practicalities just don’t matter.
Self righteousness of the cancel culture.
Go ahead, show me one time in history where those who set out to censor books or speech turned out to be the good guys in the end.
For that matter, show me where politicians who sought to disarm their people didn’t eventually need shooting.
Home schooling at the compound Continue reading “Applied Physics”
VA least safe state in pandemic
Thanks to Mr Smith for finding this link.
The study, which places the highest weight on death rate rather than vaccination rate, shows VA the state where you’re most likely to die of COVID.
That’s what happens when you use scarce vaccines to pay political debts instead of vaccinating the most vulnerable. Fortunately. with more vaccine becoming available, evne Northam won’t be able to prevent those who should have been vaccinated first from eventually being protected.
Of course, with the appointments being made in secret, maybe he’ll find a way.
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