Ineffectual

US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US will not aid any Israeli counterattack on Iran, US media report, citing senior administration officials.

Axios and CNN report that message was passed during a phone call between the pair.

Axios reports that Biden told Netyanyahu the US will oppose any Israeli counterattack.

CNN reports that Biden said the US will not take part in any such counteraction.

 https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1779289782482293148?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

NC Noncitizen Voting Audit - Fatal Flaw?

There is a lot of noise in the Main Stream Media that there is no evidence that noncitizen voting is a problem with US elections. A frequently cited "study" is a 2016 audit conducted by North Carolina.

However, this audit has major flaw.  It only audited people that had DL with non-citizen code who voted. It did not examine was how many illegal aliens with regular DL voted.

The "audit" identified 136 people; 41 (30%) voted illegally, they were not able to contact 61(45%), and they determined that 34 (25%)were actually citizens. The 41 illegal votes are cited as evidence that noncitizen voting is not a major problem.

But major unanswered questions

How many illegal aliens have regular drivers licenses? - FAIR estimates that there are 488,000 illegal aliens in NC. PEW estimates that 72% of illegal aliens are working. If we estimate that 80% of working, illegal aliens have drivers licenses, there would be ~280,000 illegal aliens with regular DL.

How many, if any, are registered to vote? - In 2014 NC found that of the ~10,000 people with a DL with noncitizen code, 1,425 registered to vote. This would equate to 40,000+ illegal aliens registered to vote. 

How many, if any, voted? - If the 30-75% seen in the 2016 audit voted, then that would be 12,000-30,000 illegal votes.

Given the importance of election integrity and the relative simplicity of insuring that only citizens vote:

Why haven't these questions been answered?; and

Why is the MSM pretending the questions has been answered?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/sboe/Post-Election%20Audit%20Report_2016%20General%20Election/Post-Election_Audit_Report.pdf

"N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) data, which indicates whether a customer’s driver’s license contains a restriction code related to their non-citizen status"

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1779205342838001785?s=12

SloMo War

 

Bidenomics - Stifling Real Income Growth

Anemic growth in Real Income with Bidenomics.

A combination of inflation and government distortion of market forces through policies, rules and regulations of the Biden Administration are stifling real income growth.

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1778811269237158287?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

 

Bidenomics- Ouch March 24

 https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1778801139871346772?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

Fix the Incentives

Incentives Matter 

A great talk given by John Cochrane 

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnhcochrane/p/adam-smith-remarks?r=98475&utm_medium=ios

Highlights

Economic Freedom - provide optimal incentives and let markets work with transparency.

Economic Control - maximize and control redistribution distorting incentives.

The current system distorts markets and is inefficient but there are a lot of people who profit from the current dysfunction and are able to bend legislation and regulation their way. 

Focus on, and fix the incentives. 

Taxes? To raise revenue for the government with minimal economic damage, junk the current system and enact a simple consumption tax. 

Social programs? People often lose more than a dollar of benefits for each dollar they earn. Fix the disincentives, and we will help more people with less money. 

US health care and insurance? Health care and insurance can be private, fiercely competitive, and innovative. Provide for the poor with voucher of state support, but do not screw up your and my health to do it. 

Financial bailouts? Equity financed banking and narrow deposit taking can end private sector financial crises forever. 

Climate? If you must, a carbon tax or tradable right, instead of massive crony subsidies and vanity projects, which do not save carbon. (If I buy an electric car, that just frees up gas for you to use.) 

Housing? Let them build.

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1778759181505335535?s=12

Where are the riots?

 

Gender Affirming Care Wrong

A major study of the treatment for adolescents who think they may be a different sex from what they were born by the National Health Services of the United Kingdom shatters most of the progressive left beliefs 

You are either male or female 

In general, children/adolescents who think they are something other than what they are have mental health issues and they should receive counselling.

Gender affirming care hurts children and adolescents. 

Conclusions from The Cass Review, which is nearly 400 pages and took four years to compile:

• Thousands of vulnerable young people were given life-altering treatments with "no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress."
• "It has been suggested that hormone treatment reduces the elevated risk of death by suicide in this population, but the evidence found did not support this conclusion."
• "Social justice" ideology is driving medical decision-making, and "the toxicity of the debate" has created an environment "where professionals are so afraid to openly discuss their views."
• The majority of gender-dysphoric patients in early studies found symptoms desisted during puberty, with most coming out as gay or bisexual later.

https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1778381477106868658?s=12

Interest Costs of Bidenomics

The US Treasury projects that Bidenomics will cost US taxpayers almost 1.5 TRILLION more in interest payments during his term than Trump's.

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1778193769420169322?s=12

Biden's Lagging Energy Policy

Domestic crude oil production under Biden significantly lags pre-Biden trend.

Despite raiding the STRATEGIC Oil reserve, gas prices are almost $1 higher.

 https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1778168147071086712?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

NPR becomes NDR

National Democratic Radio?

Uri Berliner is a Senior Business Editor and Reporter that has worked there for 25 years. 

He has recently posted his essay describing what he has seen happen at NPR essentially exposing the dramatic shift to Progressive Democratic spin. 

He discusses how NPR was wrong on Russian Collusion, Hunter Laptop, Wuhan Lab, Systemic Racism and more. 

Why? They have become Democrat Propaganda Machine. 

Voter registration NPR Newsroom.

Democrats 87

Republicans 0

https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust?r=98475&utm_medium=ios

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1778139074118734247?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

Bidenomics - Ouch

We are all now paying 18.9% more then when Biden started.

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1778047401434996863?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

Biden Jobs BS

Jobs March 2024

Missing Full Time Jobs

Missing Workers

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1778045836712181771?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

AZ not banning abortion

Arizona’s highest court MIGHT uphold a 1864 law. The court put its ruling on hold, and sent the matter back to a lower court to hear additional arguments about the law’s constitutionality.

The law, which was on the books long before Arizona achieved statehood in 1912, outlaws abortion from the moment of conception, except when necessary to save the life of the mother. 

The majority opinion said that a “policy matter of this gravity must ultimately be resolved by our citizens through the legislature or the initiative process.

Similar to the brouhaha caused by the Alabama Supreme Court, this issue would likely be resolved quickly by the Arizona legislators to eliminate the old law and keep their current law, which has a 15 week limit for abortion for any reason

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1778031999359295975?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

Congrats to UConn

Purdue had to play a level above UConn to win. First half they were close.  Second half they were not close.  Edey did well. The rest were outmatched and outplayed by UConn. 

Congrats to UConn on championship. 

Congrats and thanks to Purdue for a great season. 

I was there in 80 when we lost to UCLA in final four. 

Hopefully I don’t have to wait another 44 years to see a championship. 

Well-paid professionals do not need welfare

Biden flouts SCOTUS

Takes hard earned tax dollars to bribe voters. 

Ignores real needs. 

The benefit will be available to individuals earning up to $120,000 per year and couples earning up to $240,000, 

Penn Wharton Budget model of Biden's previous debt forgiveness plan which is similar to his recent plan shows that about 70 percent of debt relief accrues to borrowers in the top 60 percent of the income distribution.

Well-paid professionals do not need welfare. 

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1777514190921478644?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

Sunny Hostin Genius? Not!

Sunny Hostin  Genius? Not!

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1777428726168359139?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

Biden's Incomes Stagnant

Illegal immigration is booming.

Prices rising.

Real incomes per capita. Not so much.

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1777422049188708687?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

Biased Administrative State?

Might the DOJ have a political bias?

In 2020 87.6% of the dollars donated by DOJ employees went to Democrats.

 https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1777422514450301010?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

Immigration Matters

The Founders had three criteria for new immigrants: their qualifications; their assimilation; and their allegiance. Today, I have no clue what Biden's criteria or goals are.

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1777423581971878293?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

It Was a Foul

Ref shouldn’t make a big call or shouldn’t miss a big call?

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1776629179900887180?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

Biden’s misguided leadership

Biden is calling for an immediate cease fire in Gaza and making the highest priority protecting civilians.

Hamas is evil. Hamas broke the previous cease fire and invaded Israel and killed 1000’s of innocent civilians. Hamas uses innocent civilians as shields. Israel goes to great length to minimize civilian casualties. But Hamas must be destroyed.

The scale of civilian deaths caused by Israel are smaller than the scale of civilian deaths caused by US military actions.

https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1775947760803389693?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A

We Need Legal Immigration NOT Illegal

The Founders had three criteria for new immigrants: their qualifications; their assimilation; and their allegiance. Today, I have no clue what Biden's criteria or goals are.

I support immigration. A lot of immigration. But legal immigration, with a mix of merit based  (engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, doctors, mathematicians, etc.) and opportunity-based (people who want to work hard, adopt American values, and get ahead). No doubt there are highly capable, hard working people throughout the world that want to integrate into US society with its freedom and norms. 

Tough luck! To legally immigrate into the US is almost impossible unless you are a relative (8 year wait), employer sponsored or win a very limited lottery.

Biden's Illegal Immigration will allow almost 11 MILLION illegal immigrants into the US. And this doesn't count the "got aways," people crossing the border without being caught. Biden is not enforcing the existing laws resulting in a porous border for illegal immigrants. Biden’s border policies continue to be a mess, put many innocents at risk AND allow Mexican cartels to get rich. Why does anybody think he would enforce any new laws.

How is this fair to the many people throughout the world trying to legally immigrate to the USA?

Title 8, U.S. Code, sec. 1225(b)(1)(B)(IV) states: Any alien subject to the procedures under this clause shall be detained pending a final determination of credible fear of persecution and, if found not to have such a fear, until removed.

Title 8 U.S. Code, sec 1182(f): Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.

 https://x.com/moxlosllc/status/1775249594873528610?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A