The Biden border catastrophe is not a conspiracy theory by the right. Here are the numbers. Judge for yourself if you prefer the Trump or the Biden border security policies.
These numbers may surprise you, because, after all, Wonder Woman Kamala Harris was put in charge of fixing the border – you know, that place down south in California, Arizona, and Texas that Kamala has never visited as Vice President.
The tragedy of all of this is that we will never have a smart national immigration policy that brings a lot more of the LEGAL immigrants the nation desperately needs and benefits from until the border is secure.
2) Sorry, Incandescent Light Bulbs Are Now Illegal
In case you missed it, the old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs that we grew up with (if you are over the age of 40) are banned as of January 1, 2023. The light bulb police will soon be doing random checks of Americans’ living rooms and bedrooms and will unscrew contraband incandescent light bulbs in your lamps. How dare you!
The Department of Energy has ruled that the old light bulbs use too much electricity. This will help save the planet.
Biden says consumers will save hundreds of dollars a year by making the mandatory transition to LEDs.
There are many scofflaws (including a few of your faithful editors) who prefer the old-fashioned bulbs – and we’re even willing to pay a little more to get them (in the black market). Fluorescent lights can give people headaches and sometimes the flickering can be annoying. We’re pro-choice when it comes to light bulbs, and we want to keep the government out of our bedrooms. Remember when the left supported that?
Postscript: we’d like to solely blame Biden for this intrusive policy, but the idiocy dates back to the George W. Bush administration, which promoted and signed a terrible law that mandated energy efficiency in virtually all household appliances – even though they didn’t actually wash and dry your clothes or the dishes.
We’ve said many times that the so-called “infrastructure bill” is really a mass transit bill even though almost no one uses mass transit anymore – a 20th-century form of transportation.
So we weren’t at all surprised that the Biden admin policy is implementing an anti-roads, anti-car policy to not build new roads but instead to “fix it first” by prioritizing existing roads and diverting money to empty buses and subways.
Even Senate Dems including Manchin, Tester, and Shaheen are protesting the policy and complained in a letter to Secretary Pete Buttigieg:
A “Fix It First” requirement was ultimately not what the bipartisan group of negotiators chose to emphasize in the [bill]…a one-size-fits-all approach does not accurately reflect the diverse needs of states across the country.
Now Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia has teed up a procedure for overturning the memo using a filibuster-proof Congressional Review Act resolution, which the GAO has concluded would be in order.
Our friends at the WSJ endorsed the effort over the weekend.
The NYT and others rolled out the old chestnut about how expanding highway capacity is hopeless because the new lanes get filled with cars. If you believe this argument then we should get rid of roads altogether and then – hallelujah – there would be no traffic congestion at all.
Sometimes we wonder if these people were dropped on their heads when they were babies.
Victor Davis Hanson on the collapse of American universities:
Nationwide undergraduate enrollment has dropped by more than 650,000 students in a single year — or over 4% alone from spring 2021 to 2022, and some 14% in the last decade. Yet the US population still increases by about 2 million people a year.
Men account for about 71% of the current shortfall of students. Women number almost 60% of all college students — an all-time high.
Monotonous professors hector students about “toxic masculinity,” as “gender” studies proliferate. If the plan was to drive males off campus, universities have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.
The number of history majors has collapsed by 50% in just the last 20 years.
In the last decade alone, English majors across the nation’s universities have fallen by a third.
At Yale University, administrative positions have soared over 150% in the last two decades. But the number of professors increased by just 10%. In a new low/high, Stanford recently enrolled 16,937 undergraduate and graduate students, but lists 15,750 administrative staff — in near one-to-one fashion.
