Pigment-Burden News Updates

Race, Racism

So what have our eternally aggrieved brothers been up to? And will I finally learn to spell the name from the crappy Colin of the San Francisco 49ers? (Not now. The Next time he acts out):


On the other hand, I can spell The Good Colin’s Irish name:


Gotta ban Robert E. Lee’s battle flag:


White Lives Don’t Matter:

Trump’s Sublime (‘Hitlerian,’ In Liberal Speak) Immigration Address

Crime, Donald Trump, IMMIGRATION, Logic, Reason


A libertarian exhortation:


Trump on the Right to Choose:


Seriously? You want gov. to go back to basics?


All that vibrancy is costly:


Leftist logical fallacies:


Angel Moms are w/Trump; Michael Brown’s mom is with Hillary:


NumbersUSA does a good job:


Or, as I write in “The Trump Revolution”: “This is the historic majority’s last heave-ho”:


It’s so simple, isn’t it? At least it should be:


Immigration should benefit Americans? WTF!!!


And I, as an immigrant, know, too:


You mean to say under Trump, 9/11 Saudi students would have been expelled? Isn’t that contrary to our values?


Hope you know who lives among you:


No Syrians or Libyans welcome, well, because they could just go Jihad on us. Read about the callous calculus of averages your leaders hope you’ll buy into:


Criminals to be rounded up (even if this makes millionairess Rachel Maddow sad?):


Cities to become sanctuaries for the law-abiding:


Israelis do it best:


The Wall By Donald Trump:


Don’t forget The Visit, a prelude to the speech:

EpiPen Protest Should Be Directed @ FDA & Patent Protectionism

Business, Capitalism, Free Markets, Government, Intellectual Property Rights, Regulation

And it’s the people’s fault, too.

Most Americans have zero understanding of free-market capitalism, and are interested only in government “protections,” namely the regulation of production, in the belief that government interference can reduce costs and get Big Bad Business to behave.

If only Americans, brainwashed in the nation’s government-controlled schools, understood the less intuitive truth and aimed the arrows in their quiver at Big Bad Government, the real bad actors.

In the case of the “EpiPen sticker shock,” bureaucrats at the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration)—beholden to keeping the bureaucracy alive, not getting innovation to market—practically gum-up the process whereby other makers of the product can enter the allergy antidote market and trigger competitive forces.

Then there are the patent grants of government privilege. By granting EpiPen makers patents for posterity—yes, this is government’s fault—these lengthy grants of patent privileges prohibit manufactures of generic drugs from entering the market to make comparable products.

Via Slate Star Codex:

… when was the last time that America’s chair industry hiked the price of chairs 400% and suddenly nobody in the country could afford to sit down? When was the last time that the mug industry decided to charge $300 per cup, and everyone had to drink coffee straight from the pot or face bankruptcy? When was the last time greedy shoe executives forced most Americans to go barefoot? And why do you think that is?

The problem with the pharmaceutical industry isn’t that they’re unregulated just like chairs and mugs. The problem with the pharmaceutical industry is that they’re part of a highly-regulated cronyist system that works completely differently from chairs and mugs.

If a chair company decided to charge $300 for their chairs, somebody else would set up a woodshop, sell their chairs for $250, and make a killing – and so on until chairs cost normal-chair-prices again. When Mylan decided to sell EpiPens for $300, in any normal system somebody would have made their own EpiPens and sold them for less. It wouldn’t have been hard. Its active ingredient, epinephrine, is off-patent, was being synthesized as early as 1906, and costs about ten cents per EpiPen-load. …

Golden oldies:

* “Should Policymakers Trust The Free Market To Meet Urgent Demand For Prescription Drugs?”
* “Patent Wrongs”

To further explore the topic from a libertarian propertarian perspective, click the “Intellectual Property Rights” search category.

EU Commissars Move To Control Ireland-Apple Tax Transactions

Business, EU, Europe, States' Rights, Taxation

And EU countries, most of which bitched about Brexit, wonder why they’re a morass of joblessness and welfare. The EU’s Great Centralizers in Brussels are looking to override Ireland’s tax arrangement with Apple, arrangements Ireland ought to be free to make as an ostensibly sovereign country. EU tax collectors don’t want Ireland to be free to grant Apple certain tax provisions that would enhance prosperity—jobs and investment—in Ireland.

Wait a second, wasn’t Ireland overwhelmingly against Brexit and for Britain remaining in the EU?

Don’t the Irish get that this is what union with EU commissars looks like?