Utah Axes Gun-Permit Requirement.

Residents of Utah will soon be able to carry concealed guns without a permit.

Governor Spencer Cox (R.) will sign legislation into law this week to eliminate the permit requirement, his spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday. The act will allow any law-abiding person over the age of 21 to carry a gun under his or her clothes while in the state. Convicted felons, those adjudicated mentally ill, and other people prohibited from owning a gun are excluded from the policy.

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“One thing that’s odd about today’s Gentry Class. They don’t just want to rule over the working class, they actively want to make the working class’s life worse.” —Professor Glenn Reynolds

We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.”
–Shoshana Zuboff, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School

“I am coming to this realization since the 6th: They are afraid. They are terrified of us. They know they stole it, they know we know – we’ve been going on about it loudly enough – and they have no idea why we simply haven’t shown up in numbers and stretched their necks. It’s what they would have done a while ago were they us. And they have no understanding whatsoever of this “deep commitment to civilization under law” that still protects them, thus no idea when it might finally dissolve under all their abuse. Many clues point to a lot of them genuinely thinking their time had come on the 6th, and they’ve been overreacting ever since. They are terrified of us, and it’s making them stupid.

Siccing a couple divisions’ worth of Army National Guard on DC was merely ham-handed. Siccing the FBI on the Army National Guard when they belatedly realize a lot of these guys with guns don’t like them is moronic. Either you trust their oath or you don’t (and in general these Guard people are more serious than average about oaths, another thing the Dems utterly don’t grok.) And if you don’t, you should have thought of that before you built a frigging wall around yourselves and brought them in to guard it with guns.

Morons.

How much stupider will their next move be? I’ll admit to deriving some morbid amusement from all this. Can’t think of a more deserving bunch of people to live in self-induced terror! At least till they manage to get a whole bunch of people shot, because they’re panicked and clueless and have no idea what they’re doing.

Then it won’t be funny at all anymore.”——‘Porkypine’

“Boycott the inauguration. Don’t acknowledge it, don’t view it, don’t listen to it, ignore it. Make the ratings tank. It is the most powerful thing we can do. That includes not protesting it, which sends several messages while preventing anything but a staged incident that could be used to further cement their power and erode our remaining freedoms.” – Laughing Wolf

Larry Correia

The left spent the last year demonstrating that “fiery but mostly peaceful” gets results. It was only a matter of time before angry people on the other side learned from that.
I’ve said before that to the left political violence is a knob that can be turned up and down, from blocking traffic and rioting and arson all the way up to murder. But generally the right has thought of it as a switch that goes from Vote to ******* Kill Everybody.
Only today it appears that a whole bunch of people on the right are trying out that knob.
Buckle up. Things are going to get weird.

Remember “Follow the Science.” ?

Public trust is the public health community’s most vital asset. Why do they seem so eager to squander it?


Fauci says he’s been intentionally moving goal posts on herd immunity estimates.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, admitted in a new interview that he’s been intentionally moving the goal posts on his recommendations regarding herd immunity based on what he thinks the American people are ready to hear.

Herd immunity, or the percentage of a population that acquires resistance to the coronavirus through infection or vaccination, has been widely estimated at roughly 60 to 70 percent for the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.

Dr. Fauci, a member of the White House’s coronavirus response, also cited that number in the beginning of the pandemic but said it would be about “70, 75 percent” in an interview about a month ago, The New York Times reported. Last week, he reportedly told CNBC “75, 80, 85 percent” and “75 to 80-plus percent.”

Dr. Fauci told The Times in an interview published Thursday that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the American public was ready to receive the information, which is that 70-90% herd immunity should be achieved before the country can go back to normal.

He said he hesitated to state a number as high as 90% weeks ago because many Americans still seemed skeptical about vaccine.

“When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Fauci, who took his first dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, told The Times. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.

“We need to have some humility here,” he added. “We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.”

Dr. Fauci said he wouldn’t state that number because it would potentially discourage Americans from getting the vaccine, The Times reported

There’s something Eric Hoffer said: ‘Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature.’ There always has to be a crisis–some terrible reason why their superior wisdom and virtue must be imposed on the unthinking masses.
It doesn’t matter what the crisis is. A hundred years ago it was eugenics. At the time of the first Earth Day a generation ago, the big scare was global cooling, a big ice age. They go from one to the other. It meets their psychological needs and gives them a reason for exercising their power.
” —Thomas Sowell, 2004


Joe Biden’s climate agenda is all about creating a crisis — not actually fixing one.

Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s famous axiom is that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It’s an even a worse thing to manufacture.

Although Joe Biden obviously disagrees. Creating an unwarranted sense of drama and urgency around climate change is central to his approach — to catalyze action unsupported by the facts or common sense.

In announcing his climate and energy team the other day, the president-elect declared climate change a crisis requiring a “unified national response.” Going even further, he called it “an existential threat of our time,” a frankly preposterous claim if taken literally, or even seriously.

To maintain that increasing global temperatures are a threat to human existence itself entails ­believing that human beings — an endlessly adaptive species that has drastically increased its own life span over the last century — will be snuffed out if the planet gets a few degrees hotter.

If the worst comes, and sea levels rise significantly, we won’t move away from the coasts and find better ways to control flooding. If summers get much hotter in places unaccustomed to it, we won’t invest more in air conditioning. If droughts markedly increase, we won’t husband our water resources more intelligently. If some areas become uninhabitable, we won’t leave for more hospitable climes.

No, a humanity that is wealthier and more technologically proficient than ever will be content to expose itself to the worst depredations of nature that it has done so much to master over the last millennium.

This is a laughable account of how the world works.

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December 14, 1972, just after midnight, Eastern Standard Time.

“I’m on the surface; and, as I take man’s last step from the surface, back home for some time to come – but we believe not too long into the future – I’d like to just say what I believe history will record. That America’s challenge of today has forged man’s destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind; Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17.” –Eugene Cernan

…”That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….

When you obviously can’t rely on the process we use to determine the consent of the governed anymore, what does that say about our obligations to temporal authority?” — Robert Shibley

Chairman Allen West’s Response to SCOTUS Decision

“The Supreme Court, in tossing the Texas lawsuit that was joined by seventeen states and 106 US congressman, has decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own election law. Resulting in damaging effects on other states that abide by the law, while the guilty state suffers no consequences.

This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the US constitution and not be held accountable. This decision will have far-reaching ramifications for the future of our constitutional republic. Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution.”

I’m reminded of the ‘climate change’ line:
“I’ll think about considering it’s a crisis when people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis”


“As with many of their tactics, apparently Democrats never expected that their four years of harassing Republican officials in restaurants would ever be reciprocated by the other side, something they’ll likely be discovering to their chagrin over the next four years.”—Ed Driscoll


NEW JERSEY DEM. GOV. CONFRONTED AT RESTAURANT FOR NOT WEARING MASK, NOT DISTANCING (VIDEO).

Governor Phil Murphy

Nancy Pelosi goes to get her hair done, but nobody else can. Gavin Newsom attends a fancy dinner, but nobody else can. Now, Democratic Party Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey has been caught being a hypocrite, too.

What is it with these Dems, thinking the rules don’t apply to them? Do they genuinely believe, “Do as I say, not as I do?”

Unreal, man.

Murphy and his family were caught in a restaurant, breaking his own rules, and caught hell from a constituent who discovered he was mask-less. Executive order 183 said in part that Face coverings are required in indoor public spaces and in outdoor public spaces when social distancing is difficult to maintain.

Watch (Note Strong language)

 

“What is the argument that Trump ought to be doing what he can to calm us? I hear Biden and his people telling us they want to bring calm to the country, but they’re declining the opportunity to just be calm themselves until the state officials certify the results of the election.

Personally, I feel calm about waiting for that. Why isn’t that okay? It seems to me that as long as they choose to pressure Trump to concede before the vote certification, they’re forfeiting the high ground of calmness above all.”
Ann Althouse

“I think that by any meaningful measure, we became a third world country on November 3rd.
Why?
Because regardless who is finally declared to be President, from that day forward into the foreseeable future, the minimum necessary for a majority of Americans (regardless of party) to have any faith whatever in the integrity of any election, anywhere in the US, will be for every voter to cast their vote in person, and dip their finger in indelible ink…
…just like any other third world country.” –GOF

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” ~ Cicero

Few Students Know Anything About Our Civilization

Most American high school and college students can hector you all day long about an array of “social justice” issues, but if you asked them anything about the roots of our civilization in ancient Greece and Rome, you’d get a blank stare. Of course, that’s because their coursework fills their heads with trendy politics and neglects subjects that used to be the pillars of educated citizens.

A recent report published by the Independent Institute makes that point and in today’s Martin Center article, Shannon Watkins focuses on it.

Rather than the blatantly misleading “1619 Project,” the authors of the report argue in favor of a “490 B.C. Project,” that being the date of the first great clash between the Persian Empire and the Greeks. The authors say, “Our ideas about democracy, the idea that there is a natural law for all human beings, the question of whether slavery is natural, all come from the ideas and politics of the Greek poleis. Both Greece and Rome wrestled more than two thousand years ago with what citizenship meant, what freedom meant, what justice meant— just as we wrestle with them today.”

Watkins writes, “At UNC-Chapel Hill, for instance, students can fulfill the ‘Historical Analysis’ general education requirement by taking either a class on ‘Classical Greece’ or one on ‘Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Histories in the United States.’”

She concludes, “At the university level, it is not enough to simply offer courses on the classical world. Students need guidance and should not be expected to discern what general knowledge is the most essential for them to learn to be well-formed thinkers and responsible American citizens.”