Spending data from the Government Accountability Office confirmed last year’s predicted spending spree and early fiscal 2019 data suggests historical spending levels continued.

As Much As We Can Make It So

Behold the Internet.  A free speech-free market Xanadu – developed entirely by the eternal wonderment of unfettered free markets.

New York City (Project Veritas) — Project Veritas has released a new report on Google which includes undercover video of a Senior Google Executive, leaked documents, and testimony from a Google insider.  The report appears to show Google’s plans to affect the outcome of the 2020 elections and “prevent” the next “Trump situation.”

(PowerLine | John Hinderaker) -- Last week a House Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing on reparations at which activist Ta-Nehisi Coates testified. Coates told the committee that before the Civil War, nearly half of the economic activity of the United States was generated by cotton produced by slaves.

(TaxProfBlog | Paul Caron) -- Job growth has been running 80% stronger in low-tax states than in high-tax states since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in December 2017. Understanding why holds important lessons for policy, economics, and politics. ... Continued.

The Phantom Soapbox writes:

Here's the situation: Data from 2014, the most recent year that a county-level breakdown is available, shows us that 54% of counties (containing 11% of the population) had zero murders. 69% of counties had no more than one murder and held about 20% of the population. These counties account for only 4% of all murders in the country.