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As Thomas Sowell says:

Posted by M. C. on December 20, 2022

What they are seeking to correct are not merely the deficiencies of society, but of the cosmos. What they call social justice encompasses far more than any given society is causally responsible for. Crusaders for social justice seek to correct not merely the sins of man but the oversights of God or the accidents of history. What they are really seeking is a universe tailor-made to their vision of equality. They are seeking cosmic justice.

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Changes at the CDC are coming

Posted by M. C. on August 20, 2022

Had there been no CDC at all, could the U.S. response have been any worse?

I am reminded of what Thomas Sowell said about what should replace the Federal Reserve: when you remove a cancer, he said, you don’t replace it with anything.

Walensky is pushing for what the government always does with failed agencies. Give it more money.

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/cdcchanges?e=fa1aba8cd8

When the New York Times writes an article on the need for an overhaul of the Centers for Disease Control, you know it’s not going to be the kind of overhaul you and I, dear reader, would favor.

It’s called “Walensky, Citing Botched Pandemic Response, Calls for C.D.C. Reorganization.”

You can be sure that Walensky doesn’t think the “pandemic response” was “botched” because it involved crazy recommendations based on nothing, and that the people in charge seemed to be making the “guidance” up as they went along.

No, the problem was that the CDC didn’t get its contradictory, science-free, panic-mongering lunacy out to us quite fast enough.

The Times says that Walensky “delivered a sweeping rebuke of her agency’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it had failed to respond quickly enough and needed to be overhauled.”

The Times further complains that the CDC “bent to political pressure from the Trump White House to alter key public health guidance or withhold it from the public — decisions that cost it a measure of public trust that experts say it still has not recaptured.”

So the reason the CDC has lost public trust is that it catered too much to Trump?

It hasn’t lost public trust because of its crazy, fact-free, and obviously politicized recommendations on schools? Or its ever-changing wear-a-mask, you-can-take-off-the-mask-if-vaccinated, vaccinated-people-need-to-wear-masks-too, two-year-olds-need-to-mask, the-guidance-for-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-people-is-now-the-same craziness? Or its laughable studies showing the effectiveness of masking, which are a complete joke? Or its continued insistence on the effectiveness of lockdowns and other radical interventions despite zero differences between places that did these things and places that didn’t?

Then we read that there were too many health officials entering and leaving the federal government, and that this led to confusion. No sense that a far more serious problem was that virtually all of these people were singing from the same hymn book, and dissenting voices were nowhere to be found.

Had there been no CDC at all, could the U.S. response have been any worse?

Maybe that’s the key insight that should inform any “reform” proposal.

I am reminded of what Thomas Sowell said about what should replace the Federal Reserve: when you remove a cancer, he said, you don’t replace it with anything.

Now, for your weekend enjoyment:

I’ve been in public speaking for 27 years, but the best speech I ever gave wasn’t at a libertarian or conservative event, or to an academic audience. It was my speech to a business conference, where I explained to a room full of seasoned marketers how a small fry like me was kicking their rear ends.

No matter what field you’re in, you can learn from what I told them.

Enjoy:

http://www.tomwoods.com/mybestspeech

Tom Woods

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What you can’t say

Posted by M. C. on July 29, 2022

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/whatyoucantsay?e=fa1aba8cd8

Years ago my friend Michael Malice told me about Paul Graham’s essay “What You Can’t Say,” and said the ideas in it had influenced him quite a bit.

Well, I finally got around to reading it, and I see what he means.

Here’s a passage I like:

Let’s start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you’re supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn’t. Odds are you just think what you’re told.

The other alternative would be that you independently considered every question and came up with the exact same answers that are now considered acceptable. 


And that’s pretty unlikely, isn’t it?

This passage reminds me of the challenge that Professor Robert George poses to his students at Princeton. He asks them: how many of you, in 1840, would have been abolitionists?

Of course all their hands go up. Why, they would all have been abolitionists, silly!

And George says to them, in effect: I don’t believe you.

Approximately two percent of northerners were abolitionists. And yet everyone in George’s classes would have been among them. What are the odds!

His point is: it’s easy to say now that you would have been an abolitionist, when that is the opinion of everyone. It would have been hard to be one in 1840, when you would have been shunned.

And how many times, he asks, have you taken a position that caused you to lose friends, possibly your job, and become exceedingly unpopular? May I guess probably never?

So why am I supposed to believe you would have done so in 1840?

What we have is a very large population that considers itself brave for believing what all right-thinking people are expected to believe. Meanwhile, they condemn anyone who has the genuine bravery to stand against the crowd.

Here’s an example of something you can’t say, or you’ll be shunned and ruined. Try arguing, in a woke HR indoctrination session at your company, that disparities in income among the races is not evidence of “discrimination.”

It won’t matter that Thomas Sowell smashed this woke argument in his books Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? and Discrimination and Disparities. Because none of this has to do with facts or reason.

Here’s the podcast episode I did on Graham’s essay and these topics:

Now think about this:

There are things you can’t say in health — as we’ve seen with Big Tech suppression of dissident voices, and the Fauci/Collins collaboration against dissident scientists.

There are things — perfectly true things — you can’t say on the job.

Schoolteachers are going out of their way to teach things that are downright false.

The Biden Administration is redefining what a recession is, and its compliant media is dutifully spreading that redefinition.

This is Clown World, ladies and gentlemen.

And we either live in a world of lies, or we live by the truth.

That means withdrawing from the liars, and rallying to the truth-tellers.

And of course, those truth-tellers are the people you’ll hear from and have your life improved by inside my School of Life.

We reopen on Monday. Watch this space.

Tom Woods

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Obama’s ACTUAL Legacy

Posted by M. C. on April 14, 2022

“The utter gullibility of the public”

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Thomas Sowell on Jon Stewart’s “The Problem With White People”

Posted by M. C. on April 14, 2022

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Watch “Thomas Sowell SCHOOLS Joe Biden #TBT” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on April 1, 2022

“Let me ask you a couple questions”. He got a couple answers!

Biden obvious forgot about the rule that says “know what they will answer before asking the question”.

https://youtu.be/rKAxd4cJbW4

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Watch “Best Thomas Sowell Quotes on the CURRENT CRAZY TIMES” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on February 19, 2022

https://youtu.be/0nc1E2YTK1M

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Watch “Facts About SLAVERY They Don’t Teach You at School” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on February 8, 2022

This is an excerpt from ‘Intellectuals and Race’ — https://amzn.to/3rknNP4

https://youtu.be/3_3wyRaCD34

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Watch “Stop Apologizing!” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on January 30, 2022

Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines) Warning: Truth Ahead!

https://youtu.be/emgArDSKcbc

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Watch “How Liberals Are Creating An ADOLESCENT Society” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on December 23, 2021

This is an excerpt from Thomas Sowell’s classic ‘Dismantling America’ — https://amzn.to/3Ewkbhl

https://youtu.be/94UxdSUD70U

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