October 27, 2023

Ten more statistics to ruin your day

Just in case you're feeling too cheerful, here are ten more statistics to make you consider emigrating to Mars.

January 13, 2022

Ten Statistics to Ruin Your Day

Over the past few years, I've encountered various statistics that ruined my day, so to spread the pain, I've collected a few here.

February 13, 2021

Are you feeling safer yet?

The Democrats and street criminals — perfect together.

September 15, 2020

Should the Republican Party move to the left on trade?

Moving to the left on tariffs and such should be left to the Democrats.

August 14, 2020

America’s (Current) Suicide Attempt

America’s suicide attempt has been both cultural and economic.  If we do not reverse course, America will be neither a land of opportunity nor a land of freedom. 

January 26, 2017

The Dictatorship of Equality

A law for equality has become a club that terrifies college administrators into cutting their sports teams, while terrifying faculty for fear of any misstep that could destroy their careers.

October 19, 2016

Don't trust the Americans

After the last eight years, you'd be crazy to.

March 26, 2016

Trumping Free Speech

Given that fredom of speech is a core American value, we should be willing to be different than much of the world and accept the tradeoffs that go with it.

March 11, 2016

Is Public Anger at the Republican Establishment Justified?

A frequent accusation that has been leveled at Republican politicians is that they did nothing to fight the Obama agenda, even though they had a majority in both houses of Congress.  

February 3, 2016

Private Interests and Public Money

The kind of ham-fisted approach that some of our candidates want to take to limit what they define as special interests may do more harm than good.

July 14, 2015

Trump is wrong on trade

Tariffs are a two-way street.  There are much better ways to revive U.S. manufacturing.