Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Earlier virus testing probably wouldn’t have changed anything; public private partnership are phenomenal, and there’s still work to be done. When the After Action Review is written on the current pandemic, expect the thickest chapter to revolve around testing. Trying to wade through the Trump hatred that virulently infects virtually
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Trump is the avatar of an American reformation, for he is destroying the dangerous Leftist edifice that has turned our constitutional government into a god. A few quotations to begin. The first is from Charles Lipson, writing about Mueller’s sinking reputation (and I guarantee that my ellipses are honest): Republicans
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I’m still vibrating from the excitement of an evening hearing Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, and Steve Hayward, something I try to share in this post. Thanks to a kind friend, last night I once again had the inestimable pleasure of attending PRI’s annual gala. This year, Mark Steyn was
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The little tyrants at Child Protective Services suggest that, when full-blown tyranny comes to the West, it will be death by bureaucracy, not gas chambers. Please pardon my silence today. I spent several hours helping a friend edit a petition challenging the Child Protective Services agency active in his community.
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Evil losers, bureaucrats facing job insecurity, the anger that drives some cities, and why the Left loves transgenderism — my friends and I cover it all. The advantage of living in a blue bastion is that your conservative friends are burnished in a type of crucible. It takes an affirmative
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VDH comments on the most scandalous thing of all about Comey’s firing: namely, the fact that firing bureaucrats for malfeasance stopped for eight years. Victor Davis Hanson has a habit of writing brilliant posts. When something is a standout even by the high standards VDH has set for himself, you
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Digging into the known facts about Trump’s alleged leak of classified information, shows media bias and hints that the Deep State is spying on Trump. I always wait 24 hours before commenting on the Left’s latest bout of hysteria because, since Trump became president, those hysterical outbursts are invariably wrong.
Continue readingMistakes. We all make them. Lord knows, anyone reading my blog knows that there are days when I can call myself the Mistake Queen. I’m a careless typist and a lousy proofreader, especially when rushed or stressed, two things that describe me most of the time. I have a large
Continue readingSometimes distance provides perspective. My travels meant that, rather than being enveloped by news as I usually am, I read it only intermittently, and often through the New York Times’ filter, since that was the only news to which I had access for many days at a time. The few
Continue readingThe one good thing about bad news is that it brings out the best in good writers. You really must read Mark Steyn’s whole column about Obama’s East German spy state, but I can resist cherry-picking for the best of it: So we know the IRS is corrupt. What happens
Continue readingI have no opinion whatsoever about POM’s pomegranate juice. I do, however, have strong opinions about bullying government agencies that use threats, economic blackmail, and death by bureaucracy to further agendas that may be costly, counter intuitive, politically driven, or otherwise disturbing to someone who, as I do, has a
Continue readingWhen we think of tyranny, we tend to think of it in sharp, dramatic, bloody terms. Tyranny is the stark economic divide between a corrupt leader and his starving people, or it’s the day to fear of citizens in a police state. Few of us recognize, or are willing to
Continue readingIn the movie Wall-E, the little robot had a task, and it did the task, long after the task’s necessity had passed. Like a funded bureaucrat, Wall-E just kept going and going and going. In California, the Department of Transportation was given a mandate and a task, and now, long
Continue readingLast night, I went to hear Atul Gawande give a talk promoting his new book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. The book’s premise is a simple one: In an increasingly complex world, even experts benefit from a routine checklist that requires them to focus on the essentials
Continue readingPeople around the world are facing food shortages but, in the magical bureacracy that is the EU, food is being destroyed for being a millimeter off of Brussels regulations: A market trader has been banned from selling a batch of kiwi fruits because they are 1mm smaller than EU rules
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