Author: nick
I remain amused at the outrage expressed over the revelations from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary and his behavior in front of a U.S. Senate committee. After all, Dr. Fauci fulfilled his role in exactly the manner the administrative state designed it. In the end , we should have only been surprised if he did not act in a self-serving manner. From an institutional and public choice perspective, the behavior revealed in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s journal entries and his statements to Congress align with predictable administrative incentives. Public choice economics treats high-ranking officials not as dispassionate public servants, but as self-interested…
Were the Bombs of August 1945 'Demonic'? Source link
Trump Is Right About Data Centers Source link
As the prognosticators and planners inside the Acela corridor were rolling out of bed last Wednesday morning, the votes in Alaska’s open Senate primary were still being counted. The former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola had opened a commanding lead over the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, notching 48.1 percent to Sullivan’s 42.7 percent (a margin that, with most of the votes now counted, has continued to hold). Last week’s race doesn’t determine who gets Alaska’s Senate seat; rather, the nonpartisan primary simply narrows a crowded field to the top four vote-getters, who will then advance to a November general election…
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, by JD Vance, HarperCollins, 304 pages. In 1990, the CNN founder Ted Turner called Christianity “a religion for losers.” Though compelled by a prudent regard for public opinion to apologize for this statement, it must be conceded the late media mogul had a point. Christ ministered to the poor and the sick, the widow and the orphan, the publican and the prostitute. His Kingdom was famously not of this world; condemned by His own countrymen, the Son of God died the agonizing death of a common criminal. And in the ensuing two millennia,…
The basic issue is not whether the Iranian economy is sinking into the abyss – it certainly is – but whether the regime will collapse Source link
Strip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks, and you hit a raw unvarnished nerve. What truly disturbs the United States about the Islamic Republic is not its policies, its rhetoric or even its nuclear ambitions. It is Iran’s audacity to exist completely outside the American orbit; and make it work. When diplomatic pretenses are scrapped, we see that a major power does not spend billions of dollars, conduct regional wars and upend global markets out of pure legalistic devotion to global rules or nonproliferation treaties. The conflict…
We’ve been telling women for decades that motherhood is one of the worst things that can happen to them. So is it any surprise that so many moms now see child-killing mom Lindsay Clancy as a martyr? Source link
Canadians Don't Seek Trade War–But Nor Will We Be Bullied Source link
President Donald Trump said North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jung Un has been “respectful,” making US and South Korean joint war games “totally inappropriate and hostile.” “Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I was not happy with the fact that the United States had, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea,” the President wrote on Truth Social Tuesday. “These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile,…