I'm proud to be an American. "We despise being bullied by our government." Let this nation have a new birth of freedom. "I’ve been a Trump skeptic all along. But if I’d known that Trump’s win eight years ago were going to bring out Big Left’s true inner nature this hard, I might have opened my mind up a little earlier."
The progressive left is discredited. Good. "Trump is in as strong a position to finish the work the Gipper started that will terminate the New Deal and the Great Society." He'll have to be. "Those are the seeds Biden planted — poison ivy where once a lush lawn grew. That's his legacy. That's what Trump must somehow undo."
Shock events are margin calls on governance. California's margin is gone. "After over a decade of one-party rule, California has become the testing ground for the left’s most extreme ideas — and we are seeing the results in real time now." Surf City to that perfect petri dish of failed policies in half a century! "It was a middle-class state in the 70s and 80s, but today’s California is a feudal society with an affluent aristocracy – their castles and keeps were the ones burned in this fire – lording over a huge caste of serfs. The middle class is either gone or leaving." With nary a sewer socialist to be found. "The Palisades had three million gallons of water in a local system that can hold up to 120 million gallons, if it’s maintained and operational. Everything else is just noise."
The weekly round-up of mostly pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
1. Markets allocate risk. "Insurance companies are far from perfect, but they do know some stuff about risk." Governments mask it. "If the future climate is warming, then insurance companies ought to be able to include such warming in their rate making."
2. Life without people. "If you got the sense that the radical environmentalists would rather get rid of all humans and cattle, you’d be right." This is Friday, and time for a fish fry. "But would I burn down an entire city for the marithes, plunging millions of people into chaos and misery just for smelt? No."
3. One of these things is not like the others. "In the plainest sense, public goods aren’t excludable. Think of the air we breathe, interstate freeways and national defense."
4. The populist right's blind spot when it comes to road socialism. "We are seeing tolls on taxpayer-funded roads, which are the people's roads, being talked about, and this is proposed to strip away even more wealth from working people."
5. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test is the real deal." Unexpectedly badass as well.
6. The predictable consequence of deconstructing bourgeois norms. "Should the concerns over the propagandization of this observance by the left take precedence over a tradition of respect for the office of the President of the United States, specifically the death of a former president?"
7. Governing less? "The real question is what the government should be doing in the first place." Why? "There aren't too many problems in America that can't be traced back to the growth of big and incompetent government."
8. Cancel cancel culture. "More people than expected are tired of feeling terrified for saying stuff."
9. Regime media. "The White House briefing room under Republicans is like a roiling shark tank. 9. Regime media. "The White House briefing room under Republicans is like a roiling shark tank. Under Democrats, it’s a shallow kiddie pool."
10. Sic semper tyrannis. "The president opposes the tech 'oligarchy' because it has stopped listening to him. It's really a curious view of oligarchy, when tech leaders are in trouble because they're no longer bossed around by Biden."
11. I told you it was two lies for the price of one. "Fifteen years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, our failing health care system is exposed." Bring back the market. (Will Team Trump have a fix ready to go this year?)
12. The crisis causes the waste. "Politicians can use 'climate change' as a vague and amorphous enemy to blame for bad things—instead of their incompetence. And it gives them an excuse to dole out money or put in regulations 'to fix the problem.'"
13. Be prepared. "There is no reason for a Jew not to be armed in 2024."
14. Karma. "Eagles fan who hurled vulgar insults at Packers supporters fired from DEI-focused consulting job."
15. He did. With the Packers, not the Cowboys. "I know how to win. I’ve won a championship. I’ve won a championship in this stadium."
16. Godspeed, Mr. Baseball. "Get Up, Get Outta Here, Gone: Bob Uecker, Mr. Baseball, Longtime Voice of Milwaukee Brewers, Dies at 90."
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