Buy American
And:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/
Finally:
Amity explains her own book after Shapiro interview:
Dick: I'm writing in the hope you'll consider taking a look at the new book yourself.
These days, social democracy, and even socialism, are suddenly in fashion again. My book reports on what happened last time the country moved with similar idealism -- the 1960s. The results were disappointment, failure, and eventually inflation and enduring joblessness. At the same time, private companies from the period -- the forerunner of Intel, Fairchild, for example -- showed how markets and companies can do more for the country than any program.
This is a non-dogmatic book aimed to be shared among us --and with our children.
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A typical response from my brilliant lawyer friend who introduced me to Leo: "In response to your shout out, I will say that Leonard Leo has been doing some heavy intellectual and political lifting for over three decades -- and remains a hero. Along with Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell -- who have worked tirelessly for decades doing the drudgery of deep thinking about issues.
There are other "islands in the swamp" that no one notices, but who are doing great work - Bill Barr, of course, and Secretary Pompeo, but also Ajit Pai (where would we be in the work-from-home Covid crisis if he had not promoted 5G and rural broadband investment by getting rid of the stupid concept of net neutrality?) Tom Cotton (whose readings in the South China Morning post caused him to alert Trump on January 23 to Covid and led to a travel ban from China is 8 days?) and Trey Gowdy, Kim Reed at ExIm, and Neomi Rao, formerly of OIRRA but now on the DC Circuit). A lot of their work goes unnoticed, but Trump has given them cover to make great reforms to modernize government without anyone noticing.
Richard Epstein has been one of those bookish intellectuals who fools you into thinking he is the absent-minded professor, but is an intellectual terror of great relevance, ripping the Harvard Law apologists for the Deep State into shreds. I doubt you will have time to read this book review of his latest work, but the courts have been supplanting the legislative process for so long we have forgotten that the Administrative State has caused even more loss of economic and political liberties, Epstein is laying the intellectual foundation necessary for the upcoming restructuring of administrative law. Even FDR started a commission questioning whether his alphabet soup of agencies was undermining constitutional rights, but the ear intervened before he had time to review the results of his inquiry. The 1947 Administrative Procedure Act was as powerful as King Cnut in pushing back against the tide of the federal bureaucracy.
Here is the link to a book review that will help you sleep, since you are up sending emails past midnight:: https://fedsoc.org/
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Widening the Chinese divide:
- Pompeo Confirms “ENORMOUS EVIDENCE” Pointing to Wuhan Lab Origins of Coronavirus
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- Progressives have always been good at moralizing. Now that endeavor is starting to boomerang and bite them in the behind.
Joe Biden and the Moralizers
Progressives invented moral trumping as a political weapon against their enemies. Now they’ve exhausted it.
By Daniel Henninger
Moralism became a progressive go-to tactic in American political life because it constantly forced conservatives to issue denials of moral failure.
By now the appeal is virtually robotic. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer this week outputted his thoughts that Republican plans to give companies wrestling with coronavirus liability protection are “going to help big CEOs, but not the workers.”
Next came the great moral event of the century’s second half—the civil rights movement. Once past the landmark laws of the mid-1960s, Democratic politicians quickly transformed even that into a moralistic weapon, routinely asserting that Republican policies would “roll back” the moral victories of that era.
Leave it to Joe Biden, looking more than ever like an innocent abroad, to resurrect his party’s legacy of protecting Jim Crow when at a fundraiser he cited his good Senate relationship with Old-South Democrats Herman Talmadge of Georgia and James Eastland of Mississippi.
During Barack Obama’s first high-minded presidential term, he gave speech after mocking speech about “the wealthiest” and “the 1%.” They came in like moralistic mortar rounds. In 2011, a liberal group ran a TV ad against Paul Ryan, then House Budget Committee chairman, depicting him throwing Grandma off the cliff with his proposed Medicare reforms.
Then, no longer content with isolating its opposition as its moral inferiors, the American left began to overreach. It targeted basic beliefs that had bipartisan support, such as the consensus about First Amendment free-speech protections. The campus speech codes arrived first but then came the mobs that shut down talks by conservative speakers, claiming they had moral justification for suppressing these speakers’ views on race, women and . . . pretty much anything.
This was an important turning point. Previously progressive condescension at least operated inside traditional moral categories. In recent years, it has decided it could get away with displacing even agreed-on norms of right and wrong with entirely novel claims, such as demoting centuries of due process for the accused with “believe the woman.”
Standard measures of credibility devolved into credulousness—but again, primarily in the interests of deploying the new rules as a political weapon. The ideas, or sentiments, were secondary.
The weaponizing of sexual-abuse accusations for the Brett Kavanaugh nomination was so over the top and evidence-free that many people eventually went numb on the subject.
Has the time finally come to agree the American system has waded into deep water by using cheap moralism as a political weapon? It won’t change, not unless people in positions of leadership speak up.
Just because Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is reinstating due process in campus sexual misconduct proceedings doesn’t mean liberals have to remain passive and silent. Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman used to talk in clear terms about defending moral traditions, but the Democratic left drove him out of the party.
The Biden episode suggests that political moralism is losing its punch. Progressives will keep trying to intimidate their opponents this way because that’s what they do. But nonstop media eventually sucks the energy out of everything these days, even its allies.
Other than the Democrats downloading pro forma support for Mr. Biden in hope of getting the vice presidential nomination, hardly anyone cares one way or the other about his guilt or innocence, or his accuser. The public’s normal instincts of concern have been worn down into a cynical callousness. Can anyone count how many times Bernie Sanders called some part of American life a “moral outrage?”
What lies on the other side of the Biden double standard is no standard at all. We are getting close.
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Now it is time for Gen Flynn to sue those who sought to entrap him and the government for damages.
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