Former CEO of Overtock.com complies his articles on election fraud in 2020. Even if you don’t buy the theories, the document is useful for its compilation of stories by DEMS (circa. 2017, 2018, 2019) who all worried about election integrity — the same worries that if publicly stated today by anyone else, gets you banned from Facebook, Twitter, et al.

Put the snow back.

My colleague Glenn Harlan Reynolds chimes in the #GameStop event. https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/gamestop-insurgency-just-latest-rebellion-against-the-big-guys/

Hi Don.

The ‘smart’ people are saying this is being done purposely - run by very few people at the top - to completely collapse the market. It’s not just GameStop. They hit American Airlines and AMC Theaters stock.

As I’m typing this, it looks like they’re now going after silver via the SLV trading platform. (Note: I have some silver, but it’s all physical, not on paper.) Spot earlier this morning was as high as $27.05, (from $25.40), now at 26.70 (1050 Hours Eastern).

Tyler and the folks at ZeroHedge are following this a lot closer than the screaming mimis of the business #MediaJackal world where it looks like all they’re trying to do is defend their buddies, the (probably corrupt) hedge fund folks.

Germany’s Operation Barbarossa benefited greatly from Stalin’s purge of insufficiently impure communists from the Soviet Army when Hitler decided to violate the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

History. When its lessons are ignored, the remedial education usually happens good and hard.

Better (more prescient) than his usual podcast.

This article reads like a defense lawyer’s plea for leniency for a client being sentenced. Yet the article acknowledges that these two lawyers had — in fact — conspired to destroy a police car with Molotov Cocktails.

In describing the landlord/tenant work of the female lawyer, the article describes how she approached the “unglamorous work of advocating for the vulnerable within the frustrating constraints of the law.”

Maybe she should have given a second thought to the “frustrating constraints of the law” before gathering the material to make several incendiary devices, transport them to a riot, and use them to destroy tax-payer property.

I promise to return to essays next week. 😉

The U.S. Constitution is the birth certificate of a nation that was conceived via a suicide pact — we called it the Declaration of Indpendence. The #NinthCircuit is filled with historical amnesiacs.

It would appear that other commentators are catching up with the ideas expressed here at Talki.ng. https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1262783822925647872?s=21

Thanks for posting. I’m still reading the opinion but my quick take is:

Breyer: Voted to dismiss as moot
Thomas: Voted NOT to dismiss as moot
Roberts: Voted to dismiss as moot
Ginsburg: Voted to dismiss as moot
Alito: Voted NOT to dismiss as moot
Gorsuch: Voted NOT to dismiss as moot
Sotomayor:  Voted to dismiss as moot
Kagan: Voted to dismiss as moot
Kavanaugh: Voted to dismiss as moot but added a two-paragraph concurrence saying that "some federal and state courts may not be properly applying Heller and McDonald" and he hopes the court will return to this:

This is a 6-3 vote to dismiss the case without ruling on the merits. The three dissenters are Justices Alito, Gorsuch, and (except for part IV-B) Thomas, who write in a fairly long dissent:

This case is not moot. The City violated petitioners’ Second Amendment right, and we should so hold. I would reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand the case to the District Court to provide appropriate relief. I therefore respectfully dissent.

Of course if this were a First Amendment free speech case or an abortion rights case, it would be no surprise if the same justices in the majority found a way to render an opinion (a right delayed is a right lost!) rather than dismiss as “moot.” But as we know, the Second Amendment is a disfavored second-class right.

One interpretation is that the court has only 3 solid pro-2A votes. This is not the best case, though, because of the mootness question and another interpretation could mean the court has 4 pro-2A votes including Justice Kavanaugh. But neither count would the chief justice, who failed to join Justice Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion, be included as a pro-2A vote.

This is likely to embolden lower courts including the 9th Circuit.

In an otherwise excellent essay I think you make too much of the flawed modeling. These models were based on a given rate of transmission. If they spooked people into changing their behavior and “bending the curve” then they would be self-invalidating projections beyond just the ordinary challenges of extrapolating into the future.

Alternate Headline: Biden Announces Run Against the Bill of Rights. Confides Off-Mike that He’s Never Liked Bill.

Excellent! It took me about 62 years before I got around to reading (listening actually to) the classic Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I wish I had done it sooner, but at least I am very happy indeed that I finally did get to it. What an amazing book..Wow! I heartily recommend it for anyone.

Thank you for your good analysis Don and for the movie recommendation, which I believe I will check out tonight with Mary!

Have to wonder what percentage of fellow faculty members think the same, but aren’t willing to put salary, benefits, retirement, peace-of-mind on the line to say so. Tenure probably protects too many hacks, and not enough people of integrity.

Not sure actual shooting between Americans will break out. It might. I hope not. I hope we avoid this alternative future. But I think any 21st Century civil war will be a cross between the starvation of the Kulaks in Soviet Russia (withholding food, water, electricity, internet connectivity) and Terminator-like killer robots/drones used to “clean-up” areas of resistance.

In case some if you are too young to get reference “How much is that doggie in the window.” https://youtu.be/2AkLE4X-bbU

I think I prefer the robber-baron greed of Facebook to the sanctimonious subterfuge of Twitter.

If this woman is a journalist, and her beat has been the Supreme Court of the United States, her readers (I’m not one, thankfully) are better off with her abandoning that subject. Her writing is abhorrent, ungrammatical, and strident. In a word, she is a capital “H” Hack.

Has anybody reminded this genius that combination of taxes and gun confiscations resulted in a nasty divorce from a distant imperious government 230+ years ago?