Rand Paul famously said that a "right to health care" was the de facto slavery of doctors.
Leftists were incredulous. Dubious, at best. Mocking, at worst.
And then came SARS-CoV-2, and New York's quasi-commie mayor wasn't the only far left pol suggesting that health care professionals be commandeered, drafted, conscripted.
I have long contemplated an Index of Policy Self-Refutations, to track the time it takes for a policy to prove itself, in its implementation, incorrect by its advocates' own terms in implementation.
But this would fit into an Index of Verified Prophecies. It took the time from May 11, 2011 to April 2, 2020, for a major politician to prove the junior senator from Kentucky correct.
Nine years. An unusually long time. I bet there is good confirmation of Dr. Paul's thesis much closer at hand.
Dennis Pratt and I conclude our conversation from last week. He talks about his next big project, a bus tour. Sounds fun. And he talks more about Quora.
And then I, your humble LocoFocovian, provide you a sample Quora Q&A. The A is mine.
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This week's podcast features Paul "Term Limits" Jacob. Paul is president of the Liberty Initiative Fund, and publishes commentary every day at ThisIsCommonSense.org.
This episode is an echo (crossover podcast) with Paul's podcast "This Week in Common Sense."
Another out-take from my conversation with Stephan Kinsella.
We muse on life under pandemic and panic.
…turn to God, I remain where I have been for a long time. Godless. But fascinated.
The more I read of the origins and developments of our major religions — Judaism and Christianity specifically — the less credence I give to them, but the more fascinating they become. Also, as alien as the dogmas and rites seem to me now, I am beginning to understand their utility. Exaptation complicates things, even so far as to commend to me the notion that the evangelical atheists are ineluctably reckless and foolish.
We constitute a funny species.
