Shultz 2020
Well, slap me silly and call me Shirley. One of the country’s most woke SJW CEO’s just figured a few things out. The left needs to veer right, the country…
All Is Vanity
One of the more ingenious ways state governments get you to part with your ill-gotten gains (if you are rich, that is) is to sell you a vanity license plate.…
Pay To Play?
Ahah!! Caught in the act. Moving the conversation over from the Stevens/2nd Amendment post, I thought it worthy of its own home. Hopefully The Judge can move his response to…
Fame Or Fortune?
Is fame in and of itself something that we aspire to achieve? Can you quantify fame; is it worth say a set fixed some of wealth? Does fame have the…
How Much Government Do You Want?
Just as the sun rises in the East, certain immutable facts about our government are these; No one spends other peoples’ money as wisely or as carefully as they spend their own…
Why Congress Should Not Repeal the Jones Act
Puerto Rico is in crisis. A massive quantity of relief supplies is needed to help rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Because these supplies must largely be shipped by…
Pathetic Wages for Pathetic Service
Unfortunately, I don’t have a better post lined up for today. Mother’s Day Weekend is always a busy one, so you’ll have to forgive me for today’s fairly dry post.…
On the Morality of Work
Tuesday’s Discourses post “Let’s All Go on the Dole” featured a wide-ranging discussion centered around the concept of a Universal Basic Income. As with all of our Discourses posts, we posed…
Prognosticating Our Demise
The Congressional Budget Office has released its 2017 Long Term Budget Outlook. Wake up, you bastards! This isn’t going to be that boring. Why Are Projected Deficits Rising? In CBO’s…
When It All Sank, So Did The Rich
A reader shared this article on one of our open threads. It’s a news story based on a Pew Research study from last year which notes that we’re still a ways…