43 and 50 made me think of a suggestion I saw somewhere (Mark Levin?) that we add a "House of Repeal" whose sole purpose is to repeal existing laws that we don't need or shouldn't exist. Similar to a new rule that for every new law passed, 2 existing laws must be repealed.
In principle, I think it would be great if we could require every member of Congress to read a bill before they are allowed to vote on it. But okay, in practice, how would you enforce that? But at least we could require that every bill be read aloud on the floor of both houses of Congress, while Congress is in session, before it can be voted on. If someone says, "But some of these bills are very long, that would be impractical" ... yeah, that's the point. If it's loo long to read on the floor before voting, then odds are none of the people voting on it have actually read it.
In Arizona 2022, from RealClearPolicy.com: "Last week, Governor Doug Ducey signed an executive order renewing a now seven-year-old moratorium on rulemaking from state regulatory agencies. The order requires governor approval before agencies may move forward with regulatory changes, and agencies must recommend three regulations for repeal — from the stack of existing outdated, obsolete, and confusing rules — for each new one added to the rulemaking pile."
Increasing the accuracy of #5 - my addition: 5) Women already get equal work for equal pay. To the extent that there’s a difference between what men and women make, it’s a result of women quitting work to stay home with kids THEN RETURNING TO THE JOB MARKET YEARS LATER, or working fewer hours than men, or taking less dangerous, more pleasant jobs.
If the inequality of women's pay was real and substantial, wouldn't be there thousands of companies taking advantage of lower labor cost by hiring mostly women and killing it in the competitive marketplace?
Dear author, I liked your article, and said so. The platform has a discussion section, so I contributed politely articulated opinions on 2 complex topics out of 50, where I had some objections. I even badmouthed the Left, hoping that you conservatives would love me. Yet, when another contributor called me a liar, you liked his contribution. For $70/year, this dose of conservatism doesn't seems like a great value.
I didn't think you made great points and thought you were rude. However, in retrospect, I should have just addressed that instead of liking someone else's post. That's not the best way to facilitate debate. So, my apologies. I was wrong and should have handled it differently.
Great list. I think much of it would be brought back into proper balance if we repealed the 16th and 17th Amendments. Those two amendments did the most to reshape the character of the government by removing the state at the Federal level. Tax state legislatures 2/3 on population, and 1/3 by state accessible land (excluding national parks, mountains, swamps, deserts, blm land), and tax the state legislatures for the federal budget. Watch politician fight politician for money. It's a better show than UFC.
I agree 100% with all the above statements, EXCEPT #5. IMHO, women are NOT YET in all cases getting "equal pay for equal work". There is still some work to be done in this area! However, we CAN say that "Returning to the job market", women--just like men who may later return to the job market, ought to get equal pay for the work for which they are at that time qualified!!! "Working fewer hours" women ought to get paid exactly as men are paid who work fewer hours. Women who take "less dangerous or more pleasant jobs" ought to get paid exactly as men are paid for less dangerous or more pleasant jobs." .....Then what shall we say about the totally ignored and discounted work that [mostly] women do: staying home with the kids??? When will we as a society pay these women AND men what that most important of all work deserves???
I take issue with #25, not because I disagree with the sentiment but because speaking of "Critical Race Theory" as it is in this context is going to bring the howling of the leftist semantics police. Because these people would rather argue over semantics than admit the teaching is happening, we need to say, "the methods which are produced by the ideas proposed by CRT are being taught."
We should make/have no law to protect one from oneself. Progress is made by those who are willing to take risks and suffer the consequences, good or bad. Poor example: If a motorcyclist wants to ride without a helmet, that should be his privilege as long as he is willing to accept the consequences.
Regarding #44 on John's list (also posted below as a reply to Bill) from RealClearPolicy.com:
"In Arizona 2022, from RealClearPolicy.com: "Last week, Governor Doug Ducey signed an executive order renewing a now seven-year-old moratorium on rulemaking from state regulatory agencies. The order requires governor approval before agencies may move forward with regulatory changes, and agencies must recommend three regulations for repeal — from the stack of existing outdated, obsolete, and confusing rules — for each new one added to the rulemaking pile." Put into effect for the federal government.
51. When somebody lies, we distance from him (e.g. Trump about election results)
52. When somebody takes advantage of poorly written laws to subvert democratic process, we distance from him (e.g. Trump and election confirmation process in Congress). Democracy works only for people of good will. It is impossible to write such a law that would resist subversion by ill-meaning people.
OMG, prych, are you ever in for some major surprises as Trump supporters in the coming weeks wrestle the bullhorn from the bought-off lying legacy media! But don't fear. You too will be very happy before the current WWIII of Good vs Evil is over! GOD WINS! God bless us all! :o)
Did you see where AZ has a bill that, when signed, will de-certify the state's election results based on investigative evidence of fraud? No? Well check it out. Oh, this is just the beginning.
"Worst case scenario, they're only hurting themselves."
And a very bad scenario, the unvaccinated are flooding the hospitals and ICUs. Totally unnecessarily, and easily preventable by a rather minor inconvenience - getting the vaccine. Our grandfathers were fighting wars in frozen Europe, but we we would shout and scream and argue against getting a tiny prick and having a mild one day reaction. Ridiculous. Not conservative. Girly. Man up.
Dear friend, prych, What you are doing here---innocently, I'm sure, unless you happen to be a blackmailed pedophile---is mindlessly repeating bold-faced, desperate MSM lies.... pure, unadulterated lies! To the contrary, there is ample testimony from literally dozens of independent journalists, whose testimony you can easily access in minutes should you care to put some effort into discovering truth! The truth is, let this 87-yr old devout believeer in a God of Love...[that's me]...let me testify IMHO backed up by thousands of hours of independent research since having been 'redpilled' in April, 2017...the truth, again IMH--backed up by research-O, the truth is that it is the "vaccinated" who are "flooding the hospitals and ICU's"....and dropping dead by the dozens on athletic playing fields, in plain public view but ignored and unreported by the dying legacy media! It is the vaccinated who, by the thousands are showing their injuries and telling their sad stories all over the www. All you have to do is LOOK for them....And sadly, very sadly, the truth is also that many more in upcoming days will be dead and/or maimed by these lethal bioweapons designed to carry out the communist globalist/godless objective of "population reduction" . Don't believe me! Look it up yourself! You might start by accessing online pictures and commentaries on "The Georgia Guidestones". If you live nearby these 30-ft tall granite stones you can check out for yourself the message they send....May God help you and all of us shake off the terrible brainwashing to which we ALL have been subjected for decades already... lies we are being fed by corrupt and traitorous representatives of the Father of Lies himself!! Time to wake up, dear Friends-- prych, et al---Time to wake up and join the patriots fighting to take back our country from the frauds pretending to govern this great nation! Fight not with guns and bullets, but with earnest PRAYER and PEN! Join the right side...God's side! GOD WINS! May God bless us all!....:o)
I want to see your facts. No, not just some reference to an article authored by someone who is no more informed than you are. As you investigate, keep an open mind because you're going to find that you are diametrically in error to what's really happening.
Re: 29. The case that global warming is happening...
Science is there, and it was mostly correct in its predictions - global warming is happening , and is caused by man. It doesn't matter how poorly it is interpreted and processed by the Left, like e.g. their long-term and KGB-sponsored resistance to cheaper and abundant nuclear energy. Considering the potential damage, it makes sense to invest a certain portion of our GDP in preventing the worst case scenarios. This is the same approach as a home insurance policy. You invest little bit to manage a rare bad outcome.
Poor studies, hysteria, major lifestyle changes, massive investments indeed do not make sense.
Conservatives have a duty to be smart, so we can resist crazy ideas by the Left with good and impenetrable arguments. Pretending that global warming is not real is not smart.
Again...you lie. Not one climate model has ever come even close to predicting what actually happened. Howe many times have the 'experts' claimed we have 10 years left? I can tell you, they told us a new ice age was coming in the 70s. Grow up. Nothing the left has proposed will change the climate...it's about power and control.
The ice sheet that covered Manhattan was about 2,000 feet thick just 18,000 years ago. Sea levels were 120 m lower. I'm not sure if acknowledging that is more conservative or liberal. All scientists are liberal, so it must be fake.
And last May gov. DeSantis signed into law funding to spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 4 years for a broad range of projects to adapt to sea level rise. Good for us, the conservatives. Climate is not changing and money can be printed any time.
Climate IS changing...But it's NOT because of man's actions....It's part of the Creator's design of cycles....And YAAAAY! for Gov. DeSantis...Wish we didn't have a RINO governor in our Commonwealth....But hey, TG ,he's doomed come Nov, '22! .... :o)
I don't understand the fixation on the Left's hysteria. A conservative is not defined by taking the Left seriously, and then being against everything they say. Conservatives have independent analytical brains which allow them to assess data and policies on their own merit.
Forget models. NASA collects data. CO2 levels, temperature and sea levels are rising. Your denial, and the satisfaction that you are a tiny bit smarter than the dumbest hysterical green communist, will not make you a conservative. We conserve. Also the planet for our kids.
Perhaps I failed in explaining this on a mentally challenged level you can understand. I never said the climate wasn't changing. While I do not believe (based on the science) that man has any significant contribution to it, I also did not claim that in my post. Once again, you try to control the narrative by LYING about what we said and believe. Again, it is your ignorance that exposes you for the fraud you are.
My statement about the left's mantra that the end is coming very soon has been disproven over and over again. Every climate model ever run has failed to accurately predict what actually came...not even close.
Keep fighting the enemy you have created in your head. The rest of us will live in the real world and actually find solutions to problems that are not as simple as "more taxes and regulation to stop it....without any actual plan or method that will accomplish it."
Good luck with your solutions, it's going well in Florida. While you will find a solution without more taxes and regulation, De Santis signed regulations to spend more taxes on dealing with the rising sea. About a half billion dollars now, 4 billion coming soon. My own research hinted that this regulation is not caused by man, so we should be fine.
The silliness applies to the one who applies the label "PROcommunist" to one who is NOT! {Got it??? No? Why am I not surprised, Bro? Maybe regular intake of Lion's Mane mushrooms will help you.].... Love and best wishes always!...:o)
43 and 50 made me think of a suggestion I saw somewhere (Mark Levin?) that we add a "House of Repeal" whose sole purpose is to repeal existing laws that we don't need or shouldn't exist. Similar to a new rule that for every new law passed, 2 existing laws must be repealed.
In principle, I think it would be great if we could require every member of Congress to read a bill before they are allowed to vote on it. But okay, in practice, how would you enforce that? But at least we could require that every bill be read aloud on the floor of both houses of Congress, while Congress is in session, before it can be voted on. If someone says, "But some of these bills are very long, that would be impractical" ... yeah, that's the point. If it's loo long to read on the floor before voting, then odds are none of the people voting on it have actually read it.
I'd also say, every law should automatically expire after some reasonable period of time, say 10 years, unless Congress votes to renew it.
In Arizona 2022, from RealClearPolicy.com: "Last week, Governor Doug Ducey signed an executive order renewing a now seven-year-old moratorium on rulemaking from state regulatory agencies. The order requires governor approval before agencies may move forward with regulatory changes, and agencies must recommend three regulations for repeal — from the stack of existing outdated, obsolete, and confusing rules — for each new one added to the rulemaking pile."
YAAAAY!! for Arizona!
Increasing the accuracy of #5 - my addition: 5) Women already get equal work for equal pay. To the extent that there’s a difference between what men and women make, it’s a result of women quitting work to stay home with kids THEN RETURNING TO THE JOB MARKET YEARS LATER, or working fewer hours than men, or taking less dangerous, more pleasant jobs.
Great list, well done John.
If the inequality of women's pay was real and substantial, wouldn't be there thousands of companies taking advantage of lower labor cost by hiring mostly women and killing it in the competitive marketplace?
Dear author, I liked your article, and said so. The platform has a discussion section, so I contributed politely articulated opinions on 2 complex topics out of 50, where I had some objections. I even badmouthed the Left, hoping that you conservatives would love me. Yet, when another contributor called me a liar, you liked his contribution. For $70/year, this dose of conservatism doesn't seems like a great value.
I didn't think you made great points and thought you were rude. However, in retrospect, I should have just addressed that instead of liking someone else's post. That's not the best way to facilitate debate. So, my apologies. I was wrong and should have handled it differently.
Great list. I think much of it would be brought back into proper balance if we repealed the 16th and 17th Amendments. Those two amendments did the most to reshape the character of the government by removing the state at the Federal level. Tax state legislatures 2/3 on population, and 1/3 by state accessible land (excluding national parks, mountains, swamps, deserts, blm land), and tax the state legislatures for the federal budget. Watch politician fight politician for money. It's a better show than UFC.
I should have added something about being anti-censorship in there. Maybe I will do it as a bonus later.
I agree 100% with all the above statements, EXCEPT #5. IMHO, women are NOT YET in all cases getting "equal pay for equal work". There is still some work to be done in this area! However, we CAN say that "Returning to the job market", women--just like men who may later return to the job market, ought to get equal pay for the work for which they are at that time qualified!!! "Working fewer hours" women ought to get paid exactly as men are paid who work fewer hours. Women who take "less dangerous or more pleasant jobs" ought to get paid exactly as men are paid for less dangerous or more pleasant jobs." .....Then what shall we say about the totally ignored and discounted work that [mostly] women do: staying home with the kids??? When will we as a society pay these women AND men what that most important of all work deserves???
Get it? Got it? Good! God bless us all! :o)
This is "spot-on". Great
Superlative!
I take issue with #25, not because I disagree with the sentiment but because speaking of "Critical Race Theory" as it is in this context is going to bring the howling of the leftist semantics police. Because these people would rather argue over semantics than admit the teaching is happening, we need to say, "the methods which are produced by the ideas proposed by CRT are being taught."
We should make/have no law to protect one from oneself. Progress is made by those who are willing to take risks and suffer the consequences, good or bad. Poor example: If a motorcyclist wants to ride without a helmet, that should be his privilege as long as he is willing to accept the consequences.
#3-Judeo-Christian morals
Best article I've read in a very long time. Thank you.
Regarding #44 on John's list (also posted below as a reply to Bill) from RealClearPolicy.com:
"In Arizona 2022, from RealClearPolicy.com: "Last week, Governor Doug Ducey signed an executive order renewing a now seven-year-old moratorium on rulemaking from state regulatory agencies. The order requires governor approval before agencies may move forward with regulatory changes, and agencies must recommend three regulations for repeal — from the stack of existing outdated, obsolete, and confusing rules — for each new one added to the rulemaking pile." Put into effect for the federal government.
Also, Trump's Executive Order 13771 did exactly what #44 suggests. One-in, two-out requirement for issuing significant new regulations.
Thanks for adding that great point to the discussion.
51. When somebody lies, we distance from him (e.g. Trump about election results)
52. When somebody takes advantage of poorly written laws to subvert democratic process, we distance from him (e.g. Trump and election confirmation process in Congress). Democracy works only for people of good will. It is impossible to write such a law that would resist subversion by ill-meaning people.
OMG, prych, are you ever in for some major surprises as Trump supporters in the coming weeks wrestle the bullhorn from the bought-off lying legacy media! But don't fear. You too will be very happy before the current WWIII of Good vs Evil is over! GOD WINS! God bless us all! :o)
No one has proved the election wasn't stolen. No courts allowed any admission of evidence.
Did you see where AZ has a bill that, when signed, will de-certify the state's election results based on investigative evidence of fraud? No? Well check it out. Oh, this is just the beginning.
The Sinaloa cartel won't allow it. They bought everyone out. And no one wants to die by challenging them.
Ad 33. Vaccines...
"Worst case scenario, they're only hurting themselves."
And a very bad scenario, the unvaccinated are flooding the hospitals and ICUs. Totally unnecessarily, and easily preventable by a rather minor inconvenience - getting the vaccine. Our grandfathers were fighting wars in frozen Europe, but we we would shout and scream and argue against getting a tiny prick and having a mild one day reaction. Ridiculous. Not conservative. Girly. Man up.
Stop watching CNN and MSNBC. Ev erything you said is a total lie.
Dear friend, prych, What you are doing here---innocently, I'm sure, unless you happen to be a blackmailed pedophile---is mindlessly repeating bold-faced, desperate MSM lies.... pure, unadulterated lies! To the contrary, there is ample testimony from literally dozens of independent journalists, whose testimony you can easily access in minutes should you care to put some effort into discovering truth! The truth is, let this 87-yr old devout believeer in a God of Love...[that's me]...let me testify IMHO backed up by thousands of hours of independent research since having been 'redpilled' in April, 2017...the truth, again IMH--backed up by research-O, the truth is that it is the "vaccinated" who are "flooding the hospitals and ICU's"....and dropping dead by the dozens on athletic playing fields, in plain public view but ignored and unreported by the dying legacy media! It is the vaccinated who, by the thousands are showing their injuries and telling their sad stories all over the www. All you have to do is LOOK for them....And sadly, very sadly, the truth is also that many more in upcoming days will be dead and/or maimed by these lethal bioweapons designed to carry out the communist globalist/godless objective of "population reduction" . Don't believe me! Look it up yourself! You might start by accessing online pictures and commentaries on "The Georgia Guidestones". If you live nearby these 30-ft tall granite stones you can check out for yourself the message they send....May God help you and all of us shake off the terrible brainwashing to which we ALL have been subjected for decades already... lies we are being fed by corrupt and traitorous representatives of the Father of Lies himself!! Time to wake up, dear Friends-- prych, et al---Time to wake up and join the patriots fighting to take back our country from the frauds pretending to govern this great nation! Fight not with guns and bullets, but with earnest PRAYER and PEN! Join the right side...God's side! GOD WINS! May God bless us all!....:o)
You should verify your statement about who's getting Covid and in hospitals, the opposite may be truer.
I want to see your facts. No, not just some reference to an article authored by someone who is no more informed than you are. As you investigate, keep an open mind because you're going to find that you are diametrically in error to what's really happening.
Good list.
Re: 29. The case that global warming is happening...
Science is there, and it was mostly correct in its predictions - global warming is happening , and is caused by man. It doesn't matter how poorly it is interpreted and processed by the Left, like e.g. their long-term and KGB-sponsored resistance to cheaper and abundant nuclear energy. Considering the potential damage, it makes sense to invest a certain portion of our GDP in preventing the worst case scenarios. This is the same approach as a home insurance policy. You invest little bit to manage a rare bad outcome.
Poor studies, hysteria, major lifestyle changes, massive investments indeed do not make sense.
Conservatives have a duty to be smart, so we can resist crazy ideas by the Left with good and impenetrable arguments. Pretending that global warming is not real is not smart.
Again...you lie. Not one climate model has ever come even close to predicting what actually happened. Howe many times have the 'experts' claimed we have 10 years left? I can tell you, they told us a new ice age was coming in the 70s. Grow up. Nothing the left has proposed will change the climate...it's about power and control.
The ice sheet that covered Manhattan was about 2,000 feet thick just 18,000 years ago. Sea levels were 120 m lower. I'm not sure if acknowledging that is more conservative or liberal. All scientists are liberal, so it must be fake.
And last May gov. DeSantis signed into law funding to spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 4 years for a broad range of projects to adapt to sea level rise. Good for us, the conservatives. Climate is not changing and money can be printed any time.
Climate IS changing...But it's NOT because of man's actions....It's part of the Creator's design of cycles....And YAAAAY! for Gov. DeSantis...Wish we didn't have a RINO governor in our Commonwealth....But hey, TG ,he's doomed come Nov, '22! .... :o)
I don't understand the fixation on the Left's hysteria. A conservative is not defined by taking the Left seriously, and then being against everything they say. Conservatives have independent analytical brains which allow them to assess data and policies on their own merit.
Forget models. NASA collects data. CO2 levels, temperature and sea levels are rising. Your denial, and the satisfaction that you are a tiny bit smarter than the dumbest hysterical green communist, will not make you a conservative. We conserve. Also the planet for our kids.
Perhaps I failed in explaining this on a mentally challenged level you can understand. I never said the climate wasn't changing. While I do not believe (based on the science) that man has any significant contribution to it, I also did not claim that in my post. Once again, you try to control the narrative by LYING about what we said and believe. Again, it is your ignorance that exposes you for the fraud you are.
My statement about the left's mantra that the end is coming very soon has been disproven over and over again. Every climate model ever run has failed to accurately predict what actually came...not even close.
Keep fighting the enemy you have created in your head. The rest of us will live in the real world and actually find solutions to problems that are not as simple as "more taxes and regulation to stop it....without any actual plan or method that will accomplish it."
Good luck with your solutions, it's going well in Florida. While you will find a solution without more taxes and regulation, De Santis signed regulations to spend more taxes on dealing with the rising sea. About a half billion dollars now, 4 billion coming soon. My own research hinted that this regulation is not caused by man, so we should be fine.
The major cause of climate on earth is not man(2%).It's what's going on in the SUN (98%).
Bill Mahr is a stupid liberal but he has made a few sentient statements about covid.
What does that have to do with anything?
Okay. I am going to assume you are drunk or trolling or something.
He's obtuse, John. Bless his heart.
The silliness applies to the one who applies the label "PROcommunist" to one who is NOT! {Got it??? No? Why am I not surprised, Bro? Maybe regular intake of Lion's Mane mushrooms will help you.].... Love and best wishes always!...:o)
Brother, IMHO this quote is NOT about communism per se, but about communism being an ISSUE.