Who Is In Charge

Several times this week the host has made the point that Fauci and the rest of the media forward technocrats in the federal public health alphabet soup need to resign to give those agencies an opportunity to begin to rebuild their credibility.  Agreed, absolutely true.  Also agreed is that it will be the project of a couple of generations to recover that same credibility.  So severe is the problem that I believe the various agencies need to be completely reorganized and rebranded in an effort to speed up the recovery of credibility.

However, I do have a bone to pick with the host’s argument.  He has consistently discussed those agencies failure to do cost/benefit analysis for their countless policy recommendations.  There is a limit to that argument.  Those agencies...

Senator Tom Cotton On The Ambitions of General Secretary Xi and President Putin

Senator Tom Cotton joined me this morning:

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JB: …conversations around those kitchen tables that are both profound as they are ordinary. How do I cross the bridge in the snowstorm? What happens, no, think about it, you know, you’re a situation, what happens if the bridge collapses and there’s a fire on the other side? It’s going to take 10 miles longer to get to the fire. People could die. I mean, this is real. This is real stuff.

HH: This is real stuff, and this is really Hugh Hewitt really talking to Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas about the really dumb Build Back Better...

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Threat Assessment

We have become lousy at threat assessment in this nation.  Let’s start by defining an “existential threat:”

An existential threat is a threat to something’s very existence—when the continued being of something is at stake or in danger. It is used to describe threats to actual living things as well to nonliving thing things, such as a country or an ideology.

Obviously such a threat would warrant a massive and hugely disruptive response.  There are three things commonly under discussion, the proposed responses to which would indicate were/are existential threats.  And yet they are far from it.

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