Jul 16
With few exceptions, social media “fact checkers” are used by major media platforms to replace inconvenient (to government) facts with pro-government talking points. Now Facebook is attaching a “misleading” stamp on posts that point out that the coronavirus death rate is in the range of tenths of 1% or lower. The “fact checkers” claim “The …
Jul 12
The great LewRockwell.com writer Charles Burris has some keen insights into the development of modern pro-government “conservatism.” As government grew throughout the twentieth century, a strain of “conservatism” arose which seemed to support this vast new growth of government programs while quibbling at the margins with tax rates, or advocating more imprisonment or ever-more-powerful surveillance. …
Jul 11
Government’s unquenchable thirst for money and power continues despite America’s cratering economy. Throughout the government’s COVID-19 impositions, no one at local, state or federal levels has lost a paycheck. Many government employees have received their paychecks in spite of having no work whatsoever to do. But the cratering economic stability of the country is already …
Jul 11
British science writer Matt Ridley has an optimistic view of the Earth’s future. Ridley points out that the Earth has been getting greener and healthier, probably due to the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere–thanks to humans. Forests and trees have been increasing. The Earth now has significantly larger areas dedicated to forests, wilderness, …
Jul 09
“When those seeking power can’t convince the populace of the merits of their ideas, they start putting people who disagree in jail, hoping that fear will keep the rest in line.” So writes Anthony Watts of Wattsupwiththat.com. Watts will surely be one of the first people arrested and imprisoned if professors at the University of …
Jul 06
New York City, once the world’s flagship of commerce and capitalism, is now a sewer of government control, rioting and misery. New York’s governing officials ordered most businesses closed for months. A story in the Daily Mail reports that 500,000 New Yorkers–disproportionately hard-working middle-class residents–have already fled the Big Apple. Streets once teeming with tourists …
Jul 02
Study the above graph carefully. It shows deaths from all causes (by week) in Arizona over the past 3 years. There was a deadly flu outbreak in 2017-18 which killed some 80,000 Americans. The graph suggests that the flu death rate in 2018 was likely worse than the death rate from coronavirus thus far this …
Jun 28
A New York University marketing professor, Scott Galloway, estimates that a thousand to two thousand of the country’s 4,500 universities could go out of business in the next 5-10 years. College shutdowns in the wake of the government’s coronavirus scare have exposed the vulnerability and inefficiency of many colleges. Colleges in the U.S. are overwhelmingly …
Jun 18
TOWNHALL columnist Ellie Bufkin warns in a recent column that a majority of small independent restaurants will not survive the government’s COVID-19 lockdowns and shutdowns. “Simply put, keeping six feet apart at all times with half the dining room closed is a practice that is mutually exclusive of financial survival for any restaurant.” A new …
Jun 18
The Wall Street Journal reports that 79 million student loans are now going unpaid after the government forced large segments of the population into poverty and unemployment. Auto loans in some type of deferment doubled to 7.3 million accounts. Personal loans in deferment doubled to 1.3 million accounts.
