The Progressive Disaster That Is Illinois
Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan speaking to press about the status of the state budget on June 22, 2017 during a special legislative session called by GOP … Read More
The Ideological Balkanization of the United States
The red state – blue state division of the United States as revealed by the presidential results of the past four presidential elections. Wikimedia Commons / Angr This week The … Read More
How the Left Would Overthrow the GOP and Donald Trump
Progressives man the barricades the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. Youtube / Ibrahim Ka-Almasih Garba It is not as if Donald J. Trump … Read More
How Probable Is A Second American Civil War?
Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863, by Timothy H. O’Sullivan Wikimedia Commons / T. H. O’Sullivan Essays speculating on the imminent beginning … Read More
Reaction To The Violent Idiots Amongst Us
Fight between UC Berkeley students and Trump supporters. Screenshot of Fox News report. Yesterday, as a nation we suffered through a horrific reminder of just how bad the relations between … Read More
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) Is Shot!
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Republican House Majority Whip, was shot this morning around 7:15. Wikimedia Commons / Steve Scalise’s House Webpage Given all the political hate and vitriol that has arisen … Read More
The Rot Goes Deep in the Democratic Party
Democratic Party workers watching the presidential election returns in shock on the night of November 8, 2016. Photo Credit: AP / Matt Rourke One might expect such a lurid title … Read More
How Is Donald Trump Doing Economically in June 2017?
The time evolution of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank’s GDPNow forecast for the second quarter of 2017. Image and Data Credit: Atlanta Federal Reserve District Bank / Center for Quantitative … Read More
Are US Progressives Committing Political Suicide?
Anti-Trump Resistance protest Screenshot of Youtube video from the Next News Network American progressives are becoming increasingly unhinged as they push ever further toward the political Left. Their hysterical reaction to … Read More
The Real “Colluders” With Russia
Progressive conspiracy theorists. (c) Can Stock Photo / Frostie Even now, despite the lack of any shred of evidence, Democrats and their media allies are pushing the meme that Donald … Read More
The Nation States Refuse To Dissolve!
Painting of “The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster”. This is one of the treaties leading to the Peace of Westphalia, in which the concept of the modern nation state … Read More
U.S. Economy and Stock Markets, May 2017
Alas! Real GDP growth is still trending downwards. Data and Image credit: St. Louis Federal Reserve District Bank / FRED It is now time to take our periodic look at … Read More
Progressives Incite Hatred and Violence
Riot by progressive students at the University of California, Berkeley against right-winger, Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos Screen shot of ABC news report The Democratic hysteria and that of their mainstream media allies … Read More
New Data Points To Continuing Warming Pause
Cosmic ray intensities from March 2015 to May 2017. Image and Data from Spaceweather.com Today marks the sixth straight day for which there were absolutely no sunspots on the Sun. … Read More
CO2 Levels In Air Dangerously Low for Life on Earth
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations and average global temperatures for the past 550 million years on Earth. Carbon dioxide levels from Brener (2001) and temperature from Scotese (2001) sourced from www.geocraft.com. See … Read More
Thermodynamic Effects of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Revisited
Varieties of interactions between air and sea Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Apparently, I did not not explain my thoughts clearly enough in my post Thermodynamic Interactions of the Oceans … Read More
Information Sources For Our Hive Mind
The classic, arduous. time-consuming, and expensive way to access information! A photo of a part of my library A few days ago, I asked the question “How Can So Many See … Read More
Thermodynamic Interactions of the Oceans With the Atmosphere
Cumulus clouds over the Atlantic Ocean Wikimedia Commons / Tiago Fioreze One fruitful way of looking at the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) controversy is through the lens of thermodynamics, a … Read More
How Can So Many See Such Different Realities?
Everyone holds different pieces of the puzzle! © CanStock Photo I am endlessly fascinated by how we all ostensibly live in the same universe, yet we all see such different … Read More
What Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming?
Dr. Nir Shaviv, Chair of the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, giving a talk on global warming at the George Marshall Institute on March 21, … Read More
Thomas Piketty and The Iron Law of Wages
Like-minded thinkers: Thomas Robert Malthus (13 February 1766 — 29 December 1834), English cleric, scholar, and economist; and Thomas Piketty (7 May 1971 — ), French economist Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons / … Read More
The French Elite Is Snubbed
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, winners of the April 23, 2017 first round of the French presidential election, will face off in the second round on May 7, 2017. … Read More
Does the Populist Revolt of the West Against Its Elites Continue?
The major French presidential candidates for 2017. From Left to Right: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Communist (Wikimedia Commons / MathieuMD), Emmanuel Macron, Center-Left En Marche! movement (Wikimedia Commons / Ecole polytechnique Université Paris), François … Read More
Anti-AGW Global Warming Scholarly References
Different terrestrial environments involved with or affected by global warming. Over on my Facebook group A Divided World Readers, one reader complained I did not give a single scholarly reference to … Read More
U.S. Railgun Systems Proliferate
Railgun projectile bursting through a metal plate in a Navy test system. The projectile is the dark metal bar in the center-right of the image. Image courtesy of the Office … Read More
The Complexity of Atmospheric Physics
View of the crescent moon through the top of the earth’s atmosphere, as seen from the International Space Station. The photo was taken over the South China Sea, just south … Read More
The Human Development Index and Economic Freedom
Wikimedia Commons / User Happenstance Recently, I learned about a figure of merit for countries being promoted by the United Nations that blends economic data with statistics related to the … Read More
Lessons From The Developing World
An Indian plowman in West Bengal working in India’s largest industry: Agriculture Wikimedia Commons / ILRI In my last two posts, I have taken looks at the history of leftist … Read More
More Historical Lessons From Europe
GDP per capita in Europe in 2014. According to the World Bank, the U.S. GDP per capita in the same year was $54,540. Wikimedia Commons In this post, I will continue my … Read More
Historical Lessons on Economics and Politics
Revolutionary Images: Lessons to be avoided like the plague! Left: A barricade erected by revolutionaries in Moscow, 1905. Wikimedia Commons / Imperial War Museum Right: People’s Liberation Army entering Beijing, … Read More