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)

Happy 38th to Caddyshack

Perhaps my favorite movie.

On This Date: Carl Spackler's battle against a gopher indirectly led to Danny Noonan and Ty Webb winning a $160,000 wager against Judge Smails. pic.twitter.com/xHuFjggidE

— ESPN (@espn) July 25, 2018

Clearing the Tabs 7-20-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

July 17
Our Politics Should Address the Rebirth of Community

July 18
US Chamber: America No. 1 in oil and natural gas, exports set to multiply

July 19
Arthur Brooks has a newish podcast, this is only his 2nd episode, but it is a great conversation.
 

July 20
Scalise Lays Out House Priorities for the Remainder of the Year

For tax reform, the best is yet to come

Teach Children How to Get Jobs, Not to be Socialist Warriors

Barack Obama Still Getting Economics All Wrong

Barack Obama was off to a good start, in the sense that the answer was right in front of him. He "advocated for an "inclusive" market-based system." He's in luck, capitalism has been around for centuries. Nothing in the world has lifted more people out of poverty and cleaned our air and led to real human flourishing the way free-market capitalism has.

But then, Obama went further, "One, he said, that breaks up monopolies, encourages competition and maintains "some form" of progressive taxation." Oh no. Just when I had hope for him, he is still a redistributionist.

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Clearing the Tabs July 13, 2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

July 8
The Federal Reserve Has Taken Major Space Inside Washington's Collective Head

July 9
Is Book Retailer Barnes & Noble Too Big to Fail?

July 10
The Facts on Employment

The Power of Positive People
Are your friendships giving you a boost or bringing you down?

July 11

A Fresh-Faced Political Outsider Tries to Turn Her Blue California District Red

A Primer on Marginal Tax Rates

July 12
California Nightmare

Matt K. Lewis on his podcast interviewed author Dan Abrams on his book Lincoln's Last Trial, and the conversation is fascinating. It's only about 30 minutes, but I learned some fascinating things.


July 13
The Story of My Life

Making Houston Sports Radio A Better Place

Former NFL quarterback, Sean Salisbury, started a new sports talk radio show in Houston yesterday. I had a radio on and I was working at my desk, so I just listened while I worked.

I was bothered by the way Salisbury was giving out the phone number. The station is AM 790, and every other host for as long as I have tuned in to the station would pronounce the last four numbers of the phone number as 5-790. Well, on Salisbury's first day, he kept saying it as 57-90, which defeats the purpose of having the number that way, and it sounds weird. So, I let the first hour of the show go by while I worked, figuring someone else would alert Salisbury to this terrible error. However, into the second hour of the show, I had had all I could take. So I tweeted to Salisbury during the commercial break. When he came back from break, he acknowledged my tweet, and corrected his ways. I might listen to day two to see if he sticks with it.

I have helped to make the world and journalism a better place by placing the show audio here for your enjoyment. The complete show is on Spreaker and you can listen below. I have also included my tweet and Salisbury's response at the bottom. Let me know if you have any questions.

Listen to "SeanSalisburyShow-7-9-18" on Spreaker.

You can hear the phone number being given out incorrectly at these points, among others:

25:25
44:23
56:34 here the phone number was given correctly by the co-host
67:35

Then, the magic happens:

68:13 you can hear Salisbury refer to the tweet from me (see below)
68:20 Salisbury gives the phone number out correctly

Oh my bad lol. Want even paying attention

— Sean Salisbury (@SeanUnfiltered) July 9, 2018

Clearing the Tabs 7-6-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

June 30
Progressive California’s growing race challenge

July 2

The unthinking and the unobservant

July 3
To Sustain the Boom, Let's Avoid Harming Ourselves

California’s Climate Extremism

Our Addiction to Authenticity

"Utopianism breeds extremism; extremism breeds frustration; frustration breeds anger; anger breeds authenticity, and thus popularity. And that popularity breeds more utopianism. This is toxic cycle must be broken by reason and decency, but those two elements are in short supply — and are seen by too many Americans as evidence of lack of commitment, rather than as necessary preconditions to a workable politics."

July 4
Calvin Coolidge, the Declaration of Independence, and Limits on the Power of Government