The left just don’t understand economics If liberals really understood economics, they wouldn't be liberals anymore

The American left just love to argue that certain things are “basic human rights.” Not things like our freedom of speech or religion, things which the Constitution of the United States recognizes as something we have as part of ourselves, but things which the left believe that other people should be required to provide for […]

What a surprise! Lithium prices are increasing as countries push electric cars.

In the episode “Mudd’s Women” in the original series Star Trek, Harry Mudd and the three women he was taking to sell as wives to settlers are detoured to a planet inhabited solely by dilithium crystals miners. Captain Mudd tells the three women that they’ll now be wives to “lithium miners, rich lithium miners”. Who […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer tells us about yet another government economic program that just didn’t work.

My good friend Daniel Pearson — OK, OK, I think he knows who I am, but we’ve never met other than in debates on Twitter — is an editorial writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and that makes him a liberal, but he’s not a far left whacko, and conservatives can actually talk to him. And, […]

The 15-Minute City: Another exercise in Soviet economic planning! The oh-so-well-intentioned left seem to think they can 'design' how people live their lives.

Have you ever heard of the 15-minute city concept? As defined by Wikipedia, it is: an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride from any point in the city. This […]

Another Pie-In-The-Sky Green Energy Project Meets Economic Reality

My good friend and occasional blog pinch hitter William Teach of The Pirate’s Cove noted on Wednesday that General Motors is cutting back significantly on its commitment to produce the plug-in electric vehicles the global warming climate emergency activists and Biden Administration have pushed: After investing billions to adhere to President Joe Biden’s green energy […]

The Israeli-Hamas War and the frustration of the Usual Suspects

As my good friend and occasional blog pinch-hitter William Teach has noted, the Editorial Board of The New York Times has unambiguously supported Israel following the sneak attacks by Hamas guerrilla fighters. The brutal terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas is a tragedy, one that may change the course of the nation and the entire […]

Editorial cartoonists gobsmacked by reality In continuing to cut costs, newspapers are concomitantly making themselves worth less, and providing potential customers with less reason to spend money on them.

Would it be wrong of me to retort, “Learn to code“? Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher, coined the phrase “the dismal science” to refer to economics in the 19th century, and for the print newspaper industry in the United States, economics has been a very dismal science. But in continuing to cut […]

The left tell us that they support racial integration, but they really do not

We have previously noted how the Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer told us that the violence problem in the City of Brotherly Love is due to the internal segregation of what is, overall, a very ‘diverse’ city. However, the Inky has also been very wary of gentrification. What is gentrification? Gentrification is the process […]

Bidenomics: you are poorer in real terms, and your retirement plan is worth less Are you better off today than two years ago?

#BREAKING The average price for a regular gallon of gas hit another all-time high in the tri-state area. https://t.co/aZdsvXX1Fj — Action News on 6abc (@6abc) May 10, 2022 Due to taking Staff Sergeant Pico to her reassigned Army Reserve unit in advance of her deployment to Kuwait, Mrs Pico and I spent a few days […]