Loose Ends
February 22, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• First an announcement: owning to travel schedules, Lucretia and I were not able to schedule our weekly Power Line University seminar on The Federalist, and we’re almost at the end! Next week we promise, probably Wednesday. But stay tuned to this space. • The left: Corporations don’t pay enough taxes because of tax loopholes and special-interest tax breaks. Also the left: We need more tax breaks and subsidies for
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February 16, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Looks like Biden’s State Department has more problems beyond those that our Afghan Charge d’Affaires Karen Decker acknowledged yesterday. Fox News reports: The State Department on Tuesday withdrew the nomination of an Ivy League professor who called then-candidate Joe Biden a “senile gaffe machine” and criticized other officials for their pro-Israel views. James Cavallaro was nominated last week to serve on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the
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February 12, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Maybe my favorite “land acknowledgement” yet: Question: Did the five tribes listed in the last sentence (not to mention the unnamed “among others”) own the land in joint tenancy? A limited partnership? A co-op of some kind? If these five were successive owners, can we please see the conveyance of title deeds? Oh, that’s right—it was only the white European settlers who conquered these lands. • Liberals hit by
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February 5, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Bill Kristol, a superspreader of Trump Derangement Syndrome, long ago demonstrated that one of the side effects of the TDS virus is losing your wit, but it appears the next symptom is losing your mind: Meanwhile, this guy has the right idea: • Speaking of humorless liberal scolds, Three Whisky Happy Hour podcast intends to lodge a protest at this gross slander—right after we refill our custom-engraved whisky glasses: • Maybe
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January 29, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Remember the launch of the Obamacare website back in 2013? Looks like the Biden Administration is determined to match the incompetence of Obama’s geniuses with their new asylum website. From AP News: The U.S. government’s CBPOne mobile app that’s been overloaded since the Biden administration introduced it Jan. 12. Many can’t log in; others are able to enter their information and select a date, only to have the screen
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January 26, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• There’s been a good deal of controversy over stock trading by members of Congress—perhaps sometimes based on inside information. Just today the news is out that Nancy Pelosi recently sold about $3 million worth of Google stock, and lo and behold, just this week the Justice Department announced it is bringing an antitrust suit against Google. It turns out there is a handy website where you can track and
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January 15, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of modern art until we can figure out what the hell is going on: Seriously—what the hell is this? (It’s supposed to be a monument to Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King in Boston.) Well here’s one take on it, which I pass along without comment or endorsement: Also this: Oh what the hell: • Kamala is back, baby!
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January 11, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• So all airline flights were grounded for several hours this morning because of software problems at the Federal Aviation Administration. Gosh, this might distract Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg from his all-important mission to remedy racist roads, and punishing Southwest Air Lines for their computer software problems. Southwest may be facing fines from the Dept. of Transportation, as well as reimbursing expenses for stranded passengers. Think anyone at the FAA
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January 5, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Someone apparently got to Biden’s teleprompter again, with the predictable result: BIDEN: "I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do." pic.twitter.com/G8WI7etvBb — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 4, 2023 Or maybe he’s self-consciously trying to make Kamala look good by comparison. • And while we’re doing
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December 26, 2022 — Steven Hayward
• Always hard to keep up with the shifting standards of the left. To wit: The left: Churchill is a racist, imperialist, colonialist warmonger who must be cancelled! Also the left (last week): Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the Churchill of our time, who must be celebrated! I’m confused. • What’s going on with the electricity grid? I don’t mean all the “green energy” nonsense that is slowly crippling the grid; rather, there
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December 20, 2022 — Steven Hayward
• Seriously—who at the New York Times thought this layout for their crossword puzzle on the first day of Hanukkah (or any day for that matter) was a good idea: You’d expect a “we’re sorry for the harm and hurt we have caused” with this image, but the Times is insisting that this is a “standard design.” NB: Clue 58 Across is “Boxcars.” Nice going Times. • Gee—who could have
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December 8, 2022 — Steven Hayward
Lately I’ve been saying “Things are going to get worse before they get worse,” and while I still think that is true, today the stars have aligned to bring us a bunch of cheering news. • Starting with a strike today by 1,000 New York Times employees, which can only improve the product. One of the striking employees is Nicole Hannah-Jones, impresario of the egregious 1619 Project, but how can
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December 4, 2022 — Steven Hayward
• John Yoo, currently back over in Italy—again—for yet another academic junket, passes along the following story by email from Rome: I was sitting in the Lufthansa lounge in Munich airport on my way to Rome just now. Up comes a tall German-looking fellow. Q: Are you John Yoo? John: Yes. Q: I listen to your podcast! John: Really? In Germany? Q: No! In Finland! John: What??? How??? Q: I
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November 26, 2022 — Steven Hayward
• I didn’t think any other politician (except perhaps John Fetterman) could make Joe Biden sound like a MENSA member, but behold Canada’s Justin Trudeau, at a recent parliamentary hearing: “Using protests to demand changes to public policy is something that I think is worrisome” • Guess what’s racist now? Fossils. The rise of scientific racism in palaeoanthropology A forensic anthropologist unmasks insidious interpretations of fossil finds. . . . The
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November 23, 2022 — Steven Hayward
• Some questions about the whole FTX implosion. There is likely to be a new rush for Congress to enact some kind of regulation of the crypto world. But maybe we should look first to see what existing laws and regulations either failed or were flouted. After the Enron, Worldcom, and other corporate catastrophes back around 2001, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley bill, imposing strict new regulations on accounting and corporate financial
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November 1, 2022 — Steven Hayward
• It’s still early in the morning out here on the Left Coast, but I declare David Deeble to be the Winner of the Day on Twitter: If you’re a fan, don’t be a free-rider: hit up David’s tip jar at BuyMeACoffee. • It turns out that even The Simpsons understands the joke of “renewable” energy (2 min long): • This is either some kind of Twilight Zone LARPing, or
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October 31, 2022 — Steven Hayward
• So in an utterly predictable development, the radical feminist lawyer Gloria Allred has brought forth a woman who claims that Herschel Walker drove her to an abortion clinic after she got pregnant. But given that few people are more fervently pro-abortion than Allred, I don’t see what her problem is. • Lemme get this straight: the same people who have been screaming for the last six years that Trump
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