America Last
They hate America. Seriously, how else to explain the latest White House tsunami of bad policies and outcomes emanating from the penumbra of socialist dogma crowding out common sense?
Economy
China, Part VI: Second Tier Geopolitical and Economic Goals
Part V of this multi-part series discussed the Made in China 2025 initiative whose goal is to modernize the Chinese industrial base – and ultimately the People’s Liberation Army – through the infusion/exploitation/theft/transfer of advanced technologies into the Chinese economy. The ChiComs seek to become a technologically-advanced leading manufacturing power by the centennial celebration of …
China, Part V: Made in China 2025
Part IV of this multi-part series on Communist China covered three components of the overarching Belt and Road Initiative, also called the One Belt One Road initiative: 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, Digital Silk Road, and Arctic Silk Road. This part covers a mutually supportive economic initiative: Made in China 2025. The initiative was announced …
China, Part III: The Belt-Road Initiative
Xi Jinping became the “paramount” Communist Chinese leader in 2012-2013
Bidenomics: you are poorer in real terms, and your retirement plan is worth less
Due to taking Staff Sergeant Pico to her reassigned Army Reserve unit in advance of her deployment to Kuwait, Mrs Pico and I spent a few days in William Teach’s home state of North Carolina. When we fueled up in Kentucky, last Tuesday, before leaving, gasoline was $3.779. Naturally, I noticed that gasoline prices were …
Student Loan Forgiveness is Immoral
Everybody from Chuck Schumer to AOC and the squad are demanding Joe Biden declare some form of student loan forgiveness, to buy up to 40 million votes – with taxpayers picking up the tab.
Flying the OODA Loop into the Next Election – Part 2 (Observe)
This is the second part of a 5-part series exploring the tactical planning that the Republican party should be doing going into the next two elections.
Somebody in the White House Just Hit the Panic Button
We just saw the first sign of actual, “Oh my god this is bad” cold-sweat panic from the White House.
Do Not Dig Two Graves
Confucius was a pretty smart guy. His comment on revenge is spot on. We see it playing out now with the social justice movement. For many in Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other social justice organizations, the social justice movement is perhaps more about revenge than it is about justice.
The PDRK is at it again…
No matter how much you try to manipulate people, they will work to avoid it.
Forgiving Student Loans is a Really Bad Idea
Forgiving Student Loans is a Really Bad Idea John R. “Buck” Surdu and Dan Davis This week the Leftists and other purveyors of victimhood are at it again, arguing that student loans should be forgiven and abrogated. John Stossel produced an excellent video on this subject. These eighteen-year-olds, supposedly adults, signed a piece of paper …
Democrats Ruining America
The geniuses who founded this great country must be spinning backflips and somersaults, in their graves, such that would make any Olympic gymnast red with envy and force any Olympic judge to score a perfect 10.
Evaluating Climate Change
The information overload and 24-hour new cycle combine to leave the citizen little choice on ways to understand and evaluate claims and counterclaims. Personal attacks and unsupported claims stand in the stead of careful quantification and civil discourse.
Threading the Needle to Balance Liberty, Commerce, Justice, and Power
Threading the Needle to Balance Liberty, Commerce, Justice, and Power Figure TR Threaded the Needle I first discovered the magic of a Mercury Dime in my grandparents’ kitchen playing with a toy slot machine. To my young eyes, they were the most beautiful coins I had ever seen. As I grew older, I understood the …
Other Than That Mrs Kennedy, How Was Dallas?
The money line was buried far down: “This is a very healthy economy, absent the inflation numbers,” Patrick Harker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, told CNBC Tuesday after the inversion. Sigh! We’re nearing a recession, if this always-accurate indicator is right again By Lucy Bayly, CNN Business | Updated 2:51 PM EDT, …
Another Problem for Joe Biden’s Plan to Eliminate All Emissions From American Electricity Production in 13 Years.
President Joe Biden and the Democrats, greatly concerned about global warming climate change, have urged an all-electric future for the United States, phasing out fossil fuel usage in transportation by requiring all new vehicles sold by the year 2035 to be zero-emissions, and that electric power generation be zero-emission by the same year. In The …
Gas Prices Eating You Up? Don’t Blame Ukraine
Don’t blame the war in Ukraine for your skyrocketing gas prices. That blame resides squarely with Joe Biden.
The Government Stimulus Lie
Government spending does not stimulate the economy. It throttles it. The only thing that “stimulus spending” stimulates is government growth.
Bloomberg Writer Tells Us How to Fight Back Against Inflation; Spoiler: You Won’t Like Them
Bloomberg thought Americans could use some tips on how to survive in today’s inflationary environment. Instead of advising us to support Republican candidates this year, they brought in Teresa Ghilarducci, who is the Schwartz Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and a board member at the Economic Policy Institute. Her suggestions run …