Stupidity, Thy Name be Starbucks

The nice thing about Classic Economics is that it timeless.  The bad thing about some politicians is that they are clueless.  The late great economist Milton Friedman lived in San Francisco, evidently without imparting any wisdom to the City Fathers,

If you’re tired of being labeled an enemy of the people, maybe it’s time you stopped acting like an enemy of the people.

The New York Times and the Washington Post have a long history of pursuing a far

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is sixty today.
from Wikipedia:

The President Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA in 1958[10] with a distinctly civilian (rather than military) orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science. The National Aeronautics and Space

If you can’t find any evidence, just find a bigger soapbox and scream even louder. Michael Mann is long on hysteria, but short on evidence. Even his cited evidence does not support his loudly proclaimed conclusion, from Guardian(UK):

Extreme

I see that scientists have reportedly discovered an underground Lake on Mars.
I’m taking bets as to how long it’s going to be before the EPA declares jurisdiction over it.

From Ed Driscoll

TWITTER CEO APOLOGIZES FOR ALLOWING CONSERVATIVES ON PLATFORM IN FIRST PLACE.

It’s a parody headline. But is it, really?, to coin an Insta-phrase

I’ve been saying for a couple of decades now the comedy doesn’t work

Bless his little heart, Rand Paul (R – KY) is not totally useless. Paul exposed the communist posing a security advisor, John Brennan’s effort to sabotage US foreign policy, from Daily Caller:

The Kentucky Senator claimed that

Hmm.

I have to say, this is nice to see, but maybe we should be pondering the idea that if the IRS wasn’t so powerful, the scam wouldn’t have been nearly as effective.

Put another way, the scam was effective

Yesterday I made mention of the New York Daily News and it’s imminent collapse. I suggested that the left-leaning it’s been doing for decades now is finally taking its toll.

This morning comes news that Mark Zuckerberg lost 16 billion

Mrs. Clinton, former Secretary of State and formerly known as the Smartest Woman in the World, has neither the need for classified information, nor the mental aptitude necessary to even recognize it, from Daily Caller:

President Donald Trump is

So now we hear that Stormy Daniels husband is filing for divorce.

Wait…. She was married?

Okaaaaay. I have to confess I wasn’t aware of it. From what I can see the way she was acting she wasn’t aware

So General Wesley Clark shows up on Laura ingraham’s show today and states flatly that Condoleezza Rice caused 911 to happen.

My curiosity on this point is pretty much the same as someone watching a train wreck…. Apparently the general

From Sarah Hoyt:

YES, INDEED, PEOPLE GET NOTORIOUSLY DEPRESSED IN BALMY WEATHER. THAT’S WHY EVERYONE IS MOVING TO NORTH DAKOTA FOR THE WINTER: Claim: Global warming to cause more suicides.

Well, let them. If nothing else it’ll resolve the

Longtime online friend Ed Driscoll notes via instapundit that the New York Daily News is in effect going belly-up.

The fact of the matter is that the place has been swinging to the extreme left for some time now. As