Links for 6–1-23

Unfunded liabilities are time bombs

The big problem with the traditional “political spectrum” children are taught in schools. From: FEE. “Students in both high school and college are taught that the so-called ‘political spectrum’ looks like this: communism and socialism reside on the Left, capitalism and fascism dwell on the Right.

💣 Time bomb. From: John Stossel/Creators. "Sooner or later bad things will happen to senior citizens," explains Mitchell. "The government will either cut their benefits or all of a sudden start rationing health care.

Why more money can’t generate economic growth? From: The Cobden Centre. Money, per se, cannot be consumed and cannot be used directly as a producers’ good in the productive process. Money per se is therefore unproductive; it is dead stock and produces nothing.

🦨 The Biden family is under the protection of the FBI. From: NY Post. Republicans can pass their contempt citation, but it’s up to the Justice Department to turn contempt into a prosecution. And anybody who thinks Attorney General Merrick Garland is going to prosecute Wray for shielding the Biden family hasn’t been paying attention.

Don't buy the social housing hype. From: Reason. Cities become affordable when they build a lot of housing, not when they subsidize it.

⭐️ 5 things I truly don't understand about the "inevitable energy transition.” From: Real Clear Wire. An excellent explanation of why America’s energy transition is undeniably utter madness.

Dismantling the DEI bureaucracy in Texas. From: Christopher Rufo. State legislators vote to abolish left-wing "diversity, equity, and inclusion" programming in all public universities.

Blame the media for the national debt. From: Tim Graham/Creators. 🎯They can't be bothered to offer the most basic facts in budget coverage.

U.S. government now confiscating private legal fund donations to Jan. 6 defendants. From: PJ Media. How in any way is it within a prosecutor’s purview — whose job is to prosecute particular, defined crimes based on legitimate suspicion guilt — to wade into the private financial donations collected by private citizens, which are fully legal?

Anarcho-tyranny in black and white. America does have a two-tier justice system. From: Highly Respected. It's very different from liberal fantasies. Increasingly, the justice system favors black defendants far more than white ones. This is especially true when it comes to interracial violence.

📌 SHORT: Vulnerability of the Electrical Grid