Question 34

Question 34

Bill Virdon died.

J. D. Vance is running in Ohio for the Senate seat as a Republican and his erstwhile admirers are furious.

'If I worried about every last thing that someone said and I had to try to change it, then I would never be me. Anyone wouldn’t be them! That’s why I think cancel culture is the most ridiculous thing, because I really do believe—and you and I have been at several dinners together where people are discussing their thoughts on it—in rehabilitation and freedom of speech.'--Kim Kardashian
Kardashian, a beacon of common sense and insight

Why is there no statute of limitation on ads?

The FBI raided James O'Keefe's home last month amid an investigation into a diary allegedly stolen from President Biden's daughter. Now, how is this a good thing? If it was because there was nationally important info in it, that is really bad; if there was nothing in it, that is really bad.

A man who left a bag of bombs in downtown Pittsburgh during the 2020 George Floyd protests won't have to go to prison.

A record annual high of nearly 35,000 people was murdered in Mexico in 2019 as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador struggled to rein in violent crime in his first year in office. A government agency reported a total 34,582 murders last year, a 2.5% increase from 2018, when 33,743 victims were recorded. To put 68,325 drug-related deaths in Mexico over a two-year period (2018 and 2019) in perspective, consider that 58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War over a 20-year period from 1955 to 1975.

A CNBC story claims that Amazon has been censoring book reviews at the request of the Chinese government.

Europe is on a precipice. It has marched, blindly, towards something very much resembling tyranny. Austria will shortly criminalise those who refuse the Covid vaccine. Germany looks set to follow. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, is wondering out loud if every member state should do likewise and make offenders of those who reject this form of medication. In Italy you are deprived of your livelihood rather than your liberty if you say no to vaccination: the unvaxxed are not permitted to work. Anywhere. In Greece, everyone over the age of 60 must pay the government 100 euros for every month they remain unvaxxed. As if the Greek government, in cahoots with its masters in Brussels, had not immiserated Greek pensioners enough already.... we are living through a chilling overhaul of the entire relationship between the state and the individual, with the state empowered to such an extraordinary degree that it can now instruct its citizens on what to inject into their bodies, and the individual so politically emaciated, so denuded of rights, that he no longer even enjoys sovereignty over himself, over that tiny part of the world that is his own body and mind. We are witnessing the violent death of European liberalism and the birth pangs of a new and deeply authoritarian era.--O'Neil

The Spending Bill has $170 Billion in housing subsidies.

The most enthusiastic converts to homeschooling were African-Americans, among whom DIY education went from 3.3 percent of students pre-COVID to 16.1 percent in the fall of 2020.

For all the worries about the omicron variant, Covid now has an estimated fatality rate of 0.085 percent (not dramatically greater than flu, which is believed to be 0.04 percent), and deaths have continued to fall.--Telegraph