Libertarian Counterpoint #1554 5/20/2021
Channel: Gale Morgan
Date: 2021-05-19

A conversation about YouTube and covid, and we have to do it without saying covid, Voldemort and the Ministry of Magic are going to come in handy

How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously

For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously

So now they point it out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/14/our-politics-is-no-uglier-or-more-dysfunctional-than-past/

The inability to come together even on issues where both sides agree that something needs to be done — like infrastructure — and of Congress to do once-basic tasks like passing appropriations bills to keep the government open, lead to frequent laments that politics have become too extreme and divisive. Many yearn for the collegiality and cooperation that they see in the past relationships between politicians such as Biden and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and their ideological opposites such as Sens. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) and Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah). But such rhapsodizing mis-characterizes the past in American politics, where acrimony often reigned in even worse ways than it does today.

Assembly Bill 5 continues to wreak havoc on our economy
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/05/14/assembly-bill-5-continues-to-wreak-havoc-on-our-economy/

A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision late last month reinforces a point that we’ve often made on these editorial pages. The Legislature needs to repeal Assembly Bill 5, which largely forbade companies from using contractors as their workers. Even though lawmakers and voters carved out myriad exemptions, this “landmark” labor continues to wreak havoc on workers and the state’s economy

Ministry of Truth is always right even if they are wrong.