The Biden administration and Congress would have you believe that the highest inflationary indicators in decades are caused by either Trump, the pandemic, unusually high demand or some sort of mass delusion we’re all experiencing. Of course none of that is true, but that hasn’t stopped CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, the[…] Read On
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2020 Is Our Generation’s Right of Passage
After three long months it sure is cool to see the Yankees right back where they left off last season, pummeling the hapless Orioles. Sometime around the fourth or fifth inning of today’s game the topic turned to how badly players wanted to play this year, in spite of the[…] Read On
1984 Ain’t Got Nothing on 2020
From Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 to Idiocracy and Zombieland we’ve seen countless depictions of depressing dystopian futures. The greatest imaginations in history have told some horrific tales of what the world might someday become. They ain’t got nothing on 2020. You know how I’m always saying, “you just can’t make[…] Read On
How to Destroy a Nation
If you really wanted to take down the greatest country in the history of the world, this is how you’d do it: React to a contagion no deadlier than the flu by locking down the entire nation, ostensibly to flatten the growth curve. Flatten the growth curve. Keep the economy[…] Read On
2020: How About a Do-Over?
First, we literally shut down the U.S. economy for three months over a virus. Now that was a first. Then we had nationwide protests and rioting over a bad cop killing a guy for no apparent reason. As if that’s never happened before. However you look at it, history will[…] Read On
We May Have Shut Down the Economy for No Reason
Get this folks: There’s a very real chance that we locked Americans in their homes for months, shut down the economy, cost the nation trillions, caused countless small businesses to fail and cost Americans millions of jobs for absolutely no reason. Permission to be cynical: California’s celebrating news that confirmed[…] Read On
Dr. Fauci, the Nanny State and the Cost of Freedom
Today, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that reopening the economy too soon without meeting appropriate checkpoints, without ensuring capacity to handle spikes in infection, could be risky. Well, duh. Tell us something we don’t know. While you’re at it, Dr. Fauci, why don’t you tell us what the odds are that[…] Read On