The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power--Daniel Webster
Dinner with the McGraws at the PGC. Always get the hamburger.
The Feds are looking into possible campaign finance misdeeds by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff and lead rainmaker, who suddenly resigned Friday, federal sources told The Post.
Re the girl who jumped from the plane in Madagascar:
From the WSJ: The American middle class is falling deeper into debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle. Cars, college, houses and medical care have become steadily more costly, but incomes have been largely stagnant for two decades, despite a recent uptick. Filling the gap between earning and spending is an explosion of finance into nearly every corner of the consumer economy. Consumer debt, not counting mortgages, has climbed to $4 trillion—higher than it has ever been even after adjusting for inflation. Mortgage debt slid after the financial crisis a decade ago but is rebounding. Student debt totaled about $1.5 trillion last year, exceeding all other forms of consumer debt except mortgages. Auto debt is up nearly 40% adjusting for inflation in the last decade to $1.3 trillion. And the average loan for new cars is up an inflation-adjusted 11% in a decade, to $32,187, according to an analysis of data from credit-reporting firm Experian. Unsecured personal loans are back in vogue, the result of competition between technology-savvy lenders and big banks for borrowers and loan volume.
Guns
Very interesting gospel on the physical versus the spiritual world. And the abstract always wins. But there is a real practical question in the land today.There were two more mass murders this weekend. The recurring question will be, "Can we humans manage our freedom?"
Do we need the supervision of government to protect us from the devils of our lesser nature?
The United States has 270 million guns and had 90 mass shooters from 1966 to 2012.
No other country has more than 46 million guns or 18 mass shooters — the U.S. is way worse than the Philippines, Russia, China or India.
The mass murder problem in the U.S., statistically, comparable to other nations. It is, however, so dramatic that it will be the strongest argument the statists have that the individual can not manage freedom and needs tighter control.
But we do know a lot about mass murders and murderers. The question is, will we prefer form over substance?
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2015/10/guns.html
https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2018/03/gun-numbers.html
https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2018/02/scalia-and-gun-control.html
https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2017/10/guns.html
https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2016/03/guns.html
https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2015/12/san-bernardino.html
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/01/fun-with-numbers.html
Dinner with the McGraws at the PGC. Always get the hamburger.
The Feds are looking into possible campaign finance misdeeds by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff and lead rainmaker, who suddenly resigned Friday, federal sources told The Post.
Re the girl who jumped from the plane in Madagascar:
According to her uncle, Lester Riley, "She had taken ill after being there for a few days, and when she spoke to her mother on the phone two days before the accident, she was mumbling and sounded pretty incoherent," he said. Police claim that Cutland, who had been studying natural sciences as a second-year student at Cambridge University, had also experienced at least five paranoia attacks and was "stressed" the day of her death. Riley added that his niece had never shown any signs of mental illness prior to last month's incident.
From the WSJ: The American middle class is falling deeper into debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle. Cars, college, houses and medical care have become steadily more costly, but incomes have been largely stagnant for two decades, despite a recent uptick. Filling the gap between earning and spending is an explosion of finance into nearly every corner of the consumer economy. Consumer debt, not counting mortgages, has climbed to $4 trillion—higher than it has ever been even after adjusting for inflation. Mortgage debt slid after the financial crisis a decade ago but is rebounding. Student debt totaled about $1.5 trillion last year, exceeding all other forms of consumer debt except mortgages. Auto debt is up nearly 40% adjusting for inflation in the last decade to $1.3 trillion. And the average loan for new cars is up an inflation-adjusted 11% in a decade, to $32,187, according to an analysis of data from credit-reporting firm Experian. Unsecured personal loans are back in vogue, the result of competition between technology-savvy lenders and big banks for borrowers and loan volume.
Very interesting gospel on the physical versus the spiritual world. And the abstract always wins. But there is a real practical question in the land today.There were two more mass murders this weekend. The recurring question will be, "Can we humans manage our freedom?"
Do we need the supervision of government to protect us from the devils of our lesser nature?
The United States has 270 million guns and had 90 mass shooters from 1966 to 2012.
No other country has more than 46 million guns or 18 mass shooters — the U.S. is way worse than the Philippines, Russia, China or India.
The mass murder problem in the U.S., statistically, comparable to other nations. It is, however, so dramatic that it will be the strongest argument the statists have that the individual can not manage freedom and needs tighter control.
But we do know a lot about mass murders and murderers. The question is, will we prefer form over substance?
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2015/10/guns.html
https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2018/03/gun-numbers.html
https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2018/02/scalia-and-gun-control.html
https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2017/10/guns.html
https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2016/03/guns.html
https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2015/12/san-bernardino.html
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/01/fun-with-numbers.html
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