Jimmy Carter Was a Better President than You Think.

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 Jimmy Carter Was a Better President than You Think.

To fight stagflation, Carter appointed tight-money advocate Paul Volker to head the Federal Reserve Board, and Volker pulled the brakes on inflationary monetary policy — hard. It solved inflation but sent the economy into a painful correction that probably cost Carter reelection.

• And despite his personal big government sympathies, Carter’s most lasting legacy is as the Great Deregulator. Carter deregulated oil, trucking, railroads, airlines, and beer. (H/t Caleb Brown.)

At the Atlantic, Derek Thompson chronicles the dramatic and almost unnoticed impact of Carter’s airline deregulation over the last thirty years. The bottom line: per-mile ticket prices fell by over fifty percent...
...The impact of beer deregulation has been similarly overlooked: In 1978, the USA had just 44 domestic breweries. After deregulation, creativity and innovation flourished in the above-ground economy...

As P.J. O’Rourke wrote in his classic 1993 American Spectator article, “100 Reasons Why Jimmy Carter Was a Better President than Bill Clinton:”

...100. And let us not forget that Jimmy Carter gave us one thing Bill Clinton can never possibly give us—Ronald Reagan...--Posted by Ed Driscoll

America Is Becoming a Corrupt Country - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

America Is Becoming a Corrupt Country - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics - 
by NEWT GINGRICH

• There may be no more important fight in the next decade than the reassertion of basic honesty and lawfulness.

"America has been drifting toward a level of corruption incompatible with a free society and a free-market economy.
Political and economic freedom depend on the presence of a level of honesty that makes it possible for people to interact with one another with a sense of trust.
Consider recent corrupt, criminal events and their implication for the future of American culture.

• An estimated $20 billion was stolen from California’s unemployment compensation program...
• ...$191 billion in COVID-19 relief funding has been stolen. The inspector general cited one case in which a person had used identity theft in 29 different states to steal $500,000...
• ...Shoplifting, flash robberies, and rampant crime have dramatically increased since so many jurisdictions have dramatically raised the dollar threshold of felony theft (in some places, stealing something worth $950 is a misdemeanor)...
• Add to this the rises in carjacking, burglary, and mugging. The rise in crime inherently means more criminals and more acceptance of living on someone else’s money.
• In this context, the Hunter Biden–Biden family pattern of influence peddling is just one more example of a country sliding into the acceptance of criminality as the norm....

24 states sue Biden EPA over water rule that would limit land use for farmers, landowners: 'Improper federal power grab' - TheBlaze

24 states sue Biden EPA over water rule that would limit land use for farmers, landowners: 'Improper federal power grab' - TheBlaze: 

The lawsuit explained that if the rule was left in place, "ranchers, farmers, miners, homebuilders, and other landowners across the country will struggle to undertake even the simplest of activities on their own property without fear of drawing the ire of the federal government."

Mark Steyn: It’s odd to become a minority in your own capital city withi...

Societal collapse!-----Texas: Muslima who stabbed man in revenge for killing of Soleimani is on house arrest, but left to make music videos

Texas: Muslima who stabbed man in revenge for killing of Soleimani is on house arrest, but left to make music videos

• Police in Texas “said they were never made aware” that she was supposed to be under house arrest, “as she has left home to make music and videos.”
• Was this simple negligence, or fear of appearing “Islamophobic,” or something else altogether?

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A woman accused of stabbing her date in a Las Vegas-area hotel room in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian leader is on house arrest in Texas, but police there said they were never made aware as she has left home to make music and videos...

Lunch video-----We NEED To Fix This NOW | Jordan Peterson & Bill Maher

Noon-toon

Florida 1,700% increase in vaccine adverse event reports - TheBlaze

Florida 1,700% increase in vaccine adverse event reports - TheBlaze: 

"To claim these vaccines are 'safe and effective' while minimizing and disregarding the adverse events is unconscionable," he wrote. "As a father, physician, and Surgeon General for the State of Florida, I request that your agencies promote transparency in health care professionals to accurately communicate the risks these vaccines pose. I request that you work to protect the rights and liberties that we are endowed with, not restrict, and diminish them."

Censor dissent, repeat the lies. Repeat as necessary.

 

A worthy observation!-----There will always be that element of society who looks longingly upon the results produced by others without the willingness to acknowledge the hard w... | Facebook

Not The Best Of The Web Today | There will always be that element of society who looks longingly upon the results produced by others without the willingness to acknowledge the hard w... | Facebook - Terry Collins

"...Who wish to be given without giving themselves.

• Who look outward at every common obstacle in life as being unique to them and evidence of a collective effort to block their success rather than looking inward and asking themselves what they could have done more of, less of, or instead of in order to achieve that success.
• Who focus only on exploiting the resources produced by others and ignoring the possibility of utilizing those resources to contribute more themselves.
• Who expect the world to adapt to them in such a way that they will be assigned a reward rather than making the necessary changes in themselves that will lead to their earning of that reward.
• Who will be unable or unwilling to distinguish between the concepts of want and need, of deserve and earn, of take and share...

And, sadly, there will always be that element of society who feels the drive to prop those people up and allow them to receive the compensation of effort without the actuality of effort.
When we as a common society have lost sight of the notions of risk=return and effort=reward, and have replaced them with the concepts of want=merit and entitlement=benefit... we have begun a slow but steady spiral down to our own undoing.
Because when too many are looking for a handout, we will soon discover that every hand is empty."

Endless "free-money".

 

The true "DENIERS"!-----‘Striking’ Number of Americans Distrust National News Outlets

‘Striking’ Number of Americans Distrust National News Outlets

• Less than a fourth of those polled said journalists act in the public’s best interests

"Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform, or persuade the public to adopt particular points of view through their reporting.
The survey, released Wednesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation, goes beyond others that have shown a low level of trust in the media — to the startling point where many believe there is an intent to deceive...

#1 This day 1956-----LISBON ANTIGUA Nelson Riddle

Hmmm. No mention of addressing the real need, children can't READ!-----Family’s $55M in gifts results in renaming of University of Michigan School of Education

Family’s $55M in gifts results in renaming of University of Michigan School of Education

"...UM’s Board of Regents approved naming the school the Marsal Family School of Education during its meeting Thursday, Feb. 16, in recognition of a new $50-million gift that will support initiatives 

• to prepare and support a diverse population of teachers, build partnerships with schools and communities and conduct research in collaboration with education professionals.
• ...Providing a high-quality education for all children — which is crucial for achieving equity —begins with educators.”
• ...Supporting future educators by removing financial barriers to certification and providing support throughout their early professional years...

Be helpful to see this confirmed.

 

'Abortion travel agency': Pentagon will allow military members to travel for abortions on taxpayer dime - TheBlaze

'Abortion travel agency': Pentagon will allow military members to travel for abortions on taxpayer dime - TheBlaze: 

The language "non-covered reproductive health care" is important. Legally speaking, the Defense Department cannot use taxpayer funds to pay for abortions; that would violated the Hyde Amendment. But apparently, it can use taxpayer funds to assist in service members getting abortions. This means that service members stationed in a locality where abortion is not legal will be granted taxpayer funds to travel to another state where abortion is legal to end their pregnancy.

Media covering for Democrats sitting on 'stolen' FTX money because they are also recipients of it: Greenwald | Fox News

Media covering for Democrats sitting on 'stolen' FTX money because they are also recipients of it: Greenwald | Fox News

• Sam Bankman-Fried donated $5.2 million to Joe Biden's presidential campaign in 2020
• Glenn Greenwald: FTX scandal revealed too much about how Washington really works

"Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald weighs in on 'the biggest financial scandal' in history' on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
Politicians and liberal media outlets on the receiving end of FTX donations and grants are sitting on "stolen" money, journalist Glenn Greenwald said Tuesday, urging them to return the funds given to them as a result of a "Ponzi scheme" that impacted an estimated one million customers.
"Everyone knows, including these politicians, that it is not their money," Greenwald said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." 

"That money was stolen. It was a Ponzi scheme and people are without their money while these politicians keep the money that doesn’t belong to them."...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for February 19

History for February 19 - On-This-Day.com

Lee Marvin 1924 - Actor ("The Caine Mutiny", "The Dirty Dozen", "Delta Force")

• 1846 - The formal transfer of government between Texas and the United States took place. Texas had officially become a state on December 29, 1845
• 1856 - The tintype camera was patented by Professor Hamilton L. Smith.
• 1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patented a music player (the phonograph).
• 1942 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans.
• 1945 - During World War II, about 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.
• 1981 - The U.S. State Department call El Salvador a "textbook case" of a Communist plot.
• 1985 - Cherry Coke was introduced by the Coca-Cola Company.
• 1987 - A controversial, anti-smoking public service announcement aired for the first time on television. Yul Brynner filmed the ad shortly before dying of lung cancer. Brynner made it clear in the ad that he would have died from cigarette smoking before ad aired.

Chip company says Chinese employee stole data, second breach of its kind in 2 years - TheBlaze

Chip company says Chinese employee stole data, second breach of its kind in 2 years - TheBlaze: 

A major chip manufacturer says that a former employee in China has stolen information about its technology, marking the second time the company has accused China of stealing its intellectual property since 2021.

The way we were-----The History of Barcodes

Pickleball Courts are Dividing Neighborhoods

UCF's Racism in the Name of "Anti-Racism" | City Journal

UCF's Racism in the Name of "Anti-Racism" | City Journal - Christopher F. Rufo 

"The Social Order - The University of Central Florida has adopted radical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming that 

• segregates students by race, 
• condemns the United States as “white-supremacist culture,” and 
• encourages active discrimination against the “oppressor” class, characterized as “male, White, heterosexual, able-bodied, and Christian.”

Officially, UCF reports that it has 14 separate DEI programs, costing in the aggregate more than $4 million per year. 

But this dramatically understates the reality, which is that the ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” has been entrenched everywhere. 

The university’s administration and academic departments have created a blizzard of programs, classes, trainings, reports, committees, certifications, events, documents, policies, clubs, groups, conferences, and statements pledging UCF to left-wing racialism...

In case you missed it, several border patrol agents testified before Congress and accused Biden of sending the message that our border is open.

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"In case you missed it, several border patrol agents testified before Congress and accused Biden of sending the message that our border is open.
The people on the front lines of our border crisis have to deal with Biden’s failures every day, even if it puts them in danger, but Biden has turned his back on these heroes who keep our country safe. Biden should be impeached.

• His primary duty is to keep America safe from invasion. 

He has encouraged it, plus uses our tax dollars to support them. 

No one should accept his behavior, especially those in congress."