Clearing the Tabs September 15, 2024

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 30. 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 5
How AI will embolden the tyranny of Big Tech
The power of the Silicon Valley oligarchs is set to expand exponentially.

September 6
Kamala Runs for President as Businesses Flee Her State
She vows an ‘opportunity economy’ but comes from a political culture that is hostile to enterprise.

September 9
Climatism Or Energy Humanism?
Climate catastrophists claim we need to quit using hydrocarbons. These 13 charts show why we need a pro-energy, pro-human outlook

September 15
Study Tying Regular Church Attendance to Emotional Well-Being Points to Biblical Truth

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, 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 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.

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December 4
MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen Rejects ‘Climate Change’ As ‘A Quasi-Religious Movement Predicated on An Absurd ‘Scientific’ Narrative’

December 6
The ‘green leap’ forward

December 8
Applauding Governor Ducey of Arizona

American Christmas, American New Year

The absurdity of California’s reparations proposal
Activists are focusing on past injustice at the expense of present inequality

The Coming Crash Of The Climate Cult

December 9
A cold winter undercuts the warming narrative

Are we finally reaching peak climate hysteria?
The eco-derangement of the elites is a threat to reason, freedom and jobs.

December 11
Low Speed Fail
California's Solar Powered Rail Moondoggle

December 12
The Elite’s Plan For A No-Car Society

December 13
Misperception and amplification of climate risk

Electric car demand falls for first time since pandemic as electricity prices soar
Interest wanes amid falling petrol prices fall and surging energy bills

December 14
The Threat – and Soon Reality – of Climate Protectionism

How New York can survive
The city's decay is not inevitable

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 September 15, 2021

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 30 as well. 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.

September 1

The Real (and Growing) Problem with Social Security

Teach That Man Some Geography

September 2
The Secret to Happiness at Work
Your job doesn’t have to represent the most prestigious use of your potential. It just needs to be rewarding.

For these Marines, a constant rush to zero hour to rescue stranded Americans

Peter Meijer: A dark moment for our country

September 3
Hurricane Ida Isn’t the Whole Story on Climate
The number of landfall hurricanes isn’t rising and the world is getting better at mitigating their destruction.

Our bargain for normal is failing

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September 7

Cancel culture in climate change

The Fading Family
The world's major economies face a serious demographic crunch.

September 9
Flight 93 crash in Shanksville on 9/11: ‘The first Americans to fight back against terrorists happened here’

September 10
Mag-Lev May Be Dead; TX HSR on Life Support

September 13
Energy Prices in Europe Hit Records After Wind Stops Blowing
Heavy reliance on wind power, coupled with a shortage of natural gas, has led to a spike in energy prices

September 14

Dubious climate science about the Texas cold disaster