Counting The Cost

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Counting The Cost Business has had me moving about Los Angeles County quite a bit.  The economic devastation wrought by “Stay-at-home,” and so forth is actually quite stunning.  I am certain, but lack the economist’s skills to calculate, that the cost of coping with covid far, far exceeds the cost we might have incurred without governmental response of any sort.  But it is not economic costs I want to discuss in this post. I have of late been covering, some admittedly anecdotally, those unwilling to return to work, the general mental health cost, those Read More

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Senator Ted Cruz On Cancun, Neera Tanden, and Xavier Becerra Senator Ted Cruz joined me this morning to discuss Cancun, the “Tanden Standard,” and much more: Audio: 02-23hhs-cruz Transcript: HH: Joined now by United States Senator Ted Cruz. Hello, Senator. How are you? TC: Hugh, I'm doing terrific. How are you doing? HH: Great. Now Senator, in the list of inexplicable decisions, there is the Packers decision not to go for it on fourth down in the NFC Championship game, this year, and there's your decision to go to Cancun. We'll never get to the bottom of what happened in Green Bay, but what happened with the Cancun trip? TC: Oh, look. It... Read More

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Media’s Most Fundamental Failure I learned yesterday of an individual having received BOTH doses of the vaccine that still refuses to leave their home for fear of contracting the virus. Where does such unreasonable and unreasoning fear come from?  Ignorance. Where does such an extraordinary level of ignorance come from?  Media. Throughout this episode of history media has not sought to inform, but to attract clicks, views and ratings.  If that attraction meant ignoring, bending, spinning or sensationalizing information, then so be it.  If that attraction meant creating levels of fear that welded people into their homes, glued to their screens, all the better. Just one example.  I alternate between anger with and pity for Dr. Fauci.  Media has placed the man in the public... Read More

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