Merrick Garland knows nothing and has no opinions.

Garland Evasive before Senate

Merrick Garland, in his testimony before the Senate seeking confirmation as Attorney General is setting records for evasiveness when questioned on important issues. “I know nothing about…” was a common answer when queried about important matters he would be making decisions on. Makes one wonder what he has been doing the last 4 years.

He asserted that gun control would be an important priority, but then professed to have no opinion on the  meaning of the 2nd Amendment.

I don’t know if he will be conformed or not, but thank goodness McConnell kept this weasel off of the Supreme Court.

Now, this is what the Logan Act is about

Kerry advises Iran to ‘wait out’ Trump administrations

John Kerry, and others serving in the Biden administration, met with Iranian officials during the Trump administration and advised them to not make a new deal with Trump and to instead wait out the Trump administration to get a better deal.

That is the kind of undermining of foreign policy the Logan Act was passed to address.

At the least, this should be the end of any kind of official position of Trust for Kerry and if it is determined that Biden or Harris had any knowledge of the meetings, impeachment proceedings should begin.

Sabotaging of the official diplomatic process for political gain is treason.

Texas versus the Future

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/texas-vs-the-future?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210221&instance_id=27357&nl=the-morning&regi_id=18949924&segment_id=52096&te=1&user_id=45fc4046d933a4a135ed01d747c3bd8c

Want to understand what is really going on behind the scenes in the Texas power meltdown? Read this article which puts the whole mess in technical, economic and political perspective.

One fact developed in the article that I had not been fully aware of is the remarkable strides that wind and solar sources have made economically in the last ten years. Those strides are summarized in this chart . . .

Slightly Woozier Thoughts on the Impossibility of Justice

Source: The Unz Review.

Ten perspectives on our justice system by a one-time police reporter. I find all of them compelling.

Overall, I don’t think the design of our justice system can be much improved and I suspect that outright corruption is a bigger problem than is generally appreciated. I think, too, that our public choices reflect a shifting mixture of wrong ideas about crime and criminals.

Here is what really caused the Texas power disaster – Doctrinaire “Free Market” thinking.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-freeze-power-grid-failure-electricity-market-incentives-11613777856?mod=e2tw

From the leftist Wall Street Journal . . .

“The core problem: Power providers can reap rewards by supplying electricity to Texas customers, but they aren’t required to do it and face no penalties for failing to deliver during a lengthy emergency. That led to the fiasco that left millions of people in the nation’s second-most-populous state without power for days. A severe storm paralyzed almost every energy source, from power plants to wind turbines, because their owners hadn’t made the investments needed to produce electricity in subfreezing temperatures.”

Decline of science by politics

WSJ Science needs critics, not cheerleaders.

I have often been aghast at the decline of what passes as science in the popular press, and recently, even in peer reviewed publications. Richard Feynman warned that “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” and sometimes it appears that many politically biased scientists have taken that as encouragement.

Prof. John Staddon of Duke has had enough.