Why Nukes; Why Now?
The Biden Regime poured money into the black hole of green energy projects; the Trump Administration is trying to make up for lost time, with energy programs that actually work.
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Oregon’s Coming Expensive Lesson
For decades, hunters and fishermen have quietly funded conservation while everyone else took credit. In Oregon alone, sportsmen contribute nearly a billion dollars annually to the economy and generate tens of millions more through Pittman-Robertson excise taxes that fund wildlife habitat, hunter education, and conservation programs. Yet lawmakers continue treating these same people as a problem rather than partners. Perhaps Oregon should proceed and learn the lesson firsthand. Numbers don’t care about politics. When the funding shrinks, the jobs disappear, and conservation budgets start hurting, the state may discover who was paying the bills all along.
Pain at the Pump and Misplaced Blame
Yes, fuel prices are high, but the war with Iran is only a small part of the pain at the pump. Why has the government spent the past half century quietly building so many costs into the petroleum industry, that the added cost burden of even a brief war is the straw that breaks the camel’s back?
The Impact of Tariffs, and the Economy at Large
Do new tariffs marginally increase prices? Yes, but not as much as their opponents claim. And the benefits of on-shoring, to America’s communities, America’s jobseekers, America’s economy at large, are most certainly worth it!
Inflation, Affordability, and Reasonable Expectations
We hoped to stop the frightening inflation. We succeeded. Then we were asked to return prices to the way they used to be. That’s a taller order, but surprisingly, in some ways, we are making headway in that direction.
Hormuz: The Reality TV War and China’s Unfortunate Front-Row Seat
Modern war has acquired an odd new feature. It now comes with graphics, dramatic music, and a nightly highlight reel. Precision bombs streak across the screen. Drones glide in cinematic slow motion. Social media fills with grainy infrared footage of things exploding in the desert while commentators nod gravely and say phrases like “escalation dynamics” and “rules-based order.”
As the Trade War Adjusts, What’s Next for Manufacturing?
American businesses are managing the changing tariff landscape by attempting re-shoring projects, but in their hurry, are they remembering to fully manage the other issues raised by re-shoring?
A Tale of Four Crises
“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.” ~ Adolf Hitler
Alabama and Team USA defeat Canada; “Out Of Nowhere Canada Became Poorer Than Alabama. How Is That Possible?”
This was not a good weekend for those in Canada who suffer TDS. They made Sunday’s hockey match with Team USA all about politics and Canadian pride. The trash-talking turned to trash-eating.
SCOTUS, the Tariffs, and You
The reciprocal and fentanyl tariffs have been overturned, and the Trump administration is responding. How should the individual business respond to this latest disruption?
The Political Agenda Behind Year-End ‘Economic Collapse’ Stories
The news stories at the end of the calendar year are different from the news stories the rest of the year. From mid-December through mid-January, there’s a different kind of article that fills the newspapers and floods our websites: the year-end summary.
Tax Season Will Be A Blockbuster: “Largest Tax Refund Season Of All Time”
President Trump: “Under these cuts, many families will be saving between $11,000 and $12,000 a year, and next spring is projected to be the largest tax refund season of all time, because of tariffs, along with the just passed one big, beautiful bill.”
Democrats Gin Up “Affordability” as Their New Winning Political Narrative; Don’t believe their lies
The Democrat-media complex has glommed onto a new narrative that joins the ranks of past cliches that they’ve tried to exploit for political purposes. Their new political narrative is “affordability.”
Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Idea Isn’t Radical — It’s a Wake-Up Call
Many in the press have enjoyed taking pot shots at President Donald Trump for his recent recommendation that the banking community make 50 year mortgages available to prospective homeowners.
After the Shutdown, the Next Crisis Appears
The long federal shutdown was broken without Republican compromise. Longtime Washington watchers, accustomed to Republicans caving early from fear that the Democrats would win the PR game, were pleasantly surprised to see that the GOP didn’t give in on anything serious this time.
No Problem Too Small, No Bureaucracy Too Large
Zohran Mamdani, the illegal alien soon to assume the mayoralty of New York City, shocked many with his declaration that “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no problem too small for government to care about.”
Ford might discontinue entire F-150 Lightning line
It seems that the electric vehicle mandates of the Biden Administration were not greeted with approval by the public, and the public are not choosing to buy the silly things without Federal government bribery. From The Wall Street Journal: Ford Considers Scrapping Electric Version of F-150 Truck Once hyped as a ‘smartphone that can tow,’ …
‘Cockroaches’: The Entire US Economy Is About to Go SNAP, Crackle…Pop
And as the government consumes more and more of our money? It ain’t the Elites that are crowded out of the pool. It is you and me.
Insulating America from Government Shutdowns
So, while this isn’t the biggest immediate issue to resolve, it is indeed the biggest longterm issue: what can be done to reduce the harm of future shutdowns?
The Trade War and the Mass Media
China declared new export controls on rare earths, which by some accounts are so extreme as to not only ban exports of the goods from China, but also to ban the manufacture or export of related goods from any other country.