Last year there were 178 million alcohol drinkers in the US, which, unfortunately, resulted in 178,000 alcohol related deaths in the US. That’s a regrettable 0.1% fatality rate among users. But alcohol isn’t illegal because America hasn’t forgotten the bitter lessons of the Prohibition disaster 100 years ago. By contrast, the only […]
Notwithstanding the historic fluidity of borders, there is no case whatsoever that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was “unprovoked” and unrelated to NATO’s own transparent provocations in the region. The details are arrayed below, but the larger issue needs be addressed first. Namely, is there any reason to […]
Afew months after the horrendous slaughter of World War I had been unleashed by the “guns of August 1914,” soldiers along the Western Front famously broke into spontaneous truces of Christmas celebration, song, and even exchange of gifts. For a brief moment they wondered why they were juxtaposed in lethal combat along […]
Here we go again. The Donald recently offered a constructive 28-point plan that implicitly and correctly identified America’s Homeland Security interest in Ukraine as nichts, nada, nugatory and nyet. Yet before the ink was dry the Washington neocon brigade that he foolishly invited back into his government to sabotage it […]
Once in a blue moon even a blind squirrel finds an acorn, or so the saying goes. But, boy, did the occupant of the office of presidency find a MOAPA (Mother Of All Policy Acorns): THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I WILL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING THE MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE […]
The more the nation’s Fiscal Doomsday Machine cranks out ever higher spending and fatally rising public debt, the more we realize that the 16th Amendment was a monumental error. In the end its ratification in 1913 may well turn out to be the inflection point at which American democracy and […]
The BLS has come out with another huge rug-pull on its nonfarm payroll count. And also, predictably, this has triggered loud blathering from both Wall Street and the White House on behalf of exactly the wrong conclusion. To wit, we don’t need any more Fed rate cuts! And we don’t […]
The Donald seems to be continuing his bombing campaign, albeit this time by pivoting back to the home front and taking aim at “Too Late” Jay. As usual, Trump has his facts all wrong about who has had how many rate cuts and that inflation has miraculously disappeared since January […]
If you don’t think Washington is in the maws of a Fiscal Doomsday Machine, think again. And the place to start is with the 30-year CBO projections—expressed as the dollar increase from the current $29 trillion level of publicly held US Treasury debt. To wit, if Washington does nothing except […]
Sure, Zohran Mamdani, surprise winner of the Dem primary for New York City mayor, is an ultra-left-wing wackadoo. But it occurs to us that this veritable assault on sanity— via the election of a 33 year-old nincompoop who wants rent controls, free day care, communist grocery stores, and confiscatory taxes […]