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Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Next Phase Of The War
Is Russia gearing up to go to war with NATO?
If Biden Pays Off Student Loans
How the Republicans should retaliate.
Yes, stick it to the schools.
What Elon Should Do About Twitter
EFF has some suggestions.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Elon conquers the Twitterverse.
[Update Wednesday morning]
The great Musk Twitter meltdown.
[Bumped]
[Update a couple minutes later]
Eccentric billionaire does more for free speech in one day than Republican politicians have in decades.
[Update a few minutes later]
Musk’s acquisition is making academia angry and nervous.
Good.
[Update a while later]
The week in pictures, Muskageddon edition.
[Late-morning update]
The need for Elon.
“…The likelihood of skewed priorities with the operational mindset within a company that displays this kind of lack of viewpoint diversity is stratospheric. When a GOP donor is harder to find on the payroll than a vegan cannibal, you have to expect that a uniform level of thinking would become entrenched. When every single person in the offices sits in the same bubble, those overseeing the enforcement of the terms of service will not question things when questionable decisions are made…”
Zero Tolerance For Tolerance
Thoughts on the Marxist hijacking of the language by the Left.
Our Failed Covid Response
A long but excellent history and analysis of perhaps the greatest public-policy blunder in history.
Is Ukraine Our Spanish Civil War?
There are some disturbing historical parallels.
The Democrats’ Problems
They can’t fix them by November.
Yes, you can’t climb out of a hole that you’ve been digging for years in six months (even if you have the sense to even stop digging, which they don’t seem to have). This is bad news for an ever-terrible political party, but good news for the Republic.
Putin’s Options
They are all bad.
Credit Where It’s Due
Joe Biden does something right (which is huge news, because it is unprecedented).
He could be doing more, though, in terms of easing up on archaic NRC rules to allow the construction of more modern plant designs faster. And as is often noted, it’s hard to take seriously people who claim that we are in a climate “crisis” or “emergency” if they don’t support nuclear power.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sorry, I’ve provided the link this time.