Maggie's Farm

Aside from stressing that what we do now matters in eternity, I'm not sure God has encouraged to think we do or should have a lot of specific information about exactly what lies in store for us after death, any more than a fetus has a clear idea what lies in store for him outside the womb.

Someone mentioned to me that the redacted FISA application was part of the Saturday night document dump, so I went looking for press on it. Strangely, none of the MSM articles had anything to say about what the document revealed, it was all ho-hum. I finally found some analysis on Powerline and Althouse. The famous footnote that supposedly revealed the fact that Clinton paid for the Steele Dossier does no such thing. The closest it gets is to say that the FBI speculates that the source intended to discredit Trump, a concern that is then dropped like a hot potato and never addressed again. The press reports are treated as if they were a source, without mentioning that they were sourced by the same source. There is apparently zero information added to the successive warrant applications to bolster the case as time goes on. Really sloppy.

I wouldn't say the MSNBC hosts were expressing a worry that capitalism was working. One asked whether Ds were making a mistake bashing capitalism at a time when the economy was doing so well that Americans obviously were drawing very favorable conclusions about capitalism. Warren responded that she believes in markets but believes they have to have "rules" so that, basically, there aren't big winners and losers, whatever that's supposed to mean.

Capitalism does mean winners and relative losers, even if the losers are better off than they'd have been under socialism. If it bothers us that some people don't do as well as others, we're always free to give them some of our own plenty. I don't know why that concept is so hard for socialists, except that obviously it's more convenient if other people take care of that unpleasant task.

Warren also expressed the view that job numbers were up only because lots of people were working 3 or 4 minimum-wage jobs, an assertion for which she offered no evidence. Even if it were true, it doesn't sound like bad news to me. It sure beats not being able to find extra minimum-wage work.