Taxes and Hauser’s Law
Hauser’s Curve Image Credit: Wikimedia commons/Sugar-Baby-Love With a Republican tax bill having passed both houses of Congress and certain to be signed by the President, taxes … Read More
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Hauser’s Curve Image Credit: Wikimedia commons/Sugar-Baby-Love With a Republican tax bill having passed both houses of Congress and certain to be signed by the President, taxes … Read More
Two faces of American populism Left: Sen. Bernie Sanders(I-VT) during campaign event in Phoenix, Az. Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore Right: Donald Trump during 2016 presidential campaign event. Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore American … Read More
Former CFPB director Richard Cordray testifying before a congressional committee. Screenshot from a Youtube video produced by CNN Money No sooner do I write a post about the dangers of … Read More
President Trump signs executive order in his first 10 days of office to curb government regulations. NBC News / Carlos Barria / Reuters One huge Trump achievement only marginally commented … Read More
A progressive regarding the world. Be careful what you buy from him! (c) Can Stock Photo / ezumeimages In my last essay I was only able to cover two of … Read More
A neoliberal view of progressives. The cricket of course is a neoliberal. Pinocchio from the 1940 Walt Disney movie In my last post I outlined what I thought was the … Read More
Violence between UC Berkeley students and Trump supporters on March 2, 2017 Screen capture from Fox News Youtube post Over the past nine years the offenses progressives have made against … Read More
US real GDP growth from Q1 2009 to Q3 2017. The green line is a linear fit to the GDP over the three years from Q1 2014 to Q1 2017. … Read More
Iranian Emad IRBM at launch Photo Credit: Wikimedia commons/Tasnimnews/Mohammad Agah Much has been said recently about President Trump’s decertification of Iran’s compliance to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the JCPOA. … Read More
Hitler and Hermann Göring saluting at a 1928 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg. This is the current progressive view of present day Republicans and “Conservatives”. Source: National Archives Collection of … Read More
The United States Senate in session in their chamber in the U.S. Capitol building. Image Credit: CDM.me Every now and then, President Donald Trump urges the U.S. Senate to get … Read More
Plot of annual Real U.S. GDP per capita growth in percent averaged over ten year periods. This is the major reason why huge U.S. corporate tax cuts are needed! The … Read More
Antifa combatants fighting with Trump supporters at Berkeley, California on August 27, 2017. Youtube screenshot / The Red Elephants The United States of America is unraveling as a society, in … Read More
Vladimir Putin, President (for life?) of the Russian Federation DailyPnut.com While Democrats continue to obsess over imaginary connections between Donald Trump and the Russian Federation, they seem to pay little … Read More
An 1846 painting by George Caleb Bingham showing a collection of voters before a polling place. A polling judge is administering an oath to a voter. Wikimedia Commons / George … Read More
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), together with Democratic Senate and House leaders, announcing their “Better Deal” at Berryville, VA on July 24, 2017. Screenshot from Newsy coverage. Having taken a quick … Read More
The U.S. Senate voting NO on repeal of Obamacare on July 27, 2017. Screenshot of ABC News coverage. Everywhere the leaders of the two major American political parties look, insuperable … Read More
The ultimate motto of the deep state, as enunciated by Napoleon the pig, the Supreme Leader of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Image Credit: QuotesGram.com What is more important in our … Read More
The view of the Dominican Republic from the front of our condo in Juan Dolio, DR. Greetings from the town of Juan Dolio in the Dominican Republic! Having traveled to … Read More
Launch of a North Korean Taepodong 2 ICBM MissileThreat.csis.org Just this Tuesday, China’s minion North Korea claimed to have made its first fully successful test launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic … Read More
Lady Liberty in New York harbor looking outwards from New York. Is she welcoming the world to New York, or pointing the direction to greater freedom for New Yorkers? Wikimedia … Read More
Cumulative net migration to and from California to other states from 2004 to 2013. The Sacramento Bee An even greater disaster for American progressivism than the state of Illinois is … Read More
Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan speaking to press about the status of the state budget on June 22, 2017 during a special legislative session called by GOP … Read More
The red state – blue state division of the United States as revealed by the presidential results of the past four presidential elections. Wikimedia Commons / Angr This week The … Read More
Progressives man the barricades the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. Youtube / Ibrahim Ka-Almasih Garba It is not as if Donald J. Trump … Read More
Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863, by Timothy H. O’Sullivan Wikimedia Commons / T. H. O’Sullivan Essays speculating on the imminent beginning … Read More
Fight between UC Berkeley students and Trump supporters. Screenshot of Fox News report. Yesterday, as a nation we suffered through a horrific reminder of just how bad the relations between … Read More
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Republican House Majority Whip, was shot this morning around 7:15. Wikimedia Commons / Steve Scalise’s House Webpage Given all the political hate and vitriol that has arisen … Read More
Democratic Party workers watching the presidential election returns in shock on the night of November 8, 2016. Photo Credit: AP / Matt Rourke One might expect such a lurid title … Read More
The time evolution of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank’s GDPNow forecast for the second quarter of 2017. Image and Data Credit: Atlanta Federal Reserve District Bank / Center for Quantitative … Read More