Clearing the Tabs September 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 September 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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September 5
How AI will embolden the tyranny of Big Tech
The power of the Silicon Valley oligarchs is set to expand exponentially.

September 6
Kamala Runs for President as Businesses Flee Her State
She vows an ‘opportunity economy’ but comes from a political culture that is hostile to enterprise.

September 9
Climatism Or Energy Humanism?
Climate catastrophists claim we need to quit using hydrocarbons. These 13 charts show why we need a pro-energy, pro-human outlook

September 15
Study Tying Regular Church Attendance to Emotional Well-Being Points to Biblical Truth

Clearing the Tabs September 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 September 30. 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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September 1

Electric Car Mandates: The Latest Frontier in the Elites' War on the Middle Class

From Sri Lanka to Salinas
Will California - and the Nation - Learn Anything from Sri Lanka's Green Apocalypse?

Pandemic Reversal?

September 4

Can space save Earth?

ESG and Corporate Totalitarianism

September 6

Is the Automobile Industry Being Mandated Toward a Death Spiral?

September 7
Class Homicide
Massive inequality and the rise of a new feudal system have nearly destroyed the chances of social mobility.

September 10
The fall of Los Angeles
The ‘progressive’ elites have run the city of the future into the dirt.

September 12
Washington DC’s Energy Colonialism

Clearing the Tabs August 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 September 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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August 16

How Managerial Aesthetics Explain Why Cities Can't Authentically Market Themselves

August 17
If Global Warming Is Real, Capitalism Will Vanquish It

Collapse or Evolution?

August 19
Where Did Wokeness Come From?
Evaluating the theories

August 20
The Unexpected Future
We need to consider ways to reverse or at least slow rapid depopulation

How America is Failing Its Young Men

August 23
America has an Oedipus complex
Trust-fund radicals want to marry Mother Earth

August 24
“Inflation Reduction” Act will hinder EV growth

Rent Forever and Love It
The globalized commodification of housing will destroy democracy.

August 26
The revenge of the analog economy
Digital fantasies have collided with analog reality

August 27
Last WH polar bears ashore even later than 2009 as Hudson Bay finally becomes ice-free

Don’t be fooled by Sunak and the rest and their about face – their pretence that they were with us all along. Covid and lockdown carried them only so far – but they plan to go much further

August 30

The “Energy Transition” Delusion: A Reality Reset

President Newsom?
Conservatives should not dismiss the potential national appeal of California’s governor.

August 31

Energy transition: The land use conundrum

Clearing the Tabs March 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 March 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.

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March 3
Unacceptable Views

March 4
The limits of libertarianism

Free marketers need to stop defending oppressive monopoly power.

Texas GOP Crusaders Were Loud on Social Media, but That Didn't Mean Much in Primaries

March 6
An energy company shows students the path to prosperity

March 8
Up from rock bottom: Recovery from a national overdose epidemic

March 9
Book Review: Helen Rappaport’s Fascinating ‘After the Romanovs’

March 10
Find More Ways to Be an Outsider
Doing so may feel painful, but it’s one of the best investments you will ever make.

March 11
Fracking Can't Bring Down High Prices On Which It's Reliant

March 12
Biden’s America-Wrecking Climate Agenda

March 13

Diner breakfasts are perfectly normal, no matter what D.C. elites think

March 14
Gas, Grain — and Chips — Will Make Us the 'Future Belt'

Pac-12 Conference Play Gets Underway

March 15
“ESG” efforts to rid the world of fossil fuels will drive humanity back to medieval times

Tarnishing the Golden State
Onerous regulations squash the California Dream.

Clearing the Tabs April 15, 2021

April 6
U.S. pursues expensive electricity while much of world lives in energy poverty

April 7
What Happened to Social Democracy?

April 12
The real reason Biden and the swamp want higher corporate tax rates

April 13
Where all bicycles go to heaven

Clearing the Tabs October 31, 2020

Some things I've read so far in the second half of this month, or will be reading soon. It appears that 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.

October 17
Provide students accurate history lessons

October 19
1619 – The Left’s final assault on America

Democratic Civil War
The three heads of the Democrat Hydra will soon start biting at each other.

October 20
You're Only an 'Expert' When You Agree

Rebooting and Rebuilding Public Transit

America After Covid: What Demographics Tell Us
Covid is sure to reshape our country in profound new ways, but, write famed demographers Wendell Cox and Joel Kotkin, the most powerful will be accelerating trends that were already underway. A look at a sped-up future with big implications.

October 21
Blue States Should Set Their Own Houses in Order

October 25
The roots of California’s tattered economy were planted long before the coronavirus arrived

Biden’s quote “We’re not getting rid of fossil fuels for a long time… probably 2050”

How would life without fossil fuels impact society?

October 26

Evil Has Twisted God’s Good Creation, But It Won’t Win

October 27
Democrats’ Energy Dilemma

October 31
Economic data show a strong US economy doesn't need 'building back'

A Sensible and Compassionate Anti-COVID Strategy