A follow up to two earlier posts (here and here). This one is adapted from a speech given by Alex Berenson, author of Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence.
Good question. If she doesn't, should we worry about "seat belt shaming"?
How long can this go on? (Yeah, yeah, the answer is probably "a really long time".)
Related: "San Francisco's housing crisis is so dire that one of the cheapest homes in the city is a 'fixer' that sold for $600,000."
Rush, in his own inimitable fashion, criticizes the latest from AOC.
John Hinderaker, commenting on same, is also blunt: "How Dumb is Ocasio-Cortez?"
Even Cher gets it: "Cher Splashes Cold Water on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Celebrity Cult".
And while some folks are celebrating the "gain" of $3 billion perhaps they should look into the much more concrete waste of nearly $1 billion: "Believe It Or Not, The Amazon Pullout Wasn’t Even The Worst Economic News For NY Dems This Week".
I recommend a "Hell, no!" vote. Two readings in support:
"Why Have Other Countries Been Dropping Their Wealth Taxes"?
"Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax Is a Stunt Policy That Other Countries Have Tried and Discarded".
It's not often you see a "trifecta of folly," but, hey, it's how government rolls in Illinois.
UPDATE: Link fixed now. Sorry.
David Bernstein has a little fun with Rep. Omar and the increasing anti-Semitism of the hard Left.
"Which then brings us to point one. How many in California are aware of the extent of an existing border wall in their state?"
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Thomas Sowell with his usual evisceration of minimum wage laws.
Seventy-one years ago this month — in January 1948 — a black, 17-year-old high school dropout left home. The last grade he had completed was the 9th grade. He had no skills, little experience, and not a lot of maturity. Yet he was able to find jobs to support himself, to a far greater extent than someone similar can find jobs today.
I know because I was that black 17-year-old. And, decades later, I did research on economic conditions back then.