Dec 23 Bonus

By James Howard Kunstler Kunstler.com December 2, 2023   “This is in my opinion, the worst thing that’s ever happened to our country in my lifetime in the world, and the government’s role cannot be denied,” — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on C-19-Vaxx   History is a trickster. It unfolds emergently with uncanny creativity, often […]

ALAN DERSHOWITZ NOV 28, 2023 Hamas has a calculated policy of doing everything to increase deaths among the civilians of Gaza. Besides deliberately using civilians as human shields, it denies them the opportunity to use the vast complex of tunnels-shelters it has built to protect its terrorists and its valuable hostages. Israel, on the other

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received 25 pages of records in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Washington, DC, Department of Transportation which show the cost to taxpayers to repaint the Black Lives Matter slogan on a street in the nation’s capital was over $270,000. (The repainting seems to

11/29/2023 Connor O’Keeffe Mises.org  Two weeks ago, I wrote about the problems with Joe Manchin’s argument that Congress needs to reject the “extremism” in its ranks if it’s ever going to solve the many problems facing Americans. I argued that the opposite is true. That Congress is almost entirely unified behind a specific pace of progressive interventionism

11/27/2023 Kevin Van Elswyk The leviathan does not rest in pursuing free universities, creeping ahead unchecked by either reason, law, or accounting principles. Why is student assessment of their federal-debt-financed degrees so low? Why are 26 percent of past payments delinquent? More than 50 percent of students agree that they either studied the wrong major or wasted

11/30/2023Jane L. Johnson Dorothy and her companions in the movie The Wizard of Oz feared lions and tigers and bears as they journeyed through the woods to visit the wizard. But real people living today might fear frighteningly large numbers more than large wild animals. We live today with some very large numbers that contain many zeros and