Archive for March 2020
Common knowledge, preference falsification, and preference cascades
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science for they often endure long; but false hypotheses [theories] do little harm, as everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path toward error is closed and the road to the truth is often at the same time…
Read MoreArmed Citizen Saves Lives in Tulsa
A woman got into some sort of altercation in the parking lot of a Tulsa, Oklahoma shopping center. She left the parking lot and returned about 3 minutes later with a gun. She then opened fire on customers but was shot herself by a lawfully armed citizen before her shots hit or injured anyone. She…
Read MoreThe Scientific Method
The now-exposed hoax and fraud of man-made global warming [Now called “climate change” because warming has ceased] has shown that the scientific method was replaced with politics by a lot of people who should have know better. So what is meant by the “scientific method?” Well, one thing it means all the time and everywhere…
Read MoreNancy Pelosi Caves — will work to pass the Senate Bill
UPDATE: The emergency relief fiasco was passed by the Senate late last night. I’m calling it a fiasco because it still contains a few Billion Dollars of Pelosi Pork having nothing to do with Covid-19 or relief for displaced workers. All of the Pork is for Malig-Nancy Pelosi’s favorite things such as the Kennedy Center,…
Read MoreCoronavirus to the rescue of the Democrats?
The Left called it the Chinese Virus during January and February and only called it racist after Trump used it. Victor Davis Hanson: In all the gloom and doom, and media-driven nihilism, there is actually an array of good news. As many predicted, as testing spreads, and we get a better idea of the actual…
Read MoreSignificant Signs of Hope
Is the Media ignoring good news on Coronavirus? There are significant signs of hope that the media chooses to ignore. The draconian measures to prevent spread of the Coronavirus may be completely uncalled for. From the article: There has been some tantalizingly good news about the coronavirus in the past few days, not that you’d…
Read MoreThe Coronavirus Will Save America
“The Coronavirus Will Save America” is a brilliant essay by Gordon Wysong, an engineer and former County Commissioner in Cobb County, GA. His thesis is that while the virus is certainly bad for individuals who get it, the long term effect on America will be positive. He makes a good case for this assertion, wild…
Read MoreWhy Insider Trading is and should remain a serious crime
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, a Republican, sold up to $1.6 million in stock after receiving information about the coronavirus. He was privy to this information solely due to his position as chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The information was not public. Only because of his access to private briefings in his committee did…
Read MoreTrump Suspends 1938 Road Law, Gives Truckers Green Light To Move Emergency Supplies
Gosh, I wish Trump had consulted me on this. The 1938 law currently forbids truck drivers from driving more than 11 hours during a 14-hour work period. After that, drivers are required by law to have 10 hours of down time. I remember from times past how Consolidated Freightways (1929-2002, no longer exists) kept…
Read MoreBernie’s New Senior Advisor — A Terrorist Defender
Meet Philip Agnew, Bernie Sanders new senior advisor. Mr. Agnew has a long record of sympathizing with terrorists and their horrible deeds. Agnew showed where his sentiments lie when he sent this message shortly after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center: “#neverforget what goes round comes round.” He compounded the damage to his…
Read MoreFelix Baumgartner’s Record Jump From 128,000 Feet
This was first posted on October 16, 2012: I watched the record-breaking jump of Felix Baumgartner from 128,000 feet Sunday on the Velocity channel. Eight million other Americans also watched, many on YouTube. At first, it was just very interesting until he finally reached “float level” around 128,000 feet where the ballon stopped rising. At…
Read MoreCriticizing Judges — You can do it but….you just have to be careful — UPDATED
The update at the end of this post links to a critique of a judge who relied on his politics to ignore the law. It is the perfect way to rightly call a judge to account for his misguided pronouncements from the bench. In my life as a lawyer I’ve had plenty of reason to criticize judges…
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