I’m old enough now to have grandnieces and nephews, and almost all of them have lower living standards and worse working conditions than their parents. read more »
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Vehicle Miles Traveled Gets a Killer Boost
It seems as if anything can be done – truly anything – if it is in the name of safety. read more »
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How the California Dream Became a Nighmare
For Americans, California once looked like the future. It was a state defined by risk-taking and utopian dreaming. Yet for most Californians today, the upward mobility so central to the state’s ethos is rapidly disappearing. read more »
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The Rise of the Single Woke Female
Unmarried women without children have been moving toward the Democratic Party for several years, but the 2022 midterms may have been their electoral coming out party as they proved the chief break on the predicted Republican wave. read more »
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California's Budget Surplus Has Vanished; Its Economy is Facing a Harsh Reality
The much-celebrated California boom is facing a harsh reality.
Everything was looking good, based on enormous growth in capital gains in tech stocks and property, and some in Sacramento assumed the bounty would last — until it didn’t. read more »
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Let Cities Be What They Want to Be
An on-line site called the Dumber, er, I mean Intelligancer says that, for cities to survive, developers must be allowed to convert office buildings into housing. read more »
A Nation of Giants Led By Pygmies
The United States today stands as a living contradiction to the ‘great man theory of history’. For the US is a great country led by small minds. read more »
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Still Wrong! Paul Ehrlich Interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes
CBS decided to start the new year with a 60 Minutes segment on overpopulation. That’s not really all that surprising. In recent months, many left-leaning media outlets profiled advocates of depopulation read more »
North America Has An Opportunity to Lead the World
For generations, pundits the world over have insisted that the future will be forged elsewhere — Europe for some, Japan for others and, more recently, China. Yet, in reality, the United States and Canada may well be best positioned for a changing world, if our leaders can leverage our natural advantages. read more »
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The Collapse of the Progressive Economy
In recent decades, progressive politics has been underwritten by the ascendant economic titans of capital, technology, and communication. Big Tech and financial firms have long financed Democratic causes, led by those such as George Soros and the now-disgraced crypto-master Sam Bankman-Fried, who was released last month on a $250 million bail deal. read more »
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