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Jack Curtis
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December 5, 2016
The Uber Cases: The Legal Canary in the Economic GoldmineAny new economic freedom in Europe and North America is likely up for grabs in an EU court, where Uber will be classified as either an internet service or a transportation operator. The traditional taxi operators, their unions, their political ...
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October 12, 2015
The 'Income Inequality' ScamThose peddling “income inequality” use a dishonest term, have provided the economic changes they decry and propose an increase in the cause as a cure. This proclaims their compassion. The term ‘income inequality’ is prepost...
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September 8, 2015
The Government vs. UberCapitalist cronies in government, old-model cab companies, and their unions have been attacking Uber, Lyft, and their ‘ride sharing’ business model since the Internet gave them birth, in hopes of squelching the new competition. It...
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May 27, 2015
Impoverishment: America's New NormalEconomics expects, Scripture predicts and History presents society largely poor with a small middle and a few wealthy; America’s expanded middle class seems an historic anomaly. Few economists and fewer statisticians should be surprised to see ...
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March 14, 2015
America's False-Front, Movie-Set EconomyAmerica’s economy resembles the propped-up false fronts of an old Western movie set; it seems unlikely to support a middle class anymore. The existential issue is simple, though insufficiently discussed: technology, demographics, and gove...
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November 1, 2014
Common Core Seizes Control of Future Internet EducationAs education follows retail out of brick-and-mortar buildings onto the internet, consumers widening choices clearly threaten government’s control of what the public’s kids are taught and what they are not taught. Hence the current ...
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July 12, 2014
The Political Left Is Deconstructing The Middle ClassA lasting legend from Russia’s Communist Revolution illustrates the attitude of the Progressive Left toward the middle class: the examination of rounded up citizens by the revolutionaries. If a captive’s hands weren’t callouse...
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July 30, 2013
The Foolishness Of The WiseMainstream economists notoriously cannot agree nor predict; their construct, 'the economy' remains terra incognita until after some economic event. That results from the nature of their construct: the economy is no gestalt; it is aggregated people. S...
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June 2, 2013
Integrity in a Post-Christian AmericaAmerica is now called a post-Christian place; its government is overtly attacking Christian beliefs about birth control, abortion, and gay marriage. The threat to these beliefs is a small though telling symptom of the larger social changes that...
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March 29, 2013
Bread and Circuses: The Last Days of the American EmpirePan et Circenses (Bread and Circuses) famously described the relationship between the Roman Emperor and his people in the decadent years of the Empire, and they seem fairly applied to America today. We have, in line with our technological advancement...
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October 31, 2012
Two Americans: Lance Armstrong and Barack ObamaLance Armstrong, cyclist, and Barack Obama, politician, are contemporary Americans who have achieved pinnacles of fame, adulation, and money while accused of cheating. The events of their lives may serve to illuminate the America that prod...
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September 15, 2012
Politicians Can't Stop World Economic EqualizationPolitical leaders prefer their voters unaware of the economic law presently reshaping the world. That's because, though very simple, none can stop it, and too much suffering accompanies it. Politicians have battened upon promising to impr...
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June 21, 2012
U.S. Civil Service: How Progressives Prostituted Their Own ChildOne of the more important levers of political power is the appointment of supporters to run the government. That's inherently corrupt, since it puts loyalty over both ability and the public interest, setting up the maintenance of that loyalty b...
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May 7, 2012
The Big Picture: Our Curiously Failing CivilizationGovernments around the world are in various stages of financial failure, all seemingly trying to be Argentina. Curious, no? Look at debt and deficits; you see government spending issues; most of the few exceptions have other problems....
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October 20, 2011
Drones Matter!Drones are news when one kills people; otherwise, out of sight seems to equal out of mind. We may regret that; besides missiles, they're carrying political mischief and a transportation revolution. Drones are remotely controlled air, sea, and l...
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September 11, 2011
The U.S. Wealth Machine: In ReverseIn times past, North America enriched itself via skilled ex-European workers benefiting from cheap resources, energy, and transport. Government protected industrialization but otherwise left it alone while encouraging agriculture, mining, and t...
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July 11, 2011
Our Retreat from ProsperityThe process that built the United States into the world's wealthiest country has reversed; it's tearing down what it once built. Americans once sang proudly of "America the Beautiful"; now they avert their faces in guilty silence while demolish...
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July 8, 2011
Obama Plays Pandora with DronesOur President points at someone that he, in his sole discretion, considers a threat and says: "Die!" And somewhere in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, or somewhere else we've not been informed of, that person, or someone an i...
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June 21, 2011
Is Obama's Libyan Attack Legal or Not?Obama's being hassled because he's dropping bombs and bullets on Libyan targets without Congressional permission, a clear violation of the War Powers Resolution per some Republicans and Democrats. Some estimates say that a year of it will ...
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June 6, 2011
A Strange Death in Strange CircumstancesRaymond Zack, 50, died standing in San Francisco Bay May 30, according to Yahoo News on June 1st. He waded into the bay from the Alameda shore up to his neck before about 75 police, fire folk and curious onlookers. He stood for about an h...
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June 4, 2011
The End of Family Pets?Dogs and cats joined us as symbiotes a long time back; we made most of them dependent pets and now that they can't survive on their own. Now we're throwing them under the bus. The termination is the -- probably -- unintended result of SPC...
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May 16, 2011
Government Schools: Antiques Preserved in Political AmberNo one will fix the schools; everyone who can depends on their staying as they are. A genuine fix would destroy the public education empire exactly as the industrial revolution destroyed agrarian society. That looming threat cements the status quo in...
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April 9, 2011
Fannie, Freddie, Ginnie and Their PimpsToo much Fed credit encouraged too much building, so prices ballooned past their economic values on the effluvium of degenerating derivatives. Now, we have foreclosures, upside-down homeowners, devalued and disappeared mortgage-makers, fa...
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April 2, 2011
The World Electronic Mob Is Taking Us...Where?We're passengers on a wild ride into uncharted -- and dangerous -- territory with no one driving. Electronic technology has eroded our political, civil, commercial, cultural, social, and linguistic frameworks; everyone in the world has been tossed to...
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March 7, 2011
The Powers of This PresidentNot all the powers President Obama has wielded or claimed seem clearly identifiable in the U.S. Constitution. Whether that is tolerable or even desirable appears to require consideration since the entire point of having a constitution is to limit gov...
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February 25, 2011
The New Uncivil WarNow that their Federal master can't afford them anymore, Arizona and Wisconsin are suddenly rebellious servants; other states must follow. Arizona didn't surprise when it diverged from its master's border policy but Wisconsin taking on teachers' unio...
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February 18, 2011
It's the Teachers, Stupid!Unionized teachers outnumber other government workers and run the schools in every state; why do we keep on accepting their decades of miserable results? A careless airline pilot, a lazy waitress, a crash-prone cabdriver, an unproductive salesman, an...
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February 3, 2011
Obama: A Roman God Updated?The Romans' Janus faced two directions, surveying the past and the future together; our updated god presents two faces in recognition of what he says versus what he does.We know the real state of the union: government spends too much, borrows too muc...
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January 1, 2011
It Sure Seems Like We're DoneFor those legislating and regulating industry out of the country and reducing our living standard back to maybe 1800 to call themselves progressives requires a sense of humor, but in a way, they're right. Closing post-Classical civilization to ...
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November 30, 2010
War?Franklin Roosevelt's Democrats needed WWII to bolster their failed depression program; Barack Obama's Democrats are in a comparable place. Most know that troubled, frightened rulers may turn to war to shore up their positions. Should we expect that?W...
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November 5, 2010
The Election's Done; What Now?The statist ideology of Progressivism first shaped federal law in 1890 and has moved forward for 120 years, reshaping the states and cities along the way. Progressive education reshaped the public schools in the 1930s, proceeding since uninterrupted;...
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November 4, 2010
'Progressive' Is a Funny Name for Poverty!The slogans of Big Brother's ruling party in George Orwell's 1984 included Love is Hate and War is Peace. Today's leftists unwinding the country back to pre-constitutional poverty call themselves Progressives. They are truly Regressives, but perhaps ...
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October 25, 2010
Why President Obama Can't Stand TeaPublic education has been controlled by Progressives for eighty years; if education is truly the goal, it appears a likely candidate for the biggest, longest-lasting, most expensive and clearest utter public failure any American political group has e...
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September 29, 2010
The Sword Hanging over Washington, D.C.Damocles, discovering too late the threatening sword hanging above his borrowed throne, prefigures Obama, presiding under the suspended impact of unrelenting unemployment. He is worse off than was Damocles: His own policies must bring the sword down ...
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September 24, 2010
Sorry, But We Deserve Our SchoolsPublic schools aren't the failures they're castigated for being; they are misunderstood successes. True, they don't teach very much English, math, or history but that's a secondary job. Young kids are regularly suspended for drawing pictures of guns,...
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September 6, 2010
The Perpetual Post OfficeThe Postal Service must be immortal; it's a government program, though one in ill-fitting sheep's clothing like Fannie Mae's before its camouflage was washed off by the bailout. The Service is also, like Fannie Mae, dreadfully managed; any private-se...
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August 29, 2010
Hard Endings: Rome, China and the Modern WestRoman government broke the economy; the people abandoned their myths, and outreach became an inward collapse. China went from wealth, developing technology, and trade to stagnation and decline at the hands of an ossified mandarinate. Europe wast...
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July 31, 2010
What Can't the U.S. Afford?Most know that the country is broke, paying its bills with borrowed or magic money under an overhang of debt nobody's talking about repaying. The politicians who lead the country while repeating that this is somebody else's fault keep spending withou...
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July 24, 2010
Progressives and the Declaration of IndependenceIn her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Elena Kagan said she is a political Progressive and was dismissive of the Declaration of Independence, relying solely on the Constitution for legal decisions. That's a consistent position; Progressives don'...
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July 7, 2010
Can Freedom Endure Democracy?Democracy: masses of voters selecting among bidders for power, with only their own interests to restrain the choice, and little to restrain the bids offered.What's best for an individual is not always good for society, and vice-versa. When the decisi...
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June 17, 2010
Why Blame Obama?The Right saw Obama as its AntiChrist and the Left as its Savior from go; the Republicans have refused his agenda but offered none of their own. Now, the Right and the Left are jointly attacking him over spilled oil. Why? Obama isn't president of the...
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June 3, 2010
ObamaCare Propaganda MailerKathleen Sibelius (Obama's Health czarina) sent me a reassuring message about Medicare under Obama's new law. It came as a shiny, expensive pamphlet inside the first-class official business envelope from the Department of Health and Human Services (P...
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April 5, 2010
America's Sinking Middle ClassThe U.S. middle class is sinking into government-provided economic quicksand.U.S. living standards have declined ever since 1970; vanished stay-at-home moms were the alarm bell. In 1950, 37% of working- age women worked; by 2005, 75% were working, in...