A new class conflict is emerging across the world. You can see its face in the mass protests over COVID-19 restrictions from Paris, Berlin and London to southern California and Melbourne. read more »
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The COVID Class War: The Obedient Online Educated vs. The IRL Resistance
Can the South Escape its Demons?
Out on the dusty prairie west of Houston, the construction crews have been busy. Gone are the rice fields, cattle ranches and pine forests that once dominated this part of the South. In their place sit new homes and communities. But they are not an eyesore; the homes are affordable and close to attractive town centres, large parks and lakes. These are communities rooted in the individual, the family and a belief in self-governance. read more »
Joe Biden, Nowhere Man
Joe Biden’s beleaguered presidency has fueled criticism of the man himself — his history of policy missteps, mental incapacity, and read more »
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China's Red Lines: A Failure of Central Planning
Evergrande, China's second-largest property developer, has said that it might not make interest payments on its bonds this week. read more »
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California Voters Give Newsom Approval to Continue Regressive Policies Against the Working Class
The working class have spoken, with their votes, that they support Governor Newsom’s bloated, sleepy, and sloppy bureaucracy that caters to the upper class: read more »
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Survival of the City: The Need to Reopen the Metropolitan Frontier (Review)
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation, by Harvard University economists Edward Glaeser and David Cutler characterizes the pandemic as a serious “existential threat to the urban world, because the human proximity that enables contagion is the defining characteristic of the city” read more »
GOP Stupidity is Squandering the Opportunity Created by Woke Authoritarians
It's hardly debatable anymore that the Left is out of control, increasingly influenced and even governed by a radical authoritarian culture that brooks no dissent and over-corrects on all fronts it sets its sights on. You would think this would present a perfect opportunity for Republicans to seize the moment and capture the confidence of moderates and even liberals deeply alienated by this woke authoritarian culture. read more »
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Gavin Newsom Won His Recall. What's Next for California?
What started as a lark, then became an impossible dream—a conservative resurgence, starting in California—ended, like many past efforts, in electoral defeat. read more »
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Mag-Lev May Be Dead; TX HSR on Life Support
A Maryland circuit court judge >ruled last week that the Baltimore-Washington Rapid Rail Company did not have the >power of eminent domain and could not stop a development on land that the maglev promoter needed to use for its proposed line. read more »
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The Working Poor Need Workhorse Vehicles
With more than forty percent of the EV’s in the entire country being in California at the end of 2020, the EV popularity in California has gotten President Biden so excited to want the rest of the country to follow California’s lead that Biden issued a new executive order that pushes for half of all new cars sold in America by 2030 read more »
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