Thursday, April 11, 2024

Economic Climate Change: There's a Train Wreck A-Comin'

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Economics historian Niall Ferguson, while talking about his book Doom a few years ago, noted that the U.S. was in serious trouble because it...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Voter Fraud Is Real; Disbelieving That It Happens Is Naive

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According to Newsweek:  Besides the United States, there are 36 member states in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (...
Monday, April 8, 2024

Memories

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Total Eclipse In the days of the Solar Eclipse when the sun for a time hid its face the creatures of night all emerged to explore the strang...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

California Keeps Lawyers Occupied as Common Sense Falls by the Wayside

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Here are two California stories that caught my eye this weekend. This first appeared in Reason magazine. San Francisco Bill Would Let Peopl...
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Thursday, April 4, 2024

Throwback Thursday: Fate and Consequences in 'The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

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One evening last year my daughter's former English teacher asked if i'd ever read The Monkey's Paw. I forget the trigger ev...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Heard on the Street: Quotes from Other Boats (3 April 2024)

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"Regrettably, we must conclude that our culture is being dictated by two-year-olds. I do not literally mean children of two years of ag...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

The Failure of Compassion: Gaza and the Irish Potato Famine

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I remember when I first read about the  British response to the Irish Potato Famine, which occurred between 1845 and 1852. It still remains ...