More on liberty
This ties into an earlier post of mine today on liberty. Funny stuff, but grim: While we’re at it, I’ll add this interview with Sidney Powell. Not funny, but insightful:
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Liberals and liberty
Liberals may be into freedom in the sense of throwing off what they consider the shackles of tradition in sexual, cultural, and religious matters, but they don’t seem to be into liberty anymore, and haven’t been for quite some time. … Continue reading →
Dire predictions for Georgia and Florida COVID deaths have so far not panned out
This is extremely encouraging: We were told that states ending their lockdowns and freeing the people were going to see widespread infections and increased deaths. We were told that bringing quarantines to an end would bring doom. We were told … Continue reading →
China, China, and more China
From Richard Fernandez: If all this Chinese espionage, hacking and secrets theft is so widespread, how come it never came to prominence before? It's like it sprang fully formed from Zeus' forehead. If it is real the scandal is why … Continue reading →
“They can’t arrest us all”: the Laguna Beach uprising
[Hat tip: American Digest.] Actually, they could arrest them all, if they called in enough police, and wanted to. But they don’t really want to at this point. One of the most interesting things to me in the video is … Continue reading →
Governor Abbott of Texas bans jail for business openers…
…and frees Shelley Luther. Throwing Texans in jail whose biz's shut down through no fault of their own is wrong. I am eliminating jail for violating an order, retroactive to April 2, superseding local orders. Criminals shouldn’t be released to … Continue reading →
Dennis Prager thinks the worldwide lockdown may have been the biggest mistake in history
I sometimes agree with Prager, but not here: But for those open to reading thoughts they may differ with, here is the case for why the worldwide lockdown is not only a mistake but also, possibly, the worst mistake the … Continue reading →
Texas AG: Free Shelley Luther!
This: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has called for the “immediate release” of a Dallas salon owner who was arrested and sent to jail for opening her business in defiance of Gov. Greg Abbott’s stay-at-home orders… “I find it outrageous … Continue reading →
COVID shutdown protests: Will it be a bang or a whimper?
From T. S. Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men: In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river… This is the way the world ends This is the way the … Continue reading →
More on Flynn. And still more.
I know there’s other news today, too, besides the Flynn case. But it’s the Flynn case that’s on my mind. It seems to me it illustrates the fact that, step by slow step over the last couple of decades (maybe … Continue reading →
Fear is an opportunity for tyranny
And ’twas ever thus. One of the many lessons of the COVID-19 response is how easily public officials embrace tyranny, and how many people accept it because of fear. I’m afraid of COVID-19. I’m in a relatively high-risk group, and … Continue reading →
All things China
I grew up in an era when China was not only considered an enemy, but an unknown country that was rarely visited and from which little information came that filtered down to the American people: US policy toward China during … Continue reading →