…can save lives.
A lot of regulations are merely special-interest rent seeking.
[Late-morning update]
Trump is rolling back fuel-efficiency standards.
He should eliminate them, if possible, but that would probably require legislation. They are an idiotic relic of the energy crisis, almost half a century ago. In my opinion, they’re unconstitutional, or should be. Same with toilet specifications.
…looks like it meets the International Docking Standard. It’s a sensible thing to do, even if they don’t currently have permission to dock with ISS.
The CCP has been lying from the beginning, and continues to, yet their media organs the NYT, WaPo, CNN et al continue to carry their water, because Orange Man Bad.
Mark Levin said on his show last night that the Soviet Union never damaged our country (and the world) the way that the CCP has. I’m not sure that’s true, if you look at the decades-long damage it did, but it certainly never killed people and destroyed wealth this quickly.
[Tuesday-morning update]
The Chinese Communist Party versus America.
[Bumped]
[Update a few minutes later]
Why China must be held accountable.
I’d start by recognizing Taiwan.
[Update a while later]
How China’s lies brought the world to its knees.
She’s been putting out an entertaining newsletter for a while. Here‘s her latest.
…and it may never fully recover.
And get ready for more exits; Italians are burning the EU flag.
I think that this is probably the most significant European event since the end of the war. The project, and the conceit of globalism in general, is coming apart at the seams.
[Update a few minutes later]
But wait! There’s more: Calls in France to “buy French.”
…has exposed Americans’ disconnect from reality.
[Update a while later]
Nancy Pelosi and the politics pandemic.
[Update a while later]
Goodbye, Green New Deal.
Set aside, for the moment, any reservations you might have about the coronavirus-emergency regime, and set aside your views on climate change, too, whatever they may be. Instead, ask yourself this: If Americans are this resistant to paying a large economic price to enable measures meant to prevent a public-health catastrophe in the here and now — one that threatens the lives of people they know and love — then how much less likely are they to bear not weeks or months but decades of disruption and economic dislocation and a permanently diminished standard of living in order to prevent possibly severe consequences to people in Bangladesh or Indonesia 80 or 100 years from now?
Not a prayer.
[Update later morning]
Yes, the president is not wrong: Pelosi is a sick puppy.
Does Joe Biden believe Tara Reade?
[Update late afternoon]
How brave of the #MeToo Legal Fund.
Yeah, let’s take these people seriously.
[Update Saturday morning]
Will Biden live up to his own principles?
That’s a big ask; I don’t think he has any.
[Bumped]
[Update a while later]
And the mainstream media remains silent.
Not surprising; they don’t have any principles, either, other than a will to power.
[Monday-morning update]
The Democrats and sexual assault: They never learn.
[Bumped]
[Afternoon update]
Why are the media ignoring Reade’s claims?
I’m pretty sure I know why.
Regulation kills.
[Update a few minutes later]
Distillers have to fight the FDA bureaucracy to produce hand sanitizer.
The American people think it’s been doing a terrible job of covering the coronavirus. The American people are right.
Pornhub Premium is going temporarily free to encourage you to stay home.
It’s good marketing; it may get people to sign up after this is over. Wonder what it will do to their server/bandwidth costs, though?