Clearing the Tabs October 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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October 23
HSR: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone

October 25
Samuel Huntington was right — cultural and religious clashes are driving war today
Political scientist's 1996 book foresaw conflicts like those currently underway in the Mideast and Ukraine

October 27
Government Spending Is An Affect of Growth, Never An Instigator

October 29
In a Small Town the first Black & Female Mayor Governs Pragmatically not on Identity

Clearing the Tabs October 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 October 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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October 2
Liz Truss Demands Tax Cuts at Pro-Growth Rally

About that old Gallup poll
How many Americans would still want to live this new way?

The dangerous delusion of a global transition to “just electricity”

October 3
Implications of Shifts in Commuting

October 6
"New" Cities? An Old Idea

October 8
The Link Between Spending Restraint and Good Tax Policy

October 9
A Growth Agenda for the Developing World

What are economies for?

October 12
Are Electric Vehicles a Fire Danger?
Recent fire in UK airport parking lot highlights the thermal runaway fire potential of EV batteries.

Clearing the Tabs September 30, 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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September 21
The Fateful Nineties

September 22
Blue-collar workers are our only hope
Automation will turn us all into serfs

September 23
What the billionaires planning a new Bay Area city can teach us about California housing

September 25
Russia and China Dominating the Race for Nuclear Electricity Generation

September 26
The Economic Damage of Subsidized Unemployment

September 30
Catastrophizing every weather event is the new normal of climate alarmists.
The 7 inches of rain that fell in NYC is not evidence of climate change... nor was the 8 inches that fell in 1882 at ~290ppm of atmospheric CO2.

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 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 August 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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August 1
Unsold Electric Cars May Be Signaling a Death Spiral for the Auto Industry
Endless government subsidies to encourage EV sales seems unable to sway the logical thinking and the numerous concerns of the average citizens to buy into EV’s

August 2

Dear Sputla, stand up to NGO industrial complex, burn more coal

August 3

Don't Trade SALT for Broccoli

August 9
New Jersey Challenges New York’s Cordon Fee Plan

August 11
The fall of a great American city: The societal and political decay that has upended Pittsburgh

August 12
Report: How Will California Solve the Housing Crisis? (PDF)

August 13
The Power Of Power Density
Paul Krugman hypes renewables in the New York Times, but the Iron Law of Power Density won’t be repealed

August 14

Class, Nation, and the Future
The political realignment of America’s voting blocs is still in flux.

August 15
Richard Bilkszto won't be the last victim of the diversity-industrial complex
The grievance agenda seeks to divide society into victims and oppressors, but does a disservice to those it is ostensibly intending to help

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Clearing the Tabs July 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 August 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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July 17
The Great Correction, between choosing a trade or higher education, is in motion

July 18
“Green” Jobs At Ford And GM Will Cost Taxpayers As Much As $7.7 Million Each
The automakers are getting billions under the Inflation Reduction Act to build EVs. The UAW is not amused.

July 19
Woe, the Humanity: How AI Fits Into Broadly Rising Anti-Humanism

July 20

Why globalism failed
Technocracy, climate alarmism and identity politics are sowing the seeds of Western decline.

July 27
Amtrak Carried 86% of Pre-Pandemic PM in May

July 29
Cobalt Slavery, Child Labor, Ecological Destruction and Death

July 30
California: No Growth to 2060 per State Projections

Climate Change Obsession Is a Real Mental Disorder
Alarmist stories about the weather, not the warm air itself, are behind the left’s anxiety and dread.

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