Chet Collins

Intel Apologizes After Asking Suppliers to Avoid China’s Xinjiang Region - WSJ

On Thursday, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker said its letter was written only to comply with U.S. law and didn’t represent Intel’s stance on Xinjiang.

Yeah, our compliance guys said we had to write it.

No worries though, we’re totally cool with the Chinese government operating a system of concentration camps and arbitrarily detaining over a million people.

Speaking of student loans, I just read the fine print.

Any unpaid interest outstanding on loans will be capitalized when the freeze ends.

Another government program that pretends to help you while in reality hurts you.

The Forever Student Loan Emergency - WSJ

Unlike its last pause through January, the Administration isn’t saying this extension is final—probably because it’s not.

In Stunning Blow To Democracy, Legislation Decided By Majority Of Elected Representatives - The Babylon Bee

In a catastrophic blow to democracy with disastrous consequences sure to ripple throughout the free world, a majority of democratically-elected representatives decided against legislation proposed by other democratically-elected representatives.

We had a good run!

Pelosi Disappointed We’ll Never Get To Find Out What Was In The Build Back Better Bill - The Babylon Bee

The Build Back Better Bill is thousands of pages long, and with everyone in Congress being very busy and very dumb, no one there was going to read it. But if it had been passed, it would have been handed over to bureaucrats to implement, and then we’d all see what the bill actually did.

Sad!

Confronting Inflation, Biden Administration Turns to Oil Industry It Once Shunned - WSJ

The Biden administration says that oil companies face no government constraints on drilling more in the short run, even as it presses the companies to shift long term to cleaner forms of energy in response to climate change.

Facts not in evidence.

As a candidate, Mr. Biden said the country must transition away from oil, and in his first months in office he moved for more stringent regulations on the industry, explored restrictions on oil production and revoked a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.

How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate - WSJ Opinion

“This proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists . . . seems to be getting a lot of attention – and even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt at Stanford. There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises,” Dr. Collins wrote. “Is it underway?”

Our tax dollars at work!

Pretty gross to see leaders in the scientific community circle the wagons as opposed to being open to the scientific process.

Glad to see bright, bright lights being shined on the technocrats.

Biden’s Omicron Reality Check - WSJ Opinion

Wasn’t Democrats’ $1.9 trillion spending bill in March supposed to pay for more testing and treatments? Too much of the money went to progressive political groups, and the U.S. pandemic recovery has been worse off for it.

The difference between the headline and the substance.

Central Intelligence

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One Last Chance to Build Back Better - WSJ Opinion

Unless Congress acts soon, millions of families with children will take a financial hit as Omicron surges and the economic outlook darkens. To avoid this, Congress should enact a one-year extension of the expanded CTC and use the breathing room to devise a long-term solution.

The expanded child tax credit was set for one year in the American Rescue Plan bill. Now that it’s expiring, here’s a proposal to extend it for one more year. And suppose that happens, what do you think we’ll be discussing in December 2022?

This is why BBB failed; because the expiration dates were a lie from the start.