The traditional trade-off for robust job protections and generous pension packages for government workers has been the gap between private-sector salaries and public sector salaries. That has disappeared, as government salaries have increased to ridiculous levels…cops making $400k/year, life guards on Los Angeles beaches making $500k, teachers with Ed.Ds (a doctorate for making dioramas?) making…
Month: August 2023
The Morning Report 8/22/23
Good morning, kids. I find it rather ironic that the Cultural Revolution has taken Stalin’s airbrush and wiped out Queen’s classic “Fat-Bottomed Girls” from the collective memory. One lyric in particular is rather appropriate: Left alone with big fat Fanny, She was such a naughty nanny, Hey big woman, you made a bad boy out of me….
The Morning Report 8/21/23
Good morning, kids. Despite being downgraded to a tropical storm, Hillary nevertheless has slammed into the southern California region bringing flooding and mudslides. On top of that, a 5.5 quake hit northwest of L.A. with an epicenter near the beautiful town of Ojai. Prayers for all affected. It used to be when natural disasters hit,…
The Morning Report 8/18/23
Good morning, kids. Yesterday’s editorial brought a lot of heated discussion, especially towards the tail end and after the art thread was posted. The gravamen of my disquisition is that for people to agree that America as founded, or at least the last vestiges of same were snuffed out in the wake of the 2020…
The Morning Report 8/17/23
Good morning, kids. One of the real stalwarts of our movement is Professor William Jacobson over at the invaluable Legal Insurrection.com. He and his team consistently produce quality reportage and opinion and as a result earn a considerable number of links each day on this page. That said, it makes it that much harder to criticize someone whom…
The Morning Report 8/16/23
Good morning, kids. I’m physically and emotionally exhausted after my trip, but made it back home yesterday afternoon with relative ease. There’s nothing more necessarily to add to yesterday’s story of Trump’s latest indictment for the high crime of thinking he could exercise his first amendment rights and really thinking he had them in the…
The Morning Report 8/15/23
Good morning, kids. Travel day for me as I depart NYC for southern Wisconsin this morning. Bittersweet as I’m sure you can imagine and can infer from my post from yesterday afternoon(please do not comment on older threads lest ye be unintentionally banned). Continuing on with the aftermath of the Maui wildfires, when asked his reactions,…
The 2nd Amendment Is The Hill Upon Which The Left Will Die: They Will Do Anything To Gut It, And They Will Never Stop
It doesn’t matter to the left how they ban guns. They will go after them with onerous purchase regulations. They will try to confiscate them using “Red Flag” laws. They will increase costs with ridiculous registration and purchase fees, and increased fees levied against retailers. They will restrict the right to carry weapons for self-protection…
The Morning Report 8/14/23
Good morning, kids. The Maui wildfires remains the top story as the scale of the disaster in terms of human life and of course to a lesser extent property is horrific. In my post last week referring to the fact that many ultra wealthy, primarily well-known lefties being in the line of fire did not…
The Morning Report 8/11/23
Good morning, kids. And greetings from somewhere in midtown Manhattan. I’ll have some thoughts on this sort of surreal experience in a separate piece on Monday, so BOLO for that. Now on to the “fresh hell” or warmed-over purgatory for the day. In any case, it really is fresh hell for the people of Maui HI:…