"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Over the last year, President Biden’s administration has repeatedly demonstrated a profound ignorance of basic economics. This ignorance shows their great need for an undergraduate college course in economics. Since … Read More
At a time when Russia is conquering Ukraine, and threatening the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) and Poland), despair for our own security is all too easy. This is … Read More
Over the past year, I have repeatedly bashed progressive Democrats and Biden’s administration. Since progressive Democrats are now in power, this focus has been quite natural. However, widely available evidence … Read More
As in so many other issues, progressives have been lying to us for decades about the causes of global warming, aka climate change. Now, the Biden Administration is asserting we … Read More
I have not updated the leading and coincident economic indicators I have been following for approximately seven months. They have now been updated up to October-November 2021. Having waited that … Read More
Recently, a friend of mine asked me how I felt about our descent into the hell of our ideological warfare. What animated her interest was the kinds of emotions generated … Read More
But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory, … Read More
What has puzzled me beyond measure over the years is how Western Leftists can continue to believe their core convictions. There is a plethora of empirical data spanning many years … Read More
It seems as if the “woke” in the U.S. are taking over the Democratic Party. In the process, they want to fundamentally transform American cultural, social, economic, and political institutions. … Read More
NOTE: This post was updated on June 10, 2021 with additional material. During the entire Trump administration, American progressives accelerated their struggle against Trump into a campaign against American cultural … Read More
Is the world becoming a less free place for human beings? Just how much human freedom can we find in each of the world’s countries? I suspect many people would … Read More
One of the greatest priorities for American progressives is the so-called “Green New Deal.” In case you are one of the very few who has not heard of it, the … Read More
You would not believe it from the top-line poll results about Biden’s job approval. Nevertheless, his support among the American people is rapidly eroding. Normally at this time in a … Read More
I have just updated the leading and coincident economic indicators I am following, the first update I have done in a year. The last year has been extremely crazy economically. Every time I thought about … Read More
Progressives never tire of promoting the Iron Law of Wages. First promulgated by Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo in the early 19th century, the Iron Law is touted by the … Read More
I have often written about Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom as the most likely route America might travel to tyranny. Yet, there is another mechanism, the killing of a democracy … Read More
Occasionally, I am challenged over the reality of a fact I assert quite often: Namely, that fascism and communism are essentially the same. Whether they are or not is a … Read More
For the past four years, progressive Democrats have been accusing President Trump and the Republicans of being fascists and racists. Yet, both by their behavior and in how they want … Read More
Already, many who voted for Joe Biden for President of the United States are exhibiting buyer’s remorse. Some in the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party regret supporting Biden’s … Read More
One month after the U.S. general election of 2020, the probable presidential winner appears to be Joe Biden. To be sure, Republicans are crying foul over possible massive electoral fraud in … Read More
While watching the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, I was struck by how much more these hearings were than just about her nomination to the Supreme Court. In … Read More
In June, 2016 and September, 2018, I wrote posts that compared the economies of all countries on Earth for which data was available. My purpose was to examine which of … Read More
American progressives’ lies have systematically misrepresented what is transpiring in the United States for a very long time. What they shrilly claim is so different from actual reality, they must … Read More
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court of the United States. What followed in Bork’s Senate nomination hearings was the beginning of a Democratic method for … Read More
In the short-term, no one can really expect Americans to become united as a nation again. That is because the differences between us are not merely the shallow ones produced by … Read More
The picture above epitomizes what the American Left would like to do to American society. Their antipathy to President Trump and the Republicans was generated by their overweening desire to … Read More
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty … Read More
When George Floyd was killed, seemingly with deliberation, by a policeman in Minneapolis, MN, almost universal condemnation followed. This censure came from both sides of the American ideological divide. Yet, … Read More
I was reading an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine recently entitled The Broken Bargain. It was about the multifarious populist and nationalist revolts among Western electorates over the last few … Read More
The worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 has replaced the trade war with China as the dominant influence on the U.S. economy. Coronavirus lockdowns are destroying the economy. Not that the pandemic … Read More
