Dear Mr. Fed Chair Powell Sir, Rents Are Blowing Out and People are Hurting
In 34 of the largest 100 cities, rents spiked by 15%-28%. Tenants get to pay for your reckless monetary policies that made the wealthy far wealthier In January, the median asking rent for one-bedroom apartments increased by 10% or more in 56 of the 100 largest cities in the US, compared to a year earlier. […]
The Interest Rate Puzzle
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes The financial markets swooned in January in response to the statements and growing perceptions that central banks must soon begin the painful task of slowing inflation. The old saw on Wall Street is, “as goes January, so goes the year.” If so, we are in for a very volatile year. […]
It Takes a Village of Bureaucrats to Implement Despotism
Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is committed to a vaccine solution for COVID-19. Bureaucrats at the CDC believe you can’t be trusted to see “critical” data on COVID hospitalizations or the effectiveness of the COVID vaccine boosters; you might “misinterpret” the findings and be less inclined to […]
How a Faith in Feelings Can Enslave Your Mind
Editors’ Note: After all the kerfuffle about the Will Smith “slap” at the Oscars, the following essay is of some importance. It also applies to the many political radicals today, whose internal mental issues now seem to form public policy. We see this constantly on our university campuses and now quite frequently in our major […]
It Was More Than A Bad Night
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes It seemed just yesterday that Progressives were having a fit over the possibility of having “a convicted felon in the White House”. Now comes word that Hunter Biden is sitting in on key White House meetings. So, we do have a felon in the Oval Office. We can only imagine […]
The Coming Campaign Deception
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes I gravely dislike our constant campaign mode democracy. As soon as we finish a presidential election talk begins about the opposition party’s candidate four years hence. As soon as a member of Congress gets installed, they start raising money for the next election cycle. Incumbent senators squirrel away millions significantly […]
Why Is the Biden Administration Determined to Help Terrorist Iran Get a Bomb?
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Why would any administration in its right mind permit an official state sponsor of terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, to have nuclear weapons, as well as billions of dollars that will assuredly not be used for a “GI Bill for returning members of the Revolutionary Guard”? Just this week, […]
The Threat to Liberty is Coming from Inside the House
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes You might be, as I am, alarmed about the future of liberty. How deep are the roots of liberty when so many submit to authoritarian measures in response to COVID, and approve the use of coercion against those less eager to comply? Unable to visualize alternatives, public acceptance of top-down […]
The Straw that Broke Twitter’s Back
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editors’ Note: The legal status of social media may be changing. Now that Alex Berenson has established that the Biden Administration pressured and colluded with Twitter and Facebook to suppress free speech about Covid, the constitutional issues change. The First Amendment applies to the government, not private parties. But when […]
There’s A Giant Red Flag Hanging Over The GOP’s 2022 Senate Hopes
Republican candidates in five of the most competitive Senate races are struggling to out-raise their Democratic opponents, suggesting that the GOP could squander an otherwise favorable midterm environment. Elections analysts use in-state donations as a proxy for grassroots support and voter enthusiasm, and five GOP Senate nominees are struggling in that metric. Republicans are expected to take back the […]