Local Politics

The Curley Effect: Why Democrat-Run Cities Are Collapsing

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The Curley Effect: Why Democrat-Run Cities Are Collapsing

Boston’s Democrat Mayor Curley used wasteful, aggressive redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage “richer” citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. As a consequence, the city stagnated, but Curley kept winning elections.

Living Behind Enemy Lines In C.O.W., Tale #94: Is There No Limit To Democrats’ Insanity?

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Living Behind Enemy Lines In C.O.W., Tale #94: Is There No Limit To Democrats' Insanity?

After yet another asinine policy failed in San Francisco,^ Portland and Seattle want to implement it in their cities to hasten their collapses: A vacancy fee to punish commercial property owners for empty storefronts downtown, as well as fining residential landlords.

Democrats will nominate a Nazi

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To get male votes, the party ditched Tampon Tim and back the boy with a Nazi tattoo

CBS reported, “Maine Governor Janet Mills announced Thursday that she is suspending her campaign for Senate, all but ensuring Graham Platner will get the Democrat nomination to take on incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine in one of November’s most important Senate races.”

NEW: Citadel fires back after Mamdani singles out CEO

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Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, suggests that business leaders should invest in states where they are appreciated on ‘The Evening Edit.’

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Reefer Madness Wasn’t a Movie—It Was a 100-Year Information Operation

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There’s a comfortable lie Americans like to tell themselves: that we are too smart, too informed, too free to be manipulated at scale. That propaganda is something that happens in other countries, to other people, under other flags. Then you dig up a grainy black-and-white relic like Reefer Madness and realize—no, we ran one of the most effective information operations in modern history… on ourselves.

South Dakota State Politics: The Top 12 Issues, Part I Primary considerations for all candidates

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South Dakota’s 101st session of its state legislature recently completed work and adjourned last month, with a number of unresolved matters carrying forward for further work and deliberation.

The top 12 issues that continue to be debated are discussed below, with the ranking order determined by estimated public interest and salience. Each of the issues presented concludes with a positional statement on the issue from a traditionalist constitutional and fiscal conservative standpoint.

Voting Behind Enemy Lines In Washington State, Tale #90: Threatening Bonnie Lou

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Voting Behind Enemy Lines In Washington State, Tale #90: Threatening Bonnie Lou

It is anyone’s guess how many foreign nationals are currently holding elected office statewide in Washington State and thus, breaking the law with impunity. While WA statutes requires US citizenship to run for and hold an elected position, THE SECRETARY OF STATE (election office) WILL NOT ENFORCE IT.

The Real Virus: How Fear, Stress, and Certainty Changed Us

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You didn’t need a history degree to recognize what was happening during the pandemic—you just needed to pay attention to how quickly ordinary people changed under pressure. Not all at once, not everywhere, but enough to notice a pattern. Stress, fear, and anxiety didn’t just shape policy; they reshaped behavior. And in many cases, they …

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TSSA: $10 Billion for Airports, $0 for Kids: America’s Backward Security Priorities

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There’s a quiet absurdity baked into modern America, and like most absurdities, we’ve lived with it so long we stopped questioning it. Every day, the federal government spends billions protecting people who fly occasionally—while leaving tens of millions of children sitting in classrooms with wildly inconsistent security. Let that sink in. We’ve normalized a system where you can’t bring a bottle of water through an airport without federal scrutiny, but your kid can walk into a school where security depends entirely on the zip code.

Welfare For the Well-To-Do

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On Boxing Day of 2023, I noted an article in The Wall Street Journal concerning investors souring on electric vehicle charging companies. In plug in electric vehicles are the wave of the future, why would investors not be moving into, rather than out of, such companies? Note that the original article was from December of …

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