Taxes and Hauser’s Law
Hauser’s Curve Image Credit: Wikimedia commons/Sugar-Baby-Love With a Republican tax bill having passed both houses of Congress and certain to be signed by the President, taxes … Read More
Tag: progressivism
Why U.S. Populism Flummoxes Progressives
Two faces of American populism Left: Sen. Bernie Sanders(I-VT) during campaign event in Phoenix, Az. Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore Right: Donald Trump during 2016 presidential campaign event. Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore American … Read More
More Lies Progressives Tell To Themselves
A neoliberal view of progressives. The cricket of course is a neoliberal. Pinocchio from the 1940 Walt Disney movie In my last post I outlined what I thought was the … Read More
The Lies Progressives Tell (Especially To Themselves!)
Violence between UC Berkeley students and Trump supporters on March 2, 2017 Screen capture from Fox News Youtube post Over the past nine years the offenses progressives have made against … Read More
The Progressive Overton Window
Hitler and Hermann Göring saluting at a 1928 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg. This is the current progressive view of present day Republicans and “Conservatives”. Source: National Archives Collection of … Read More
Should The U.S. Senate Scrap Their Filibuster Rules?
The United States Senate in session in their chamber in the U.S. Capitol building. Image Credit: CDM.me Every now and then, President Donald Trump urges the U.S. Senate to get … Read More
Do U.S. Companies Need Tax Cuts?
Plot of annual Real U.S. GDP per capita growth in percent averaged over ten year periods. This is the major reason why huge U.S. corporate tax cuts are needed! The … Read More
The Unraveling of America
Antifa combatants fighting with Trump supporters at Berkeley, California on August 27, 2017. Youtube screenshot / The Red Elephants The United States of America is unraveling as a society, in … Read More
Problems For The Sovereign American People
An 1846 painting by George Caleb Bingham showing a collection of voters before a polling place. A polling judge is administering an oath to a voter. Wikimedia Commons / George … Read More
Major Problems for the Democratic Party
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), together with Democratic Senate and House leaders, announcing their “Better Deal” at Berryville, VA on July 24, 2017. Screenshot from Newsy coverage. Having taken a quick … Read More
Major Problems for the Republican Party
The U.S. Senate voting NO on repeal of Obamacare on July 27, 2017. Screenshot of ABC News coverage. Everywhere the leaders of the two major American political parties look, insuperable … Read More
The American Deep State
The ultimate motto of the deep state, as enunciated by Napoleon the pig, the Supreme Leader of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Image Credit: QuotesGram.com What is more important in our … Read More
New York: Another Great Progressive Embarrassment
Lady Liberty in New York harbor looking outwards from New York. Is she welcoming the world to New York, or pointing the direction to greater freedom for New Yorkers? Wikimedia … Read More
Another Great Progressive Disaster: California
Cumulative net migration to and from California to other states from 2004 to 2013. The Sacramento Bee An even greater disaster for American progressivism than the state of Illinois is … Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Arguments Between the American Left and Right
Considerations (c) Can Stock Photo / radiantskies Today we are probably experiencing some of the most important clashes of ideas since the Age of Enlightenment. If … Read More