Tucsonan Richard Carranza as Seen by the Left and Right
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Their coverage of the former chancellor of New York schools was different, but their use of contrived racial conventions is the same. TUCSON – On February 26, Richard Carranza resigned as the chancellor of New York City schools. His resignation was covered quite differently by two ideologically opposed publications. The […]
Why The Court’s Murthy Ruling Is Probably The Worst Free Speech Decision In History
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes SCOTUS put Americans affected by censorship in an unenviable position, reversing the burden of proof and denying any effective remedy. In the recent Murthy v. Missouri decision, the Supreme Court hammered home the distressing conclusion that, under the court’s doctrines, the First Amendment is, for all practical purposes, unenforceable against large-scale […]
Democrats Play a Cynical Game at the Border
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes America has a border wall that is very efficient at keeping out intruders. It hasn’t been breached once in over three months. Unfortunately, it protects only our political elites at the US Capitol, who are under minimal threat. Other Americans must make do with a wall that is highly porous, […]
Arizona’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Elections Manual Criminalizes Free Speech, Disenfranchises Voters
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘The Vote Nullification Provision is particularly problematic … given Arizona’s status nationally as both a swing and potentially tipping-point state.’ Arizona’s guidance for election workers violates Americans’ First Amendment right to free speech and may disenfranchise voters, a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges. Brought against Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Gov. […]
Producer Prices Blow Out
Inflation that producers are experiencing is now blowing out. The surging input costs and the ability to pass on those higher input costs that have been reported by company executives as part of the services PMIs [Purchase Managers’ Index] and manufacturing PMIs, and that owners of small businesses have told me about for months, have now solidly fired […]
As American as Communist Repression
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week we fleshed out the reasons why Delta Airlines joined the howling outrage mob on the Left over Georgia’s new election integrity laws after initially trumpeting its role in helping craft the legislation. Meanwhile, Atlanta-based Coca-Cola lost no time in teaming up with Delta – and Major League Baseball […]
Dirty Jobs’ Star Mike Rowe Just Totally Debunked the Argument for a $15 Minimum Wage
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Rowe knows the value of hard work, so it’s worth taking his recent warning on minimum wage hikes seriously. Mike Rowe knows the value of hard work. The former star of “Dirty Jobs” gained notoriety for the Discovery Channel program, which featured him going undercover at some of the toughest […]
Another Covid Myth Dies the Death
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Going to the grocery store in Massachusetts in 2020 guaranteed you would breathe heaps of sanitizer. A full-time employee scrubbed down shopping carts between customers. Conveyor belts at the checkout counter were blasted and wiped between every sale. Glass surfaces were sprayed as often as possible. The plastic keypads on […]
Stock Market Leverage in La-La Land, Rises to Historic WTF High
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Archegos shows how leverage is the great accelerator of stock prices on the way up, and on the way down. One of its bets, ViacomCBS, after skyrocketing, collapsed by 60%. Vast, unreported, and at the time unknown amounts of leverage blew up Archegos Capital Management, dishing out enormous losses to its […]
We Need Rule of Law Not Lawlessness
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The Wire wasn’t wildly popular when it first aired on HBO from 2002 to 2008 but it has enjoyed quite a run since due to its vivid portrayal of the human toll of Baltimore’s failed public policies and institutions, including Charm City’s horrific public school system and lying local newspaper. The series formed the […]