Everyone, private citizens and political figures alike, acts on partial and incomplete information, for there is no other option in the presence of the scale and complexity of contemporary societies. A chief and a council of five elders might reasonably know everything of relevance for keeping a tribe of 200 performing as they think it should. For democratic systems of tens or hundreds of millions, however, any such presumption is some combination of arrogance and fatuousness.--Wagner
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When CBS greenlit the first season, Rod Serling was contracted to write 80 percent of the scripts. To fill out the remainder, he sent out an open call to writers—and received 14,000 manuscripts in the first five days. None of them were useable,
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Almost a quarter of Canada’s people were or are immigrants or permanent residents — who now account for the largest share of the population in the country’s history, according to new census data from Statistics Canada.
Statistics Canada reports that 8.3 million people, or 23 percent of the population, fit into this category, topping the previous record of 22.3 percent in 1921.
Immigrants and permanent residents now make up a larger share of Canada’s population than they do in any other G7 country.
Canada’s population grew by 5.4 percent from 2016 to 2021. New immigrants accounted for 71.1 percent of that growth.
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Fetterman Redux
The Mystery of Fetterman
Fetterman's ad campaign is skewering the esteemed Mehmet Oz, the erstwhile physician and entertainer. Oz's family lives in New Jersey; he served in the Turkish Army, and is a member of the silly entertainment world that no one takes seriously. But Fetterman, for all his dramatic life, is a socialist, a real one, and no socialist should be able to beat any candidate in this free country.
Socialism is a quasi-economic system in which the ownership and management of the nation's production are put in the hands of the people who finished in the bottom third of their class. So the investment, research, management, and distribution of the nation's productivity are controlled by the same guys who planned the Vietnam War, the Iran Embassay defense, the Benghazi non-rescue, the sub-prime crisis, and the withdrawal from Afghanistan. And, of course, there is the uplifting history of socialism in the countless soundtruck democracies and revolutionary riches-to-rags stories
If there are incentives and disincentives for human actions, and if socialism eliminates property, prices, profit, and loss, what will the incentives for action and improvement in society be and where will they lead? Aside, of course, from the usual inefficiencies, corruption, economic despair, and collapse followed by the struggles for power, the gratuitous and revenge killings, and the trials. Then the new revolution to even scores and redistribute the wealth again.
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