Clearing the Tabs September 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 August 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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September 1
America’s blue states are faring worst under Joe Biden
Will the President be punished at the ballot box?

September 3
The new age of agitprop
The mainstream media have abandoned the pursuit of objectivity and truth.

September 5

I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published
I just got published in Nature because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like. That’s not the way science should work.

Building Counter-Institutions
Building durable new institutions in a corrosive environment requires a dangerous embedding of counter-mainstream DNA.

September 7
Sen. Marco Rubio's Report on the Working (and Non-Working) Man
A new report from Sen. Rubio provides recommendations on men and work that make eminent sense.

September 8

Understanding Washington’s Spending Problem

Budget Deficits Don't Power Economic Growth, They're a Consequence of It

September 12
Mandating EVs while discouraging mining is a recipe for disaster
The current policy is devastating our economy, enriching our enemies and making middle-class life less affordable

September 14
History Matters
A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.

What happened to the great West Coast cities?
Never before have all the burgeoning metropolises of the future started to shrink

September 15
Make America California
The neo-feudal Newsom model has been a disaster.

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Clearing the Tabs June 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 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 1
Blowback!
Big Wind's getting spiked from Iowa to Ireland; Renewable Rejection Database tally hits 523.

June 6
Publication Day!

June 8
Danielle Smith's pro-growth rebellion a sign of things to come
Canada and the U.S. are witnessing an increasingly stark divide between advocates of degrowth and financial prosperity

June 9
The greatest generational conflict
Youth alienation isn't confined to the West

No U
The nuclear renaissance needs dozens of tons of nuclear fuel. We don’t have it.

June 13
Climate Activism—Not Climate Change—Is the Real Racist Force. Africans Deserve Electricity

June 14

Over $400 Billion in COVID Aid Was Stolen or Wasted
A new Associated Press analysis of government data suggests 10 percent of all COVID aid was lost to fraud or theft. That figure will likely grow.

The U.S. Tax Rate on Capital is Rising

June 15

Myth of Big Oil’s Funding of Climate Scepticism vs Reality of Big Green’s Billions Driving Climate Alarmism

Clearing the Tabs December 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 December 31 as well to round out the year. 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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December 4
MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen Rejects ‘Climate Change’ As ‘A Quasi-Religious Movement Predicated on An Absurd ‘Scientific’ Narrative’

December 6
The ‘green leap’ forward

December 8
Applauding Governor Ducey of Arizona

American Christmas, American New Year

The absurdity of California’s reparations proposal
Activists are focusing on past injustice at the expense of present inequality

The Coming Crash Of The Climate Cult

December 9
A cold winter undercuts the warming narrative

Are we finally reaching peak climate hysteria?
The eco-derangement of the elites is a threat to reason, freedom and jobs.

December 11
Low Speed Fail
California's Solar Powered Rail Moondoggle

December 12
The Elite’s Plan For A No-Car Society

December 13
Misperception and amplification of climate risk

Electric car demand falls for first time since pandemic as electricity prices soar
Interest wanes amid falling petrol prices fall and surging energy bills

December 14
The Threat – and Soon Reality – of Climate Protectionism

How New York can survive
The city's decay is not inevitable

Clearing the Tabs October 15, 2021

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 October 31 as well. 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.

October 1
The Failure of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society

This Might Be a Good Time for Creative Zoning

October 3
The unbreakable will of a Cumberland County town

October 4
Where the wave begins

Can the South escape its demons?
To save America, the old Confederacy must adapt to progressive politics

October 5
The Great Office Refusal
Executives say workers are ‘pining’ to return to in-person work. Migration patterns say otherwise.

October 7
Harm from War on Hydrocarbons Exceeds Harm from Climate Change

Joe Biden’s class war
He cannot be an ally of oligarchs and blue-collar workers. Time to pick a side.

October 10
The New Face of Autocracy

October 11

My Ranking of the First 25 James Bond Films

October 12

 

October 13
Confronting the Supply Chain Crisis

October 14
Trump's Tariffs Didn't Work. Biden's Won't Work Either.
They favor special interests, hurt consumers, and have utterly failed to rein in China.

Clearing the Tabs September 30, 2021

September 16
Political Alchemy, Part II: Turning Spending Increases into Tax Cuts

September 17
Critical Race Theory Distracts from Widespread Academic Underachievement

September 19
Reagan, Biden, and the Facts on Government Spending

Survival of the City: The Need to Reopen the Metropolitan Frontier (Review)

September 20
Building on Jacobs: The City Emergent; Beyond Streets and Buildings
A science of cities reveals the way cities grow, and why.

September 21
What Happens When a Country Depends on Russia for Natural Gas?

Who Bears The Burden Of Taxes on Business?

Robert Woodson retires after 40 years of empowering communities

September 22
Eliminating crude oil is like jumping out of a plane without a chute

September 23
Even With Climate Change, the World Isn’t Doomed
Humanity has overcome far greater problems before and can do so again.

September 24
Congress can’t keep spending without consequences
Modern monetary theory says government overspending doesn’t matter. That’s wrong. The debt ceiling vote is an opportunity to address this problem.

September 25
The Enduring Relevance of Mises and Hayek’s Critique of Socialism

September 26
Here’s The List Of 317 Wind Energy Rejections The Sierra Club Doesn’t Want You To See

September 27
Never Going Back
What if they opened the office and nobody came?

September 30
A Profession Is Not a Personality
Reducing yourself to any single characteristic, whether it be your title or your job performance, is a deeply damaging act.

Joe Biden, Nowhere Man

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 February 2020

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

February 3
"Yield Caps": The Latest Stab at Elusive Relevance From the Federal Reserve

February 4
Dear "Forgotten America" Hand Wringers, Please Meet Mirza Hussain Haidiri

Feburary 8
Trump and Jobs: An Unbiased Analysis

Feburary 9
Will Somebody Please Hate My Enemies for Me?
Donald Trump is making it even harder for Christians to defend him, and yet they still do.

February 10
The Next Economy: Following The Trail Of U.S. Job Growth

February 13
What a Republican Climate-Change Agenda Might Look Like

A 21st-Century Spending Cap Would Have Turned Deficits into Surpluses

February 15
How different generations are influencing our politics

February 16
The Luxury City Is Going Bust
Mike Bloomberg’s vision proved to be a cul de sac. The future gentry liberals want is grim. A new urban paradigm is needed that focuses on core services for regular people.

February 22
Why can’t California create viable national leaders anymore?

February 25
The West Turns Red?

Studying the wrong cities will lead to repeating their mistakes

February 27
Surprise Leads to Market Corrections. Coronavirus Wasn't a Surprise

The Two Middle Classes

February 29
Democrats risk blowback with leftward turn

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On February 6th, one of the greatest, perhaps THE greatest baseball writer ever, Roger Kahn, passed away at 92 years of age. The tributes have been tasteful and informative, here are a few worth your time if you care about “old school” journalism and the way baseball writing took place in the 1950s.

Roger Kahn, Who Lifted Sportswriting With ‘Boys of Summer,’ Dies at 92
His 1972 book about his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers, acknowledged as a classic, was, like many of his 20 or so other books, steeped in memories of his boyhood.

Roger Kahn’s Legacy Goes Beyond The Boys of Summer
The late author forever changed how sports writers could portray athletes.

‘Boys of Summer’ author Roger Kahn dies at 92

Roger Kahn, author of the Dodgers baseball classic ‘The Boys of Summer,’ dead at 92