Rachel Maddow skates again

May 22, 2020
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A memorable Memorial Day: Just in time for the long weekend, Gov. Newsom has “allowed” ([link removed]) a growing list of counties to reopen faster than the state’s timeline. Newsom said that 53 of the state’s 58 counties can expand on Phase 2 reopening, which lets restaurants and other businesses open with new safety protocols.

A governor, not a king: Some counties are moving forward and ignoring Newsom’s timeline. Tulare County voted ([link removed]) on Tuesday to begin Phase 3 reopening, which allows barbershops, movie theaters, and churches to reopen without state approval. Newsom warned the county could lose government relief money for its actions.

The debate over coronavirus deadliness rages on: CPC board member John Kruger is out with a new video ([link removed]) that puts your risk of dying from coronavirus in perspective.

Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel: Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez seemed to relent this week to an AB 5 carve out for California writers, telling Politico ([link removed]) , “They were right. I was wrong.” This is a step in the right direction, but likely will only amount to another carve-out when the whole AB 5 turkey needs to be tossed. If only journalists could muster the same invective toward AB 5 on behalf of non-writers trying to earn a living. It seems difficult for journalists, who work in one of the few lightly regulated economic sectors, to sympathize with the over-regulation that plagues their counterparts in the rest of the economy. AB 5 is good for thee,
California’s writers seem to believe, but not for me.

Cal Assembly passes $2 billion annual homeless bill out of committee: Despite a massive budget deficit, the California assembly passed ([link removed]) an enormous bill to address the state’s homeless crisis out of committee this week. Pricey as it is, such funding just incentivizes more of the problem it’s trying to solve.

In the Soviet Union, food shortages occurred while crops rotted: The Associated Press reports ([link removed]) that California needs more hotel rooms to house its homeless population: “California homeless quarantine in hotels, more rooms needed,” Yet the Los Angeles Times reports ([link removed]) that half of the rooms to house the homeless sit empty: “California leased 15,000 hotel rooms to help homeless people. Half now sit empty.” Central planning, whether it’s for food or housing supply, causes both shortages and oversupply. Only a price system is capable of efficiently allocating resources.

Think bigger: The state Senate endorsed ([link removed]) five bills this week to address California’s housing shortage, including boosting construction of duplexes and small apartments.

Rachel Maddow skates again: For nearly three years, Rachel Maddow and the rest of her chorus at MSNBC hawked the ridiculous conspiracy theory that President Trump was a Manchurian candidate backed by the Russians, exploiting the frustrations of the network’s mostly elderly audience to juice its ratings. None of these hucksters faced any consequences when the Mueller Investigation confirmed that the entire story was fake news. Now it looks like Maddow is about to beat the rap again in a lawsuit against her for calling the San Diego-based One America News “really, literally paid Russian propaganda.” The judge hinted ([link removed]) this week that she would dismiss the case. CPC contributor Edward Ring delves deeper into how the media’s betrayed America in his recent CPC column ([link removed]) .

Proof of the impact of ballot harvesting: Ed also analyzes ([link removed]) California’s March election results to demonstrates how ballot harvesting boosts electoral outcomes supported by public-sector unions: “How was the final outcome affected by the efforts of paid political operatives to knock on the doors of every Democrat and harvest the ballots they’d received in the mail?.... The number of approved new taxes jumped from 42 percent to 44 percent. The number of approved bonds jumped from 31 percent to 36 percent. Don’t laugh. That’s another $171 million in additional annual taxes, and an additional $1.1 billion in new borrowing.”

Can virtual schooling disrupt teacher union power? In yet another contribution ([link removed]) , Ed discusses how the pandemic will affect public education. He writes, “What’s coming next in public education is anybody’s guess. But the forced and very unexpected transition of millions of Californian parents into homeschoolers is a profound disruption. Virtual private schools, offering affordable educational options to parents who don’t want to put their children back into the public schools, now constitute a mortal threat to the teachers union monopoly on public education.”

Larry Sand takes up a similar theme in his latest contribution ([link removed]) : “Covid-19 has stirred up a hornet’s nest. With kids not in brick-and-mortar schools for the near future, parents are awakening to options – virtual schools, homeschooling, private schools, etc. Legislators should be taking notes. The unions and the educrats are getting very jittery. They should be. The monopolist’s glory days may be numbered. And that is very good news for the children, parents and citizens of America.”

Los Angeles Times runs op-ed bashing free markets: A recent Times op-ed ([link removed]) by Francesco Duina, a professor of sociology and European studies at Bates College, argues that free market principles won’t help us now. The piece is a parody of the genre: Multiple uses of the word “neoliberal”? Check. Characterizing the economy of recent history as some sort of libertarian paradise? Yep. Implying that anyone who supports free markets won’t allow for any government role in society? Of course.

Duina’s alternative: “We must invest, ahead of time, in government structures, programs and funding for challenges that will inevitably arise. And we must commit to them for the long term.” Where does Duina think the money comes from to pay for such social programs? From the private economy, of course, which will not only lead the country out of this recession but also do so while being doubly hamstrung by the over-taxation and over-regulation that the professor supports.

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