I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men!--Woodrow Wilson
I feel worse.
At least five people died, and eight more were missing and feared dead, after a volcano erupted on a New Zealand island just as tourists trekked to the crater’s edge Monday.
It may feel good for some candidates to bash wealth accumulation and threaten to use taxes to punish the very rich. It may also feel good to call for more spending as a means of reducing inequality. While neither of these policies would do much to achieve those goals, calling for such policies goes a long way toward demonstrating economic ignorance and an ugly dislike for a group of people by candidates who would use their power to destroy those they despise. That should scare all of us greatly.--deRugy on wealth taxes
“The 1619 Project aims to recast Americans’ concept of their nation as one founded on freedom, equality, and opportunity into one irremediably corrupted by slavery, inequality, and racism.” --Kersten.
It substitutes evangelism for scholarship, propaganda for journalism, and folklore for history.
With the Declaration, Americans ceased claiming the rights of aggrieved Englishmen and began asserting rights that are universal because they are natural, meaning necessary for the flourishing of creatures with our nature.--Will
On this day in 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
Conversation
I came across this little article by somebody named Schools about his observations of podcast hosts and tricks they use to keep conversations going. I read it because I am so bad at casual conversation and thought this was an interesting idea.
I feel worse.
It is magical thinking to believe that shale production could be replaced quickly by wind and solar – at any price, and regardless of climate change motivations. To put this in perspective: since 2007, American fracking technology has added 500 percent more energy to markets than have all of the planet’s wind and solar farms combined. Thus the wild card actually on the table this political season is whether America might literally pull the rug out from under the world’s economy. Consumers here and abroad might take seriously a phrase that’s become popular in our political lexicon: elections have consequences.--mills
At least five people died, and eight more were missing and feared dead, after a volcano erupted on a New Zealand island just as tourists trekked to the crater’s edge Monday.
It may feel good for some candidates to bash wealth accumulation and threaten to use taxes to punish the very rich. It may also feel good to call for more spending as a means of reducing inequality. While neither of these policies would do much to achieve those goals, calling for such policies goes a long way toward demonstrating economic ignorance and an ugly dislike for a group of people by candidates who would use their power to destroy those they despise. That should scare all of us greatly.--deRugy on wealth taxes
Stephen Strasburg is returning to Washington with a record contract. The World Series MVP and the Nationals agreed to a $245 million, seven-year contract Monday, the first significant announcement at this week’s winter meetings. Free agent pitcher Gerrit Cole could be in line for an even more.
The Czech Republic’s prime minister says two people seriously wounded in a shooting in a hospital in the eastern Czech Republic have died, bringing the death toll to six.“The 1619 Project aims to recast Americans’ concept of their nation as one founded on freedom, equality, and opportunity into one irremediably corrupted by slavery, inequality, and racism.” --Kersten.
It substitutes evangelism for scholarship, propaganda for journalism, and folklore for history.
From a book on the Lakota: Just as there was Spanish, French, British, and the United States of America, there was Lakota America, the sovereign domain of the Lakota people and their kin and allies, a domain they would protect and, if necessary, expand. A century later, the Lakotas had shifted the center of their world three hundred miles west into the Missouri Valley, where they began to transform into a dominant power. Another century later they were the most powerful Indigenous nation in the Americas, controlling a massive domain stretching across the northern Great Plains into the Rocky Mountains and Canada.
…Yet they never numbered more than fifteen thousand people.
Sydney alone has more foreign-born residents than mainland China.
With the Declaration, Americans ceased claiming the rights of aggrieved Englishmen and began asserting rights that are universal because they are natural, meaning necessary for the flourishing of creatures with our nature.--Will
Hazlitt on shortages:
No bureaucrat, no matter how brilliant, can solve this problem arbitrarily. Free prices and free profits will maximize production and relieve shortages quicker than any other system.--Hazlitt
On this day in 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
Conversation
I came across this little article by somebody named Schools about his observations of podcast hosts and tricks they use to keep conversations going. I read it because I am so bad at casual conversation and thought this was an interesting idea.
"While listening to my favorite podcasts, I’ve noticed a two-word phrase that hosts often use with their guests to cut past the surface-level chitchat and into the heart of a story: 'I’m curious.'
Usually, the phrase is carefully placed before a good, sometimes tough question. On NPR’s How I Built This, which dives into the stories behind the world’s best-known companies, host Guy Raz uses it often.
He used it when he talked to Lyft’s John Zimmer: 'Uber is a good product. Lyft is a good product. They do things really well. You guys do things really well. I’m curious how that competition has actually made Lyft better.'"
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