These days, it just seems that we are thoroughly unable to get through a political week without some inexplicable bout of duncery gracing the headlines of our news feeds. There’s a line from Pirates of the Carribbean in which Captain Jack says, “Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can trust to be dishonest […]

Americans have seen a significant increase in violent crime last year despite many years of steady decline. Unfortunately, this year is on pace to keep the numbers up. Of course, some high profile recent events have brought the discussion to a national level, and many Americans are genuinely wrestling with different policy options to help […]

“Lawrence! What like Lawrence of Arabia?” So bellows Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the opening moments of Full Metal Jacket. But no, not this time, Gunny. It’s Trevor Lawrence, rather, who we’re discussing today. Football fans with any modicum of attention to the game will be familiar with his name and likely even more familiar with […]

Two weeks ago I received my 2nd dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. When you think about this, it is simply amazing–who could have imagined we’d be able to have multiple vaccines available and widely being implemented in under a year? Certainly some thought it would take years (if ever) to get to this point. We […]

You don’t have to care about Marvel movies to understand this post, but my wife and I were watching Falcon and The Winter Soldier last week, and something hit me the wrong way. The group of terrorists The Falcon is trying to stop believed the world was better off after Thanos snapped half of all […]

A democratic friend of mine asked me recently what educated progressive economists would point to in arguing for the minimum wage to be increased. I suggested to him that most are well aware that the minimum wage at some level is going to be harmful (which is why nobody is calling for a $100/hr min […]

Shock! The Biden Administration plans to increase taxes later in 2021 as part of a larger legislative package. Many conservatives reflexively say this is going to slam the economy (and I don’t disagree, especially the way the Biden administration plans to go about it), but the point of this blog post is to argue that […]

Long have been these days of quarantine, and if lockdown activists have their way, longer they shall be. For my own two cents, I actually found the first few months of lockdown rather charming in a way, a position which I wager likely puts me in the minority…probably not just the minority but a far […]

Or alternatively, who will rescue us from the American Rescue Plan Act? We are ever so close to the Democrats completing their $1.9T blowout to reinvigorate the economy. Undoubtedly the House will pass it quickly (likely today) and Mr. Biden will sign it. Key features include extending the child tax credit, direct payments to citizens, […]

32 And when the Conservatives saw that Buckley delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Schlapp and said to him, “Up, make us leader who shall go before us. As for this Buckley, the man who brought us up out of the land of inconsolable intellectual irrelevance, we do not know what […]