No solutions.
Less appreciated than it should be is the fact that government at every level – with no operation of any legislature or really any semblance at all of representative government – assumed micro-level control of our daily lives.
Abundance of malice.
A small group of high-ranking Washington insiders is guilty of what is perhaps the most brazen political misconduct in our history.
COVID-19 and the blue state blues.
(Blue) states were in desperate financial trouble long before COVID-19.
Made in China.
For 30 years, presidents and political leaders of both parties have led us around the fence on the subject of China.
Hard experience.
We choose to accept the risk of disease entering the country via illegal immigration. We don’t have to.
What’s the mortality rate of economic collapse?
Having imagined the mortality attendant to a runaway coronavirus pandemic, have our policy leaders taken the time to also imagine the mortality attendant to a shutdown of the American economy?
Everything comes at a price.
Appropriate policy occupies some indeterminable spot on a continuum between taking no special action whatsoever on one extreme and completely stopping all industry, commerce and interpersonal transactions on the other.
On China Trump has been right early and often.
We suddenly are aware of the fact that untold numbers of things – things that are absolutely essential to the health of our economy as well as to our very bodies – are manufactured in a totalitarian country that will stick it to us the first time it suits their convenience.
On the subject of coronavirus.
It has been a rough week but here’s the good news. We’ll get through this. And we’ll be smarter and we’ll be stronger for having done so.
So Dems, what’s your coronavirus plan?
Is it impolite to ask Dems who are criticizing Trump’s response to the coronavirus what they have in mind that might be better?
Trump, Sanders and the ruling class.
In a single generation, the ruling class and the elite media have each managed to squander their inheritances.
Hey Dems, is this really the best you got?
Six candidates and yet not a scrap of Clintonesque or Obamaesque political skill in a contest in which nothing less will do.
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