Here:
The campus violence and urban riots of the decade, from Harlem to Watts to Newark and Detroit, to Washington, D.C., and 100 cities after Dr. King’s death, were not the work of the Goldwater right.
Saturday, June 17, 2017
F. H. Buckley doesn't have a clue how to kill the administrative state
Here. And I won't bore you with any of the impotent suggestions.
The only way to kill the administrative state is to cut off its food supply, which is taxes in quantity. That's why it took so long to get to the administrative state: The constitution effectively outlawed taxes in quantity by outlawing any taxation save for direct taxation and excises and tariffs.
We could start by abolishing withholding, on our way to abolishing the income tax. But frankly, this will require a revolution, including in thinking. And you won't find anything revolutionary from F. H. Buckley.
Real conservatives know that without the income tax there would be no administrative state to speak of. Fake conservatives pretend that we can have limited government short of abolishing it.
Friday, June 16, 2017
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Flashback: The New York Times Jan. 9, 2011, updated for today
Here, updated for today, but not by The New York Times:
It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to Republicans Democrats or Tea Party members Bernie Sanders' most devoted supporters. But it is legitimate to hold Republicans Democrats and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats actual incidents of violence against peacefully assembling Republicans, setting the nation on edge. Many on the right left have exploited the arguments of division, reaping political power by demonizing immigrants cops, or welfare recipients white people, or bureaucrats small business owners. They seem to have persuaded many Americans that the government Republican Party is not just misguided, but the enemy of the people.
Where are all the Democrats calling for calm, denouncing violence?
Same crickets we hear from Muslims after terrorist attacks.
Camille Paglia crafts an anti-elitist zinger, aimed at our modern day Puritans, calls Comey an effete charlatan
From the interview here:
These elite Democrats occupy an amorphous meta-realm of subjective emotion, theoretical abstractions, and refined language. But Trump is by trade a builder who deals in the tangible, obdurate, objective world of physical materials, geometry, and construction projects, where communication often reverts to the brusque, coarse, high-impact level of pre-modern working-class life, whose daily locus was the barnyard. It's no accident that bourgeois Victorians of the industrial era tried to purge "barnyard language" out of English.
Recession omen: 33 states to miss revenue targets, highest number since 2010
From the story here:
Thirty-three states will miss revenue projections in Fiscal Year 2017, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers. That’s the highest number of states to miss revenue targets since 2010, during the middle of the recession, when 36 states missed projections.
In total, states anticipate revenues falling short by $12 billion. Most of the shortfall comes from sales tax collections, which are projected to be down $6.6 billion. That troubles some economists because sales taxes are traditionally the most stable revenue sources for states.
Your kid probably isn't working this summer like he should be, because of the minimum wage and cheap immigrant labor
The population level of teenagers in 2017 has recovered to 1978 levels, but only 29% are employed in May 2017 vs. 47% in May 1978.
The minimum wage has made it too expensive to hire your kid to recover shopping carts at the grocery store, and soaring immigration means your kid competes against Francisco to cut the grass and Sanjay to sell ice cream.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Full Oceanic Nino Index data trend shows the Pacific Ocean is definitely cooling slightly
Not quite 0.1 ONI value point since 1951. Data for 2017 shown is for ten months, all the rest twelve.
You know what a baseball field full of dead Republican Congressmen would have meant to the shooter?
A complete and utter shutdown of legislative business which would have made it impossible to move any of the Trump agenda forward at all.
After all, that's been the goal of the Democrats all along.
This leftist shooter simply thought he had found a more definitive way to delay and obstruct Trump. The Party of Violence strikes again.
Someone better find out if he had help, as in . . . conspiracy.
Sounds totally rational to me. Sinister, but rational.
Mollie Hemingway throws together a litany of James Comey's many misdeeds and mistakes
But stops short of calling Comey a law unto himself for some reason, which is what he is.
The article reads like it was written to meet a deadline, and suffers for it.
The best reminder in the story is that under Comey the FBI destroyed evidence, just like Hillary did, for which they both should be in prison:
[U]pon learning that two Clinton staff members had classified information, the FBI didn’t subpoena those computers but gave the employees immunity in return for giving them up. The FBI severely limited their own searches for data on the computers and then destroyed them. A technician who destroyed evidence lied to FBI investigators even after he received immunity, and Comey did nothing. And after the FBI discovered that President Obama had communicated with Clinton on the non-secure server, Obama said he didn’t think Clinton should be charged with a crime because she hadn’t intended to harm national security. As former Attorney General Michael Mukasey noted, “As indefensible as his legal reasoning may have been, his practical reasoning is apparent: If Mrs. Clinton was at criminal risk for communicating on her nonsecure system, so was he.”
Here.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
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