Clearing the Tabs June 15, 2025

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on June 30. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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June 3
Disruptive Desalination Technology Comes to California

June 5
Musk’s outbursts reveal a deeper rift in MAGA
Trump is squandering the chance to build a coherent populist programme.

June 6
Book Review: Phil Gramm & Donald Boudreaux's 'The Triumph of Economic Freedom'

June 11
Los Angeles has fallen
How can riot-rocked LA be trusted to host the Olympics?

What’s the matter with Los Angeles?
How ‘the better city’ has gone from bad to worse

Clearing the Tabs February 28, 2025

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on March 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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February 17
California Governor Newsom has positioned the state to be a national security risk for the entire USA

February 19
Immigration, the American Way
Trump has the opportunity to steer a course between two extremes.

February 27

DOGE is waging a class war on America’s new clerisy
Elon Musk’s department represents a significant challenge to the entitled, well-paid and self-serving bureaucracy.

Clearing the Tabs December 31, 2024

Happy New Year . . . tomorrow.

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on January 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

I hope 2024 was good to you and I hope 2025 treats you well. Once again, I thank you for your continued readership over the years, and I always welcome your feedback.

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December 19
The Lone Star State is soaring
America's future will be made in Texas

December 21
Elon Musk and the rise of the alt-oligarchy
The power wielded by Donald Trump’s renegade band of billionaires should concern any democrat.

December 26
California ruled with great jobs and boom times. What happened?

The battle of the oligarchs
The billionaires have chosen their sides. What does that mean for the rest of us?

December 27
Democrats Need to Get Over Their Delusions
Main Street concerns should trump the progressive Left’s unpopular views.

Freedom Is the Only Way to Beat Authoritarianism

December 30
Why both sides are right in the H-1B visas row
The tech bros and the MAGA populists could chart a new way forward.

Clearing the Tabs October 31, 2024

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on November 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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October 16
Elon Musk and woke capital are locked in a battle for the future of America
This election has exposed the sharp divisions between the US’s new feudal elites

How Harris Obstructed California Home Construction
She says she wants to clear away ‘red tape,’ but as attorney general, she produced a lot of it.

October 18
Can the West survive four years of Harris or Trump?
Neither candidate is capable of restoring America’s faith in itself.

October 19
How the City of Angels went to hell
Progressives put principles over policy

October 21
The West faces a new type of housing crisis
Will new generations ever be able to afford a home?

The New Revolutionary Class
Younger generations must have avenues to rise

October 30
The real reason Latino voters are abandoning Kamala Harris and the Democrats
Concerns about the impact of immigration and the economy are driving Hispanics away from the Democrats and towards Donald Trump

October 31
No, Washington Post, Going To War Isn't a Growth Strategy

Clearing the Tabs April 30, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on April 15. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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April 16

From Austria to Pittsburgh in 100 years: Community sustains this centenarian

What We Keep Getting Wrong About the Right
Trumpism wasn’t inevitable, but his dark vision of conservatism has been around a lot longer than he has.

April 18
How the boomers robbed the young of all hope
Younger generations inherit a world in which the middle ranks are struggling almost everywhere

April 20
Why Baseball is Still Good for America

April 21
Serfing the Future?

Wait, Environmentalists Are Anti-Technology

April 23
The Kids Are Not Alright and the Center Is No Longer Holding

April 25
The State & the Natural Moral Law

Paying the Poorly Educated

April 27
Americans Prefer Single-Family Neighborhoods

April 28
How to Stop Freaking Out
If you can prevent your emotions from taking over in the face of stress, you can avoid a lot of regret and set a good example for others.

Clearing the Tabs November 30, 2021

Ending November with some things I've read so far in the second half of this month, or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, and will probably keep doing this for a while. Also, just because I share something on here does not mean I agree with it, but I think opposing ideas are good for the mind on occasion.

November 16

The Economy-Sapping Impact of the $15B Elon Musk Tax Will Be Largely Unseen

Mobility Principles for a Prosperous World

November 17
We need more families
Rising numbers of single people and plummeting birth rates are bad news for civilisation.

November 19

Greenlining is Remedy for Redlining and Bluelining

November 20
Wake up, progressives: You’re lucky to have Kyrsten Sinema

November 21
The Reshoring Imperative

Cambria County fights population loss in little, big ways

November 23
Revisionist History: Renowned Civil Rights Leader Savages the Anti-America '1619 Project'

The socialism America needs
The Left's agenda is more feudal than Marxist

Spending Restraint Is a Necessary Ingredient for Good Tax Policy

November 24
Why the 'Old North' States Have Been Economic Laggards
Hint: It’s not politics or failed strategy. But we have a 23-state region spanning the Great Plains, Midwest and Northeast, as well as some border states, that have consistently trailed the rest of the country.

November 29
Dot's, Rivian, Kohl's: Homegrown Successes Get Coastal Boosts

November 30
Minorities Monopolize California’s Suburban and Exurban Growth

The comic cries of climate apocalypse — 50 years of spurious scaremongering

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Clearing the Tabs 7-27-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

July 21
Democrats are Helping Trump to Win Re-election

Elon Musk is a total fraud

If there were no taxpayers to help subsidize his nonsense, he would be out of business.

July 22
Let's Be Blunt, Internet Sales Taxes Are Economy-Sapping Domestic Tariffs

July 23
Millennials Reinvent Localism in Their Search for Community

July 24
The Pundit Class's Russia Obsession Is a Loud Insult to Reason

July 25
Democrats’ latest election strategy? They aim to win by allowing non-citizens to vote

July 26
The Hollowing-Out of the California Dream

Whatever Happened to Civility in America?

The Arthur Brooks Podcast - Episode 3

July 27
What tax reform 2.0 could look like

Republicans want to schedule a House vote in September on a second round of tax reform legislation.

Trump’s GDP achieves Mission Impossible (and shocks his critics)