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Rufo is writing a series on critical race theory and how it is playing out in our society. This article, which appeared in the City Journal of the Manhattan Institute shows it in action in public schools in Missouri
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Trump established a Commission to examine the principles underlying our nation’s founding and the reflection of those principles in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Commission was established to refute many of the claims about the structural evil of our founding and the lies promulgated by the NY Times 1620 project. One of the authors wrote an explanation of the Commission’s work. Of course Biden took the report down from the Government’s website. At the end of the article is a link to the actual commission report.
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I thought Biden’s Inaugural Address was an opportunity to begin to restore a modicum of civility to public discourse. He blew it, deliberately or inadvertently. I don’t know which. Heather MacDonald takes it apart with her rapier mind.
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This essay was sent to me by a friend and apparently the first of a series by Mr. Mitchell. I’m looking forward to them and will publish them here as I get them. This article deals with the science behind the Biden policies for dealing with climate change. He analyzes the science and the policies and concludes the science, by no means, justify the massive negative effects of what Biden is planning to do. Given the space, he does not even begin to cover a number of other negative effects of these policies.
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This article from the WSJ is a good introduction in explaining what stock buybacks are, and the pros and cons of utilizing them. It is very even-handed in explaining what proponents and detractors believe. If you want to know the arguments, this is a good read. What it doesn’t do, and should have done, is take on the argument directly and explain clearly why and how stock buybacks actually help the economy grow. In sum, detractors say buybacks reduce investments in growth opportunities and make shareholders richer, as opposed to paying workers more. In fact, companies have money for buybacks because they do not have good opportunities for investment in their own companies. Rather than simply building cash reserves, which create no economic benefit, companies return the excess cash to shareholders by increasing share value. Shareholders can than take that return and invest it more productive activities. Its a win-win.
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Biden ran on not being Trump. Now that he won, he claims he ran on a progressive agenda. The implications for policy and process are huge. Continetti spells out some of these. Quick and easy read.
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This essay appeared in the WSJ some time ago and has been in my “to do” folder for a while. However, the ideas expressed are still timely. Our culture, our republic is under assault. I will publish all good essays on this subject.
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In an attempt to make policing more sensitive, cities around the country are reducing the size of police forces, limiting the tools used to respond to crimes, reducing the number of now illegal acts to be considered illegal, prosecutors are deciding not to prosecute whole classes of crimes, reducing bail requirements and releasing criminals early. The result is that our major cities are becoming increasing unlivable. In this essay, Seth Barron, the editor of City Journal describes what is happening in New York City.
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This article discusses at length the issues involved in the deescalation campaign – in which police are to be trained in techniques to deescalate situations involving mentally ill people. The objective is to reduce the number of those ill people having interactions with police in which they are killed. The intent is good, but the implementation of such a policy is hideously expensive and unlikely to actually work, in large part because there are so few instances where police actually kill a mentally ill person. Unfortunately, there are too many mentallly ill people who commit crimes and are a danger to themselves and to others. It’s hard to see how any amount of police training would have a significant effect on what is more a mentally ill problem than it is a policing problem. Eide does a very good job discussing this very complex issue.
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Our economy and our health was first attacked by the Covid 19 pandemic. To add to our misery, plaintiff’s attorneys are making the decision to reopen a business more hazardous. The report lays it out. Unfortunately, plaintiff attorneys control the Democrat Party in most places and the Republican Party in some as well.