Muda69

Not voting for the POTUS because you are lazy and not voting for the POTUS because you believe their are no appropriate candidates running are two different things.

This Health Care Law Bars Competition And Drives Up Prices, Even as a Pandemic Rages https://reason.com/2020/07/20/this-health-care-law-bars-competition-and-drives-up-prices-even-as-a-pandemic-rages/ Yet another reason why government needs to get out of the healthcare business.

Kentucky Couple Reportedly Placed Under House Arrest After Failing To Sign COVID-19 Quarantine Notice https://reason.com/2020/07/21/kentucky-couple-reportedly-placed-under-house-arrest-after-failing-to-sign-covid-19-quarantine-notice/#comments Doesn't the government have FEMA trailers for isolating questioning scofflaws like the Linscotts?

https://reason.com/2020/07/21/why-are-taxpayers-footing-the-bill-for-full-time-police-union-employees/ A disgusting waste. Yet another reason why public sector unions need to be disbanded and made illegal.

One month after statewide mask mandate, California's daily COVID case average has increased by 162%: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/one-month-after-statewide-mask-mandate-california-daily-case-average

Duh, you are right. My mistake. Indiana would be "State 19". I got the numbers 6 and 9 transposed in mind. Must have been that god-awful history/government teacher I had (RIP) ............................................

Teen Vogue to Teen Girls: Marx Good, Reagan Bad: https://spectator.org/teen-vogue-to-teen-girls-marx-good-reagan-bad/

A Study in Self-Pity https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-study-in-self-pity/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=third Asked to reflect on his term so far as he seeks re-election, the president’s answer is that he was treated unfairly. Even when he is literally invited by his interviewer to say good things about himself, all he can reach for is resentment. There is more to this than there might seem to be at first. The sense that he was being treated unfairly had a huge amount to do with why Donald Trump ran for president in the first place, and the sense that they were being treated unfairly had a lot to do with why his earliest supporters and voters found him appealing. Channeling resentment is near the source of his political prowess. And of course, he’s not wrong. The sense of resentment he has channeled has been rooted in some important realities, and even his own sense that he has been treated unfairly by his opponents as president is not mistaken. Sure he has. But that this sense of resentment is chiefly what drives him, that he can’t see past it or point beyond it, has been a crucial factor in many of his biggest failures as an executive. He has treated the world’s most powerful job as a stage from which to vent his frustrations with the world’s mistreatment of him, and this has often kept him from advancing durable aims, from capitalizing on opportunities, from learning from mistakes, and from leading. In reasonably good times, it meant that he turned our national politics into a reality-television performance—focused, as those often are, on the drama of bruised egos. But in a time of crisis, it has left him incapable of rising to the challenge of his job, and the consequences have been dire. In other words, his answer seems right: Whether it’s in 2021 or 2025, the blinding power of self-pity and resentment may well end up being what stands out most when we regard Donald Trump’s years as President of the United States.

https://mises.org/wire/demolishing-lincoln-myth-yet-again Extension of slavery in the territories was for Lincoln an entirely different matter, and on this issue he refused all compromise. Here we confront a paradox. If Lincoln thought it more important to preserve the Union than to oppose slavery, why was he unwilling to compromise over slavery in the territories? If he thought slavery's extension was too high a price to pay to preserve the Union, why was he willing permanently to entrench slavery wherever it already existed? It is hard to detect a moral difference between slavery in the states and the territories. DiLorenzo readily resolves the paradox. Lincoln opposed extension of slavery, because this would interfere with the prospects of white workers. Lincoln, following his mentor Henry Clay, favored a nationalist economic program of which high tariffs, a national bank, and governmentally financed "internal improvements" were key elements. This program, he thought, would promote not only the interests of the wealthy industrial and financial powers that he always faithfully served but would benefit white labor as well. Blacks, in his opinion, would be better off outside the United States, and throughout his life Lincoln supported schemes for repatriation of blacks to Africa and elsewhere. If blacks left the country, they could not compete with whites, the primary objects of Lincoln's concern. (Lincoln, by the way, did not see this program as in any way in contradiction to his professed belief that all men are created equal. Blacks, he thought, had human rights but not political rights.) In order to finance his economic program, high tariffs were essential. DiLorenzo is appropriately scathing about Lincoln’s remarks. DiLorenzo is fully prepared for the objection that even if the Southern states had ample reason to oppose Lincoln’s economic plans, they had no legal right to secede. In this view, Lincoln had a constitutional duty to preserve the Union by any means necessary. The historian Allan Guelzo claims that Southern secessionists were guilty of treason by their efforts to leave the Union. In what to my mind is the highlight of the book, DiLorenzo turns the tables on those who charge the Southern states with treason. The United States was a compact of sovereign states, and a state that no longer wished to remain part of the Union was free to leave. This view of the matter was not dreamed up by Southern firebrands in 1860; it had behind it the weighty authority of Thomas Jefferson. If one accepts Jefferson’s approach, Lincoln’s nationalist understanding of the United States was, as Murray Rothbard would say, “monstrous.” As DiLorenzo writes, With a brilliant stroke, DiLorenzo reverses the verdict that leaving the Union was treason. Lincoln was the real traitor: Once Lincoln invaded the South, he and his henchmen carried on the war with great brutality. Murray Rothbard says that the Union conduct of the war DiLorenzo confronts an important objection to his main argument. Even if Lincoln didn’t start the war to free the slaves but rather to create a powerful central state, wasn’t war still necessary to end slavery? This seems unlikely. In an appearance on Bill Maher’s television program, Ron Paul "responded [to Maher] by pointing out that all other countries in the world that ended slavery in the nineteenth century did so peacefully, without a civil war, specifically citing how the British used tax dollars to buy the freedom of the slaves and then ended slavery legally throughout the British Empire" (p. 71). DiLorenzo’s forthright analysis of Lincoln stands in marked contrast to a leading member of what our author, following the usage of Lerone Bennett Jr., calls the Logos school, "which treats Lincoln’s words as gospel truth. An example of this would be a statement by Lincoln scholar Harry Jaffa when I [DiLorenzo] debated him at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, in 2003. During the question-and-answer session, an audience member—apparently a Jaffa protégé—asked Jaffa if he thought Lincoln’s speeches were the words of God. Jaffa responded that yes, he thought they were." (pp. 139–40) Readers of The Problem with Lincoln will be forever immune to this idolatrous nonsense. I have read Mr. DiLorenzo’s previous two books regarding the late Mr. Lincoln and his essential deification by other historians, and the federal government. I will be sure to read this one as well. I heartily encourage others to do the same.

Private Schools Are Adapting to Lockdown Better Than the Public School Monopoly https://reason.com/2020/07/17/private-schools-are-adapting-to-lockdown-better-than-the-public-school-monopoly/?itm_source=parsely-api

I'll take Steve Martin on the banjo along with the Steep Canyon Rangers:

Here is another one for you from a libertarian perspective: https://reason.com/podcast/kmele-foster-black-lives-matter-is-hostile-towards-free-markets-and-capitalism/

Yes, of course. And if we aren't going with the logical method of just using letter and/or numbers to rename city then I submit Indianapolis be renamed to once it's common nickname, Naptown.

Another Confederate Soldier Falls https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/another-confederate-soldier-falls/

Prove it. 🙂

It must be nice to be an expert on the political systems of every country in the world, especially in 1914 where I'm sure the internet could have told Mr. Borges all about it. After all Switzerland was only on a completely different continent.

https://reason.com/2020/07/16/the-army-tries-to-use-esports-as-a-recruiting-tool-gets-trolled-grabs-the-banhammer/ Interesting story. Criticize a branch of the federal government, in this case the Dept. of Defense, and get banned.

Goya Boycott: Everything Is Political Now https://reason.com/2020/07/16/goya-boycott-everything-is-political-now/ FTA: "This raises the question of who brings more lasting value to U.S. Latinos and the nation at large: the country's largest Hispanic-owned business, which exemplifies the American dream of immigrant wealth and job creation through hard work, or the cadre of politicians and celebrities who are eager to play politics with photos of canned coconut milk." That is an easy question to answer. The former of course.

Impartial citations from medical professionals please.

I thought the POTUS's job was to support and grow the economy? Doesn't supporting a bean manufacturer help do that? And why do you hate beans?

Democrat Governor Of Michigan Uses Emergency Alert System To Dictate Mask Wearing https://summit.news/2020/07/16/democrat-governor-of-michigan-uses-emergency-alert-system-to-dictate-mask-wearing/ Whitmer previously issued an executive order requiring residents to wear face coverings while in public. The use of the system to mandate has wearing has been criticised, and GOP lawmakers are set to introduce legislation to limit what the alert system can be used for, according to reports. “This is an overt abuse of a service designed to alert people of legitimate emergencies — the governor has gone beyond the scope and intent of the law and is now somewhere over the rainbow and approaching Oz,” said Sen. Peter Lucido in a statement. Whitmer previously used the alert system in March, taking over television stations to issue a “Michigan coronavirus emergency alert broadcast” lockdown order: Whitmer was also criticised recently for joining Black Lives Matter protesters in the streets after lecturing small businesses for weeks to stay shut down. Whitmer also called small business owners “racist” and “neo Nazis” for protesting her lockdown orders. In response to criticizing Whitmer’s hypocritical excessive lockdown orders, conservative firebrand Candace Owens was recently suspended from Twitter.

Nah, "State 16" is much better. And logical.

Much like there is absolutely nothing somebody like Mr. Trump can say to change "those people's" minds about him.

Heh heh. That People of WalMart site has been around for a long time. It's one those "what has been seen cannot be unseen" kind of things........

lol, that is gross.