Clearing the Tabs August 2019

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

August 2
Estonia Experiments with Higher Taxes, Learns a Lesson

August 3
The regression of America’s big progressive cities

August 4
Economic Illiteracy from the New York Times

August 12
Can the Working Class Trust the Democrats?

August 16
The United States Must Stand Strong with the People of Hong Kong

August 24
Public schools should be places of learning, not propaganda

"Public schools need to focus not on ideology but on intelligent pragmatism. They should focus on both on improving reading and math scores and becoming reliable suppliers of talent to our local companies."

August 26
How the 1619 Project Rehabilitates the ‘King Cotton’ Thesis
My friend of nearly 20 years now, Phil Magness, continues to ruin theories of Leftists

August 31
The Recycling Folly
The bottom line is that most recycling programs impose a fiscal and personal cost on people for very meager environmental benefits.

Note for Parents with Kids Going Back to School

I am not saying grades are not important, but I saw this some time ago and I thought, "how much greater could we be if we measured kids in this way?"

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Worry more about this -than that- and our world will grown up to be a much nicer place! 🌎❤️

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Clearing the Tabs July 2019

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

July 7
If The U.S. Oil Industry Can't Survive $56 Oil, It Needn't Exist

41 Inconvenient Truths on the "New Energy Economy"
Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.” He's right.

July 9
Keynesian Economics and Journalistic Malpractice

July 21
With His Dismissal Of The Gold Standard, John Cochrane Channeled The Great Tina Fey

July 25
This Is The Original Laffer Curve

Tax Reform Has Never been So Easy

Fred Lieb Information Needed; Baseball Writer

I'm posting this in a couple of places on the internet in the hopes that the right person or people might find this.

I am doing a deep research dive into the life of Frederick (Fred) George Lieb. Fred Lieb was a prolific baseball writer who lived from 1888 until 1980. His last published book was Baseball As I Have Known It. Lieb is in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown as part of the Writers Wing. Fred Lieb dubbed Yankee Stadium "The House That Ruth Built."

I am looking for the hard-to-find items as they relate to Mr. Lieb. Articles, book excerpts, personal correspondence (perhaps you or a family member purchased something at auction), clippings, manuscripts, photos, autographs, etc, etc. Mr. Lieb spent the better part of his later years in St. Petersburg, Florida, writing baseball columns for the St. Petersburg Times as well as for The Sporting News, so perhaps someone from that area has items I would not have uncovered just yet.

I have of course already done some pretty common searches on the internet and have accumulated a few things. I do NOT need to own what you have, but scans and details would be most welcome.

Please reach out to me at SteveParkhurst@gmail.com if you have any items, any questions, or any tips on where I might look next.

Leftist Doesn't See President Trump's Expanded Base

Politidope with a thoroughly uneducated take. Count those who have gone back to work on President Trump's watch as part his base, which supposedly hasn't expanded as the economy has indeed expanded.

This isn't rocket science. Trump won the Electoral College by winning 3 states (WI, MI & PA) by a margin that could fit into Cowboy Stadium with room to spare and hasn't expanded his base since the day he was elected. https://t.co/mW5tZtYCYw

— Matt Rogers 🎙 (@Politidope) July 1, 2019

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

Worst Umpire Ever?

Seriously, what is umpire thinking or looking at? The batter clearly swings the bat, and what is the umpire checking down at first base for?

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Good take bro! - Both umps said no swing lol - Via @jackson.coen

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