Letters to the Editor

Monday, June 10, 2019

I’m 65 so it doesn’t affect me directly but I find this trend upsetting. I remember when 18 year olds gained the right to vote in 1971. at that time the age to make many decisions for oneself was lowered from age 21 to 18. Apparently they forgot how to stand up for themselves since then.

They have become a bunch of sheep, doing what the media tells them, standing up to spread socialism at the command of their masters. “If God didn’t want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep.”

Sometimes it looks as if the youth of America are being bamboozled into adopting an ovine state. The problem is that a libertarian society is meant for adults who are not domestic sheep and these youngster are not learning to be either wild or adults.

Source: Letters to the Editor

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If you’re old enough to sign up for the military, then you’re old enough to make decisions about smoking, drinking, drugs, etc. etc.

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Driver Arrested, Charged After Repossession of Officer’s Car

Monday, June 10, 2019

When he appeared in court, the felony charge disappeared, replaced by misdemeanor charges of falsifying documents and possession of police scanners, allegations he denies.

Source: Driver Arrested, Charged After Repossession of Officer’s Car

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Want to bet that nothing happens to these “police officers”?

Seems “laws” are for the common folk; not the “Praetorian Guard”!

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Knowledge is a stone-age concept, we’re better off without it | Aeon Essays

Sunday, June 9, 2019

For those philosophers who work in epistemology (the ‘theory of knowledge’), the holy grail is to pin down the nature of knowledge and explain why it matters. But despite thousands upon thousands of articles devoted to the topic, the philosophers haven’t been able to come up with a good story. I say that’s because they’re barking up the wrong tree. The notion of knowledge doesn’t in fact pick out anything important. It’s a crude concept we have inherited from our prehistoric ancestors, and it positively handicaps us in our dealings with the modern world.

Source: Knowledge is a stone-age concept, we’re better off without it | Aeon Essays

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I’ve always worked on a paradigm of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom).  Never could fit “skill” into my meme.  Now “knowledge” may be on shaky ground?

Guess I’ll have to add: “direct observation, sensory perception, hearsay, or inference”.  Seems ugly.  Maybe it should be “knowledge with provenance”?

Still doesn’t account for “skills”, “system of ‘evidential’ constructions”, or “knowledge provides the norm for assertion”, but that’s for another time.

To much heavy thinking for one fat old white guy injineer.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Keep Democrats in office if you want to protect illegal immigrants.

Sunday, June 9, 2019

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The Headline

Latest iteration of DREAM Act offers citizenship status to 2.7 million illegals

The Grind

House lawmakers on Tuesday voted 237-187 in favor of a bill that would cancel deportations and grant citizenship rights to millions of illegal immigrants.

The proposal offers “Dreamers” conditional permanent residency for 10 years if they meet the following criteria:

— Arrive in the US before age 18

— Live in the US for four years before proposal is enacted

— Have a GED or high school diploma

— Pass a background check

To obtain full citizenship, “Dreamers” must fulfill one of four requirements:

— Earn a college degree

— Complete a two-year program in technical school or other institution of higher learning

— Serve in the military

— Work in the US for at least three years

The bill offers permanent residency to TPS and DED recipients if they meet the following criteria:

— Live in the US for more than three years before proposal is enacted

— Do not have felony convictions or multiple misdemeanors

The Details

The Dream and Promise Act is the latest version of a sweeping legalization proposal introduced in 2001. As estimated by the Migration Policy Institute, it could grant legal protections to 2.7 million people.

“This is a day that glorifies what America is to the world,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD). “A place of refuge, a place of safety, a place of opportunity.”

Republican critics who supported previous efforts to grant citizenship to “Dreamers” oppose this bill because it fails to address the emergency at the southern border and provides no strategy to reduce illegal immigration.

If passed, the Dream and Promise Act would produce even greater numbers of illegal immigration. Another sticking point for Republicans: the bill does not exclude immigrants with gang ties or DUI convictions.

The Takeaway

Democrats know the Dream and Promise Act will never make it through the Senate. What we are seeing here is a policy statement to voters ahead of the 2020 election: keep Democrats in office if you want to protect illegal immigrants.

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I think that this captures the essence of the issue.  The D’s want more “illegals” voting; look at Wisconsin with the Muslim importation.  Swung the state.  And, it’s happening elsewhere.  End welfare and see how many stay?  And, it seem that most of the “immigrants” both here and in Europe are healthy young men with name brand sneakers and cell phones. I don’t see the “yearning to be free”.  End the deceptions  welfare / warfare D’s and the warfare / welfare R’s!

Let’s bring all the girls, boys, women, and men home now! We have so many politicians and bureaucrats to send in their place if it’s really needed!

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EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Tucker Carlson Endorses Elizabeth Warren’s Economic Central Planning Program and Then Disses Austrian School Economics

Saturday, June 8, 2019

As part of her plan, she attacked Levi’s for making most of their jeans overseas. She also mentioned, as a problem because of overseas manufacturing, other firms including Dixon Ticonderoga — maker of the famous №2 pencil. Carlson cheered all this. He said firms that manufacture products overseas cost “millions of good jobs lost” here in America.

Of course, this view is a call for economic protectionism.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Tucker Carlson Endorses Elizabeth Warren’s Economic Central Planning Program and Then Disses Austrian School Economics

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I thought Tucker Carlson had “it”, but this shows he doesn’t get “it”.

“It” being that truly free trade makes everyone richer and peaceful.

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Time to End the Postal Monopoly – The Future of Freedom Foundation

Saturday, June 8, 2019

It turns out that commercial package delivery for e-commerce retailers such as Amazon was actually profitable for the USPS. Revenue from delivering packages increased in 2018. The problem is that revenue from first-class mail, which is still the biggest source of the USPS’s revenue, continues to decline even as labor costs continue to increase. In 2018, labor costs accounted for 76 percent of overall operating costs, and especially the pension and health benefits provided to each of the USPS’s retired government employees.

Lost in all of this is the real problem with the Post Office, specifically the postal monopoly and, to a larger extent, the fact that the federal government is involved in the postal business.

Source: Time to End the Postal Monopoly – The Future of Freedom Foundation

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Have to blame Ben Franklin for this mess.  He was the advocate for a Post Office.  He did OK with fire insurance, bifocals, and a lot of other things.  But he really did realize what boondoggle this would become!

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D-Day – CartoonsForUs

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Source: D-Day – CartoonsForUs

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Pretty much sums it up.  Sadly.  Decades of political failures made this sacrifice inevitable.  Hopefully, but not likely, the human race will smarten up.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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The Peasants’ Revolt

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

In 2016, James Delingpole commented that toffs hate Brexit because it’s the Peasants’ Revolt. For non-British readers, the word “toff” is a shortened form of “toffee-nosed,” a slang term for the rich or upper class. But more important is the reference to the Peasant Revolt of 1381, which is little-known on the western side of the Atlantic.

Source: The Peasants’ Revolt

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However, we should take this time to recognize that Brexit was a twenty-first century form of the Peasants’ Revolt – a time when the population had the government running scared but made the mistake of accepting the continued leadership of those who created the problem in the first place.

Whatever country we are from, we should be reminded that, no matter how reasonable or conciliatory this may seem, putting the fox back in the henhouse is never the answer.

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Seems like that’s a recurring mistake that “We, The Sheeple” make — thinking that an agreement will solve the problem.

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Non-diversity and the spelling bee :: Jeff Jacoby

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Is that a problem? Should we be lamenting the lack of diversity in the top ranks of competitive student spellers? Ought Scripps and ESPN (which broadcasts the annual spelling bee) manipulate the rules — the way Harvard, for example, has manipulated its admissions standards — to ensure that more non-Asians make it to the final rounds? . . .

Source: Non-diversity and the spelling bee :: Jeff Jacoby

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“Equality of Opportunity”; not “Equality of Results”!

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L. Neil Smith‘s The Libertarian Enterprise: working to fulfill the promise of the American Revolution since 1995

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

“Government healthcare is the first step to cyanide showers.”

Source: L. Neil Smith‘s The Libertarian Enterprise: working to fulfill the promise of the American Revolution since 1995

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That seems accurate!

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