Another outlandish falsehood in Democracy in Chains is MacLean's statement on page 79 that "the major deficiency" of the Virginia School (i.e., the Public Choice School), is "the failure to search for empirical tests of the new theories." If MacLean had looked at any one issue of the journal Public Choice she would have learned that this is unequivocally untrue. Public Choice became very mainstream, and Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize for his part in it, precisely because there had been hundreds, or thousands, of published econometric tests of its propositions. Bob Tollison alone, Buchanan's most prolific student, authored and co-authored literally hundreds of academic journal articles that were econometric tests of various hypotheses drawn from public choice theory. I personally attended every weekly Public Choice seminar, and every economics department seminar, at VPI from September 1976 to June 1979 as a graduate student and can attest that at least 90 percent of all the papers presented there contained some kind of empirical test. MacLean's assertion is preposterous.
Cop at side of road: *holds up his hand* You: *brake, roll down window* You: "Uh hi officer" Cop: "Hi, nothing to worry about, but I just wanted to tell you that your left brake lig" Body cam: "SUSPECT RECOGNIZED" Cop: *covers body cam* "Sorry, sometimes it malfunctions" Body cam in muffled voice: "SUSPECT NAME C. R. IMINAL, HIGHLY DANGEROUS SHOOT ON SIGHT, CERTAINTY INTERVAL AT LEAST 83 PERCENT" Cop: "Sir, please step out of the car" *unholsters* You: "I'm just on my way to pick up the kid from daycare" Body cam: "KILL KILL KILL"
If the citizens of this country can’t figure out they are being screwed and lied to by the government, another article from me isn’t going to help.Jim Quinn finally figures out he should quit throwing good money after bad. Pity the fools, for they know not what they do. He sums up the grim economic picture quite well.
My frustration and disillusionment with a world gone mad has begun to affect my mental state. I’m losing my sense of outrage which has driven me to write for the last nine years. It isn’t worth the expended energy when it will change nothing. I’m resigned to the inevitability of economic collapse. It’s just a matter of when. Bloggers and writers who make a living at it, must write daily articles of doom to generate page views. Since no one can reliably predict the timing of the collapse, I’ve grown tired of reading and writing the same old shit.
Websites will be legally required to install age verification controls by April 2018 as part of a move to make the internet safer for children.Barbarians squatting in the remains of a once glorious empire.
I want to see a substantial increase in gun crime prosecutions...Doubling down on the police state
I would urge you to examine every case that involves an arrest of an individual illegally possessing prescription drugs. Make a condition of any plea bargain that the defendant tell where he or she got the drugs. Together, let’s get after these bad actors...
In addition, we hope to issue this week a new directive on asset forfeiture—especially for drug traffickers. With care and professionalism, we plan to develop policies to increase forfeitures...
