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Did Bill Clinton Kill Off The Small Town Newspaper?

Sarah Hoyt wrote an excellent post here, where among other things she discusses how an executive order mandating the amount of recycled content in paper killed off the Mass Market Paperback and perhaps the binge reader that were the consumers of MMPBs, because we were addicted, to reading:
Welcome to the Year of Go Big or Go Home

Did The Whistle Blower Make A Big Mistake?

Posted on September 28 by jccarlton

Recently there has been a bit of buzz about how the “Intelligence Community” secretly revised the form that the whistle blower used to report about the diplomatic conversation that he hadn’t heard first hand. Whoever made the change mad a mistake. They didn’t understand controlled documents.

Civilization Dies in A Wimper

Posted on September 23 by jccarlton

Society has a problem:H/T Brickmuppet. http://brickmuppet.mee.nu/our_society…_

Trashing Unwoke Books

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/342752/

It is so easy to lead the blind and ignorant. On the other hand, civilization requires citizens and that requires learning some basic things, none of which are part of “Woke.”

How To Distort Reality.

Posted on September 21 by jccarlton

Recently I watched on MSNBC’s climate show, a complete distortion of reality. The segment was concerning the CAFE standards and the Trump Administration’s decision to not go forward with the Obama increase in those standards. Here’s the clip from All In.

And another one.

https://www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/why-trump-is-barring-california-from-setting-own-vehicle-emission-standards-69257797520

The Sickness of Government

Posted on September 17 by jccarlton

When I was growing up, it was in a Republican more or less Conservative Household. As a child, I believed that in many cases the government was the source of stability and that when things went wrong, it was bad programs created by short sighted people. I thought that perhaps there was too much government, but I also knew that the government kept the monsters, especially the Soviet Union at bay.

But What If The Taxes Do Not Get Paid.

Posted on September 14 by jccarlton

The big campaign push from the Democrats for 2020 is finally full tilt Single Payer Healthcare, “Medicare For All.” The programs all rely heavily on taxes on the wealthy to not impose a crushing financial burden on everybody else, at least that is what the Dems say.

So What Has Happened To Expertise

Posted on July 4 by jccarlton

When you are an expert in something you have to work to maintain credibility. That means that when you make a judgment call and give information to somebody that is relying on your expertise to address their problems. Above all an expert needs to be completely honest, show how they came to their answers and admit when they make a mistake.