I can remember reading in the 1990s the statistics on black women who were getting murdered at high rates, and this being a justification for expansion of police powers. I'm not really interested in your digging up statistics. Let's just … [Read more...]

Those striving for the same object become like each other. The two political parties have so evenly divided the country, and constantly claim to be in the right, and if only they can gain a super-majority, will enact wise rule. Don't … [Read more...]

Kavanaugh was helpless and adrift while the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford was loaded into the torpedo tubes. Now it’s dive dive dive. Where is the earth shattering kaboom? I think they figured out she’s a dud, whatever happened to … [Read more...]

Frequent readers know that I subscribe to mimetic theory, which points out that equality, not inequality, is the cause of social strife. A recent article by Phil Gramm and Robert Ekelund offers proof of this, and explains why Trump won … [Read more...]

https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1000461154504855552 I think she is under-playing the simple draw of money. For instance the Trump tax cuts and jawboning on trade have led to a boom in the continental USA at the expense of Mexico. … [Read more...]

Immigrants pre 1920 lagged in income and wage growth. A massive wave of people from southern and eastern Europe could no longer be placed out on the frontier, because there was no frontier. (The federal government owned and still owns much … [Read more...]

Go to Home Depot and you will find all the housewares match. They are not particularly nice or durable, their design is determined by what is cheapest to build, they leave little room for individuality, but they match. One way to make it … [Read more...]

The Democratic Primary campaign is quickly turning into a battle of consultants desperate to get paid for doing something, anything. Just don't ask us to win! Volunteers are hard to find. Maybe enough will materialize in time to form the … [Read more...]

Metoo attacks the historical fact of men's hold on power and money and the way women have had to surrender their bodies to get that power and money. In the past, there was some general condemnation from society and religion of men who … [Read more...]