Category: What He Said

Gold Bars Off The Titanic

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Sun- Stop pretending the government funds anything — we do

We now live in a country where the average person works until early June just to pay their taxes — where small and mid-sized business owners are crushed under a pile of forms, fees, audits, payroll taxes, and levies — where provinces like Manitoba continue to grow their bureaucracies while basic services falter. Our emergency rooms close without notice. Our roads crumble. Our courts are backed up. And yet, governments at all levels act like more spending is the only answer.

Flash Flood Alley

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Roger Pielke Jr has observations.

As I write this, the death toll in the Texas flash floods now exceeds 70, with 12 people still missing, including 11 girls and one camp counselor. It is a heartbreaking and horrific tragedy.

Many have been quick to politicize the tragedy in an effort to support whatever agenda that they were promoting before the disaster — climate change, DOGE budget cuts, operations of the National Weather Service, the Biden Administration. The one political implication of the disaster that I’m ready to call for is to reassert the importance of establishing a U.S. Disaster Review Board, a case made here at THB by Mike Smith last March.

Today, I share some data and context on the event for those wanting to go beyond seeking to use tragic deaths is hopes of scoring online partisan points. Shameful.

Before getting to relevant data and research, my view — This tragedy occurred in a location that has among the greatest risks in the nation of flash flooding, where kids in summer camps have previously been swept away to their deaths, and where warning systems are (apparently and incredibly) not in place. This tragedy never should have happened and it should never happen again.

Update by @MarinaMedvin: This catastrophe keeps getting worse. A dam broke on the Guadeloupe and the rescue teams are now being evacuated. (Other reports dispute the dam break, but not the evacuation of rescue teams.)

Quote of the Day

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“Media defenders are quick to cry out about ‘the public’s right to know,’ when in fact they are talking about the media’s ability to boost ratings and spread confusion with unsubstantiated statements by those with an axe to grind.”

— Thomas Sowell

Most divisive and economically damaging PM in history

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Brad Wall: Trudeau was the manifestly the most divisive and economically damaging prime minister of any in our history

Brad Wall: Trudeau was the manifestly the most divisive and economically damaging prime minister of any in our history

Bronwyn Eyre: The Green Slush Fund era may be finally over, but hands off our pensions!

Also, note that the planned first edition of the Pipeline Online Grimes Sales and Service Podcast is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Jan. 20. I’ll post more details as that comes up. Eyre will be my co-host, and for the first one we’re talking royalties and maybe a bit more.

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