A political blog
Good morning, kids. Friday and the penultimate day of our third consecutive accursed year 2022. I believe I covered it yesterday, as well as on the year’s final podcast episode, but let me just add two words to the truly nauseating reaction to GOP Rep-elect George Santos: Elizabeth Warren Also, Joe Biden. Oops, that’s four words –…
The Age of fiscal responsibility has passed. We are in a new age of financial chaos, in which our politicians shuffle tax money around to purchase votes from their favored constituencies without even the pretense of restraint. State employee pensions are famously generous; defined benefit pension plans are financially crushing for the states, because the…
Good morning, kids. Thursday and let’s set the Wayback Machine to March of 2020, when the General Tso’s Sickness known as Chinese COVID-19, mostly because it came from and was created in a lab in China, was raging and only the first few cases showed up on our shores: “I always treated the Chinese Virus very…
Good morning, kids. Let me start of today’s disquisition with an excerpt from the résumé (that is, rap sheet) of one Ilhan Omar, affectionately known around here as “Bro-fo.” Federal investigators have decided not to prosecute Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for immigration fraud despite the publicly available evidence that she married her brother to gain him…
Deep Blue states such as CA, NY, and NJ have ridiculous state income tax rates: California tops out at a mind-boggling 13.3%, NY at 10.9%, and NJ at 10.75%. And what do the good citizens of these states get for their hard-earned money that flows into the corrupt and chaotically inefficient state governments? Bums, crime,…
Good morning, kids. Tuesday and though the links may be light in number as the year winds down to its last days, the magnitude of what there is is tremendous. As history teaches us, especially over the past hundred-plus years or so, the overthrow of a government, either via violent revolution or the ballot box,…
Good morning, kids. Hope you all had a blessed Christmas holiday. On a personal note, I want to thank all of you who hit the tip jar for your incredible generosity, especially in light of the current situation. A couple of our thank you notes bounced back, so if you didn’t get one, I just…
That is my little town’s Christmas tree, at the top of the main street, beautifully decorated by a local tree company (they have done work for me and they are great!). And notice the star at the top? Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the…
Good morning, kids. As if you needed further evidence that the GOP is not “the stupid party” but are, in fact, traitorous collaborators with the Left in the dismantling and destruction of the American nation here is the latest example. Rep. Chip Roy, one of the few relatively decent folks in Congress at least tried…
At first glance this is just another ridiculous waste of our money…money we don’t have yet! At the rate the federal government is spending, this money is probably our grandkids’ tax bill for their first jobs out of college (or trade school if they are smart). And of course much of this money will go…