Clearing the Tabs May 15, 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 May 31. 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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May 2
Book Review: Joseph Epstein's 'Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life'

Donald Trump Wants Power to Fire Anyone In the Executive Branch: What Could Go Wrong?

May 4
Annual GWPF lecture: Climate Uncertainty and Risk

May 7

What The Media Won’t Tell You About The Energy Transition
The hype, and the reality, about the energy transition in 10 charts

May 11

The economy, not Palestine, will undo Joe Biden

Memories Abound as Robert Gasser Makes His MLB Debut

May 14

Biden's Tariffs Are a Bad Idea
Bad for consumers, bad for American industry, bad for his administration's own environmental goals, and bad for an increasingly irrational executive branch.

May 15
Masterpiece Cake Shop From Right As Texas Pols Attack Banks

March Driving 101.4% of 2019

Clearing the Tabs February 15, 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 February 29. 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 1
Joe Biden’s war on fossil fuels is hurting America
California should not be the President's energy model

February 8
'Decolonized' universities dividing Canadians

Higher education goes Medieval

February 11
Unhinged progressives are a gift to Trump

The woke zealotry of the Biden administration is turning vast numbers of Americans into reluctant Trumpers.

February 12
Biden’s climate change reparations will bankrupt America
The reparations regime will only aid the wealthy and privileged, not those most in need

February 14

Environmentalists Fail Again: Plastic Bag Ban Made Pollution Worse
So, of course, now they want to double down.

Florida’s One-Man Laffer Curve

Downtown San Francisco is beyond redemption

Clearing the Tabs April 15, 2023

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  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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April 1
From Broken Windows to Jumping Turnstiles

April 3

Race and State
The emerging racial state promises no real progress for most minorities while deepening ethnic divides and undermining the basis for democratic self-rule.

April 10
The depopulation bomb
Worldwide demographic decline will soon pose a serious challenge for humanity.

Climate alarmism and mental health.
Climate change anxiety is on the rise amongst young people and is a terrible way to motivate them to be good stewards of the land.

April 12

Rescuing Ireland won’t save Biden
The only Democratic future is post-woke

April 13
Restaurant Revolution
California’s entrepreneurial spirit remains alive in an innovative, immigrant-led food culture—but Sacramento threatens to snuff it out.

Clearing the Tabs October 31, 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 November 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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October 18
Ohio and the battle for populist America
Trump and Biden are both liabilities here

October 25
Finding Third Places Across America

October 30
The real American divide
Most Americans are moderate and pragmatic, but politics is dominated by cranks.

October 31
Biden, Trudeau choose green war on oil and gas over working class
In the U.S. midterm elections, green obsessions could help the Republicans beat even attractive Democratic candidates

Clearing the Tabs August 15, 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 August 31. 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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August 1

Free Trade’s Heavy Cost
How globalization became sinicization

Irvine: A National Role Model

August 4
The biggest threat to the CHIPS Act? The Green Left
Environmental policies could undermine Biden's domestic agenda

August 5
The Importance of Fare Enforcement

August 6
Why suburbia will decide the future
As millions of Americans migrate to the suburbs, a huge political shift is underway.

August 7
The What and Why of Mentoring

August 8
The Democrats' New Climate Bill Abandons Green Zealotry—For Reason

August 9
Newsom is like Biden

August 11
Tim Allen Loves It Here, and He's Always Happy To Show It

To Get Out of Your Head, Get Out of Your House
Spending time in nature can help relieve stress and anxiety.

Americans mourn the dead in Afghanistan, even as the media move on

August 15
The Great Barrier Reef Is Doing Great; People Should Know

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Clearing the Tabs January 31, 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 February 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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January 16

The moment Joe Biden finally lost his credibility

January 17
Joe Biden's Jim Crow 2.0 tour collides with reality: Blacks strongly support voter ID

The Cincinnati Nightmare

“ESG” = Extreme Shortages Guaranteed!

Why I Dislike the Word ‘Capitalism’

January 18
Conference USA 2022 Season Preview, Four Teams Stand Above the Pack

January 19

California’s economy is weaker than it looks
An over-reliance on a small number of companies won't work in the long term

An Open Letter to the College Student Facing Weighty Decisions

January 20
Live Like the Ancient Cynics
Modern cynicism traps you in an unhappy cycle. The original version will set you free.

January 22
What Should Be Done about Academic Bias?

January 23
From the Pa. Farm Show: Energy costs are top concern

Crossing (or not) the 1.5 and 2.0C thresholds

The 2nd Amendment Protects the Rights of All Americans

January 24
No Economic Concept Is More Thoroughly Misunderstood Than Inflation

2020 lingers only for those out of touch with voters' march forward

Ottawa, Canada is following Germany’s failed climate goals

January 25
How Biden can defeat China
Putin and Xi are more vulnerable than we think

January 27
Art Should Be a Habit, Not a Luxury
Just like exercise and sleep, engaging with the arts is a necessity for a full and happy life.

January 28
The Evolving Geography of Opportunity: Leading Cities of the Past, Present, and Future
This report explores a diverse array of thriving, high-opportunity metropolitan areas and the lessons they offer on how to expand opportunity and economic mobility in the United States.

January 30
From Cover Girl to guns and elk hunts

From Philly to Fayette, water woes cross geographic and racial lines

Clearing the Tabs June 15, 2021

June 1
All This for 1.8 Percent Growth?

June 3
A Middle Class Rebellion Against Progressives Is Gaining Steam

Joe Biden's Plan for a Fatter, Meaner IRS (Podcast)

June 8
Suburbs are not less social than cities

How to fight climate change and put pressure on China

June 10
The 1980s Called, And It Wants Its Industrial Paranoia Back

June 12
Why America's Oligarchs Are Moving Left

June 15
The Killing of Kern County

Clearing the Tabs December 15, 2020

Some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. It appears the month will be a long one, and 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 December 31 as well to close out 2020. 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.

December 1
Look to Orange County for how to turn California politics purple

Identity Politics Ushers in Guilt Without Vice, Innocence Without Virtue

December 2
A Cure Worse than the Disease

December 3
Walter Williams, 1936-2020

December 4
Why Trump’s America will live on
The Biden-led political restoration is an elite project. It offers nothing to the working class.

December 5
Conservative populism stronger than ever despite Trump’s election loss

Why the polls weren't as wrong as you think

December 7
The Big Thing That Trump Got Right and Biden Can’t Afford to Screw Up Again
Trump promised a boom that wouldn’t just help the rich and, until the pandemic, delivered on that promise.

How to Create a Conservative Elite in Touch with America

December 8
Donald Trump Is Not The Messiah

December 10
Time to Surrender on Entitlement Reform?

December 11
Nothing of the Sort
The media has seized on the idea that people choose to live in neighborhoods and towns full of others who think just like them. It’s a myth.

December 15
Flight of the Icons

Anti-business policies are driving flagship firms out of California.

Clearing the Tabs June 2019

Some things I've read this month or will be reading soon.

June 29
The Economic Benefits of Reducing the Regulatory Burden

June 22
Evidence from the States: Higher Taxes = Fewer Jobs

The rise of the intolerant left

June 21
Histrionics, Hysteria and Joe Biden
Will the Democratic Party banish its democratic instincts?

June 20
A Tribute to Art Laffer

June 19

Connecticut’s Fiscal Decay

President Trump Awards Arthur Laffer The Presidential Medal of Freedom
A world $100 trillion richer.

June 18

The Trump Tax Reform Is Generating Good Results

June 15

What is social justice?
Perhaps no issue more motivates progressive activists than social justice. Good intentions may motivate the social justice warriors, albeit sometimes sprinkled with a dollop of self-hatred. But good intentions do not necessarily produce good results.

June 11

California’s Progressive Betrayal

The Golden State’s left-wing policies hurt working-class and middle-class residents

June 9
The populist dilemma

June 6

Loneliness in America Is Caused by Our Broken Culture

June 5

Tariffs Are Taxes