Inflation and Gen-Z

A few weeks ago, I asked a young woman in Leelanau County whether she and her husband planned to buy a home. She laughed bitterly: “Between interest rates and property taxes, we’ll never afford it.” When I suggested she was still young, she replied: “I’m 37. You boomers took all the money and slammed the door behind you on your way out.”

Trust Us? No—Show Us; Who Really Owns Our Elections?

Gretchen Whitmer and Dana Nessel didn’t inherit this mess—they chose secrecy over sunlight. They chose control over confidence. They chose to tell citizens to sit down, shut up, and trust the experts. That decision still bleeds trust today. Call it metaphor if you like, but the damage is real: when legitimacy dies, leaders don’t get clean hands.

The Canary Is Gasping: Australia and the Cost of Speech Without Rights

A father was arrested and charged after someone took offense at a tattoo on his leg—passive, nonviolent body art. Let me be clear: the ideology behind that tattoo is evil, historically murderous, and morally bankrupt. I despise it. But the man was not arrested for assault, intimidation, threats, or incitement. He was arrested for expression. That distinction is everything in a free society.

When a Raging Anti-Semite Feels Comfortable Enough to Go On a Tirade.

Lower Gwynedd Township was established in 1698 by William Penn, a very well-to-do township in what is now mostly well-to-do Montgomery County, one of the collar counties of the City of Brotherly Love. I have done a couple of projects in Lower Gwynedd, and not only could I not have afforded a home there, I …

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