The Daily Reckoning January 14, 2017 Snippet: “3. Cartel Cronyism You know the drill: regulatory capture, monopolies enforced by the central state, cartels that eliminate competition via absurdly complex regulations imposed by the state, etc. One of my correspondents, a doctor, recently sent me an example of cartel cronyism in the Big Pharma sector: A…
Pew Research reports: A Wider Ideological Gap Between More and Less Educated Adults Political polarization update Two years ago, Pew Research Center found that Republicans and Democrats were more divided along ideological lines than at any point in the previous two decades. But growing ideological distance is not confined to partisanship. There are also growing…
As a young girl, my daughter had a fear of flying. She overcame this through a thorough study of airplanes and landed on the 737 as her preferred means of transportation in the air. So naturally, she asked for a Boeing T-shirt for a present. It says, “If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going!†So…
In the 2016 election, every single precinct in the 41st, 45th, and 48th LDs preferred Hillary Clinton & Tim Kaine over Donald Trump & Michael Pence. (Source: database downloaded from: King County Elections) [Correction: an earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that every precinct in the 5th LD voted for Hillary & Kaine. In…
Trump’s Know-Nothing Tour de Force by Jonathan Bernstein, on bloomberg.com “[T]he president talks and talks without showing any mastery — any understanding — of anything.” He told the Economist he invented the use of “priming the pump” with regard to the economy. It’s probably most associated with Franklin Roosevelt, and even if Trump meant “came upon it” rather…
Is America a Failing State? Our country is at a crossroads, and the right path forward must not include Donald Trump as president. “We have the tin-pot leader whose vanity knows no bounds. We have the rapacious family feathering their nests without regard for the law or common decency. We have utter disregard for values…
Don’t know much about history. Don’t know much about ecology. Don’t know much about a science book. Don’t know much about the job I took. But I do know that I’m richer than you, And I know that if you watch Fox News What a wonderful world this would be. Don’t know much about politics….
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and George W. Bush talk about Donald Trump.
“It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence. ” from Trump has a…