The burden of proof should be on those who want to reimpose them.
Lexington And Concord
Two and a quarter centuries ago, it was where the rubber met the road. And it was the cause of the Second Amendment, which never had anything to do with hunting.
Not Only No…
But hell, no. Illinois Dems are demanding a pension bailout from the rest of the country.
Actually, $10B would be cheap to force them to revert to territory status. They could come back in in pieces; upstate and down.
Why No One Trusts The Media
It Begins
Germany just sent a £130B bill for ‘coronavirus damages’ – sparks fury in Beijing.
[Monday-morning update]
I don’t know if that original story is valid, but apparently Israel and U.S. law firms are suing the CCP for trillions. Even if they have no mechanism to force payment, this will certainly diminish China in the eyes of the world, and it could provide a legitimate excuse for defaulting on the money we owe them.
Restoration
This is a nice story amidst the other news: Returning one of the last B-17s to flight.
Want More Trump?
Because bashing the lock-down protesters is a great way to get more Trump.
Another Obama Presidency?
The Great Depression
The media continues to peddle BS history about it (unfortunately, because it was what they were taught in government schools).
It was sad to see Emily Compagno the other day on The Five say that FDR was elected to deal with Hoover’s “inaction.” So even conservatives believe this nonsense.
Hoover’s policies were disastrous, but they were the very opposite of inaction, and he was the furthest thing from laissez faire. If Coolidge had had a third term, likely the economy would have recovered within a year. Hoover created the depressions, but FDR made it great.
[Update a few minutes later]
Our garbage media.
[Update a while later]
A review of Amity Schlaes’s new book on how poverty won the war on poverty, including some of the history of the Depression.
[Late-morning update]
In reading that history, I had not known that Walter Reuther had sponsored the Port Huron Statement (I lived sixty miles west, in Flint) at the time. It reminded me of a post I wrote early in my blogging career, almost two decades ago now (where did the years go?) about my brief period as a junior-high campus radical.
Remdesivir
…seems to be at least somewhat effective.
If we can find what works for treatment, and only isolate the most vulnerable, that’s the best path forward to re-open the economy in the absence of a vaccine.
[Update a while later]
Time to dump epidemic models? All models are wrong, some are useful, but it’s not clear that these have been, though they’ve certainly been used to implement policies that a lot of people wanted to implement before the pandemic.
[Bumped]