DANIELLE NEUSCHWANGER IS ON AT 1 She wants to be our next Governor and is stopping by for an update on how things are going. We are going to chat about her support of Donald Trump and what that means in the general election. Find out more about and support Danielle by clicking here.
WHEN A KEYNESIAN REALIZES HE'S WRONG That is the best way to describe what Larry Summers is doing right now when talking about inflation right now. Larry Summers has a long history in government, he was Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary and was Director of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama and he's been a reliable Keynesian for years. Now he's been warning about runaway inflation for months now, and he's 100% right. In this HotAir.com article that covers a recent interview he did on Ezra Klein's podcast this jumped out at me:
So, look, Ezra, I’d love for all that stuff to be true. I spent 20 years pushing various kinds of strongly Keynesian theories that were directed at the idea that we should promote demand more and promote demand permanently…
But I think you have to look at the facts. And the facts are that if you look at five-year expected inflation right now, it is about 3 and a half percent, detached from the 2 percent target. And if you look at 10-year expected inflation, it is at close to 3 percent. So we actually are a bit detached from our target levels of inflation, point one.
Point two— and this is the key point— the Fed has done more signaling of tightening in the last two months than any time in the last 40 years. So the only reason why we have kept inflation expectations under control is that belatedly the Fed has done the things that those of us who are anxious about inflation were recommending for the past nine months. And the Fed has moved to rejecting the advice of the people who were serene.
If the monetary policy recommendations contained in Jay Powell’s Jackson Hole speech in August, or your colleague, Paul Krugman’s recommendations through the fall had been adhered to, we would have much higher inflation expectations today.
This is me giving him a standing ovation for finally realizing how wrong he's been all these years. Now he didn't say THAT, but he kind of did, don't you think? He says we are literally headed towards a repeat of the 1970s right now and he's not wrong. This is what you get when Democrats surround themselves with people who believe Modern Monetary Theory is a thing that works.
EVEN THE SAN FRAN FED KNOWS IT'S ABOUT SPENDING Now the San Fran Federal Reserve is saying government spending programs are to blame.
WHY CAN'T JARED POLIS GET CHARTER SCHOOLS RIGHT? I say that because the school HE FOUNDED is the ONLY charter school that is going to vote in a union for teachers. The teachers at New American Academy have decided to vote in a union. Good for them, bad for the kids they serve.
ABOUT THOSE ALLEGED REPUBLICAN COKE ORGIES Did you see the story where Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn said that since he'd been in office he'd been invited to orgies by his colleagues and seen them do cocaine off the end of a key? I'm not going to say I believe him but I'm not going to say it's impossible. Now other members of the House Freedom Caucus are asking him to name names. Good. You should not get to make those sorts of innuendos about bad behavior that smear ALL of your Republican colleagues when it may be the aberrant behavior of a few. We'll see where this ends up. Let's not forget former Rep. Trey Radel was busted buying cocaine in Georgetown and had to resign but it wasn't THAT big of a deal when it happened. That's pretty telling that it barely made a ripple. There is something weird and shady about Hawthorne to me and I can't quite put my finger on it. He's a climber to be sure, but not sure if there is more there, like he'll be caught with a young male prostitute or something. He just announced his long marriage of eight months is over. I've found that those who try to point the finger of depravity at others are usually hiding some pretty damaging personal stuff themselves.
AND HERE IS THE "CHRIS ROCK'S JOKE WAS VIOLENCE AGAINST JADA" TAKE And I'm done with talking about this because this is the last, worst take there is on the subject.
EDITORIALS LIKE THIS ARE WHY I LOVE THE DENVER GAZETTE This editorial on the Aurora camping ban is spot on. Check this out:
Other self-styled advocates for the metro area’s homeless, in Aurora, Denver and beyond, labor under the misconception that bans on so-called urban camping are a failure if they don’t improve the lot of the vagrants they target. You know — the people who insist on squandering their lives in a drug- and booze-addled stupor on the streets. Who commit petty crimes; panhandle passersby; turn once-pleasant open spaces into their personal latrines; regard it all as a lifelong party — and then pass out on somebody’s lawn. Or in a local shop’s entryway.
The bans are intended first and foremost to protect the rest of the community — and they have rights, too. Marcano may have forgotten he actually has other constituents, the vast majority of whom work hard to pay a mortgage or rent while also paying property taxes to support their local schools, parks and other basic services. And they have every right to expect their schools, parks, streets and other infrastructure to be safe and clean. To walk to the office or a local restaurant without being harassed or worse. To let their kids shoot hoops at a neighborhood playground without having to watch addicts shoot up and toss their needles.
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I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE: THE OUTDOORS SAVED US DURING THE PANDEMIC I told my city dweller friends in other places that I had taken to daily walks of a couple of miles each day during the pandemic and they were extremely jealous. Now there is a new study out that shows those of us who got outside fared better during the pandemic than those who didn't or couldn't. Read more here.
WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE GREAT RESIGNATION AND WHY THERE COULD BE A NEXT WAVE This is an interesting take
IS THIS HOW CLASSICAL MUSIC REACHES A NEW GENERATION? This is badass.
REPUBLICANS BUST OUT EVIDENCE THAT THE TEACHERS UNIONS TOLD THE CDC WHAT TO DO And I am OVERJOYED that this is coming to light fully even as no other media outlet than Fox News will cover it. The CDC gave the American Federation of Teachers a copy of the CDC guidance for school reopening BEFORE it was released and then accepted demands for changes to that policy. Now this isn't a scientific union, and we were told repeatedly to FOLLOW THE SCIENCE so what went wrong? Dr. Jill Biden is my guess. The teachers union is sleeping with the President. The teachers union kept your kids home from school. Never forget that.
A SPECIAL KIND OF UV LIGHT CAN CLEAN THE AIR OF PATHOGENS And this is the technology that the cool ceiling fans at Urban Lights use to kill viruses! Now they've figured out a way to make UV-C light, which can damage eyes and cause skin cancer, work by shortening the wavelengths so they can use them inside to kill germs and viruses. So cool!
SHOCKER, RUSSIA LIED ABOUT STOPPING THE BOMBING As Russia tries to save face about their invasion that was supposed to take a couple of days they are now lying about cease fires and whatnot to give themselves time to reload. They've learned well from the Palestinians.
HEY LOOK, PALESTINIANS ARE MURDERING JEWS AGAIN IN ISRAEL And you would think that a man walking the streets of a Jewish neighborhood killing people would be a bigger story but no. In the past month eleven Jews have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists. But I'm sure it's Israel's fault.
WE ARE EATING PLASTICS AND IT'S MESSING WITH OUR GUT This is concerning to me. We know that plastic waste is in all sorts of sea animals, but now we know it's in US too. And scientists are wondering what this accumulation of plastics is doing to our gut health and overall health, which is a good question we sort of need answers to. Have plastics run their course? What could we possibly use to replace them that won't jack up the price of everything? I have no clue.
A WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL USE RACE TO CONSIDER PUNISHMENT And no matter how many times they say that's not what this is, they can't clearly define how it is NOT. Worried that black children face harsher discipline and more suspensions than their white peers, the school district has adopted a policy that says it will be "Implementing culturally responsive discipline that provides every student the opportunity to achieve personal and academic success;". What does that mean? When asked, the acting Superintendent said:
'Essentially, they are referring there that you look at -- are you dispersing discipline across the ethnicities, the racial groups, equitably,' Laubach explained.
'So, are you disciplining African-American boys more than you're disciplining white boys?'
Once again, the onus is off the student to behave better and you're not even allowed to consider that black children just MAY be behaving worse than their white peers. I present this as a counter view of what the problem might be. If you've never seen this, it will move you.
COULD POT BE LEGAL NATIONWIDE SOON? Nancy Pelosi has a bill poised to move out of the House legalizing weed. I will be shocked if the Senate takes it up, but we'll see. Read more here.
JIM CARREY IS RIGHT ABOUT HOLLYWOOD And this is a man who doesn't care about being invited to parties. He's 100% right.
COULD CELL PHONE PINGS PROVE VOTER FRAUD NATIONWIDE? This is super interesting but I have follow up questions. A group undertook a massive study that involved buying cell phone pinging information to cross check to see if any of those cell phones made excessive trips to ballot drop boxes. It appears to show in Wisconsin that 138 people made over 3,588 trips to locations where ballot drop boxes were located in about two weeks leading up the election. That would indicate serious fraud if they were dropping ballots into those boxes each time, especially if they were dropping handfuls of ballots into the box. Here are my questions. If this proves voter fraud and they have the names of the 138 people (they say they do), why won't they release them? They say anyone can buy them, but why not release them? I don't get that unless they are afraid of being sued for alleging something they can't prove. Second, is there any other reason those people would have gone to those locations anyway? Like how often did they go before and after the election? I think this needs to be investigated further but it's not the smoking gun some are hoping for. Until names are named and people are questioned this just adds to the speculation.
A FULLY VACCINATED CRUISE HAD A COVID OUTBREAK And so did my fully vaccinated cruise but so what? They quarantined the sick and went about their business.
WHEN A RETIRED CNN HOSTS ADMITS HE IS YELLING AT CNN YOU KNOW IT'S A HUGE PROBLEM And Brian Seltzer asks the question he should have already known the answer to but he did it anyway.
THE GREAT PICKLEBALL SCOFFLAW IS OFF THE HOOK Because the DA made the sane choice and decided not to press charges for his Great Sharpie Caper of 2022.
AND NOW, IF PEOPLE ACTED LIKE BUGS And I know people like this.