Inflation is a cold-hearted bitch. It steals our paychecks, and we will never recover the loss. Sure, compensation eventually catches up (mostly), but the gap between rising prices and rising wages is significant. And inflation destroys any possibility of planning for many companies. How do you budget for next year or next quarter if you…
Month: December 2025
The Morning Report 12/18/25
Good morning kids. First we have reports of wildfires with near hurricane force winds spreading in the high plains. Prayers for the safety of all of those affected as well as for the firefighting crews and first responders who will hopefully be able to get the situation under control as rapidly as possible. Elsewhere in…
The Morning Report 12/17/25
Good morning kids. From friend and co-blogger CBD’s excellent Morning Rant essay yesterday on potential US involvement in Ukraine. Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate, and the idea that America should provide some ironclad security in the event of another border clash is batshit crazy. I read that and then…
The Morning Rant: No American Troops In Eastern Europe!
Repeat after me: “We are not the world’s policeman.” To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck, “Ukraine is not worth the bones of a single United States Marine.” So the idea of some security agreement with Ukraine that mirrors NATO’s Article 5 is essentially allowing Ukraine into NATO without all of that pesky cooperation and standardization and…
The Morning Report-12/16/25
Good morning kids. Frankly, the less said about a certain celebrity, who along with his wife was brutally slain at the hands of their own son, the better. Unfortunately President Trump decided to give his opinion about the victim and, despite his not being in the wrong in his opinion, was this really appropriate, or beneficial…
The Morning Report 12/15/25
Good morning kids. I’m absolutely sick to my stomach over the Bondi Beach massacre. That was horrible enough but the callous indifference of much of the world and in some circles the glee at yet more Jewish blood being spilled is the twisting of the knife. Coming as it does at the beginning of Chanukah,…
The Morning Report 12/12/25
Good morning kids. In its nearly 200-year rampage to attain absolute power, the Left and its political epicenter have worked feverishly via the Communist playbook to tear down every pillar of our society, history and heritage that undergirds the American experiment that had made us the exception to every other one that has come before…
The Morning Rant: Western Europe’s Collapse
The smug pomposity of Western Europe in the face of overwhelming data that show a rapidly collapsing culture and society is fascinating to behold. Birth rates among natives are far below replacement, church attendance has cratered, tax rates are onerous, crime is exploding, Churches are being burned or turned into mosques, free speech is now…
The Morning Report 12/11/25
Good morning kids. So, on the latest episode of the podcast, linked here as well as in the sidebar and on the outlets listed at the bottom of the post, CBD and I discussed the outstanding leadership of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in terms of revitalizing and reviving the readiness, capability and morale of our armed…
The Morning Report 12/10/25
Good morning kids. So, J.B. (Sitz-)Pritzker, the corrupt corpulent tyrannical 12-ton tick posing as an American governor along with his Democrat minions have issued some sort of edict dressed up as a law prohibiting the enforcement of legitimate law in arresting illegal aliens within 1,000 feet of any courthouse. What Donald Trump should immediately do, is station…