1. Democrats want you to be miserable. Your continued misery is their formula for winning elections. "Democrats desperately need Black America and various other disparate groups to remain a permanent underclass voting bloc if they — the Democrats — are to survive as a viable party."
2. Upcoming ulcers for tax preparers. "A tax bill in April for money the government advanced to you, on top of inflation that shows no signs of slowing down and a brittle supply chain?"
3. The slow-motion emergency. "Indeed, underinclusiveness of this sort is often regarded as a telltale sign that the government's interest in enacting a liberty-restraining pronouncement is not in fact 'compelling.'" We leave for another day whether subjecting all businesses, irrespective of their size, to the same mandate, has the effect of raising the costs for the smaller firms.
4. Let kids play.
5. The fruits of deplorable-shaming: "They lied to you because they think you're stupid."
6. Why I refer to corporate welfare for roadhogs. "Operators of pavement-pummeling heavy trucks and bulk-commodities hauling inland waterways barges have been mooching off the public purse for generations." It's Railway Age, and the railroad rent-seeking is on display.
7. Manage your own risks. "Getting Democrats to just say that — out loud and in public — is the first step to making it happen."
8. Let's go, Brandon. "His foremost mistake was overestimating an attenuated electoral mandate for pedestrian governance as a permission slip for passing nearly the entirety of the progressive agenda in the space of less than a year."
9. Unintended Consequences come for the Fatal Conceit. "As a litany of crises induced by ill-advised policies sweep the country, Democrats’ grip on power is now endangered by a disgruntled American public, a newly energized Republican Party, and internal divisions threatening to tear the Democrat coalition apart."
10. Take the valley girl with you, Brandon. "It is high levels of inflation, high levels of crime, and high levels of Kamala Harris."
11. Tell your statistics to shut up. "[H]ow many 100,000 fan football games with no masks, distancing, or worries do you need?" Plus some serious talk about asymptomatic carriers false positives. "[A]t a million tests a day, even at zero covid, you could not hit this."
12. It is time to learn to live with endemic coronavirus. "'We want control,' Fauci said. 'And I think the confusion is, at what level of control are you going to accept it in its endemicity?'" At least that Giftzwerg is recognizing reality. "A degree of realism means ending any mitigation effort we don’t want to carry on in perpetuity." A "degree of realism" also means telling the Giftzwerg to stuff it. "The only way out of this in America is to stop following CDC’s guidelines, just the way we already do in so many other domains of life."
13. Self-styled progressives, nostalgic for the food economy of the Civil War. "The grocery cartel has created an illusion of choice and efficiency to disguise their profiteering off of the American consumer, who is unwillingly asked to trade abundance for resilience." Seriously. "Additionally, the authors urge the establishment of more grocery cooperatives, food hubs, and local processors."
14. Don't like being called "woke?" Would you prefer to be called "moonbats?" "If your movement finds itself repeatedly changing the names of things and inventing new euphemisms to break the connection between names and things — or, worse, inveighing against names themselves — you really should reconsider whether the things you’re defending are actually defensible in clear, frank, and open language." Let's be clear. "A movement that fears any name at all for what it proposes to do is, ultimately, trying to smother any sort of democratic debate of its goals."
15. Sic semper tyrannis. "[Kansas governor Laura] Kelly has only to look at her neighbors to know top-down government orders to control a virus have been an abject failure. States like Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South Dakota had some of the least restrictive pandemic orders in the nation, suffered no worse from COVID-19 than other states, and are now leading the nation in [low rates of] unemployment."
16. In order to be competitive in a district, you have to have a proper message. "While far more fair than [Wisconsin Senate's district proposals], they still leave Democrats with a built-in disadvantage, pointing to the need of Democrats to broaden their base." (Lots of stuff for map geeks and electoral rule enthusiasts at the link.)
17. This week in Progressive Cluelessness. "Many Americans are noticing the rising price of goods from sour cream to carburetors as politicians sound the alarm on an inflation crisis."
18. Indeed. "[Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal] is a big deal not only because of the merits of the individual case, which manifestly shouldn’t have been brought, but because all the effort around it by the left was aimed at establishing the principle that their thugs could riot in the streets, but that normals don’t dare resist. This is a huge setback for that effort."
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Interesting disconnect between the Railway Age article and the comments of the AAR, which seems totally thrilled with the infrastructure bill.
As near as I can tell, the bill provides funding for commuter rail, short lines, and grade crossing improvements, and that's about it as far as railroads are concerned. But it all seems very vague, there's a lot of discretion in how the government hands out the loot.
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