The Dan Proft Show Podcast

Robin Hanson, Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford U, on why the reopeners are winning the argument against the lockdowning elites. R Street Institute's Tony Mills calls for a back to basics approach of government-funded pure science research with some historical precedent in support. This is no time for the trivial and the need for pragmatism will shift the US right, argues former VP advisor Grady Means at TheHill.com. Spiked Online's Brendan O'Neill on what Neil Ferguson's booty call says about politics in the West. Joe Biden wants due process for himself but for no one else when it comes to allegations of sexual assault saying he would rescind DoE Sec. Betsy DeVos's new Title IX guidelines. And, can someone get him to stop shoehorning the word "intercourse" into every conversation? Updating the Dallas hair salon owner (and the prodigous GoFundMe support she's received) and Project Veritas' CBS exposé. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio provided the signature statement for Democrat Socialists in 2020 when he previously said there was plenty of money in America, it's just in the wrong hands. At that time he meant, rich vs. poor. Now he means public sector vs. private sector as he argues there will be no recovery without federal bailouts of state and local governments.

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Another study, this time from Israeli researches, that argues for targeted lockdowns as the way to save more lives and do less economic damage than the lockdowns that treat the young and healthy and the elderly and vulnerable the same. Geroge Mason University Economics Professor Alex Tabarrok argues for going really, really big for a vaccine. When will pols & pundits adapt to the new, real-world virus data? I'll discus with RealClearPolitics.com's Sean Trende. Quote of the day, "...they use statistics like the drunkard uses lamp-posts: for support rather than for illumination." - John Keiger, professor of French history, University of Cambridge. Will #COVID19 shift the passive investment paradigm? I'll gather insight from Seth Levine, The Integrating Investor. CBS fakes a testing site? Project Veritas with another undercover operation. Who needs a pandemic to ban books? Not one Alaskan public school district, And, what a difference a few generations makes: WWII vs. COVID-19.

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While all the Beltway bloviation was about internal WH models projecting deaths in June, the attention should've been on the MIT study that concluded targeted lockdowns are the way to both save more lives and impose less economy damage. Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz on the FBI's Flynn flop & his book on #MeToo, "Guilt by Accusation". Claremont Institute's Charles Kesler is ready to throw "an abundance of caution" to the wind. Who'll win the corona wars? I'll discuss Cold War II with Hoover Institution scholar and historial Niall Ferguson. German cardiac surgeon Axel Haverich on how Germany was both lucky and good. It would be nice if W.'s sentiment on national unity in the face of COVID-19 could be true, but it can't. A recommendation for HBO's "Bad Education."The stakeholders in Roslyn--administrators, school board members, parents--are all-too familiar profiles found in well-heeled suburban school districts.This is where Varsity Blues starts. Speaking of fraud, that's what conferring a Pulitzer Prize on the 1619 Project's fictional history of America is. It is also, as Rod Dreher observed, more confirmation that the media has no regard for the truth when it comes to serving their ideological agenda.

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Former Sen. Jim DeMint: tort reform is a part of a rational reopening. Center for the National Interest's Harry Kazianis: Obladi, Oblada, life goes on. Market bounce too high, too fast? Simon Maierhofer, founder of iSPYETF and publisher of the Profit Radar Report. Michel Levitt, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, professor of structural biology and computer science, contends lockdowns as implemented in most of the states will turn out to be a huge mistake. Biden to get Plan B'ed be the Left? End of capitalism as we know it? My latest "60 of Sanity". A MI pilot's message to Gov. Whitmer, and it's "Who The F++k Knows" by a nose.

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TheFederalist.com's John Daniel Davidson on snitch culture. Oprah's commencement address to Chicago Public Schools, will she tell them she gave up on them 15 years ago? Hoover Institution's "Grumpy Economist" John Cochrane's rational reopening & predictions about the future of the university. TheAmericanConservative.com's James Pinkerton on model madness. Faith among the faithful strengthens+Visceral vs. thoughtful reactions.

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