by Benedict Vipers, Gallup, November 19, 2024.
Excerpt:
After greater than two years of grinding battle, Ukrainians are more and more weary of the struggle with Russia. In Gallup’s newest surveys of Ukraine, carried out in August and October 2024, a median of 52% of Ukrainians want to see their nation negotiate an finish to the struggle as quickly as doable. Practically 4 in 10 Ukrainians (38%) imagine their nation ought to hold combating till victory.
Ukrainians’ present attitudes towards the struggle signify a decisive shift from the place they stood after it started in late February 2022. Surveyed within the months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukrainians had been defiant, with 73% preferring combating till victory.
by Chris Horner, Wall Road Journal, November 17, 2024. (November 18 print version.)
Wait. What? Trump confessing an error? But it surely’s not what you would possibly assume.
Excerpt:
Companies aren’t permitted to lie about their causes for imposing a regulation—a doctrine referred to as the rule towards pretext. But it occurs. EPA Administrator Michael Regan, as an illustration, has proven a willingness to make use of authorities unrelated to local weather change to power closure of crops to realize local weather objectives. This presents the brand new administration with a possibility to rein in a number of the most egregious Biden-administration overreaches earlier than the foundations obtain their supposed outcomes.
Trump administration officers might want to assessment promptly inside company information to ascertain the file of pretextual rulemakings and different improprieties. Authorities attorneys will then must acknowledge these improprieties in court docket.
“Confessing error” is the observe by which authorities attorneys inform a court docket that the state has legally misstepped and that annulment of an company’s judgment is warranted. A change in administration philosophy or interpretation is inadequate. However the courts would nearly definitely settle for a confession of error of regulation, truth or process supported by paperwork that illustrate the admitted wrongdoing.
by Alyssia Finley, Wall Road Journal, November 17, 2024. (November 18 print version.)
Excerpt:
Then got here the vaccines. Officers overstated their advantages and performed down potential dangers. Individuals who claimed to have skilled hostile occasions had been shunned. The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention was late to warn of myocarditis as a aspect impact. U.S. public-health authorities nonetheless haven’t acknowledged some uncommon uncomfortable side effects that European counterparts have, reminiscent of short-term facial paralysis and irregular pores and skin sensations.
And:
The Meals and Drug Administration additional eroded public belief by stonewalling a Freedom of Data Act request for knowledge it relied on to approve Pfizer’s Covid vaccine. The company additionally green-lighted photographs for youngsters, who had been at low threat for Covid, a suggestion based mostly on shoddy knowledge, as I famous on the time.
And a few well-deserved skepticism about RFK Jr.’s world view:
He’s additionally proper that Individuals could be more healthy in the event that they ate much less processed meals and exercised extra, that are higher methods to reduce weight than taking medication. However calorie-rich meals, not components, are what’s inflicting a rise in power sicknesses and weight problems. All-natural, non-GMO Häagen Dazs gained’t make Individuals wholesome once more.
by Andrew P. Napolitano, antiwar.com, November 20, 2024.
Excerpt:
The navy prosecutors – who initiated the plea negotiations two years in the past as a result of they acknowledged that they can’t ethically defend the torture regime of President George W. Bush – complied with Pentagon orders and requested Decide McCall to reject the plea.
Final week, the decide denied the federal government’s request and rejected the Pentagon’s order and scheduled hearings at which Mohammed and the opposite defendants will presumably acknowledge their guilt beneath oath.
The decide’s ruling is basically unassailable. He dominated that when Protection Secretary Austin rescinded the authority of Gen. Escallier – a retired navy decide – to comply with responsible pleas, it was too little and too late. By the point Sec. Austin eliminated Gen. Escallier’s authority to approve responsible pleas in all Gitmo instances, she had already authorized these pleas. Thus, she was totally possessed with the facility to approve them on the time she signed the approvals.
DRH observe: Each every so often I’m reminded of the respect I’ve for a lot of profession navy officers. Not a lot for SecDef.
by Jack Nicastro, Cause, November 20, 2024.
Excerpt:
Californians have voted towards growing the state’s minimal wage, regardless of elevating that of quick meals employees to $20 per hour with Meeting Invoice 1228 in 2023. Of 31 minimal wage poll initiatives since 1996, California’s Proposition 32 is simply the third to fail.
Proposition 32 would have raised the state’s present $16 per hour minimal wage to $18 per hour for companies using greater than 25 workers in 2025 and for these using 25 or fewer in 2026.
One of many unintended penalties of such a staggered minimal wage enhance is fewer job openings as corporations would wait to make use of their twenty sixth worker. Underneath such a plan, the marginal value of the twenty sixth employee is $141,440 per yr: the sum of 1 full-time employee paid $18 per hour plus 25 full-time employees paid $2 extra per hour. Until the marginal product of that twenty-sixth employee defies the regulation of diminishing marginal returns, the 25-person enterprise delays enlargement, producing lower than it in any other case would. Californians’ rejection of Proposition 32 averts this distortion.
DRH remark: That is nice information. Additionally, observe the good use of pondering on the margin within the final paragraph quoted above. The underside line is that you’d just about by no means see a agency hiring only a twenty sixth worker. If the agency had been to increase from 25 workers, it will nearly definitely add 4 or extra workers.
by Matt Posey, thetruthaboutcars.com, November 15, 2024.
Excerpt:
Hertz foolishly wager the farm on automobiles the place the first profit is with the ability to cost them conveniently at dwelling as a part of your regular weekly routine. Handing EVs to a buyer base that was unlikely to have the ability to cost their automobiles in a single day and would undoubtedly be driving extra miles than the each day commute would warrant was, frankly, one of many worst concepts I’ve heard shortly.
DRH observe: I might see this coming. I might see it in different clients’ and my resistance to Hertz making an attempt to get me in an EV. And the reason being apparent: If you’re driving lengthy distances, which you usually do in a rental automotive, it’s far more troublesome to recharge than in case you’re doing a each day commute.
