Clearing the Tabs December 31, 2023

Happy New Year . . . tomorrow.

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 January 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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December 16
Climate bookshelf 2023

December 18
Joe Biden’s Democrat rivals are even worse than him
The party has an array of mediocrities to choose from

December 21
Silicon Valley Transit Plan

December 23
The road to autocracy
The woke left, the reactionary right and the corporate oligarchy are all dragging us towards tyranny.

December 26
Pandemic Migration Patterns Continue

December 28
America is unprepared to fight a war on three fronts
The democratic world is sleepwalking once again towards military disaster

December 31
A young mayors quixotic origins to run to save his dying Rust Belt city ends on the rare high note

Clearing the Tabs December 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 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 5
Is Gen Z turning against Western civilisation?
Youngsters are losing faith in freedom and democracy.

December 7
Joe Biden should listen to Republicans on the border crisis
The President is passing up a political victory

The New Green Feudalism

December 12
What If No One Wants to Buy U.S. Debt?

The West has been the real loser at COP28
Handouts for the world and cuts back home – there's little for the rich North to celebrate

December 13
Multi-culti Reckoning

Clearing the Tabs November 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 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 17
Xi Jinping emerges as the winner from San Francisco
The Chinese premier has the West right where he wants it

November 19
At 160 The Gettysburg Address Meaning Endures

November 24
The West cannot accept Gazan refugees

Unconstrained mass migration from dangerous regions would be disastrous for America

November 26
The place that made the president who made modern America

November 27

Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism

Will Reducing Parking Save the Planet?

November 30

Why Can't We Have a Populism That Builds?

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, a darling of the American right, markets himself very differently from American populists.

The West is turning away from COP28’s green agenda
The middle and working classes are tiring of draconian climate policies

Clearing the Tabs November 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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November 2

The Republicans Were Much, Much Better When They Were the Party of the Rich

Spending Recklessly in Good Times Is a Recipe for Disaster in Bad Times
Years ago, when interest rates were low, calls for the federal government to exercise fiscal restraint were dismissed. That was unwise.

November 5
Is the West ready for World War 3?
Even as geopolitical tensions rise, Western elites are still sabotaging our industries and energy security.

November 6
Democrats should think twice about Gavin Newsom
The Governor combines the worst of progressive and establishment politics

November 7
Is The EV Revolution Still Happening?

November 9
Europe Is Burning
The only lessons the Old World offers to America these days are cautionary.

November 10
Recycling in America: A Golden Ideal or a Tarnished Reality?
Unpacking the Cost and Consequence of America's Approach

November 13

No Amount of Money Is Too Much

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.