Government Stupidity

For all you folks who think Gov. Wolf’s strict strangulation of Western Pa. to fight the Covid-19 ‘pandemic’ is justified and that schools should remain closed to protect the children, please wake up, look at the facts and get a grip. Kids rarely catch Covid-19, don’t readily infect others and don’t ever die from it…

Here’s a radical concept that will save us a lot of virtue signalling by politicians like Nancy Pelosi in the future: Privatize all statues. Remove all statues from government property and never again use government money or land to put up another one. Statues to leaders and heroes, as we’ve seen, are inherently political. Leaders…

The people in charge of severely shutdown states across the USA are gradually coming to their senses and carefully reopening their local economies and societies. But public health ‘experts’ like Dr. Leana Wen don’t like it. They think it’s still too early in our mismanaged all-out war against the coronavirus to restore people’s basic rights…

The governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, continues to make sure he holds on to his well-earned title of worst governor in state history. He and his dictatorial health department bureaucrats completely over-reacted to the initial threat of Covid-19, issuing strict statewide shutdown orders and social-distancing decrees when they should have been concentrating their efforts…

It’s not possible to overstate the importance to libertarians of Richard Rothstein’s shocking The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. It’s a great book and a damning indictment of the abuse of federal, state and local government power by racist politicians, housing policy-makers, urban planners, interstate highway designers and…

Supposedly smart people over the age of 11 who have never heard of the failures of the FCC, the FDA, the old ICC, the CAA, the federal ETC, ETC, are running around the USA calling for things like a total government takeover of health care. Others equally naive and historically challenged on the subjects of…

Western PA. to Gov. Wolf — We’re dead. Please remove your knee.

Privatize all statues

Six flawed arguments for not reopening America, courtesy of the Washington Post

Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania — America’s worst?

Parents should be able to shop for public schools in a city the same way they shop for groceries or cars

If the feds had seized the Internet in 1983 …