…is spreading as fast as the virus.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The danger of the Orange Man Bad disease. And an epidemic of media partisanship.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Regulatory Relief
…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.
FISA Applications
Every single one that Horowitz examined was flawed.
Shut the whole thing down, and prosecute some people.
The CCP
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.
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Why China must be held accountable.
I’d start by recognizing Taiwan.
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How China’s lies brought the world to its knees.
Claire Berlinski
She’s been putting out an entertaining newsletter for a while. Here‘s her latest.
Weiner’s Laptop
Will we ever know what was actually on it?
Not unless there’s a thorough housecleaning at the FBI.
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I’m sure there are a lot of people at the bureau happy to have a pandemic to keep this out of the news, not that most of the media would want to report on it anyway.
BS Receptivity
This is amusing. I suspect that purchasers of “essential oils” are more likely to be receptive to phrases like “Hope and change.”
[Monday-morning update]
Related: The woman who idiotically ingested aquarium-tank cleaner and poisoned her husband was a prolific donor to Democrat causes.
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Tom Coburn
RIP.
I’m glad that someone cared about government waste, but I always found his annual book a little frustrating, because he would go after some tiny pointless study, as though that was where the problem was. He often seemed to have an instinct for the capillary.
[Monday-morning update]
John Fund remembers the indefatigable fighter against government spending.
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Europe Was Not Ready
…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.
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But wait! There’s more: Calls in France to “buy French.”
Hydroxychloroquine
The FDA has issued an authorization for emergency use.
That’s nice, considering how much we’ve been fighting red tape since this started. But early results have been encouraging. Italy and France have been not just allowing, but prescribing it.
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No, Dan Diamond at Politico, there is not “scant evidence.” But you just keep being garbage.
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It’s not enough that we have to fight the virus; we have to continue to fight the FDA.
I agree with Glenn: “The thing is, Trump can intervene in these things, but there’s still delay, and there’s only so much a President can do to chivvy along the bureaucracy. I think he should announce that he’ll have a team of managers from outside government evaluate the performance of the FDA, CDC, NIH when this is over, with those found to have under-performed to be sacked.”
Bureaucracy can be just as deadly as a virus. The good news is that all of this is feeding the public’s desire to drain the DC swamp.
They’ll get to have a say in November.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Trump is slashing red tape again like he was 39.
[Update late morning]
Speaking of garbage journalism, read the latest from Treacher: “I can’t even imagine what poor Yamiche Alcindor from the PBS NewsHour is going through right now. It really puts my own petty concerns into perspective.”
I have to say that one of the people in whom I’ve been most disappointed in terms of TDS is S. E. Cupp. I used to have a lot of respect for her.
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[Noon update]
To get back to the original post topic, a doctor in New York has successfully treated almost 700 patients with no failures.
This might really be the magic bullet. If it’s prophylactic, the key is to ramp up production immediately, to get the economy going again.
[Update mid afternoon]
This could have saved a lot of people a century ago; let’s hope it helps now.