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Good Morning Kids. How fitting that on the 100th birthday of Jimmy Carter, Iran decided to celebrate by launching nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. Were it not for the fact that Carter stabbed the Shah of Iran in the back by recognizing the kullahocracy of Ayatollah Khomeini that overthrew the country and precipitated the…
Unionism in America is schizophrenic. The reality of the collective bargaining scheme is that any strike will decrease total compensation very quickly, so it is incumbent upon the union hierarchy to settle quickly. But the assumption of a quick settlement shrinks the power of the strike. Unlike Europe, where strikes are built into the process,…
Good Morning Kids. WELCOME TO OCTOBER, the traditional time when as a kid I looked forward to watching post-season baseball and then the Fall Classic. Ironically, a fixture of those halcyon days of the late 60s and early 70s of my youth, Pete Rose, “Charlie Hustle” passed away at 83 yesterday. just on the cusp of…
Good Morning Kids. So Israel continues a massive and far-reaching counterstroke that for sure is both in part a response to the barbaric Hamas invasion from Gaza almost one year ago, and also as a preemptive strike against Hezbollah that likely was planning some sort of operation against Israel as that anniversary loomed. I’m no…
Israel has changed the paradigm; the quaint but naive idea that there can be some sort of cold peace with terrorist organizations has fallen to “Events, My Dear Boy, Events,” as Harold Macmillan put it. The robust response to Hezbollah has sent a clear signal to its benefactors in Tehran, and that signal is: “We…
Good Morning Kids. As you can see up top, Helene has slammed ashore in Florida as a Cat-4 storm leaving millions of people in the dark across the southeast. Prayers for all affected to be unharmed and as minimally impacted as possible. There are a few things happening here as well as internationally that while…
It’s axiomatic that government, without any market pressures to improve or even succeed, will do most things at least worse than, and often incredibly badly compared to the private sector. The list is long. In fact, the list of things that government does better than market-influence organizations has…um…not a single entry. Of course the argument…
Good Morning Kids. The big and immediate story this morning is that Helene is now a hurricane that is set to batter portions of Florida’s gulf coast. If you live in or are near the area that will be impacted, you likely are well aware of what you’re facing, so our prayers are with you that…
Good Morning Kids. So, is it so shocking that Kalorama Harris comes right out and declares she’s going to do away with the filibuster in order to reinstate legalized infanticide throughout the land? One of the things Democrats warn voters about Trump is that if he is elected, it will be the end of democracy. However,…
Ever since the Six-Day War, Israel has diddled and vacillated and tried to please the elites in the West (primarily America) while simultaneously trying to protect its citizens from the existential threat of Islam. Land for peace…political autonomy…hundreds of thousands of jobs for the West Bank and Gaza Arabs within Israel itself…carefully titrated responses to…