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December 11, 2024
What is a Democrat, anyway?I’ve riled up intense anger from Democrat acquaintances by referring to their party as the Democrat party rather than the Democratic Party. One of those acquaintances even responded by saying, “That’s like me calling your...
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November 25, 2024
The blessings of superabundanceFor over 150 years oil and natural gas have bestowed upon hundreds of millions of humans the blessings of mobility, warmth, economic growth, comfort, and freedom, just to name a few. During all that time we have increased our use of fossil fuels a...
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October 24, 2024
A homage to Donald TrumpNo one in the history of civilization has been attacked as relentlessly, by such a phalanx of powerful forces, and for as long as Donald Trump. No other person in history could have withstood that onslaught. Leaders have been hated before, but the...
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October 7, 2024
Can the Fed Control Interest Rates?The Federal Reserve Board (the “Fed”) seldom does anything newsworthy, but recently it did just that. It lowered its “target range” for something known as “the federal funds rate” by one half of one percent to 4...
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August 27, 2024
Frustrated wannabe authoritariansIt’s refreshing to see Democrats tear their hair out over the blessings our freedoms give us. Just look at their goal of “transitioning” from fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles (including airplanes and construction...
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August 13, 2024
Speaking of conservative NeverTrumpersYou no doubt have conservative friends who strongly dislike Donald Trump. They can’t tolerate his take-no-prisoners rhetoric. His personality rubs them the wrong way -- he’s abrasive, crude, and in their opinion, obnoxious. Their attit...
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May 11, 2024
Democrats believe in miraculous moneyDemocrats believe that money in the form of government expenditures can perform miracles and cure any ill. What used to be Humboldt State University (HSU) in Arcata, California is now Cal Poly Humboldt (CPH). When I began teaching there in 1969...
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September 12, 2023
The inevitable EV implosionThe electric vehicle honeymoon is over. Don’t expect the marriage itself to last much longer either. The mass conversion from internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEs) to electric vehicles was never more than a Democrat/environm...
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July 18, 2023
Sustainability sillinessEnvironmentalists turn trivial issues into matters of life and death. Take sustainability, for instance. There are no examples in history of any resource causing anything close to a catastrophe because it was not sustainable. There are, however, n...
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June 16, 2023
When certainty is the enemyCatastrophists claim that carbon dioxide alone determines the Earth's climate, and that we will all be safe if we only stop using fossil fuels and get to "net zero" carbon emissions by some arbitrary future date. Mike Rowe recen...
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May 12, 2023
Another Democrat war on consumersFor mobility, America in the 20th century lived through a transition from horses to fossil fuels. Except for supplying roads, the government was hardly involved. No coercion or subsidies were necessary. Private e...
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April 14, 2023
Natural Gas Derangement SyndromeAside from water, there may be no natural resource that provides more human benefit than natural gas. Yet Democrats, environmentalists, and the left see natural gas as a curse. However, it is far, far better than any of their ...
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March 22, 2023
Good news sucks for climate cultistsThere's a war against happiness. Climate alarmists bury good news and exaggerate bad news. They have made up their minds to be miserable, and they're determined to take the rest of us down with them. For example, have...
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January 12, 2023
It just gets harder and harder to live free in CaliforniaLegislation passed by California's Legislature six and a half years ago (!) is finally being implemented. Its title is "California's Short-lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Law," or S.B. 1383 for short. (S.B. s...
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October 28, 2022
Religions in disguiseThere are two broad categories of religions — admitted and disguised. Admitted religions principally include Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Religions in disguise include environmentalism, Marxism, globalism,...
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September 30, 2022
The unbearable miseries of DemocratsDemocrats and the Left have a long and ever-expanding list of concerns: climate change, white supremacy, rising sea levels, non-organic vegetables, insufficient diversity, COVID, systemic racism, population growth, pronouns, Fox News, Donald Trump, a...
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July 29, 2022
The one point that can get people off the global warming obsession trainThe dose makes the poison. ... All things are poison and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone is the thing that makes it not a poison. —Paracelsus, 1493–1541, credited with being the father of toxicology Climate alarmists...
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July 13, 2022
There's got to be lots of Biden buyer's remorse out there nowThe Biden administration has been a disaster from day one. All sentient persons know it, even those in deep denial. Before Biden became president, our economy was humming along, as it usually does. To keep it working well, th...
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June 24, 2022
The left's marching ordersThe Communist Manifesto is a 28-page pamphlet published in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It's not economic insights that makes The Communist Manifesto so popular, but rather the attitudes that it fosters. Its lega...
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May 10, 2022
Abortion: moral clarity can be a powerful forceThere is no issue that divides Democrats and Republicans more deeply than abortion. It is, after all, a matter of life and death. How can liberals, Democrats, and the left be such enthusiastic supporters of something that is, at best, a...
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May 4, 2022
Follow the evidence, not the 'science'A frequently heard piece of advice over the past few years is "follow the science." "Science" is a word the left loves to corrupt and then use to control the narrative. A more useful suggestion is "follow ...
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April 7, 2022
The one place where you can really make a differenceJordan Peterson's sixth "Rule of Life" is "Set your own house in perfect order before you criticize the world." You determine your life primarily by the choices you make. Some choices are "meta-choices,...
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March 24, 2022
The left hates competitionCompetition makes numerous areas of our lives more efficient, from the economy to education to the search for truth. In the economy, competition is the single most powerful force for progress and innovation. A good way to entice custome...
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March 4, 2022
Is the Democrat Party terminal?The Democrat Party is on the wrong side of every single issue — borders, law enforcement, parents vs. teachers, inflation, Critical Race Theory, school choice, cancel culture, lockdowns, masks, individual freedom, gasoline prices, pipelines, wo...
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January 19, 2022
Biden and Harris are a cancer on the Democrat partyThe Democrat Party has maneuvered itself into an insoluble problem. By whatever means necessary the party managed to get its candidates into the White House. However, it will turn out to be the costliest victory ever for a political party. How di...
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December 15, 2021
Why leftists want to turn your kids into weaklingsThanks to leftists, we are doing lasting harm to our children: we are making them into weaklings. It is an insidious form of child abuse, done in plain sight. We are denying them the most important trait necessary for living hap...
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November 23, 2021
Gratitude and the leftApart from lying about everything, leftists are insufferable ingrates. Leftists spend their lives complaining. Their list of grievances is endless. They are never happy even when they get their way. If you're an Americ...
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October 21, 2021
The left's intellectual chaosIn our country today, chaos is on the rise. Everywhere we look, we see craziness and absurdity. We're dumbstruck. Our southern border has been erased, shoplifting has been decriminalized, parents are domestic terrorists, ...
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August 4, 2021
Lockdown lessonsBe wary of experts. Most of their advice during the pandemic has been wrong and harmful. Experts’ knowledge is typically compartmentalized. They are not “big picture” thinkers which is why they fail to consider collateral damage. Th...
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July 28, 2021
The education establishment self-destructsAs Mark Twain put it, "First God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." Until a few months ago, most people admired public school teachers. Not anymore. Teachers...
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July 17, 2021
Now is the Time to Get Serious About Nuclear EnergyWhile no other “carbon free” method of producing electricity comes even close to nuclear energy, climate change alarmists refuse to even consider the option. If you do an objective benefit-cost analysis of nuclear energy compared to th...
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July 1, 2021
The inscrutable leftWhat are leftists afraid of? An easier question would be what are they not afraid of? Here is a partial list of their fears: climate change, fossil fuels, Russia, maskless people, Republicans, carbon, death, words, Donal...
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June 17, 2021
The damage done by probability blindnessAs Bishop Joseph Butler said in 1736, "probability is the very guide of life." The coronavirus has generated more blind fear than perhaps any other event in recorded history. That fear is blind because it ignores easily c...
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May 22, 2021
Remember when leftists were obsessed with self-esteem?Why, in a few decades, has the left's obsession flipped from self-love to self-loathing, from pride to shame? During the 1970s the "self-esteem movement" commenced. According to Wi...
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April 28, 2021
Righteous RecyclingWhy should leftists bother to make recycling work when their real objective is reached merely by appearing to practice it? Recycling is a leftist sacrament. It fulfills emotional needs for Democrats. They suffer deep-seated guilt from participatin...
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March 9, 2021
It's time to revisit The Road to SerfdomRecently, the books 1984 and Animal Farm have had a rebirth of relevance. Orwell's books coined words and phrases that have become descriptive of what is happening now — doublethink, Ministry of Truth, Big Bro...
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February 4, 2021
The big difference between Democrats and RepublicansMy father often said persuasion is better than force. I doubt he knew how universally true that is. You've probably heard many times someone say there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans. That is just pl...
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September 9, 2020
The pandemic is historyA curious but fortunate characteristic of virus epidemics is their limited life spans. No one knows why, but guesses include herd immunity and mutations of the virus. The following graph from the Centers for Disease Control and the Nati...
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September 22, 2013
Media DerelictionHow important is the media? How much damage can result when they don't fulfill their responsibilities? The press is the only private institution the founding fathers included in the Constitution. Obviously they recognized its importance. If the medi...
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June 6, 2013
The Larger Lessons of the IRS ScandalOne of the truest and most profound observations ever made was Lord Acton's "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." All the scandals now engulfing the Obama administration are applications of Acton's profundity. From the stan...
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April 17, 2010
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February 18, 2010
President IncompetentWhether or not you support President Obama's policies, one thing is becoming increasingly obvious: He simply lacks competence. The best indicator of this is his ineffectiveness in accomplishing any of his own objectives. His first year in office rese...