Why Trump superfans admire her.
Like Obama and Trump, she and Trump actually have a lot more similarities than most fans of either realize. They’re both charismatic, they both know how to use social media to get attention and get around the MSM, and facts and reality never get in the way of their message. Now that I think about it, I’ll bet that if Twitter had existed four decades ago, Reagan would have used it.
The masses can’t be properly indoctrinated if they don’t attend government schools.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Here‘s the full story from Reason.
The one thing she doesn’t mention about why people hate Californians when they move into their community; they’re afraid that they’ll bring with them the voting habits that have made the state such a disaster. I remember when we were in Austin a couple years ago, doing wine tasting in Hill Country. The tone of the conversation got distinctly chillier when they learned we were from CA. I tried to assure them that we weren’t the problem.
It’s good for you, and full-fat is the best. This would have been heresy for much of the past half century.
A new paper claims that the die-off of indigenous Americans in the sixteenth century after colonization caused the Little Ice Age.
I’m skeptical.
[Update a while later]
A response to a query to Judith Curry.
Just spotted this. Its an interesting hypothesis, but a global impact seems a bit far fetched
— Judith Curry (@curryja) January 31, 2019
I think it’s worth noting that it would be handy to have some troops next door just in case things went south and we had to extract Americans. But if it nudges things in the right direction, that would be good, too.
CEI pushes back on Chuck Todd’s fantasy that it is over.
I’m skeptical that these researchers have found a total cure (for one thing, it’s too many different things), but it would nice if it were true. I suspect that this is just a fundraising announcement, though.
Roger Simon thinks he could actually win the presidency. I don’t know, but an interesting question is if so, which party would be helped by his coat tails.
Thoughts from Tom Maguire.
It seems unconstitutional to me on its face. We had to amend the Constitution to get an income tax, and I’m pretty confident that it would be required here as well. Anyway, as Jim Bennett noted on Facebook, we should reserve comment until we can properly understand the proposal by reading it in the original Cherokee.
[Update a while later]
Want to soak the rich and help poor people? Tax fringe benefits. Yes, this would help a lot with decoupling health insurance from employment, which is how the mess got started.