On October 5, Ryan McMaken’s article “Police Officers Threaten to Quit If the Public Keeps Demanding Accountability” managed to hit the top spot on Reddit. It was soon removed from the popular social media platform under very suspicious circumstances.
For many years, Chile was the exception in Latin America, with an unprecedented model of sustained economic development. Contrary to populism and demagoguery, the Chilean recipe for the last forty-five years was respect for private property and entrepreneurial freedom. Indeed, the phrase “Chilean miracle” was even used by economist Milton Friedman to describe the Chilean economy’s reorientation in the 1980s from socialism to a free market economy. Many other commentators looking at Chile’s remarkable growth in recent decades have come to a similar conclusion.
[Originally published by Townhall.com, 7/9/20.]
We thought it was only the humanities department that was run by leftists.
Back in August, European politicians were threatening lockdowns and calling for “vigilance.” But given the economic devastation wrought by full, nationwide lockdowns, politicians have become fearful of going down that road again. For example, in the Czech Republic, where the seven-day average for reported covid deaths has surged from 7 to 66, the central government has stated it won’t make a decision about lockdowns for two more weeks.
As we noted back in July, Americans are buying guns in record numbers, with millions of Americans buying guns for the first time in recent months. Now, the New York Post reports that California is very much part of this trend:
