Clearing the Tabs March 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 March 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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March 5
Here Comes "Tarifflation"

March 6

In Southern L.A., These Cities Are Making a Comeback
The key is governance and a strong local focus.

March 12
Let's Pay a Tariff!

Trump’s Tariffs and the Income Tax

Clearing the Tabs December 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 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 as well.

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December 2
The Return of Realpolitik
Some leaders in Europe may resist a new alliance with Trump’s America, but in a world dominated by bullies, sharp elbows and unpredictability may be what the times demand.

Dinesh D'Souza apologizes for false claims in election conspiracy theory film ‘2000 Mules’

December 4

Congress Should Reclaim Its Constitutional Authority Over Tariffs

December 11
Democrat resistance to mass deportations is a recipe for civil war
Closing the border is a necessity. But Trump will face huge political and economic resistance

Clearing the Tabs November 30, 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 December 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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November 18
The tide is turning against the green elites
Western publics are rejecting the self-destructive and immiserating policies of Net Zero.

November 20
Tariff Magic

The Left’s war on men is backfiring disastrously
Young males are moving to the Right. But as birth rates collapse, this is a bigger problem than politics

November 21
The Hydrocarbon Elephant in the Room that Newsom Refuses to Address

November 28
California doesn’t want Governor Kamala Harris

November 29
DEI is dead. The establishment media just doesn’t want you to know it
The US election will accelerate the decline of a diversity ideology that was making race relations worse

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 August 31, 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 September 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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August 18

Adaptation Is The Answer

August 20
The death of the great American city
The flight of office workers to the hinterlands will have profound effects on society.

August 28
Absolutism In Climate Policies Is A Vice

August 29
Donald Trump (aka 'Tariff Man') Wants to Increase Your Taxes

August 30
The Bizarre Economics of 'Tax Expenditures'

Clearing the Tabs March 31, 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  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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March 16
Make a To-Don’t List
When you’re feeling stuck, focusing on the things you hate can help.

The rich are eating themselves
The oligarchs are playing a dangerous game by pouring trillions into woke causes.

March 17
The Spark That Lit the Gas Stove Debate
Yet Again, California is at the Front of the Stupid Line

March 21

Modern Monetary Theory, RIP

Ex-Urbia
The post-urban future of cities.

March 23
How They Convinced Trump to Lock Down

March 29

Trump's Tariffs Swelled the Swamp

March 30

Tariffs: The Most Insidious Tax of All

March 31
Coasts Create Banking Crisis, Flyover Country Pays the Price

I don't know about you, but I kind of want to go watch this guy eat an entire rotisserie chicken.

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

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)