The IRS and Income Tax
The IRS and Income Tax: Examining Unintended Consequences and Constitutional Concerns of that increasingly-bloated and powerful agency.
Economy
Eternal Paradox: The Price of Free Beer Remains Unchanged, Humanity Outraged Anyway
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave examines Free Beer, it’s pitfalls, perils, potential and resistance to inflation.
Climate Change Is the New COVID-19
Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services Adm. Rachel Levine and Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg want to know everything about your sunburn.
The Feds Create the Demand, and Then Prop Up Investment to Increase the Supply
I had previously noted, on Christmas Eve of 2021, that I spotted six Tesla charging stations at the Wawa at the junction of Pennsylvania Route 61 and Interstate 78. Five of the chargers were unoccupied, while a sixth was blocked by a mid-1990s, gasoline-engine beater car, using the charging area as a parking space. 🙂 …
The Economy May Be Key To A 2024 Win For Republicans, But Are They Smart Enough To Not Get In Their Own Way?
The Economy May Be Key To A 2024 Win For Republicans, But Are They Smart Enough To Not Get In Their Own Way?
We Broke Everything in the Name of COVID
Our engine of commerce is trying come back up to speed. But Nemesis has treated us to a few years of bitter learning – and she’s not done yet.
Warren Buffett Shuns ESG, Invests in Fossil Fuels
Warren Buffett has been busy gobbling up shares of oil-producer Chevron. Berkshire Hathaway currently holds close to $26 billion in Chevron stock. Why is that?
Satire: The Great Reset: A Utopian Dream of Owning Nothing and Being Ecstatically Miserable
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave brings his rapier wit to the subject of property rights and their relationship to personal liberty.
Bidenomics – Controlling Inflation by Making Us Poorer
President Trump controlled inflation by increasing supply — raising our standard of living. Joe Biden is controlling inflation by depressing demand — lowering our standard of living.
Green: Are Our Systems Failing?
Who is John Galt? In Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged, she described a future world in which proliferating regulations and restrictions progressively rob the world’s most productive people of the fruits of their labor. One such person (John Galt) offended that he was denied the rewards of his work, swore that he would “stop …
When it Comes to Slavery, We’re Stuck on STUPID
A conversation on what public schools should teach about U.S. slavery can’t be had. People are stuck on STUPID about slavery.
The Illusion of Utopia: Communism’s Fatal Flaws Ignoring Human Freedom
The concept of communism, on paper, presents a vision of a just and equal society where everyone’s needs are met, and resources are shared. However, history has shown us that this idealistic ideology consistently fails in practice.
Adam Smith’s Ghostly Roast: The Hilarious Follies of the US Economy in 2023
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave attends a celebrity roast of famed economist, Adam Smith tied into the 2023 economy.
Butt Wiper Brewing’s Desperate Giveaway: When Loyalty Takes a Backseat
Today, we dive into the baffling saga of Butt Wiper Brewing and their flagship beer, “Butt White,” which has been met with an total lack of consumer interest.
The Climate Extremists’ Wild Plan: Reducing Carbon by Phasing Out Humans
Climate extremists”seem to have found the ultimate solution to the carbon problem: reducing the carbon footprint of the planet by eliminating the source of it all – humans!
It’s Not Government’s Business!
100 years ago the Federal Government got into the Poverty business. It was FDR Democrats’ bad answer for an economic depression that they made worse and worse.
Can Biden Get Any Worse? Short Answer: YES
Just when you think it can’t get worse in Bidenland, it does. Biden is attacking America and American energy at every point. Is it ideology or greed?
Somebody Please Wake Me From This Nightmare
When Biden became president America was on a solid footing, inflation was under control, we were energy independent, the price of gasoline was under $2.00, and things in America were great. Now most of that has been undone, and nothing is being done about it. This is like a nightmare in which you are terrified …
Theodore Johnson Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
The scorn heaped on Americans of Asian descent by black Americans since the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, declaring what we all knew, that the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment prohibited Affirmative Action using racial preferences. Promise Li wrote, in The Nation: (W)e …
The Left Doesn’t Understand; Reality isn’t Fungible
There’s a famous saying often attributed to Edmund Burke: “If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.”