Category Archives: Government

Would-Be Dictator

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Abuse of power was one of the charges that the Democrats tried to hang around PDJT’s neck during their faux impeachment.  The COVID-19 crisis has allowed the American public to see just how many politicians in positions of power become tinpot dictators and worse.  It has not been pretty.

Some governors, mayors and law enforcement have become tyrants.   This sudden ability to control all aspects of the lives of others has allowed their inner totalitarianism to come out.    Most, but not all, are Democrats.  Most are Democrats because those who would abuse power gravitate to the Democratic Party.  As Democrats, they know that it is unlikely that they will ever be held accountable for their abuses.

President Lincoln once said,

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Free Exercise Of Religion Attacked

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Fundamental liberties do not end because there is a pandemic.  Individual rights in our Constitution do not disappear during a public health crisis.  This does not mean that quarantine cannot be imposed if someone has been exposed to a highly communicable and/or deadly disease.  However, measures taken need to be even-handed.  A government entity is not permitted to discriminate against one group while allowing another group to engage in the same or similar activity.  There can be no disparate treatment.

Last week Greenville, Mississippi mayor Errick Simmons, a Democrat, and the city council banned churches from hosting drive-in services.

“The City of Greenville put in place an Executive Order that orders all church buildings closed for in person and drive-in church services, until the State of Mississippi’s Shelter In Place Executive Order No. 1466 is lifted by Governor Tate Reeves. Churches are strongly encouraged to hold services via Facebook Live, Zoom, Free Conference Call, and any and all other social media, streaming, and telephonic platforms,” the order read.

The governor’s order (EO 1466) recommended that church services not be in person but, he did not prohibit drive-in services.  “Mississippi is not China, and it never will be,” Reeves insisted.

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Counting COVID-19 Deaths

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Something strange is going on.  While the number of deaths from COVID-19 are screamed at us every day from the talking bobbleheads in the media, the number of deaths from heart attacks and strokes have plummeted.  This makes no sense.  If anything, given the anxiety and stress of this crisis, we should be seeing more heart attacks not less.  The same can be said for strokes.

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Lies

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Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff for President Obama and current mayor of Chicago, once said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”  He was espousing the idea of using a crisis to get other things approved that had no chance otherwise.

Today with the coronavirus crisis in full bloom, governors are misrepresenting and/or lying about conditions and circumstances to move their state up on the list to get supplies or to get more money from the federal government.

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Democrats Hate Ordinary Americans Except At Election Time

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As some people had observed during the Obama administration, the Democrats only care about Americans at election time.  At all other times their only real concern is how much money they can gather in campaign donations from the “dark money” areas of the country.

This is the party that screams and hyperventilates about dark money in politics.   However, they are once again just projecting what they are doing.  The Democrats are the chief beneficiaries from such money.  Even during the 2008 election four of the five richest individuals who participated in donating money to campaigns did so to Democratic causes.

During the 2016 election the Democrats outspent the Republicans by more than 2 to 1.  At the same time they were doing this, they and their allies in the media were complaining about dark money in politics.

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Great Numbers

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the February jobs report last week that showed 273,000 jobs added in February.  This shattered the experts’ predictions that were expecting 175,000.  At the same time the BLS updated January and Decembers numbers to reflect 85,000 more jobs than previously reported.

These revisions are an interesting sidelight of the business of reporting labor numbers.  The initial numbers due reflect some incompleteness in the reporting so the updates are always instructive.  During the Obama administration there were updates on both sides of the ledger.  That is, a few months saw increases.  Most saw decreases.  During the Trump administration the updates have always shown underreporting during the initial release of the numbers.  I wonder why that is.

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Coronavirus Update

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The New England Journal of Medicine has published an editorial on Friday updating information about COVID-19.  In their editorial the authors point out that the virus is structurally similar to the one that caused the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003.

While the reported mortality rate has been between 2% and 3%, the facts emerging suggest that a significant number of people may contract the illness without major symptoms.  Certainly in some it may present itself as little more than a mild case of the sniffles.  The underlying data suggest that the symptoms vary, and fewer than one in six of the cases reported were “severe.”

So, many cases of the illness may go unreported.  It may turn out that this is little more than a severe case of seasonal influenza.  Those with weak immune systems may be particularly at risk of serious illness.  However, most cases will not be severe.

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