Currently our economy is being decimated, not by a disease but by a series of governmental shutdown orders that have closed most businesses and resulted in millions of layoffs. These orders were based not on experience, but on models that we now know were wrong.
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Slow Joe’s Latest Whiff
Someone has suggested that Joe Biden’s frequent video chats from his basement are meant to be “proof of life” evidence, because if he actually went silent for a few days speculation would build that he has COVID-19.
Old Timers Struggle to Keep Epidemics Straight
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders debated last night on CNN. The opening topic was, of course, the Wuhan coronavirus.
China Is Bouncing Back from Coronavirus
There is little doubt that China is rebounding faster than one would have predicted a few weeks ago. This is good news for the American economy and bad news for those Democrats hoping for a recession that will enable them to regain the White House.
Coronavirus Has a Silver Lining
It has exposed the frailty of the Communist Chinese regime, which reportedly is now sending some of the one million Uyghurs they have been holding in concentration camps to factories that have been vacated on account of the virus. No doubt Tom Friedman and other Democratic advocates for the Communist regime will hail this as one more sign of the superiority of autocratic states.
Stalin’s Last Laugh
Has Bernie Sanders ever lavished the kind of praise on the United States that he has heaped on the old regime of the Soviet Union, the dictators of Venezuela, or the Communist masters of Cuba? Has he ever praised the United States, period? When it comes to the United States versus its enemies, the guy is on the other side.
The Left Is Awash in Money
Jeff Bezos announced that he will spend $10 billion to “fight climate change.”The Bezos Earth Fund would help back scientists, activists, non-government organizations and any other effort that “offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world.” So the money will go to “scientists, activists [and] non-government organizations” – in other words, the Left.
Mayor Pete, Sane Democrat?
“Mayor Pete” Buttigieg has been touted as a favorite in the “sane lane” of the Democratic presidential chase, but there is good reason to question whether any such lane exists. Buttigieg blamed Iran’s shooting down a Ukrainian passenger airplane on…President Trump.
The Washington Post Is the Message Board for the Deep State
At Power Line, we sometimes refer to the Washington Post as an adjunct of the Democratic Party. To an even greater degree, the Post is an adjunct of official Washington — the cadre of career bureaucrats and former officials who consider it their God given right to set policy, regardless of what elected officials desire.