Dr. Walter E. Williams, 1936 – 2020 (R.I.P.)

Dr. Walter E. Williams has passed. From his last column published yesterday, CNS News:

If we accept the notion that rotten education is not preordained, then I wonder when the black community will demand an end to an educational

As the old joke goes: What do the Sun and Eastman Kodak have in common? Both are large yellow objects that used to seen in Rochester. Well the Sun is still missing, but like Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, a

Former bartender and Congress Critter-elect Democratic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims, with no convincing evidence, to have studied economics.  One wonders just where, from Daily Caller:

Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York slammed the electric car company Tesla

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,

From  the Men, Women, Different department, from Claudia Goldin: How to Win the Battle of the Sexes Over Pay (Hint: It Isn’t Simple), NY Slimes, via Bradford-Delong:

…Ms. King fought hard for equal rights and, on the tennis

Well it all depends on the meaning of get buzzed. From the same company which gives us Richard’s Wild Irish Rose, a new way to get a buzz on, from Wall Street Journal, via Professor Althouse:

The C$245

Just as the Sun came up this morning, and garbage stinks, Algore,  b/k/a former Vice President, Albert Gore, expressed, well feigned, shock that President Donald Trump  withdrew* from the United States from the Paris Accords, from Politico:

Former Vice

Team Donny is asking questions for the Department of Energy. The watermelons are sweating melon seeds, from Willis Eschenbach, Watts Up with That:

Over at the Washington Post, Chris Mooney and the usual suspects are seriously alarmed by a

Funny, I can vaguely recall when Carrier was a New York State company. Ah, those were the days. I digressed. Back, Little Donny delivers on a campaign promise, New York Times and Little Bobby Reich upset, via Red State:

Maybe you believe that Mrs. B.J. Clinton used to be smart.   I would disagree.    What is quite evident is that currently Mrs. Clinton is not a smart woman. Jump to 28:20.

Rather than address economic opportunity and the development of

Socialism is a great theory, if you can ignore the fact that it runs counter to human nature.   The problem with socialism is that it simply does not work, from PJ Media:

Socialists argue that socialism is inherently better

Eric rambled about the unintended effects of the ethanol mandate.

Given  that not all environmentalists, at least those not named Al Gore, are not stupid and the effects of using food stuffs for motor fuel were quite obvious, and

Governor Moonbeam,  California pans the idea of fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage, and then signs it into law anyway, Leslie Eastman, Legal Insurrection.

To a social justice warrior, it not a matter of what makes sense, only what

Governor Moonbeam,b/k/a Edmund “Jerry” Brown just instituted a job lottery in California, from ABC News:

A political deal to raise California’s minimum wage to a nation-leading $15 an hour could help some workers cope with the state’s crushing cost

Professor Robert Reich, a/k/a Little Bobby, offers his two cents on how to boost the Obama regime economy, from Puffington Post:

Have you noticed how often conservatives who disagree with a policy proposal call it a “job killer?”

They’re