Clearing the Tabs - May 31, 2022

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 June 15. And note that 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 17

Remarks by Wilfred M. McClay
Delivered at the 18th Annual Bradley Prize Ceremony

May 18
More Evidence That Young Americans Are Not Attracted to Dense Cities

May 22
America’s Summer of Rolling Blackouts
Green energy policies are making the nation’s electric-power grid increasingly unstable.

May 23

We're Telling the Wrong Story About Race in America

May 24
Australia Votes - and a New Political Geography Emerges

May 30
Help the World’s Poor with International Trade

Green Rope-a-Dope: China Watches as America Greens
If this is what we are being told we must do for the ‘Great Reset,’ it’s time to unset it.

May 31
California needs a recession
Its progressive rulers deserve a rude awakening

Clearing the Tabs October 31, 2021

Ending October with some things I've read so far in the second half of 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, and will probably keep doing this for a while. Also, just because I share something on here does not mean I agree with it, but I think opposing ideas are good for the mind on occasion.

The view of Mt. Rushmore from Canada

October 16
Rod Dreher: Hungary's Viktor Orban is a model for American Conservatives
"Orban seems to have taken an accurate measure of what he's up against, what conservatives are up against, with the system, with the institutionalized wokeness, and globalism..."

October 20
Have we reached the high water mark of woke?
American progressives are provoking a furious backlash.

October 26
The Affordable-Housing Industrial Complex

The Poor Places That Made Our Cities Richer
Dense, often dilapidated neighborhoods were routes to prosperity for an earlier generation of low-income urbanites. Their destruction has hurt us all.

October 27
Slow Boat from China
What happens when the weakest link in the chain is you?

October 28
One Boondoggle Down, Hundreds to Go

October 29
Elites Are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class

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Clearing the Tabs August 15, 2021

August 3

NYC’s new vaccine policy erases kids from public life

August 5
Proper Lockdown History Will Accentuate Left-Wing Disdain for Poor

August 7
Promoting Upward Mobility Is a Better Goal than Pushing Class Warfare in Hopes of Reducing Inequality

Comparing the world before 1900 to today

Taking Tax Breaks with a Grain of SALT
A Federalist Case for State and Local Deductions

August 8
Modern Economics: Mystical Academics Critiquing Mystical Academics

In South Dakota, the road signs lead to the Wall

Why G. K. Chesterton Liked America

August 10
Why I Am Not A Progressive
And Why, From Climate Change to Homelessness, Liberal People Are Giving Up

August 12

Mitch Daniels, risk-taker

The working poor need workhorse vehicles

Clearing the Tabs May 2019

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

May 30
Greta’s very corporate children’s crusade
Behind the schoolgirl climate warrior lies a shadowy cabal of lobbyists, investors and energy companies seeking to profit from a green bonanza

May 25
Localism still has a heartbeat, even in California

May 21
Finally, a Market-Oriented Way to Help Poor Communities

May 20
The importance of place: Neighborhood amenities as a source of social connection and trust

Americans who live in closer proximity to community parks, libraries, restaurants, and theaters are more content with their neighborhood, more trusting of others, and less lonely regardless of whether they live in large cities, suburbs, or small cities or towns.

May 6
Class, Empathy, and the Green New Deal

The Rich, The Poor and America

"We don't believe in an America that pursues equality by making rich people poor, but by allowing poor people, indeed all people, to become rich."

- Jack Kemp, 1992 in his speech to the Republican National Convention.