Lee Zeldin will be the EPA Director, and he is a mixed bag

Lee Zeldin will be the EPA Director, and he is a mixed bag

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https://rollcall.com/2024/11/12/zeldin-trumps-pick-as-epa-head-was-a-bit-player-on-environment/ Good things: He’s against turning the frickin frogs gay: “He was one of 23 Republicans in 2021 who voted in favor of a bill that would have placed some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, under a National Drinking Water Standard.” Zeldin voted against both the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law and the 2022 climate tax and health care reconciliation law. Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen doesn’t like him because she is a rabid communist. Bad things: He also […]

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My Apologies for an Erroneous Post Faulting a N.Y. Times Article

My Apologies for an Erroneous Post Faulting a N.Y. Times Article

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I erroneously put it up before rechecking it, and fortunately caught the error within six minutes and promptly deleted the post. The post basically faulted this New York Times article for characterizing the resignation of Laura Helmuth at the Scientific American as just “Editor Resigns After Calling Some Trump Supporters ‘Fascists,’” without discussing the vulgar nature of the editor’s posts. But the Times article did note the comments were “expletive-laden,” and I realize that my criticism was misguided. My apologies to […]

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TGIF: Police-State Progressives

TGIF: Police-State Progressives

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Progressives see themselves as, well, progressive. But they aren’t. Even at their best, in opposing the national security state, they support massive government power in other realms. of life. At heart they are social engineers. They seek a “moral equivalent of war,” that is, regimentation without bloodshed. They are even anti-democratic when it suits them. We can see all of this through the eyes of Ludwig von Mises. This is from his book Planned Chaos (1947; free audiobook […]

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Quotation of the Day…

Quotation of the Day…

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Tweet … is from page 134 of Thomas Sowell’s 2008 volume, Economic Facts and Fallacies: Concern over poverty is often confused with concern over differences in income, as if the wealth of the wealthy derives from, and is the reason for, the poverty of the poor. But this is just one of the many forms of the zero-sum fallacy. Since the United States contains several times as many billionaires as any other country, ordinary Americans would be among […]

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By the end of Biden’s term, Trump and Biden will have contributed EQUALLY to the national debt (therefore frivolous spending), which is almost DOUBLE what Obama did. Does the “Lesser of Two Evils” gang care to explain this?

By the end of Biden’s term, Trump and Biden will have contributed EQUALLY to the national debt (therefore frivolous spending), which is almost DOUBLE what Obama did. Does the “Lesser of Two Evils” gang care to explain this?

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If Trump is imagined to be more libertarian or a lesser evil than how is it that he increased the debt almost double what Obama (w VP Biden) did on a per year basis, and equal to what Biden (w VP Kamala) did? We all remember Biden’s horrible economy (and im guilty of this same blame game), but if you look at the numbers objectively Biden did the SAME damage Trump did, not more. And then Trump has […]

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